Quote from a_person:
You said that Chicago was eliminated because North America has hosted 12 Games and that was a huge factor. And yet Madrid was not eliminated even though Europe has hosted the Olympics 30 times. And Tokyo was not eliminated first either even though it already hosted the Games before. Sorry but you can't have it both ways, clearly the number of times a region has hosted the Olympics was not such a huge factor after all, at least in the first round of voting.
I don't disagree with that. My point is that Chicago was the first city to be eliminated - Obama got no respect whatsoever despite all his international apologies and unilateral concessions, despite all that nonsense about how he is beloved and respected in the world. Hopefully he'll learn his lesson that in the real world all that international admiration is worth absolutely nothing to the country that he was elected to represent.
Frankly I only hope that Obama will learn his lesson that all his international apologies and concessions have earned him nothing and never will, that the monetary value of his "charm" factor is zero.