“I wish that we had come back with better news from Copenhagen,” President Barack Obama said a few weeks ago after an unsuccessful trip across the ocean to try to snag the 2016 Summer Olympics for Chicago.
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McCain presses Obama to pardon black boxer (AP via Yahoo! Sports)
Sen. John McCain on Friday pressed President Barack Obama to give a posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson, the black heavyweight boxing champion who was imprisoned nearly a century ago because of his romantic ties with a white woman. McCain, R-Ariz., and Rep.
With Olympics, Obama takes a hit along with Chicago (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News)
WASHINGTON — The International Olympic Committee’s stinging first-round elimination of Chicago on Friday as the site of the 2016 Summer Games probably won’t count much in how history judges Barack Obama’s presidency.
Obama Stumps in Denmark for Chicago’s Olympic Bid (International Herald Tribune)
As President Obama pitched his hometown’s bid to host the Summer Games, the first American president to do so, he put his own credibility on the line.
Obama’s Chicago 2016 Olympics Bid: Politically Risky (Time.com via Yahoo! News)
President Obama’s trip to Copenhagen to bid for Chicago for the 2016 Summer Olympics could come back to haunt him — in more ways than one
Michelle Obama arrives to back Chicago bid (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
American First Lady Michelle Obama arrived on Wednesday, the first of a succession of state dignitaries due in Copenhagen to promote four rival bids for the 2016 Summer Olympics ahead of Friday’s IOC vote.
Obama factor looms large as lobbying for 2016 Olympics heats up (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The four cities bidding for the prize honor of hosting the 2016 Summer Olympics began three intensive days of lobbying on Tuesday with the Obama factor looming large ahead of Friday’s vote by the IOC.