To the Editor:
After the disappointment of losing our bid to be host to the Olympics in 2016, insult was added to injury to find out that some Americans, namely many on the far right of the Republican Party, responded to Chicago’s disappointment with glee and gloating.
What has happened to this country? Have we become so divided that we cannot even muster support for an American city in a bid for the Olympic Games?
The rest of the world is watching and must be shaking heads in disbelief over the reaction of those people in this country who put their own political rancor above all else.
For me this was the greatest disappointment of all.
Janet Burke
Elmhurst, Ill., Oct. 3, 2009
Note from KBJ: I wonder whether the letter writer was disappointed by Americans rooting against their country in Iraq.
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 