Gingrich calls Detroit a disaster, draws ire

Detroit News | July 31, 2007 | Jennifer Mrozowski and Tony Gonzalez

[HockeyPop]

I saw the mayor of Detroit being interviewed. He seemed like an enthusiastic—get things done kind of fellow.

We should wish him all the best.

[Rummyfan]

Monica Conyers, the council's president pro tem

Any relation to the distinguished Congressman from Michigan John Conyers?

[CutePuppy]

Ain’t that the truth. Some people “speak truth to power”, and some people “can’t handle the truth”.

[freedomson]

Coleman Youngs years of “Beat it till you get past eight mile.” has been upheld and is paying dividends now.

[yobid]

Whatever else Daley’s politics are he really keeps Chicago humming. Truth be told it was reborn in the early 80s starting with Jane Byrne and flourished in the 90s under the current Daley. The old Daley was a bigot who didn’t care about the downtown area at all.

Is that right? Well tell Mr. King daddy to fill in the pot holes on Lake Shore Drive, clean up the pigeon cr*p, round up the beggers ever twenty feet and stop jacking my real estate taxes thru the roof to pay for his corrupt, cronie puppet circus sideshow called City Hall and his park district clowns. Like THAT will happen.

[the OlLine Rebel]

The black plaque?

Is that some kind of tooth problem, or tooth decay in the black communities?

[Clemenza]

Which brings me to another thing I learned about living in Chicago: the implementation of "containment" as a crime fighting strategy.

As a grad student in the late 90s, I lived in the nicest neighborhood on the South Side (Hyde Park) and the poorest neighborhood on the North Side (Uptown). Despite the fact that the former was inhabited largely by students and Professors, and the latter inhabited by junkies and poor immigrants (from all over the world, btw), there was less of a crime/personal safety problem in the latter. It was explained to me that the CPD essentially "held the line" against the thuggery at Roosevelt Road.

[fieldmarshaldj]

She’s his wife.

[relictele]

Boy ain’t that the truth.

Makes outfits like Klanwatch and the Southern Poverty Law Center absolute laughingstocks. They worry about racist graffiti and other trifles while entire generations are kept in de facto servitude courtesy of Dem politicos in cities like Dee-troit.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Taking a note from Cosby....

[Borges]

Uptown is up and coming. Really nice condos are springing up all over there.

[Carpe Cerevisi]

Yeah, Hitler was very “enthusiastic” as well. However I’m not sure his posse was as big as Herr Kwame’s.

[NeoCaveman]

I can say this much, Newt has been to Detroit.

[Clemenza]

Yep. They even opened a Borders Book Store where the old Goldblatt's department store was.

I remember when Goldblatt's closed, they literally sold EVERYTHING, including the brackets and nuts that held up the shelves.

[Borges]

I don’t know who runs the Chicago Park District but its extremely well kept. Millenium Park is gorgeous. It must be from the exorbitant parking fees they charge.

[Borges]

Has Borders become the ultimate symbol of ‘up and coming’ or what?

[Clemenza]

Even Washington Park and any of the old Westside Parks are immaculately kept, even though the surrounding neighborhoods resemble Dresden after WWII.

[Chuck Dent]

Detroit is one of the few places I can think of that would IMPROVE with an influx of illegals.

While many here bemoan the impact illegals have had on certain residential neighborhoods, they generally provide a restorative effect in most inner-city regions.

A good case in point is downtown LA down by USC/Coliseum - a few years ago it was absolutely no go. Now, the former denizens have either been forced out or have moved further south (ie South-Central LA), with the result being that you can now safely drive around/visit museums + get some pretty good Mexican food to boot.

[the OlLine Rebel]

ROFL

[fieldmarshaldj]

Liberals are the biggest racists of all. And even if they don’t necessarily “hate” a given race, the fact that they proliferate the soft bigotry of low (or no) expectations, that’s a far greater sin than just being a hating loudmouth.