Barb’s Blog

According to David Axelrod, “politics” played a key role in the International Olympic Committee’s decision to reject President Obama’s appeal in support of Chicago’s bid to host the 2016 Olympics.

Interesting, Axelrod didn’t choose “racism” as the reason, because here at home, if Obama’s policies or plans are rejected – “racism” is the only reason that administration can come up with.

However, using “politics” as the reason the bid failed is also interesting and in my opinion,  a poor choice of words.

In my opinion “politics” is the reason Obama WENT.

He owed his friends in Chicago many favors, and if he had ‘won’ the bid, it wouldn’t do his ego presidency any harm either.

My feelings aren’t hurt that the IOC didn’t choose Chicago by the way. As of this post, no decision has been made. In fairness, Rio was my hope as all of South America has never hosted even one.