None dare whisper it in good company, but since I keep such notoriously bad company, I will shout it from the rooftops: when the International Olympic Committee, and the presumptuous delegates from Rio De Janeiro, worked to award a city in the southern hemisphere the right to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, the only motive for such an outcome is simple and obvious: blatant racism. How else to explain how the most popular people in the world -- Barack and Michelle Obama, and Oprah -- could not get their hometown beyond the first round in the IOC's selection process?
It is AMAZING how far-reaching is that vast right-wing conspiracy President Clinton spoke about last weekend. Even Denmark bends to the will of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. Even the Danish hope Mr. Obama fails.
Oh, yeah. Remember the amazing essay linked to here at Contratimes: "Mirth In Funeral, Dirge In Marriage"? You know the link. It was to the glorious essay by Sam Schulman that compared Mr. Obama to Prince Hamlet. It's worth reading again.
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