Chicago Daily Observer

Well, Michael Sneed, as usual, is, at best, half right: Article 1, Section 2, of the U. S. Constitution, prior to Sneed’s amendment of today, stated, “No person shall be a Representative …who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen.”
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Sneed’s homework assignment tonight: Read the Constitution. She might find it even more appealing than Desperate North Shore Housewives, soon to be showing at…
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Dumbsville No. 1

The nice thing about working for the Chicago Sun-Times, if you are Michael Sneed, is that you can often write dumb things and nobody- at least nobody in a position of authority over Sneed at the paper- will notice or give a damn. You might think an editor would catch Sneed’s errors. Think again.

Change is in the air. It’s not spring, it’s the political season. But what
to do if you’re an Illinois Democrat pol, or a wannabe, running in a county,
a state or perhaps for a Congress that is run by Democrats?

Run as an outsider. Run even when you don’t live in the district.

I first noticed the phenomenon when perennial boy-wonder, former ballet
dancer and Clintonista Rahm Emanuel pushed aside a local woman activist
to grab the 5th district ring post-Rostenkowski. Emanuel went to Wilmette
Jr. High and hadn’t lived in Illinois for years, helping out Bill and Hill
in the White House. But no matter, he wanted a slot and with the help of the
Chicago Dem Machine muscled in—or perhaps executed a forceful Grande Jeté.

Then we had new boy-wonder Barack Obama breeze in to ... Read More...