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World body drop-kicks Obama!

Rio de Janeiro is to host the first Olympic Games in South America.

International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge made the announcement in Copenhagen today, to the bitter humiliation of Barack Obama.

The U.S. president was embarrassed on the world stage after the IOC rejected his very personal bid for the 2016 Olympic Games to be hosted in his home town of Chicago.

Reactions are already pouring in. Since the topic is Obama it is necessary to go outside the US for an opinion from a mainstream media source that isn't sickening in its sycophancy.

There has been a growing narrative taking hold about Barack Obama’s presidency in recent weeks: that he is loved by many, but feared by none; that he is full of lofty vision, but is actually achieving nothing with his grandiloquence.

Chicago’s dismal showing today, after Mr Obama’s personal, impassioned last-minute pitch, is a stunning humiliation for this President. It cannot be emphasised enough how this will feed the perception that on the world stage he looks good — but carries no heft.

It was only the Olympic Games, the White House will argue — not a high-stakes diplomatic gamble with North Korea. It is always worthwhile when Mr Obama sells America to the rest of the world, David Axelrod, his chief political adviser, said today. But that argument will fall on deaf ears in the US. Americans want their presidents to be winners.

Mr Obama was greeted — as usual — like a rock star by the IOC delegates in Copenhagen — then humiliated by them. Perception is reality. A narrow defeat for Chicago would have been acceptable — but the sheer scale of the defeat was a bombshell, and is a major blow for Mr Obama at a time when questions are being asked about his style of governance.

Obama has no "style of governance" since he does not govern. Obama delegates the governance of the nation to a collection of unelected "czars" who do not even have to pass a congressional review (and who always seem to turn out to be both Marxists and crazy as shithouse rats when anyone bothers to look into their backgrounds) while he grants endless rounds of television interviews, makes endless numbers of speeches (which he always reads off a teleprompter since he sounds far less eloquent than even George W Bush when speaking extemporaneously) and jets around the nation and the world for "date nights" with his wife.

There hasn't been a "style of governance" to match this since the Emperor Tiberius abandoned Rome and sailed off to Capri to indulge in a 24/7/365 orgy.

At home, it is difficult to turn on a television and not see Mr Obama giving a press conference, or an interview, or at a town hall rally, in his all-out effort to sell his troubled reform the US health insurance system. After three months of enormous exposure, Mr Obama has achieved this: the growing likelihood of ramming a Bill through Congress with — at most — just one Republican vote.

He's probably not even going to get that. One of the reasons for this trip to Copenhagen was to both distract the voting public and strengthen the President's position with congress. By getting a big win for American prestige he hoped to be able to leverage enough votes on his socialized medicine scheme to get it passed.

You might wonder why he would take such a risk - pegging so much on an uncertain outcome - but you have to understand that in Obama's mind there was no uncertainty. In his mind the very fact that he would go to Copenhagen and ask personally guaranteed the result!

The man's narcissism is so Jovian that it simply never occurred to him, he is not capable of having it occur to him, that he could be denied. Especially by a body of European leftists.

Abroad, Mr Obama promised in his Inauguration address to engage America’s enemies, and he has done just that. He has very little to show for it. Yes, Iran took part in bilateral talks with the US this week over its nuclear weapons programme — but that is something Tehran has wanted for years. There is still a very good chance that the meetings will prove to be an exercise in futility and a time-wasting ploy by Tehran.

Mr Obama also scrapped a plan for a missile defence shield in the Czech Republic and Poland, hoping to get in return Russian co-operation behind new sanctions against Tehran. There was optimism when President Medvedev said “sanctions are seldom productive, but they are sometimes inevitable”. Yet Vladimir Putin, and the Chinese, remain fiercely opposed to sanctions.

Meanwhile, America and its allies are being forced to witness a very public agonising by Mr Obama and his advisers over his Afghan strategy — six months after he announced that strategy.

This has all added to the perception that Mr Obama’s soaring rhetoric — which captured the imagination during last year’s election — is simply not enough when it comes to confronting the myriad challenges of the presidency. His spectacular Olympic failure will only add to that.

The first thing you have to remember is that "the peoples of the world" so love B. Hussein Obama because they so hate the United States of America. They know that he hates America as much as they do.

That is not a basis for winning the respect of the world.

In the final analysis this is the best thing that could have happened for both the United States and the city of Chicago.

In the case of Chicago this is good because hundreds of millions of dollars will not now go to the corrupt cronies of the corrupt Daily machine, as well as members of the Obama administration, and the Chicago taxpayers will not be left holding the bag for billions in cost overruns which would have to be made up by higher taxes.

The nation as a whole benefits because Obama is weakened. If his popularity numbers were above 60% and he had been able to go to Copenhagen and pluck the Olympics for Chicago like an overripe fruit his stature would be strong enough to allow him to bully enough Representatives and Senators into voting for his health care takeover to get it enacted into law as he envisions it.

That prospect became much less likely today.