Community Leaders Excluded from Duncan and Holder Meeting (with Father Pfleger!)

NBC Chicago ^ | October 7 | DICK JOHNSON and STEVE BRYANT

[PghBaldy]

Community leaders and parents outside Fenger are in disbelief that they are not at the breakfast table with Arne Duncan and Eric Holder. Attorney General Holder and Secretary of Education Duncan are in town to speak, ostensibly, with the community about youth violence -- a blight on Chicago neighborhoods so vividly brought to national attention by the videotaped beating of Derrion Albert. "They are meeting about us without us," said Phillip Jackson of the Black Star Project, a Chicago-based educational reform organization. Duncan and Holder's meeting at the Four Seasons also includes Mayor Daley, Pastor Michael Pfleger, CEO of Chicago Public Schools Ron Huberman, and Police Superintendent Jody Weis.

[PghBaldy]

I am surprised that Drudge doesn't mention that Obama's people are meeting with Father Pfleger of all people.

[Parley Baer]

I wonder if any cameras and microphones are present.

[originalbuckeye]

The ‘little people’ are slowly waking to the fact that Zero and his minions don’t care at all about the ‘little people’. Too bad they didn’t awaken to this fact before November, 2008.

[Freddd]

Of course millions of our dollars will fix it right?

[EDINVA]

FOUR SEASONS ???? That sounds real down and out. More LimoLibs.

[library user]

"President Obama fueled up Air Force One to fly to Copenhagen to try to win the Olympics. Why can't he fuel up a Greyhound bus and come here?" asked Jackson.

PW3ND!!!!1