Obama Fail

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U.S. President Barack Obama's politically risky Olympics gamble failed to bring home the gold on Friday, with the Olympics committee's refusal to grant the 2016 Summer Games to his hometown Chicago.

The president, whose even-tempered personality has earned him the nickname "No Drama Obama," broke from that mold to make an overnight dash from Washington to Copenhagen to personally lobby for Chicago.

Obama and his wife, Michelle, had taken their star power to the Danish capital to make Chicago's case, ignoring the carping from Republican opponents who charged it was a bad time to go with foreign policy challenges in Iran and Afghanistan and the U.S. Congress bogged down in a domestic healthcare debate.

"I'm asking you to choose Chicago. I'm asking you to choose America," Michelle Obama told committee members.

Her husband said, "If you do, if we walk this path together, then I promise you this: The city of Chicago and the United States of America will make the world proud."

Rejection

Mongo wrote:

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U.S. President Barack Obama's politically risky Olympics gamble failed to bring home the gold on Friday, with the Olympics committee's refusal to grant the 2016 Summer Games to his hometown Chicago.

The president, whose even-tempered personality has earned him the nickname "No Drama Obama," broke from that mold to make an overnight dash from Washington to Copenhagen to personally lobby for Chicago.

Obama and his wife, Michelle, had taken their star power to the Danish capital to make Chicago's case, ignoring the carping from Republican opponents who charged it was a bad time to go with foreign policy challenges in Iran and Afghanistan and the U.S. Congress bogged down in a domestic healthcare debate.

"I'm asking you to choose Chicago. I'm asking you to choose America," Michelle Obama told committee members.

Her husband said, "If you do, if we walk this path together, then I promise you this: The city of Chicago and the United States of America will make the world proud."

Rejection

How exactly is this an "Obama fail"? I know Fox News has been having a tizzy about this whole thing. They are just doing what they always do...going against any and everything this president does. I sure didn't see them throw a tizzy when Bush headed to the Olympics and got dog drunk, made a butt out of himself in front of the whole world....all the while we were in the middle of a financial meltdown and two wars. Where was the uproar then? Yes, shame on President Obama for trying to bring money into this country. Fox News and the usual suspects wouldn't have made a peep if Bush had of took time out of his brush clearing at the ranch to drum up support for the Olympics in Texas. More double standards and your "Obama fail" title was very Hannity-ish of you.

Oh and here are the morons celebrating the US losing the Olympics. It blows my mind that anyone actually listens to these nuts. MMMM MMMM MMMMM. DUH. And they call themselves patriots. Yeah right. Yes, let's celebrate all the jobs that the US just lost. YAYYYY! Please. It's easy for them to celebrate it since they are rich and have millions of brainwashed minions. What makes it worse is that people actually parrot these crazies instead of thinking for themselves. The olympics would have had a wonderful impact on our country. It's nothing to cheer about but keep on doing it because we all know that it doesn't matter if President Obama made it rain money, certain people would still hate him.