In all the "Proud to be 'Murkan" crowing about how America doesn't need the Olympics, it is interesting to note that America's last summer games were marred by right wing violence during a Democratic administration.
Remember Eric Rudolph, the exceedingly violent abortion and gaybar terrorist bomber who took out an Olympic venue and killed?
Rudolph, who was shielded for years by Conservatives in the western parts of North Carolina, the terrorist enablers who refused to assist the police and FBI in tracking him down?
Remember how the Bush DOJ conveniently let him enter an easy plea instead of pricking him with the needle he deserved in Terre Haute, all without divulging the identities of his accessories after the fact? An aside - if waterboarding was so OK, why wasn't he treated to "enhanced interrogation" in order to divulge this vital information?
While the Salt Lake Winter Games of 2002 went off OK, I note that the terror from the right wing doesn't happen when the right wing is in power.
Bunch of goddamn, America-hating terrorist rightwing thugs - that's as good a reason as any mandating why Chicago won't get any games anytime in my lifetime.