Boss, Mike Royko's take on Mayor Richard J. Daley, tells how the Machine distracted attention from its first big scandal in 1959 by focusing on making Chicago into "fun town." It was a police scandal when Venetian Night was created. These days, while CPD continues to exhibit shameful behavior and innocent kids are daily being shot and beaten to death, especially in the black neighborhoods, Richard M. Daley is promoting the next big idea for Chicago, the 2016 Olympics. If history is to repeat, it will bring greater police injustice and increased gentrification while mostly benefittng elite corporations. And Daley has Obama sold on it.
Global financial meltdown and looming climate catastrophe, is not enough, reforming healthcare and wars galore is not enough, Daley is dragging Obama to Copenhagen to convince the International Olympic Committee to come to Chicago in 2016.
Do not be like Obama. Do not be distracted. We need sensible, sustainable, infrastructure projects, not more crap from the Chicago Democrat Machine.
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