Oh It's Nothing, It's Just the Phone

Beyond the question of why Barack inserted himself in the whole Chicago Olympic mess to begin with (surely not so that his well-healed Chicago donors could unload worthless slum properties for millions as sites on which to build Olympic facilities and venues); why did he have to fly himself, his entourage, several jets, his wife and her entourage to Copenhagen to make the plea? Couldn't he just simply have picked up the phone and called the Committee? It is said that the bill for the jet fuel alone is $1.5 million. How much health care for underprivileged Chicagoans would that buy?