Meanwhile kids galore in his own district and all over Chicago are laying dead today from violence from guns and he's excused from saying this statement below, and a so called "black" liberal on top of it all getting away with a comment like this--!!!!
Obama: Sweet 'n sour home Chicago:
The Swamp: "He meant it as a joke, but when Barack Obama recently parodied a famous line from 'The Untouchables' he also dredged up the reputation of his longtime home as a place that is rough, raw and unlikely to breed reform.
'If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,' Obama said during a Philadelphia fundraiser, explaining the Chicago-style approach to hard-nosed politics.
As the first African-American to lock up a major-party presidential nomination, Obama has been the subject of much analysis that understandably focuses on race.
But Americans also have never sent a Chicagoan to the White House, and one intriguing question posed by his candidacy is whether they are ready to now."For all his talk about change, Obama remains a product of a Chicago and Illinois political culture renowned for corruption and filled with characters who range from felonious to just outrageous.
Illinois Senate President Emil Jones, Obama's mentor in Springfield, is about as old-school as they come. Just last month, the Chicago Democrat publicly ridiculed an attempt to block a pay raise for legislators by sarcastically declaring: "I've got to get me some food stamps."
Obama's stable of political friends is populated with others like Jones, and when he has dabbled in city and Cook County politics in recent years he has frequently failed to come down on the side of progressives.
The rest of the story is in Monday's Tribune.
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