Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and the ilk are celebrating that Obama could not get the 2016 Olympics to Chicago. What are they rejoicing? That the US would have gotten hundreds (maybe thousands) of jobs from these Olympics that are now lost? Will these FOX News types get any dimmer?
I think Obama did the right thing and pitched for his country and adopted hometown Chicago. However, given the unpopularity of the US it was not possible. Especially some officials of the Olympic Committee were sore the way they got treated after the Salt Lake City Olympics as there were allegations of corruption and Senator McCain and others tried to make them accountable. To make them accountable might not have been bad thing but the Olympic Committee possibley held the grudge. So it is very little to do with Obama himself or Oprah Winfrey who was also pitching Chicago.
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