Posted on 08/13/2012 6:11:35 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama: 'Chicago Is an Example of What Makes This Country Great' Daniel Halper August 13, 2012 8:58 AM
In campaign remarks yesterday at the Bridgeport Art Center in Chicago, Illinois, President Barack Obama praised his adopted city, where he lived before becoming president of the United States. "Chicago is an example of what makes this country great," Obama said. His audience applauded.
President Obama's proof for his assertion? The donors in the room, who had given to his reelection campaign. "Witness this room," Obama said. And he elaborated: "[W]e've got everything we need to make things work here in America. We still have the best workers in the world. (Applause.) We've still got the best entrepreneurs in the world. We've got the best colleges, the best universities, the best scientists, the best researchers. We're a young nation, and we've got the greatest diversity of talent and ingenuity from every corner of the globe."
But what President Obama did not address is Chicago's homicide rate, one of the highest in the nation.
"[M]ore Chicago residents -- 228 -- have been killed so far this year in the city than the number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan - 144 -- over the same period," the Huffington Post noted in June.
"The war zone-like statistics are not new. As WBEZ reports, while some 2,000 U.S. troops have been killed in Afghanistan since 2001, more than 5,000 people have been killed by gun fire in Chicago during that time, based on Department of Defense and FBI data. Chicago's murder rate is also currently quadruple that of New York and double Los Angeles' rate."
CBS blames Chicago's crime statistics on gang violence:
There are 228 dead: That's the number of murders this year in Chicago. It's nearly twice as many as the number of Americans lost on the battlefields of Afghanistan over these last six months. And the number of deaths is up 35 percent over the same period last year.
There was a time it was called "gangland" Chicago and maybe that time has returned.
Chicago's mayor, Rahm Emanuel, was formerly President Obama's chief of staff.
Maybe the Chicago Blackhawks...
Sure if you’re an African country.
Second, I have a friend who lived in Chicago most of her life. She loved her city, still does, but she qualifies this by saying ... Chicago IS a great place, except for the politics and crime. She feels sorry for the bad rap because, she says, of what has happened to Chicago in the past several years and blames the growing problem with crime on the Democrats/liberals. Funny how even native Chicagoans see that,just like the rest of the world, but they keep electing those Dems. It must be something in that lake water!
Your reaction is the proper one.
We’ve got the best colleges, the best universities, the best scientists, the best researchers. ............................................. The most gangsters too?
Seriously? He really said that?
Truly delusional...
tears running down my cheeks with laughter at that statement...
you cant make this stuff up.
but you can...... zer0bama made it up....and he lies with a straight face and the morons believe him....
--IIRC, murders during the years of Prohibition (1920-1934?) totaled about 1100--and virtually all were involved in the business of booze--few bystanders got hurt---
What's not to love......?
......if, of course, you are Obama.
....GRIN....
Methinks that armor is slipping.
Even democrat lapdogs like CNN haven't been quite as sycophantic recently as they've been in the past. IMHO, even they've realized that people have taken about all they're going to of the lying socialists.
And without an audience, the MSM is nothing.
Here’s a great ad for Romney in the making: Use obama’s words about Chicago being what makes America great and follow up with statistics of violence (including footage of the flash mobs ransacking stores).
Chicago... City of Values.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!! ..breathe.. .breathe... LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!
Keep those humor lines coming, O-boy...
Today,Chicago,Tomorrow the Suburbs belong to us!
If that isn’t a GAFF,...nothing can be!
If he’s actually melting down at least do us the favor and commit suicide. Save us a hell of a trial!
I seem to remember Obama (gangster in chief) lobbying the Olympic Committee, and getting “shot down” big time. Socialists and gangsters have made Chicago into the next Detroit.
Starting with Al Capone or Mayor Daly?
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