“But here’s the most interesting question about today’s Olympic vote: Why didn’t Obama see this coming? He spends all this time, gets all this press, uses all this political capital to promote Chicago, and then loses? What an amateur. Prosecutors don’t ask witnesses questions in court unless they’re sure of the answers. Presidents don’t stake their personal reputations on contests whose outcomes are uncertain. Very foolish move. No wonder he can’t get health care passed.” – Tucker Carlson, The Washington Post

I wrote earlier in the week that I suspected he wouldn’t be taking this trip if it wasn’t already a done deal. Nope! He was going in to dazzle. He was risking his political capital and the prestige of the presidency, as this story puts it, because how could he fail? He’s The One.

Throw in Michelle babbling about the “sacrifice” of a transatlantic flight attended by dozens of minions on one of the most luxurious airliners in the world (I hope to God she had organic kale), and how children’s athletic program funding drying up means kids can’t learn to ride bikes anymore (huh?), and clearly, the IOC heard enough.

It just wasn’t the “enough” the Obamas thought it was.

Hey, want to talk timing? They’re shilling for the Games while those horrible mob murder videos from Chicago are circulating. Can you say “tin ear”?

Sorry if the below is a repeat for you, but it’s good. Here are the Top 10 reasons and excuses Chicago didn’t get the Olympics:

10. Dead people can’t vote at IOC meetings. 9. Obama was distracted by his 25-minute meeting with General McChrystal. 8. “That I couldn’t talk the Olympics into Chicago doesn’t mean I can’t talk Iran out of nukes.” 7. “The impediment is that Israel is still building settlements.” 6. “Obviously no president would have been able to accomplish this.” 5. “We’ve been quite clear and said all along that we didn’t want the Olympics.” 4. “This isn’t about the number of Olympics ‘lost’; it’s about the number of Olympics ‘saved’ or ‘created.'” 3. Clearly, there weren’t enough wise Latina judges on the committee. 2. The IOC is racist. 1. It’s Bush’s fault.

Here’s one of the first pieces talking about what a victory this is for Obama (yeah, I’m serious). Favorite quote:

Certainly one reason the United States got the high hat was the lingering bad taste of George W. Bush. The global community, after eight years of sneering contempt from Washington, DC, isn’t ready to rinse with the Obama mouthwash.

Few things are as polemically entertaining as a floundering liberal.

I don’t like the Olympics, and I don’t like Barack Obama. I love that he got pasted in Copenhagen. This failure so effectively embodies the two traits that make Obama a rotten president: breathtaking arrogance and obscene inexperience.

Keep it up, Barry. Might be time for another address to Congress.

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