Olympic Potpourri

At the suggestion of MDaF, I'm doing a grab-bag of Freepers' reactions to the Olympics culled from the many smaller or insufficiently crazy threads.

napscoordinator criticizes Obama's priorities:

The President of the United States should be there. This is the first time in history that the President has not gone to the Olympics. That is the most tragic of all. I guess it must be too patriotic for him.

Road Glide knows what should happen to the Saudi Arabian Judo Olympian competing in a hijab:

“With any luck she’ll get her head torn off.”

Not necessary.

Just needs to have the hijab torn off by the competition.

Will make for an interesting finish!

9YearLurker makes all his decisions based on partisan analogies:

The Olympics is merely the UN of sports—which is why it holds very little appeal for me.

Jack Deth thinks the opening ceremonies were all about America, and orchestrated by Obama:

It was done so in a very stylized manner to feed directly to the people of the US the glories and wonders of Obama Care.

No doubt, pushed on Danny Boyle with the arm twisting of Zero, Moochelle, Valerie Jarrett, or an associated thug or goon.

txrefugee thinks Commies have it going on:

The Communist Chinese had a much better opening ceremony at the last Olympics. At least one could make sense of their spectacular crowd numbers and marvel at their precision.

Boyle’s commercial for Socialism was ham-handed and disorganized. The only two small bright spots were the Queen and Mr. Bean.

C19fan found the opening ceremonies pretty Nazi-ish:

At least a honest leftie owns up to the fact that the Opening Ceremony was a leftist version of Leni Riefenstahl.

tonyome assumes black athletes are getting favorable treatment:

Did anyone else watch the Olympic women's gymnastics last night? One of the young girls on the U.S. team is black. She is a great gymnast, but during last night's competition, she fell off the balance beam, and took several steps out of bounds on the floor exercise, yet beat out a fellow teammate to advance to the All Around final, even though her teammate made far less mistakes in her routines on the balance beam and floor exercise. I know nothing about Olympics Gymnastics judging, but even one of the NBC commentators remarked that her floor exercise routine "was scored much higher than I thought it would be". In my opinion, I think the judges gave the girl a break because she was black. Some people might be offended by that comment, but it looked fairly obvious to me.

Venturer saw a pic of Michelle Obama getting lifted up by a weight lifter:

It is a creepy photo,and obviously was planned.

No way would a real First LADY allow this to happen.

conservaterian sees the Olympics as us against them:

The olympics are nothing more than a bunch of socialist/communist countries ganging up to try to defeat the U.S. Usually doesn’t work either, LOL.

LibLieSlayer hates everything these days:

When I was young and the new games were not tainted with evil... they were a celebration... then they dumbed down the rules and society went evil and they started holding the olympics every other day... screw them... I will never watch another game in my life. They screwed up baseball... I loved baseball... they screwed up basketball... they are on the verge of killing off football... soon there will be no contact allowed and players will be forced to wear air cushioned uniforms and play on foam rubber matting... and NASCAR will turn gay within the decade. Anything good is infected with progressive cancer.

The crazy keeps coming, so stay tuned for more as the games continue