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Thursday, October 01, 2009

An Illustrated Guide: All The President’s Olympic Cronies


My syndicated column today — reprinted below with added links, pics, and info — gives you a rundown of the Obama cronies inside and outside the White House who stand to gain the most from the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid.

Chicagoans of all political stripes who oppose massive government funding of Mayor Richard Daley’s pet project have inundated my email-box. Reader Will P. sums it all up by noting that the games would “protect the current corrupt structure” and paper over Chicago/Illinois’s myriad woes, including: “Governor after Governor going to jail. Pay to play schemes. Crumbling and outdated infrastructure. Deteriorating public housing. Failing, dumbing-down schools.

Hospital cutbacks. Sanctuary city. Never-ending gang wars (outbursts every Spring requiring massive police presence, police outmanned at the Taste of Chicago, innocents shot in the crossfire weekly, current beating video out now). Cemetery scandal (bodies removed and graves resold)…Acorn, Bill Ayers, Rezko, Blago, Wright. Univ. of Illinois “clout” scandal. Illegal preferential city hiring. City inspectors on the take (Operation Crooked Code). Voter fraud. The unemployment rate. Taxes through the roof. Mayor Daley attempting to extend city taxes to the suburbs. All this, and more…”

Daley’s approval ratings are at a record low as he scrambles to lease everything from parking meters to airports to raise cash. Residents are still reeling over the murder of teenager Derrion Albert. But FLOTUS Michelle Obama, on her merry way to Copenhagen, is singing a happy tune: “I mean, you know, most of these Games are taking place blocks away from my house.

There’s good security by my house these days. And while Chicago is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, it is — people don’t live in fear. The downtown area is completely accessible…

I know Mayor Daley, and he’s going to make sure that these Games go off without a hitch because that’s the kind of mayor he is. It’s not called the ‘City That Works’ for nothing.”
It “works” for the few at the expense of the many. That is the Chicago way.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Violence, gangs, beatings, pay to play, with a touch of scandal. A perfect location for Olympics and the Daly machine is paid back for electing Barrack. How perfect!

Let's all sing:
"Barrack Huesin Obama
mmm, mmm, mmm "

Anonymous said...

God I hope that does not happen in chicago! One slum bag place.

Anonymous said...

Read the link http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/obama_and_south_chicago_slum_d_1.html

It shows you some of the reasons Obama left Chicago for greener pastures.He is pretty close to the fire and people are beginning to dig in his past. He and his crooked friends will do the same thing to our country with the stupid Washington politians helping him to carry off what little is left after only 8 months. 2012 can't come soon enough.