A Contender for the PR Puffery Pulitzer Prize: Slate’s Weisberg Declares an End to “Chicago-Style” Corruption
If I hear one more person accuse the Obama campaign of practicing “Chicago-style politics,” I’m gonna kick all his nephews off the park-district payroll. I’m gonna send some precinct captains over to straighten him out. Mitt Romney and his surrogates don’t understand what Chicago-style politics means. No one seems to have told them that it’s been gone for 25 years. And they don’t get that Barack Obama, in his Chicago days, never had anything to do with it.
As for Obama’s Chicago-based hit men, well, they don’t come out of Chicago-style politics either. David Axelrod was a quintessential Hyde Park independent, a University of Chicago student and disciple of the reform guru Don Rose. Axelrod cut his teeth denouncing what was left of Chicago-style politics as a Chicago Tribune political reporter in the early 1980s before quitting journalism to help elect the notoriously honorable downstate politician Paul Simon to the Senate in 1984. That was the first campaign Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel worked on as well. Rahm was too young to have much to do with the Daley machine. (cdobs except for being chief fundraiser for Daley’s first campaign for mayor)
I’m with Brother Weisberg! Obama practices the Hyde Park Policy Wheel -real estate, University study backed policy-tax dollars, Progressive payroll hackery.
Chicago Corruption is
Dukeing the building inspector with a fistful of Jackson . . .”Up to Code!”
Having cop tell me, ” Mr. Hickey, are you aware that you were driving $ 50 over the posted speed limit.”
That’s corruption Chicago Stuffed Style.
Nice spin job, Jacob! Obama took great care to make it appear that he was an elected official apart from Democratic Machine Politics, but that was merely a pose. After kniving his initial political sponsor, former State Senator Alice Palmer, in the back and grabbing her legislative seat, Obama fastened himself to State Senate President Emil Jones — hardly a model of reform and civic virtue. As for his ties with Tony Rezko… well that is quite obvious. Having struck out as an attorney in the private sector, Michelle Obama went to work for Richard M. Daley at City Hall.
David Axelrod’s reform credentials are equally suspect — once the radical leftists struck a pact with Richard M. Daley — the opposition to the next generation of the Daley Machine ended for all practical purposes. Jacob, I hope you take the time to read the op-ed penned by Axelrod in which he praised the virtues of “one party rule.” This screed was intended to celebrate Richard II, but it also seemed to be a prophetic blueprint for a transformative president who favors Soviet style Communism.
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