Cost On Obama's Permanent Campaign 'Enough is Enough'

By now everyone has heard that Chicago has lost it's bid to host the Olympics, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/03/sport ... wanted=all despite the fact that Barack Obama, on taxpayer money, flew all the way to Copenhagen to campaign for the Olympics to be held in Chicago.

Rio de Janeiro was elected to hold the 2016 Olympics.

One line of that article linked above, struck me as familiar of how Obama thinks and how his administration thinks:


Mr. Obama’s decision to become the first American president to lobby the Olympic committee in person, just two weeks after saying he was too busy with health care legislation, was a gamble from the start. It was predicated on the theory that Mr. Obama’s star power overseas — “the best brand in the world,â€