Well, B.F.D.
I will admit to being utterly ambivalent about the whole enterprise. Sure, it would have been exciting—I love the Olympics (even with all it’s many faults), and watching the events in real-time with my teenage kids (yikes!), and being able to host out-of-town family and friends for it sounds awesome. But the simple fact is that this city (this administration most specifically) can’t be trusted with an event of this magnitude and expense. Chicago can’t even get the CTA to a functional place for its citizenry; I can only imagine the mess it would make of things trying to accommodate the Olympic crowds. And that’s just one small piece of the logistical puzzle. We’d wake up some morning in 2013 to a headline that read, “Daley croney charters luxury cruise liner for staff with Olympic money,” or something similar. No thanks. Let Rio have it.
And to the Chicago man quoted by the AP as saying this “is the saddest thing I’ve ever seen,” hey asshole, have you never read a newspaper? What about a 16 year old beaten to death for walking to school? No? How about the fact that other kids videotaped it and put it on fucking youtube? No? The Olympics going to Rio still trumps that for you in the sadness department?
I see the AP replaced that quote in a more recent version of the article, so I couldn’t get the guy’s name. I can only hope he regretted those words as soon as they came out of his mouth.
