Maybe he was promised the Games. And if so; how sleazy to go over to take the credit. Perhaps enough judges decided on their own that their one vote wouldn't matter and they couldn't in good consience award it to Mr. Obama. I mean Chicago.

The Obamas came across very badly in this whole ordeal.

I love the new Lib talking point that we are "un-American" for laughing at Chicago losing the Olympics. What they do not get is that we are laughing at Obama for putting his cred on the line for what is a minor issue.

Oh, and then there is that whole thing about liberals wanting America to lose in Iraq.

Yeah, Alex has it right, that's what I figured it was about. Nobody figured it was a done deal, President Obama and Oprah Winfrey figured they were so big and so loved and so persuasive that the IOC would just have to listen to them.

Their problem is that they didn't bribe the IOC, that's how you get your city. Not by persuasion or good reasons but by making the members rich and giving them things.

I love the new Lib talking point that we are "un-American" for laughing at Chicago losing the Olympics.

I thought "being fair" was American. Last I remembered, the US hosted the Olympics far more than Brazil so it's only FAIR that they should have another chance.

I gotta say, I am really surprised at the idiot mistakes this administration has made. Okay, Obama is a political naif whom anyone with a lick of sense and real world understanding knew was gpoing to get slapped around by other national leaders. He is a child. But his staff are very seasoned political operatives. I truly am astounded at how badly they have blundered, even given that nothing is really clear cut from thier points of view. Cut them some slack, and they are still incredibly dumber than dumb.

Their problem is that they didn't bribe the IOC, that's how you get your city. Not by persuasion or good reasons but by making the members rich and giving them things.

CT, you would be absolutely baffled how corrupt and f-ed up the rest of the world is – even in Europe – compared to here. And I am not talking about politicians (the ones we have now give every UN, EU, or third world hell hole a run for their money). Bribery and pay-offs are always part of doing business. It is a testament to how much better our companies are in general that they can not only compete, but so often win. all these people living in the US that pine to be more like Europe have always baffled me. They must have a romanticized vision of the rest of the world, and have no clue how much better they have it here.

Yeah well the left misses the point. We're not laughing at Chicago.

Honestly, Mr. Taylor, I'm more inclined to congratulate the people of Chicago on this. By most accounts, hosting the Olympics generates an absolute fortune….for some people, generally the well connected and positioned to take advantage of the situation. However, those fortunes are generally less than the losses and inconvenience incurred by the rest of the population in the name of civic glory. The difference is something economists call "dead weight loss".

its just the olympics.

For the umpteenth time, it's not about the Olympics. It's about the fact that President Obama chose to drop everything and PERSONALLY appear before the IOC to beg for the Olympics to come to Chicago.

Not only is that something no President has ever done before, doesn't Obama have anything better to do? Like deal with the ever increasing deficit and unemployment? Or figure out what to do about Iran? Or find some time to speak with his Generals in Afghanistan? (You know, the war he said was of the utmost importance during the campaign?)

As you may have noticed….I am not a big fan of the current President or his policies

However, the timing of this event was obviously designed to shift the focus from the government HC takeover plan rolling out of committee and the additional 260K jobs lost

Diversion is a very important tactic in every battle

Now everyone will be talking all weekend about a "non event" the whole weekend rather then reading thru the detail of the Bacus HC scam and calling Congress and raising holy heck like they should be doing – the vote is tues

Do you know what is in the Bacus bill?

Besides gloating about the President's inconsequential and temporay setback – what have you done today to take action to stop the HC takeover from happening?

We conservatives are supposed to be adults and the party of thinkers and ideas – gloating like 3rd graders should be beneath our dignity – leave that to the children of the left

Obama's failure speaks for itself, it should have been a small footnote on the day and the balance of the time in the conservative media should have been spent shedding the light of truth on the HC takeover bill

The HC bill will radically and fundamentally change our economy, our health outcomes, our society and politics for the worse

The more people know about the HC takeover, the less people like about it.

No the Obama people didnt get into the WH by being stupid, they new this would draw attention on this thru the whole weekend and beyond. And its a shout term issue of no importance. Plus, it helps their narrative as critics being overreactionary zealots.

Everyday HC is not the top item in the news is a victory for Obama – we have a very limited time period to kill this off and we are wasting it on a frivilous and irrelavent issue

One more time: we're not laughing because of the Olympics.

You all are so incredibly naive!

The truth is that Chicago DID have the Olympics sewed up, and the President and First Lady and Oprah went over to accept it with proper grace and charity. I mean, the very election of President Obama has made us loved and admired in places from Pyongyang to Tehran to Jakarta.

(Music: Empire Theme from Star Wars) But that was before Karl Rove, The Architect, picked up the phone and used his incredibly omnipotent powers of persuasion, blackmail, extortion, rhetoric, bluster and hypnotism to bend the committee voters to his supremely evil will. maniacal laughter Karl Rove did his evil best and destroyed the Olympic hopes and dreams of the poor, dispossessed working men and women of Chicago, the City of Broad Shoulders. Yes, Karl Rove did it…

/sarcasm