MILWAUKEE
-- I’m fine with Rio.
Really.
A great city, by all accounts, in a rising star of a country that deserves to
be better known and better loved. And that’s even before you factor in some of
the world’s greatest music, and the beaches, and Carnaval, and --
So
absolutely -- give the 2016 Summer Olympics to Rio de Janeiro. To Brazil. To a
part of the planet that’s never hosted the Olympics. I’m fine with it, even if
it means that our neighbor just down the road, Chicago, takes a gold-medal hit
to the ego.
I’m
happy for Rio. But it never would have occurred to me to gloat over Chicago’s
loss. As a fellow American, I mean.
Being
a gracious competitor is one thing. Being a Republican apparatchik is something
else again.
