Editor's note: This is an updated version of an earlier column.COPENHAGEN -- This was the world thumbing its nose -- no, flipping its middle finger -- at America. This was the world telling America what it can do with its President Obama, its Michelle Obama, its Oprah Winfrey, its belief that it simply could drop into Europe and use Hollywood dazzle to win an Olympic bid. This was the world telling America that we still don't like you enough in 2009 to back you in 2016.
And this was Chicago, city of sleazy politicians, getting a wicked taste of its own backdoor medicine. Seems the fixers got jobbed this time.




