Like third graders playing Recess Soccer.\u00c2\u00a0 There is a ball out there, it’s being chased and kicked around, it’s generally rolling in the right direction, but the structures of the game are haphazard. What is like this game?<\/p>\n
The celebration and hullabo about Obama’s fight to win the Olympic Games for Chicago.\u00c2\u00a0 The contortions of Obama’s Republican opposition to fit the unsuccessful sell into a broader narrative about a failed presidency.\u00c2\u00a0 This is, to use Charles Krauthammer’s phrase for the last administration, “Obama Derangement Syndrome” at work. That being said, the liberal reaction to the right’s transparent political posturing is off as well.\u00c2\u00a0 The taunts do not quite up.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re rooting against America.\u00c2\u00a0 I do not like the word “Un-American”.<\/p>\n
There are several reasons we don’t particularly want the Olympic Games — I suspect the benefit is a bit lower for Chicago and the costs a bit higher than for Rio.\u00c2\u00a0 Some problems as expressed by “The Left<\/a>“.\u00c2\u00a0 Some problems expressed by some Libertarians<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 There was a Weekly Standard blog post or other which expressed the most crucial part: the Olympic Games should be put in various spots around the globe — the continent South America has yet to have one.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, a liberal blogger charged in and decried some ideological hypocrisy: “Isn’t that a little redistributive?<\/a>“\u00c2\u00a0 Which I found unfair: from a purely business concern, it makes sense for an organization whose image is based on being International to throw themselves into “Emerging Markets”, and I don’t think that’s intellectually inconsistent — unless we’re playing a stupid game of loosely structured Playground Soccer.<\/p>\n