Glenn McCoy by Glenn McCoy

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  1. ahab

    ahabGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Tried but failed is still better than to have not tried at all, Glenn.

  2. Renae Bettenhausen

    Renae BettenhausenGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Sorta like the cash for clunkers program

  3. scottfreitas

    scottfreitasGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    ROFL

    Great comic. Love the subtlety! ;)

  4. omQ R

    omQ RGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    I don’t think it was Obama’s failure that Chicago lost this bid. It will be Chicago’s failure.
    Rio was on its third attempt, as was Madrid. Was it a slap in the face for King Juan Carlos who attended on behalf of Madrid? So why should it be seen as one for Obama?

  5. tjdestry

    tjdestryGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Yes, Glenn, we all long for the days when Bush was president. How the world loved us then!!!

  6. Norman

    NormanGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    It is not surprising that the ‘messiah’ bombed out. Why would they put the Olympics in the cesspool of the USA?

    He is an embarassment to the country.

  7. harleyquinn

    harleyquinnGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    If he did not have his cronies in Chicago to pay off then I doubt he would have rolled the dice.

  8. Anthony 2816

    Anthony 2816Genius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Scott, like McCoy, celebrates the “defeat” of America:

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/03/martin.olympics.defeat/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn

  9. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, about 1 month ago

    Hooray! America has lost another one!

    Now if only we could lose another couple of hundred soldiers in Afghanistan, we could REALLY point out how bad Obama is. And if the American economy were to collapse, we could probably win the mid-term elections!

    (good grief)

  10. Robert Peters

    Robert PetersGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Interesting how the right-wing-extremist lunatic fringe is celebrating a minor defeat of the USA.

    On a side note, Human Rights Watch is pushing the Olympic Congress to take human rights into account in host countries. http://www.hrw.org/en/node/85896?tr=y&auid=5408916

    So perhaps the legacy of Bush/Cheney may have cost us the 2016 Games.

  11. Tigger

    TiggerGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Health Care is he next Hurdle he will fail to clear.

  12. Anthony 2816

    Anthony 2816Genius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    C’mon, Tigger! Starting praying for more bad things to happen to America, so you can blame it on Obama!

    (Good timing, by the way…proving R. Peter’s point, as well as that of the CNN editorial I linked!)

  13. charlie555

    charlie555 said, about 1 month ago

    Thanks Glenn. You give us true hope. I can’t stop laughing every time I look at it.

  14. 5639

    5639 said, about 1 month ago

    5 stars to Tigger! Who took SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE off the table? BHO.

  15. Libertarian1

    Libertarian1 said, about 1 month ago

    President Obama as our leader has many different obligations. I certainly do not fault him for trying to help Chicago get the Olympic bid. That should be part of his job description.

    The opposition from the right is pure politics similarly to the opposition of the left to absolutely everything Bush did.

    Now that I have chastised the right I have a question to those of you on the left. We all know the rule of debating is to never ever admit you are wrong. When caught with your hand in the cookie jar- deny-deny deny.

    I don’t expect an honest answer but don’t we all know that if Obama had succeeded and Chicago got the bid after his appearance, the left would have said see- it was because he apologized to the world about how horrible Bush was. He went from country to country saying mea maxima culpa.

    Those of us who differ on that concept truly believe the US is disliked because we are strong and powerful. All the apologies in the world won’t change that perception.

    Chicago came in dead last and Obama and his new approach to the world was spectacularly unsuccessful. If his approach had succeeded the views of the left would have been partially vindicated. He failed. Draw whatever conclusions you like.

  16. HOWGOZIT

    HOWGOZIT said, about 1 month ago

    Better for the United States to be respected than loved tj.

  17. charlie555

    charlie555 said, about 1 month ago

    Libertarian1

    Chastisement noted. I respect the office of president. I should have explained that I see Glenn’s cartoon more as a prophecy of the future; that after 2016 we will see the socialist movement in America (Obama’s “torch”) fall flat on its face.

  18. Corosive Frog

    Corosive Frog said, about 1 month ago

    losing the olympics isn’t the worse thing that can happen to a nation, IMHO. I mean, most of the olympics in the last two decades were in Europe or north America. South America can have some fun too!

  19. michaelwme

    michaelwme said, about 1 month ago

    The current trend is to put the Olympics in new places (whereas before, it was restricted either to Greece or to one of the Great Powers). Brazil was a) eligible; and b) new (and a new continent at that). So Obama’s attempt was obviously futile.

    So (let me make this multiple guess)

    Obama’s use of the prestige of the presidency to make a patently futile attempt to promote the US as venue for the 2016 Olympics was:

    A) noble.
    B) stupid.
    C) reckless.
    D) inappropriate.
    E) All of the above.

    Answer Key: Sorry, I don’t have an answer key. Make up your own mind.

  20. parkersinthehouse

    parkersinthehouse said, about 1 month ago

    why are you guys being so pathetically myopic - and childish nya nya america lost, obama lost -

    nobody lost you buncha judgment freaks

    somebody won - who deserved to win

    did that mean everybody else didn’t deserve to win

    no

    did it mean all the heads of state are “reckless, stupid, inappropriate” to have gone to support their countries?

    no

    did it mean that it would have been nobler to stay at home - oh lordy i can hear it all now

    why in the world would you want to fault him for what he did??? i don’t get it.

  21. nospam4me

    nospam4me said, about 1 month ago

    Too bad, so sad. Now his & Michelle’s crony slumlord Valerie Jarrett won’t get rich out of more shady Chicago real estate deals, displacing the poor they proclaim they are helping.

    http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/18/olympic-sized-boondoggle-what-valerie-jarrett-and-michelle-obama-are-up-to/.>

  22. Anthony 2816

    Anthony 2816Genius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Excellent post, Parker!

    nospam4me, dunno if it’s just me, but your post doesn’t seem to go to where I expected. Fix?

  23. oldlegodad

    oldlegodadGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    The youtube video of an honor student being beaten to death on a Chicago street had nothing to do with, RIGHT?

  24. ahab

    ahabGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Nattering Nabobs of Negativity.

  25. ransomdstone

    ransomdstoneGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Glen McCoy is a pile of stinking ?

  26. Michigander

    Michigander said, about 1 month ago

    Face Plant bonus!

  27. big G 3469

    big G 3469Genius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    According to press reports a senior IOC Delegate from Austrailia place the blame on the Asian IOC members for forming a “BLOC” to vote against Chicago’s bid & give all thier votes to Tokyo who was eliminated in the second round of voting!

  28. Roger

    Roger said, about 1 month ago

    Time after time we see that when a city gets the Olympics, the amount of money poured into preparing for and holding it, is far greater than that gained. It may buy some prestige, but in hard times, when money is tight, that’s not something we need to be spending money on.

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  30. Magnaut

    MagnautGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    save this we can change the sign on the hurdle to 2010 CONGRESSIONAL ELCTIONS….and the reuse it for 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION……..therefore this cartoon is priceless

  31. d_legendary1

    d_legendary1 said, about 1 month ago

    You right wingers are incredible. Obama’s biggest failure as a president is not bringing the Olympic Games to the states.

    My only concern is who cares?

  32. Magnaut

    MagnautGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    the problem with the right is….they are!

  33. Redeemd

    Redeemd said, about 1 month ago

    LOL!!! McCoy is by far the funniest editorial cartoonist!

  34. nospam4me

    nospam4me said, about 1 month ago

    Don’t worry Anthony, you still have Comrade News Network and National Proletariat Radio to comfort you over Obamao’s Olympic FAIL! Even the Bastion of Berzerkely, Saturday Night Live is poking fun at all of the big-eared doofus FAILING to deliver on his radical promises.

  35. Anthony 2816

    Anthony 2816Genius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    NoSpam, calm down. I know like most extreme righties you’re celebrating the fact that Chicago didn’t get the Olympics, as you so desperately need anything you can blame Obama for, no matter how far a stretch,

    But that wasn’t what I asked. I asked you about your link, which doesn’t go to where you seemed to think.

  36. cdward

    cdward said, about 1 month ago

    As Wayne Gretzky said, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Failing is not the worst thing,

  37. ReasonsVentriloquist

    ReasonsVentriloquist said, about 1 month ago

    Hey, for a right winger who has been putridly so, this ‘toon is centrist.

    Again, I find the illustration to be ribticklingly funny, McCoy should do an animated cartoon IMHO.

    The message is palitable in that there is truth to it. We all fall down sometimes. The question is, howdo you get back up again and it is THAT action that earns the respect of your foes.

    Even Clinton haters had to admit that the guy could take a punch, even a knockout punch and still somehow struggle back up to whip yer bleeep!