Thank you Richard Daley!

No I don't live in Chicago.

But I couldn't bear to watch what would have happened up north if Chicago would have landed the Olympic bid. This is a city that can't even get it's streets plowed and potholes filled. It would have been the equivalent of a city the size of Peoria building a museum when there are so many other.......errr....never mind. I'm sure the cost overruns would have been felt throughout the state, somehow.

I already heard various reports that the construction contracts were already signed, sealed and delivered. I'm sure no one in Daley's inner circle would have benefited from that. Hizzoner won't be able to go undercover in the dark of night and start building Olympic stadiums, much like he did concerning the whole Meigs Field debacle. It's nice to see him get one stuck up his "Chicago Machine".

Also from what I've read and heard, without the President and his wife this entire presentation would have been a debacle. So thank you Mr. Mayor for your input, it was greatly appreciated to those of us who didn't want Chicago to win the bid.

Perhaps the end of Daley as we know it is just around the corner........