Chicago Daily Observer

The Chicago Tribune’s Steve Chapman cheers Sen. Obama for holding to withdrawing troops regardless of the circumstances in Iraq and the MidEast. I actually believe that one can mature while not wavering (flip-flopping) in their political campaigns, yet I agree with Chapman’s observation that Sen. Obama is not straying substantially from his left-wing voting record, regardless of how the rest of the media potrays him.

Syria will open an embassy in Lebanon. Lebanon may also opened an embassy in Syria. Syria has pretty much stopped sending fighters into Iraq to battle with the Coalition forces and Iraqi civilians. Israel has sent a peace offer to Syria via Turkey. France is stepping up diplomatic efforts inviting both Israel and Syrian leaders to a Bastille Day celebration. Al-Qaeda may be defeated in Iraq or close to it, with 70 more militants surrendering yesterday. President Bush ... Read More...

I’m sure there will be plenty of seats available when the Plan Commission meets Thursday to discuss Mayor Daley’s plans to borrow $85 million to buy and demolish Michael Reese hospital.

What’s that? You didn’t know the meeting was even on the calendar

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Blago’s Call for the Guard.

No one can properly assess what goes on in the crazy-quilt jumble going on inside the governor’s brain but one thing is clear: he is out to ruin the Democratic party starting with Mayor Richard M. Daley. Here is Daley, renting out his very soul…who knows why?...to get the 2016 Olympics with everything riding on the city being one of the world’s most livable. Now comes Rod Blagojevich with the suggestion that the Illinois National Guard might be called to keep order in the streets of Chicago and cut the murder rate to keep order which the police obviously can’t do. It’s about the very worst thing that can happen to a city mayor…and heretofore unthinkable for a Daley. It was unthinkable under his father, even at the time of the Martin Luther King, Jr. burnings and the Democratic National convention melee.

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Lets see, the price of oil has dropped nearly $14/barrel in the last two days. Perhaps the Feds should rescue the oil speculation industry before losses are too high for oil traders.

The New York Times says the Economic Slowdown has pushed oil prices down, which is hard to swallow given that the economy is still growing, manufacturing is still booming, consumer spending rose in May at a record rate, and the Dow Jones was up over 200 points, none of which are signs of a slowing economy. Perhaps people are using less gasoline, because they don’t want to pay so much for fuel, a possiblity that the Times ignores.

And perhaps we should all read the Waco Tribune, for some buried news, and a quote from a Chicago man, that didn’t make the New York Times:

Light, sweet crude fell $6.35 to $138.83 a barrel in electronic ... Read More...

Mayor Daley on Wednesday blamed his favorite whipping post — the news media — for making some Chicago police officers overly timid and less aggressive about fighting crime because they’re afraid of piling up citizen complaints.

One day after Police Supt. Jody Weis acknowledged the contradictory trends of rising crime and laid back officers, Daley wholeheartedly agreed and said he has no idea how to reverse it.

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After almost six weeks of a constant Obama lead, generally in the five- to seven-point range, Scott Rasmussen’s daily tracking poll records two consecutive days of a tie race…What happened to the Democrat’s lead?

Part of the slippage is Obama’s fault and part is McCain’s gain.

Obama has carried flip-flopping to new heights. In the space of a month and a half, this candidate — who we don’t really yet know very well — reversed or sharply modified his positions on at least eight key issues:

• After vowing to eschew private fundraising and take public financing, he has now refused public money.

HT: Jim Bowman, Blithe Sprit

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