Go Away, Condi
Posted on June 28th, 2005 in Uncategorized | 8 Comments »
Now that Condoleeza Rice has come to New York to say what a great place this would be to host the 2012 Olympics, my enthusiasm for New York doing so has just diminished.
Certainly the Olympics would do many fine things for this city. But there’s no place in New York for the kind of jingoistic, America uber alles attitude of Rice and her compatriots in the Bush administration. The Republicans already came here for their political convention. We were good hosts, I think and hope, but let’s face it: New York City and the Republican party don’t have much in common. We’re tolerant. They’re not. We’re diverse. They’re not. We live comfortably alongside people from other nations. They want to conquer other nations. Especially the ones they know nothing about.
Okay, I’m being hyperbolic. But people on both sides of this line can concede that New York was a very odd place to host the GOP convention.
In fact, the only reason the convention was held here to was to turn Ground Zero and memories of 9/11 into a political advertisement.
That’s exactly what the Republicans would want to do with the Olympics, and that’s why Condoleeza Rice came here.
The people of this cityâpeople from all over the worldâare a great reason to have the Olympics in New York. Would the Bush administration really understand anything about that?
8 Responses
6/28/2005 11:23 pm
The Olympics are in 2012. I guess you’re conceding the 2008 election already.
6/28/2005 11:26 pm
NY is one of the 5 finalist cities for the Olympics. There are no other US cities in the running. Which city would you expect Condi (another non-diverse Republican) to endorse-Paris?
6/29/2005 1:31 am
I don’t particularly see why a Bush administration official has to get involved, period.
6/29/2005 1:32 am
And I’d say the same thing about an official in a Democratic administration, by the way.
6/29/2005 1:41 am
Did you actually read the article you linked to? Bush isn’t going to Singapore, unlike the leaders of many other countries vying for the games. Rice was in NY to show the IOC that the US Government is behind the NYC bid. This is the minimum effort that an administration can do to help get the games to the US. In fact, it’s pretty much a non-story. And yet you somehow turn this into another episode of Bush-bashing. In fact, you implied that the Republican Party is using this minimal show of support for partisan purposes (even though the games aren’t for another 7 years). Give me a break.
6/29/2005 9:37 am
Sorry, but the Bush Administration has exploited New York and 9/11 enough already. We just don’t trust ’em not to do it again.
My larger point is that the Olympics is really an event devoted to peaceful multi-lateralism, and in that sense is profoundly contrary to the ethic and actions of the Bush Administration. So there’s something truly cynical about Condi Rice talking about why the United States should host the Olympics. It doesn’t help our case.
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