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It's Official - Sim nós podemos (yes we can) - Rio de Janeiro

by Edmund Jenks | October 2, 2009 at 07:35 am

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Chicago Eliminated From 2016 Olympics - First Round

The international "I/Me" tour fails to secure Olympic bid for the city of Chicago. What a mess of prioritization this young President has shown, especially if the "FIX" was not in!

"We're number one! We're number one! We're number one!" OOOPS!, we're knocked out in the number one round! Where is American exceptionalism now?

Tokyo knocked out in the second round, this was the city where the Mayor stated that the 2016 Olympics may well be the last Olympics held because of "Global Warming"!

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Madrid, Spain are in the final round with the inside nod going to the South American nation.

MSNBC's Alex Witt muses, "What went wrong?", news anchor admits to be "profoundly disappointed", wow - Oprah Winfree, Michele Obama, and even the President, Barack Obama, himself could not deliver the bid ... "Was it overkill, ... was it, in fact, too American?"

The faces in the crowd at Daley Plaza are priceless-ly despondent. A fitting tribute to the failures of this young President, Barack Obama. Raindrops ("fittingly") are now beginning to drop from the sky onto Daley Plaza in Chicago, and as MSNBC's Lester Holt goes on to say "Chicago is a city that is extremely proud and this event of being outdone through insider politics, will hurt."

God, I love MSNBC tragedy TV!

Amid the official pomp and circumstance, the International Olympic Committee awards the 2016 Olympic Games in an envelop moment ...

It's Official - Sim nós podemos (yes we can) - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is awarded 2016 Olympic bid!

Carnival in October, let the games begin!

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Edmund Jenks

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at 08:13 on October 2nd, 2009

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riowins (not verified)

at 08:53 on October 2nd, 2009

Rio

Edmund Jenks

at 08:57 on October 2nd, 2009

Yes, Rio, "Uau!"

Arbol

at 09:06 on October 2nd, 2009

Felicitações ao Brasil!! A melhor escolha!

sidonie

at 09:12 on October 2nd, 2009

Yes! Samba!!!!

Amy Judd

at 09:57 on October 2nd, 2009

Ed you have to stop uploading copyrighted videos to your story - there's a reason we are taking them down. The Olympics has some of the strictest copyright laws that exist today. If you upload anymore that are copyrighted I'm afraid we'll have to remove your story from the front page.

Thanks.

J2B (not verified)

at 10:28 on October 2nd, 2009

Gov of Tokyo Shintaro should resign. He wasted so much money including buying bankrupt bank with ¥400 billion debts

caj1

at 10:38 on October 2nd, 2009

Good story, Ed! Your summary of today's events (so far) saves me from watching TV news...I like also that you put some Portuguese in the title...I think we'll be seeing more of that in the future!