Chicago Daily Observer

“Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great?”
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene ii, by William Shakespeare

Given the fact that Barack Obama is the official licensed candidate from the
Oprah Book Club who conducts his campaign rallies like a evangelist leading
a revival in a rented tent, I fully expect him to adopt “Brother Love’s
Traveling Salvation Show“ as his theme song, provided that Neil Diamond will
grant him the musical rights. I have listened long and loud to “the Platitude
Dude” for months on end and I still cannot explain to you what his specific
policy proposals are. “Change that you can believe in” makes less sense to me
than Bud Abbott informing Lou Costello of the baseball line up in the immortal
“Who’s on first” comedy sketch.

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The state treasurer’s office cleared another hurdle Friday in its efforts to sell the President Abraham Lincoln Hotel and Conference Center at auction.

Sangamon County Circuit Judge Patrick Londrigan entered a new foreclosure order that not only includes the hotel owners, but also the city of Springfield and the Springfield Metropolitan Exposition and Auditorium Authority. Both entities have a financial stake in the downtown hotel.