How's That Hope and Change Working For Ya?

Wasting taxpayer's money and emitting tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (how do those bus tires feel, Al?), our dear leader has failed to charm the IOC into playing the 2016 Olympics in Chicago.

Ouch Mayor Daley and his millionaire slum lord bff, Valerie Jarrett. But, I guess, it's better to waste our money by making the fruitless trip than to put us on the hook for what could have been worse if Chicago would have won the bid to host the Olympics.

First it was Chicagoans that would NOT be on the hook if they won at the IOC, nope, just other Americans. Then later they would somewhat be on the hook. Then Chicagoans would be...well, you know the rest.

But all was for not. Never mind that the countries economy is in tatters and his top general was waiting for a response to an August 30 memo requesting more troops, those issues can be put on the back burner. No, dear leader felt it was a priority to use two jets to fly over the pond and play pitchman to the IOC only to be knocked out of the running in the first round.

Now both jets need to fly back. Hey, Al! You can come out of the corner when dear leader gets back. Valerie, you can find another excuse to demolish your slums at Grove Parc to make more millions. And Mayor Daley? You can just go pound sand.

How's that hope and change workin' out for ya, America?