Chicago Daily Observer

it is amusing to take a snapshot of how all these people came up and what was happening in the legendary year 1969. Hillary Clinton was graduating from Wellesley or her way to Yale Law School; Gloria Steinem, after graduating from Smith and publishing a book, was the lioness of the women’s movement; Geraldine Ferraro had interrupted her law career to raise children (there may have been some actual suffering in that; she went on to found the – irony alert – Special Victims Unit); Reverend Jeremiah Wright was getting his master’s degree. Barack Obama was an eight-year old stepson of an oil company executive in Indonesia. He would go on to Occidental, Columbia and Harvard.

John McCain was being tortured in a North Vietnamese prison.

On March 12…five days ago which is like a century in politics…I wrote that the Chicago area media have been going soft on things to criticize in the liberal Democratic party while continually harping on how loony Jim Oberweis is—and I cited as evidence of such overlook the twin cases of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the anti-white, anti-US bigot who is Barack Obama’s pastor and…ahem…the pompous Reverend/Senator James Meeks of Salem Baptist Church who juggles contributions to his 501c3 church and partisan corporate and individual donations to his political career. I said that because the Chicago media are cowered for fear of being called racist, the transgressions of these two black ministers have been long ignored.

Well, they are still ignored by the Chicago media—but the national media, rising to their role as (supposed) evenhanded arbiter of the political scene, got off their duff having worried about (a) Mitt Romney’s religion ... Read More...

South Loop voters gave Second Ward alderman Robert Fioretti the power

The South Loop has historically been a neighborhood without a political identity. In other parts of the city, neighborhoods are closely identified with their political geography. Rogers Park has long been part of the independent-minded 49th Ward on the far north side. On the far south side, Beverly is known as the heart of the 19th, the base of the South Side Irish. And Bridgeport, the home of mayors and the center of Chicago clout, is always, always, always in the 11th.

The dust up over the rantings of Jeremiah Wright exposes Barack Obama for what he really is – a Sharpton (or worse) in sheep’s clothing.

As I listened to Wright’s speeches on the You Tube clip (below on this site), I thought that this is the type of “dialogue about race” that we ought to be having. Of course, no one (not Clinton, not Obama) really want THAT type of “dialogue about race.”

Regardless, here is why I hope the Wright/Trinity video cost Obama the nomination and/or election. Obama hasn’t been honest.

Today (Saturday), Barack Obama is repudiating his “spiritual mentor’s” speeches. This is akin to Peter denying Christ 3 times before the rooster crows. Barack Obama is lying in his repudiation, and no one should let him off the hook for that lie. If this nation is to have that “dialogue about race,” then by all means, let’s ... Read More...

he Obama campaign plane just landed at Midway, returning from Indianapolis. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Saturday continued to put distance between himself and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his minister until he retired. (see prior post) The word is not to expect Obama to attend services Sunday at his church, Trinity United on Chicago’s South Side.