Parts of the west side of Chicago are nasty, but the rest of the city is very nice.
This story of Patrick Daley feeding from the trough or more properly, from the sewer exemplifies the sweetheart deals that are typical of the political environment in which Senator Barack Obama rose. It rounds out the story of how each member of the family of Obamas Illinois Senate mentor, Emil Jones, somehow manages to make big money from government salaries and contracts. It may evoke memories of the illegal pension-fund manipulation that landed Obamas fundraiser, Tony Rezko, in federal prison or of the millions in corporate welfare that Obama, as a state senator, showered upon Rezko and his other major donors in Chicagos slum development business.