"These people are so stupid they make me question evolution."Well put, Bill. But I think your focus is too narrow. In that category, I would include:
1. Those conservative, Obama haters who, when it was announced that Chicago had lost out in its bid to host the 2016 Olympics, broke into wild applause and cheers. Because they saw Chicago's loss as a humiliation for Obama. On the contrary: the choice went to Rio most likely because it will be the very first time the games have been held in the entire continent of South America. And, to any extent that it represents anti-U.S. feeling, they can thank their darling george w. bush. But to these ignoramuses it proves that Obama can't walk on water after all, because his personal appeal for his home town failed to sway the IOC. So, Hurray! for Chicago's loss.
2. John Boehner for being so out of touch with Americans' support for a public option in the health reform bill that he says he is still looking for one American outside Washington who is in favor of it. By now he will have on his desk hundreds of thousands of signatures on petitions identifying support, including people from his own district. Or he could just read the paper and see that poll after poll show over 60% support it, including a majority of doctors. Let's hope that old tanning-booth Boehner is still this out of touch come next November. It would be good not to have to look at his sour, constipated expression every day. Someone should put a good laxative in this man's Ovaltine.
3. Michael Steele for his frequent, stupid remarks -- most recently calling Thomas Friedman a "nut job" for drawing the parallel between our current poisonous political atmosphere and what existed in Israel that led a zealot to assassinate Prime Minister Rabin in 1995, taking the rhetoric seriously and thinking that god would be pleased. Wake up, Michael. You're the head of a self-destructing political party, and you're only making it worse.
4. Michele Bachmann, any time she gets near a microphone.
Ralph
Further news today suggests that dropping Chicago in the very first round, when it had been considered that its excellent plan made it a front runner, was the result of problems between the IOC and the U.S. Olympic Committee over revenue sharing and other issues.
ReplyDeleteBut the same article also presented the opinion that the final choice of Rio was practically a foregone conclusion based on "it's South American's time."