Chicago loses olympic bid!

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Currently in Europe for two weeks on business; as I type this I am to the north of London. Happily head home next Friday.

I offer the following bit that I read this morning; offered not as a personal opinion, but just to provide a glimpse into what at least one European paper had to say about topic.

Taken from today's The Times ...

Title of the article is Chicago's humiliation points to failure of Obama rhetoric. Here is an excerpt from text:

"Loved by many but feared by none; full of lofty vision by achieving nothing with his grandiloquence,...Chicago's dismal showing at the IOC meeting in Copenhagen after the President's personal, impassioned, last-minute pitch is a stunning humiliation for him and will only feed the perception that on the world stage, he looks good but carries no heft."

The item goes on to say that "the perception is growing that Mr. Obama's soaring rhetoric, which captured the imagination during last year's election, is simply not enough when confronting the myriad challenges of the presidency. His spectacular Olympic failure will only add to that."

Again, this piece does not necessarily reflect my opinion and not sure to what degree The Times reflects the general European attitude of President Obama.