Let us not rush to cast aside those enormous CHICAGO 2016 banners urging the masses to IMAGINE. After Friday’s rebuff of Chicago and its former street organizer Barack Hussein Obama by the International Olympic Committee, we can readily IMAGINE a day when Richard Daley is no longer Chicago’s Mayor/Benevolent Dictator, and a glorious hour when Obama is no longer President of the United States.
Daley went “all in” on Chicago’s bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games. Obama is fully invested in his ability to impose transformational change on everything he surveys. Ever delusional, Obama seems to believe that he will orchestrate the course of human history by merely speaking dramatic and emotional words.
He believes Iran will put aside its nuclear ambitions, that the U.S. economy will spring back to life, that terrorist cells will disband and become members of the Peace Corps, that tsunamis will turn into mere ripples, and that the International Olympic Committee will gasp upon hearing his visionary intonations. Obama even believes that Americans will yield their independence in order to empower the federal government to control critical health care decisions.
We know little about Obama’s soul, and even less about the men and women who voted Friday to award the 2016 Games to Rio de Janeiro.
The mainstream U.S. and Chicago media made no effort to understand and report on the true nature of the IOC members, who they really are, how they think, and how they view the world over which they reign. This same media irresponsibly failed to explore the influences and forces that shaped the new American president.
And so we are left with an overwhelming emptiness nine months in.
Chicago’s promises to the IOC, presented in part by Obama and the First Leftist of the U.S. Michelle Robinson Obama, were greeted with indifference, you might even say contempt. How else to explain the city’s elimination from the race in the first round of voting?
On a larger scale, and in the real world where jobs losses mount and terror threats build, only a fertile imagination can possibly glimpse a future where Hope and Change are the underpinnings of a thriving America. The post-racial Obama World still finds a Chicago teen being beaten to death in broad daylight by fellow teens near a school.
The unemployment rate is flirting with and will surely exceed 10 percent. Economic stimulus ploys are failing. Cash-for-Clunkers provided only one month of rebound for auto sales. September was another nightmare for auto dealers. Iran is thumbing its nose at America’s threats by staging a cheap publicity trick with Russia. And the frantic radical left in Congress is faced with such crippling backlash against its plan to nationalize and hijack health care that our so called leaders are scheming to pass a sweeping bill under cover of darkness.
By contrast, no effort to IMAGINE is required to realize that the United States is abandoning the flimsy promise of Hope and Change because it can not ignore the tangibility of Despair and Rage.