“CNN went WHAT?  MSNBC went Butthurt, Fox News gloated, and Eric just did a gig because Rio de Janeiro won.”

As most of you know, President Barack Obama went to Denmark to push the IOC about putting the 2016 Olympics in Chicago.  It wasn’t anything I can blame him for doing, IMHO, even the Shrub would have done that.  I always was bullish on the Olympics ever since watching the Barcelona Games kept me from becoming An Hero because I lost two jobs at the time time, and one of them was a volunteer one.  (I can still remember myself going “NO FSKING WAY” when that archer shot the lit arrow into the caldron.) It would have been very noble to have it put into your own country, especially when you’re the president for it.

By now you know, Chicago was bumped out in the first round, and eventually Rio de Janeiro, Brazil got the nod to hose the 2016 games.

But that’s not what I wanted to talk to you about.

Did you hear the noise over it all.  Even on Glenn Beck’s show.

And even Glenn was guilty on this:  There’s only one reason why we got bumped off this soon, and it’ll be apparent the moment you stop thinking ‘politically,’ and start thinking like a true 9-12er.

Or like Captain America’s ghost:

All my life, I fought to become a symbol. A symbol of all the things that were right about this country. All the things I loved. And now, they’re trying to turn that symbol into whatever’s most convenient, whatever will best serve the political agenda of one side or another. I can hear them talking nonstop…the media. The press — They don’t understand. It was never about politics. It was never about me. It was about the country. But they can’t hear that truth above their own voices.

That was from Thor, Volume 3, Issue 11.  It’s included on Book 1 of BAM.  And if Stan Lee doesn’t like it he can kiss my ass, and be sure to tell his little lawyer fuckers that I’ve been pirated on more times than I can list in this blog, and he’ll have zero sympathy from me.

Getting the Olympics in any country, isn’t about politics, it isn’t about anybody who’s slumming in 1600 Penn. Avenue, who controls the Congress, or who’s dick the boy-lovers on MSNBC are sucking.  When America is schmoozing the IOC to get an Olympics, it’s about the country.  It was always about the country.

But like Captain America getting ventilated to the aromatic sounds of partisan bickering cranked to 11 in both pitch and volume, we as a country will never get it.

Not when Bush the Younger when he was in office.

And apparently not with Barack Hussein Obama.

And it’ll piss me off just as much.

This is the real reason why I’m a 9-12er and it’s not because I’m a Glenn Beck fan.  (In fact, I’m not a fan of his constantly attacking czar after czar after czar, even though they deserve it.)  I’m a 9-12er because I feel that this country is losing touch with what they are as a country.  They could only see Red State vs Blue State, Republicat vs Democrian, Flamboyant Liberal vs Facistic Conservative, and can not for the life of them see another person on the street and see him or her as an American.  They fail to see a fellow man and see him or her as a fellow man.  The results of such thinking are stark, such as the Hartford hit and run scene which I refer to often as the Nadir of 200X America.  And we saw just another example in the Obama era with The Honor Student Beating in Chicago.  Personally, I believe he was beaten up because he was an Honor Student in Chicago.  Some of those inner city schools don’t like it if you succeed, ugly truth.  But the callousness of everyone involved in the filmed beating proves just as chilling and just as telling as who we are as a country.

It is this, and this alone, that is why we did not get the Olympics, and I think the pox must fall on both houses.  This country has got to relearn that whatever can divide us should never be greater than whatever unites us as a people.  Until we can get that into our collective heads and butts, we will never be great as a country.  We’ll never win a decent war, we’ll never build anything on that eight-year-old gaping and festering scar that’s in Manhattan, we’ll never get anyone on the Moon, let alone Mars, we’ll never retain the top ranking in any available global indicator, we’ll never get out of debt, we’ll never see the next generation of Space Travel, and we sure as hell would never see another Olympics on America Soil within our lifetimes.

And if you think back to the kind of people we become, would you think that we deserve any of this?

In all my years of service, my biggest regret is all the people who see the symbol, but miss the point.  – Steve Rogers, Captain America and The Falcon Volume 1, Issue 14

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