Posted by
Brian Peters on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 5:52:11 PM
This from the site "TruTV.Com :
Chicago
Chicago was a perfect place to build a criminal empire. It was a rowdy, pugnacious, hard-drinking town that was open to anyone with enough money to buy it. In the words of one of her top journalists, "She was vibrant and violent, stimulating and ruthless, intolerant of smugness, impatient with those either physically or intellectually timid." It was a bloody and brutal city where tens of millions of cows, hogs and sheep were slaughtered by men wading through blood on the killing floor. It was strictly a commercial town with no appetite for snobbery or "old money." Political corruption was a tradition in that vast prairie city, creating an atmosphere of two-fisted lawlessness in which crime flourished. The city became known for its wealth and sexual promiscuity.
That was the description of Chicago in the 1920's. Capone, was from New York, came to Chicago under the guidance of an older mentor named Johnny Torrio. Obama, came from.....somewhere....we're told Hawaii, Indonesia, came to Chicago and then under the guidance of (from a Fox News/O'Reilly interview) :
O'REILLY: All right. So now we go to Illinois and he — Barack Obama is running for the state Senate. He wins. And Emil Jones is the big kahuna down in Springfield, Illinois, all right?
FREDDOSO: Right.
O'REILLY: So how does Jones help Obama?
FREDDOSO: Jones helped Obama — of course, the relationship between the two, according to "Dreams From My Father," goes back even farther. They had run into each other when Obama was a community organizer. But Jones was able to help Obama become a senator. The way he put it himself in The New York Times was that Obama was a smart enough guy, but he needed somebody to give him credibility. And that's what Jones was able to give him. He was the Senate Democratic leader when Obama started and became the Senate president when Democrats took over the Illinois Senate in 2003. He made Obama the chairman of the Senate Health Committee, which put him in charge of issues affecting the Service Employees International Union, which had over 110,000 members in Illinois at the time, and that helped Obama to win the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate in 2004.
Over a short time, Capone would consolidate his own power and build his own empire, such as Obama has done. With questionable money, both of these men had built empires not totally honorable in their ways. While Obama is not a 'gansta killah' such as Capone was, he too got his money and start throught what will no doubt in the end, be proven as criminal enterprises i.e. ACORN. But Obama too, like Capone, kept company with a bad crowd. Capone's friends were other gangsters, Obama's associates include William Ayers and Rev. Wright, a terrorist and a rascist respecitvely.
The Ghosts in Chicago's Political Machine
"Why is it that members of the same family get appointments in several sections of government and only large firms seem to get representation on boards dealing with zoning and construction?" Sound familiar? This question was posed in 1971 by the newly elected alderman of the 44th Ward,
Dick Simpson, to the "'Boss' of all Chicago," Mayor
Richard J. Daley. Simpson took the floor to question nepotism in Chicago politics when Daley appointed his powerful ally Ald.
Thomas E. Keane's son to the Zoning Board of Appeals.
The question prompted a tirade from Daley. "His face was purple with rage and his aides feared that he would have a stroke," Simpson writes, adding that a one-hour recess followed to allow Daley to regain his composure. The issues that Simpson raised as an independent alderman 26 years ago still haunt Chicagoans and City Hall politics.
What has really changed in Chicago politics from 1920 to 2004 that has produced a truely non-tainted politician at the Natiional level??
Sure, not all politicians from Chicago are corrupt, there no doubt are people who take their positions seriously as servants of the people, but in the case of Barak Obama...seem both Obama and Capone, wildly popular in Chicago and known nationally, have more in common in their rise to power and prominence than differences in skin color.