Posted on 01/09/2017 5:15:29 PM PST by jazusamo
The weekend before President Obamas planned farewell address was a good one by Chicagos violent standards only one person was killed by gunfire and eight others were wounded.
As Mr. Obama returns home Tuesday to deliver his final speech as president, Chicago is in the grips of a soaring homicide rate and reeling from a horrific black-on-white torture hate crime that was captured on video. Over Christmas weekend, 12 Chicagoans were killed in a total of 27 shootings.
Amid criticism that the president and his former chief of staff, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, have failed for eight years to address the citys violence and racial divisions, Mr. Obama nevertheless will bask in the adoration of thousands of friends and supporters in a prime-time speech reviewing his presidency and offering his prescriptions for the challenges ahead.
Some Chicago residents say its shaping up as a hollow valedictory speech.
He didnt need to come to Chicago for the speech, and he knows that doing so calls attention not only to the citys troubles but to his administrations failures to solve them, said Charles Lipson, a political science professor at the University of Chicago. Chicagos troubles highlight the deep national divisions, social breakdown, income inequality and gun violence that Barack Obama was elected to ameliorate. His administration not only failed, most of the problems grew worse.
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He’s gotta stir the pot.
Chicago Forecast: 46 degrees, 80% chance of rain, 25 mph winds.
dark cloud over Obama........... Is that racis’? Someone have an issue with “dark” clouds?
I read today that on Jan 20 Chicago will be requesting help from the Feds, didn’t say whether it was for $$$ or law enforcement.
Officially, I suggest modestly that the flight should be officially Guantanamo2
Flight Guantanamo 1 has already been reserved.
Thanks, Barack!
“Why did he go back to Chicago? That puzzles me.”
It makes me a little nervous. Obama still has a week and a half to finish his fundamental transformation of America. Who knows what the shallow child will say or do. Will he try to set off riots for Trump’s first weeks? Will he formally abandon Israel? Will he try to pardon 25 million illegal aliens?
I wonder if they still “own” that house in Chicago that they obviously had zero emotional attachment to.
Where are they going in Chicago? To their house that they’ve only been to once that I can remember in 8 years. Weird.
I wish I had the quote from Tucker Carlson on what it will be about. It was hysterical.
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I watched it. T.C. at his best. I only hope that Obama saw it too.
Hey - Trump went on a Victory/Thank-You Tour, why shouldn't Obama go on a Bitter Grapes Loser Tour?
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