My comments from the previous thread

Regarding the 2016 Olympics. It is a huge loss for President Obama both domestically and internationally. President Obama put his political capital on getting the Olympics for Chicago when he decided to go to Copenhagen. It was supposed to be a tight race between Chicago and Rio. It was not, Chicago finished last! Either the Obama Administration cannot count and wasted political capital on a complete lose/lose situation (which will not make the Blue Dog Democrats feel confident to lay their political futures on the line for the Administration since the ability to count seems to be lacking in the White House and the 2010 election is coming fast while their poll numbers continue to decline) or President Obama deluded himself into thinking he could sway the IOC delegates with his lofty rhetoric (and that delusion merely reinforces French President Sarkozy’s scathing comments on the POTUS’ naivete and will must cause our allies serious concern regarding negotiations with Iran and N. Korea.) If the problem is the former (bad math skills) it can be cured by firing the White House staff responisble for polling regarding the IOC vote, if the problem is the latter we have a serious problem.