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Friday, August 15, 2008
Daley gets an Olympic eyeful
By Dennis Byrne
Chicago Daley Observer
“Gulp.”
Read more in The Chicago Daily Observer
Chicago Daley Observer
“Gulp.”
That must have been Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s reaction as he sat in the stands of Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium watching the $100-million, triumphantly staged Olympic opening ceremonies.
Daley’s vision of a 2016 Olympics in Chicago pales in comparison to China’s mind-bending pyrotechnics and its cast of ten thousands, the stupefying grandiosity of the stadium, clean-as-a-whistle new subway lines, the glittering infrastructure, the ebullient but always respective Chinese masses, the permanent new competitive venues and a list of other superlatives as long as the Great Wall.
If Daley wasn’t thinking to himself, “My God, what I have gotten us into?” he’s delusional, or worse.Read more in The Chicago Daily Observer
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