Rich Irony In Chicago Loss to Rio

If Rio gets the nod it will be a delicious irony. Obama's hometown will have lost out on the 2016 Olympic Games by virtue of a core creed of modern liberalism - affirmative action, or more precisely, the granting of privileges or benefits based on a desire to rectify past injustice. This concept has escaped past its conceptual borders, now often addressing merely perceived injustices as opposed to widely recognized injustices as well as often blithely disregarding legitimate, rather than sinister, causes of past under-representation. Lula has essentially made the affirmative action pitch for Brazil. It would be richer than rich for Obama, liberalism's earth-bound deity, to be so humbled by a decision-making process that was infused with one of liberalism's deepest held creeds.

UPDATE: It's Rio.