misanthropicus
2009-10-02 10:31:28
RE #41/Paul from Hamburg: [...] Chicago probably would have had a better chance if Obama had not shown up. Without Obama, the IOC can simply vote on the relative merits of the candidate cities. By being there, Obama made the vote about him. [...]
Paul, bingo! I can’t say whether Chcago would have won without Obama, but his injecting his “uniquenness” in this affair definitely didn’t play well with many IOC voting members. And since oppression-wise Lula trumped him, Obama was reduced at being just a talkative annoyance – as you say, the simple fact is that people have gotten tired of him, and Chicago might have had a chance if the affair would have been let travel on a less personal trajectory.
