LIVING THE ILLUSION - AT 8:21 P.M. ET: Just thought you'd like to see the extent of the nutbaggery being published in Chicago to explain away the loss of the 2016 Olympic games.  The usual suspects are involved.  From the Chicago Sun-Times:

Some Chicago officials say anti-American resentment likely played a role in Chicago's Olympic bid dying in the first round Friday.

President Obama could not undo in one year the resentment against America that President Bush and others built up for years, they said.

"There must be" resentment against America," the Rev. Jesse Jackson said, near the stage where he had hoped to give a victory speech in Daley Center Plaza. "The way we [refused to sign] the Kyoto Treaty, we misled the world into Iraq. The world had a very bad taste in its mouth about us. But there was such a turnaround after last November. The world now feels better about America and about Americans. That's why I thought the president's going was the deal-maker."

Jackson is just disappointed that he didn't get to give his speech on TV. 

U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) said she was approached by a consul general at the plaza as they waited for word Friday. "He said ... he was hearing that there wasn't enough time for Barack Obama to dispel the old image. ... But I don't know if that's it."

Now, a question:  Let us accept for a moment that there wasn't enough time for Barack Obama (blessed be his name) to reverse the enormity of the damage done by BUSH (!!).  So, tell me, how long will it take?  Another year?  Five years?  In other words, when will this crowd stop blaming President Bush for Obama's failures?  The answer is...never.  It's the game they play, the excuse game, and they're expert at it. 

Their motto is not "E pluribus unum."  Theirs is, "It's someone else's fault."  And they fly it from every flagpole in front of every failed school in Chicago.

October 4, 2009