True to Form, Emanuel Waves the Bloody Shirt

The Chicago Daily Observer ^ | February 18, 2011 | Daniel J. Kelley

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It took an almost incoherent and incomprehensible opinion from the Supreme Court of Illinois to restore Emanuel to the ballot. It was supremely ironic that Michael Kasper, one of Emanuel’s lead attorneys, had the audacity to argue that the same one year residential requirement for municipal candidates that was in controversy in the challenge to Emanuel’s mayoral candidacy ought to have barred an aldermanic candidate from the ballot in the 27th Ward. As the Irish cynic and scholar, Jonathan Swift, famously observed there are lawyers who can argue “White is Black and Black is White” according to how they are paid by their various clients.

In the closing days of the campaign, Emanuel, who has been straining at the leash, slipped away from his political handlers, and vented his temperamental thoughts and frustrations. At a campaign gathering in the 45th Ward, Emanuel castigated his opponent Gery Chico on account of his rival’s unsolicited endorsement by local Tea Party activists. Emanuel denounced the Tea Party as extremists opposed to the Obama agenda.

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Rahm sells out organized labor and cries that his reputation is being besmirched when he is criticized for his profiting from his activities.

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Emanuel denounced the Tea Party as extremists opposed to the Obama agenda.

Watch Emanuel become the despot of Chicago and Illinois.

[Liz]

"Jeepers, doesn't my part-time job in the mall after
I got thrown out of the WH count for something?"

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Watch Emanuel become the despot of Chicago and Illinois.

Emanuel will be great for Chicago - the implosion will begin under his watch. This is why the Daleys are getting out. They know the game is up and the Democratic political machine will have to be remade into another form.