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Couldn't have happened to a nicer couple.

Sorry, Chicago, but you didn't deserve an Olympic venue (well, you couldn't afford it, but that's beside the point): you didn't deserve this because you're one of the most, if not the most, corrupt cities in America.

And you gave us the likes of Barack and Michelle Obama.

And Bill (Barack's first teleprompter!) Ayers.

(Damn, it's not often I get to do two schadenfreude posts in one day! Beer's on the house~!)

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"The Ego Has Landed".

Obama and his wife, Michelle, had taken their star power to the Danish capital to make Chicago’s case, ignoring the carping from Republican opponents who charged it was a bad time to go with foreign policy challenges in Iran and Afghanistan and the U.S. Congress bogged down in a domestic healthcare debate.
“I’m asking you to choose Chicago. I’m asking you to choose America,” Michelle Obama told committee members.
Her husband said, “If you do, if we walk this path together, then I promise you this: The city of Chicago and the United States of America will make the world proud.”

But it was to no avail. President Obama spoke fine words, but he didn’t bring enough goodies.

Yes, goodies. In the great wide world the fine portals open into courtyards that are not all they seem.  Amid the fine words, gleaming crystal, white-coated waiters, the green baize tables, the Ivy League accents — the entire august setting — two basic modes of doing business remain: cash on the barrel or a gun to the head.