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Obama's Olympic Disaster

The president and first lady lobbied for Chicago the same way they stormed Iowa. But Denmark is not Des Moines, and the IOC can’t be bought—in one quick trip, anyway.

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President Obama says he's glad he went to Copenhagen to make a bid for the Olympics, but conservatives say the high-profile failure has exposed the limits of Obama's popularity abroad, Politico reports.

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