Chicago Daily Observer

Because Barack Obama has spent most of his adult life in Chicago politics, one can surmise a President Obama will reach back home for trusted advisors and longtime associates to form an Obama cabinet.

The top cabinet positions traditionally include the secretaries of state, defense, and treasury as well as attorney general. Recently, the secretary of homeland security has risen to the cabinet’s top level, along with the vice president and chief of staff.

So, who would be at Obama’s table of influence?

Jim Thompson, Oprah Winfrey, Wesley Clark, Bill Ayers, and Tony Rezko among others

With all the pollution and poison permeating the air waves and the internet, unabashedly focused on defeating Republican team John McCain and Sarah Palin’s candidacy, it’s time for Illinois conservative Republicans to stop whining and fight back.

It’s time to stop whining and and time to fight back.

Last night, the Republican National Convention planners did an excellent job of dismantling the Democrats’ faulty caricature of Republicans being nothing more than heartless, selfish, greedy old white men sitting around tables plotting how they can make their fellow humans’ existence as miserable as possible.