chicagodads

Finally, in implying that Illinois Senator Barack Obama is coming out of a corrupt political machine, are the McCain ads - and notice he’s repeated the attacks elsewhere, although I don’t particularly recall him saying them at the debate last night - proclaiming anything true? Is there any truth to be seen in these vicious and laughable attacks?

Well, Obama is from Chicago and he did not work to reformn the politics here. Vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is known for being a reformer in her native Alaska. It may not be as true or as extreme as her handlers would like us to believe (by the way, they’re horrible! She’s a miserable mess on tv, she doesn’t have any answers and doesn’t even know how to spin. At least when the pros are spinning, we get something interesting that at least looks like an answer.)but at the least she has a story to deliver on that line. Obama can’t really say that. He has no “Bridge to nowhere” line (or gaffe) which, to a degree, is a fault.

But then again, again neither did Truman nor Kennedy.

But who could blame him? Obama was not going to bury his career and his wider aspirations by taking on the DDM. The Machine, as it is, uses a lot of energy to keep itself going. There are those who feel it is their call to bring it down, piece by piece. That is not Obama’s call. He would have spent his energy just trying to get a foothold against them. If the Republicans are so worried about it, why can’t they come in here and make headway against it? Oh, that’s right.  They spent the last of their political capital in waging what seems to me, a racist battle against the late Mayor Harold Washington, Chicago’s first black mayor. Harold Washington was no Richard Daley - J. nor M. And that’s what scared so many Republicans and Democrats back in the 80’s.

Washington, by the way, would be the person who inspired Obama to come to Chicago. Not Daley.

One last note: Even though Obama bided his time with the DDM, I wouldn’t be surprised if, God forbid, Obama loses the presidential election and then turns around and decides to run for mayor. He just might make it too. Even though Chicago’s as full as racial fear as anywhere else in this xenophobic nation of ours, he may track enough black, liberal and young votes to oust the perennial paternity.

I could live with that.

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