Despite reports of Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid being a "done deal" (being that it's Chicago we're talking about here, the pun is intended), not even Mr. Obama's last minute push was enough to win the Olympics for the USA.
I was not particularly against the President going to Copenhagen to lobby for the Olympics, but the timing (what with the raging healthcare debate at home, a partically nuclear Iran thumbing their noses at us, and thing rapidly falling apart in Afghanistan) was inconvenient at best. Leave alone the fact thatChicago politics is famous for being rife with corruption (this Olympic bid being no exception) and that some of Obama's shadier friends (*cough* Tony Rezko *cough*) were rumored to stand to make bazillions in new Olympic construction contracts.
But the fact that Mr. Obama staked his brand on this Olmypic bid, put his name on it, only to be eliminated in the first round of voting, is a hugely embarrassing blow to this Presidency, no matter how the media will try to spin it. This President, the one the world fawned over last year as "their" candidate, could not even get his own hometown into the final vote for the Olympics in 2016. Had this happened to George Bush, one could say, "Well, they hate his guts." But the 1st President of the World? Not even a finalist? Unthinkable.
Could this be the turning point, in a year where our President's frenetic policies have looked like they were though out by an ADHD kid who's run out of Ritalin, that defines a Presidency full of good intentions and high ideals, along with bad ideas and failed deliveries (shades of Jimmy Carter)? Could the epic fail of what was to be the crown jewel of Obama's 2016 "victory lap" put a bow on what will be a 4 year odyessy of ego-bruising falls for this administration?
We'll see, but at least he can claim how much money he saved our country in these hard economic times by allowing Rio de Janeiro to have the games. Wotta guy!
Nolanbuck
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