I don't care about the Olympics one way or the other. It has always pissed me off how it sets the politics of one nation against another, like the boycotts in the 80's between the US and the Soviets.
However, this is the first time I've ever seen a party political split in the country of a prospective host city. I find it really fooking pathetic how this failed bid by Chicago was seen as a vote of incompetence by this nations President. He took a day off from being president to try to sway the chances of the US to highlight one of it's cities. He could have taken weeks of to pretend to clear brush on his ranch (If he had one) But this whole event has simply been taken over by the haters to project it as a monumental failure of the presidency.
Get over it, it's just a failed Olympics bid, there are several of them every four years. Don't the haters have anything more worthy to do than magnify every single failure out of all proportion?