My first thought on hearing that Chicago had lost the bid to host the Olympics: “I wonder if Joe Biden is going to be sent out to spin this as a big win for the people of Chicago.”

Just sayin’.

This is fun reading:

But here’s the most interesting question about today’s Olympic vote: Why didn’t Obama see this coming? He spends all this time, gets all this press, uses all this political capital to promote Chicago, and then loses? What an amateur. Prosecutors don’t ask witnesses questions in court unless they’re sure of the answers. Presidents don’t stake their personal reputations on contests whose outcomes are uncertain. Very foolish move. No wonder he can’t get health care passed.

Caught that on NRO and it made me laugh.

It is odd to me that he spent more time on this issue and treated it with far more urgency than, publicly anyway, we are seeing the administration deal with the question of ongoing strategy in Afghanistan. It’s a strange place to put that much effort, as Carlson notes, especially when you have no idea of the outcome. Unless he truly believed that his star power would bring the win. Then it’s just a case of poor judgement.

To be fair, I think Rio is a case of poor judgement, too. But what do I know?