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"Chicago, Chicago"

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Anonymous Ross said...

"Mrs. Obama got paid $122,000 annually as the University of Chicago Hospitals community outrage coordinator. When he got promoted to U.S. Senator, she got a $195,000 raise. When she quit, her job turned out to so incredibly important that the position she filled was eliminated."

I think the lack of outrage over this is extraordinary. Surely this should be a scandal.

7/26/09, 1:43 AM

Blogger Jack said...

Steve Sailer says:

Even more strikingly, the press seems to have lost all interest in the fact that a convicted racketeer who is a fairly close friend and business associate of the President of the United States remains unsentenced, and thus has an incentive to spills the beans to the nation's bravest prosecutor about important friends of his.

Patrick Fitzgerald is my pick, FWIW, for the man best suited to be President of the United States. The guy seems like the straightest arrow ever made. Most likely that means he has accumulated too many enemies not enough friends to be considered for the top slot.

Chicago is certainly an...interesting town. But I wouldnt hold that against Obama. The sainted one has generally kept his hands clean by not getting to closely involved in the sale of public offices. Fitzgeraldacknowledged this himself:

US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said this afternoon that a federal corruption case against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich makes no allegations of wrongdoing by President-elect Barack Obama.

"We make no allegations that he was aware of anything," Fitzgerald said of Obama.


I think Obama was just way to canny to get his hands dirty in Chicago. He probably played his "Cool Hand Obama" game of pretending to hold all these great cards just so people would be his friend when the jack pot was up for grabs.

In reality Obama never takes sides until the games up.

7/26/09, 2:25 AM

Blogger Ronduck said...

"It's remarkable that a person who was chief of detectives of the Chicago Police Department admits to being part of a racketeering conspiracy," U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said afterward.

That sounds like Mexico.

7/26/09, 3:15 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"community outrage coordinator"
-LOL

7/26/09, 6:52 AM

Anonymous jody said...

um...

"Mrs. Obama got paid $122,000 annually as the University of Chicago Hospitals community outrage coordinator."

community outrage coordinator?

i mean, it IS an outrage, but i'm sure that's a typo.

not quite as outrageous as princeton trying to hide her senior thesis, though.

7/26/09, 7:13 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

this would make a good movie. heat, part 2

7/26/09, 7:21 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I heard that this cop and his fellow rogue officers played criminals in 'The Criminal' starring Jimmy Caan.

7/26/09, 7:36 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Michael Mann's Thief is the best movie about Chicago. There are no independent actors in Chicago; no outsiders bucking the system. Obama did things the Chicago Way or he wouldn't be where he is today.

7/26/09, 7:38 AM

Anonymous Lloyd G. said...

Fitzgerald has a history of disappointing folks who pin their hopes on him. Don't expect 'Fitzmas' in Chicago.

7/26/09, 8:16 AM

Blogger sen said...

"... and they took patches of every description, and that's our Chicago that I'm so proud of."

7/26/09, 8:40 AM

Blogger data345 said...

A U.S. attorney serves at the pleasure of the president. And it's typical, during a change in administration, that U.S. attorney's get replaced. So why is Fitzpatrick, a Republican holdover, still U.S. Attorney for the Northern Districk of Illinois?

He's popular, but I don't think that Fitzpatrick is such a straight arrow. He's ambitious, and abuses his powers as a federal prosecutor, which are substantial.

If there's a hint that he's investigating Obama, then he'll be removed. It might cost Obama some politically, but in a few news cycles, the controversy will all be over.

By the way, Chicago, which is in the southern district, is normally outside Fitzpatrick's jurisdiction. That probably hampers him getting involved in any Chicago based investigations.

7/26/09, 8:59 AM

Blogger AmericanGoy said...

Google "Stroger".

Chicago is a fun town.

7/26/09, 9:00 AM

Blogger John Seiler said...

It's always worth keeping in mind that federal prosecutors have powers vastly greater than those allowed them in the U.S. Constitution, or by the Founding Fathers.

The result has been to centralize power even more in Washington, D.C. And when federal prosecutors go berserk, as they have in many cases across the country, who is to protect us? The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran a series of federal prosecutorial abuse -- its "win at all costs" attitude -- back in 1998. Nothing has changed since then.

Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/win/

7/26/09, 10:24 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am surprised that Patrick Fitzgerald is still the US Attorney for Northern Illinois. I would have thought that Obama would have replaced him ASAP with a friendly US Attorney.

7/26/09, 10:24 AM

Blogger Eric said...

"It's remarkable that a person who was chief of detectives of the Chicago Police Department admits to being part of a racketeering conspiracy," U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said afterward. ...

You know, that sentence could be read a couple different ways.

7/26/09, 5:46 PM

Blogger David said...

New Jersey is more interesting. Kidney sales, crooked rabbis laundering money for Israel, mayors arrested, at least one member of the governor's staff implicated... The police announcer at the press conference sounded annoyed, and he was very amusing: when he announced the rabbis' part in the mess, he added "OF COURSE."

7/27/09, 6:24 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"By the way, Chicago, which is in the southern district, is normally outside Fitzpatrick's jurisdiction."

Actually, Chicago is in the eastern section of the northern district, not the southern district.

http://www.justice.gov/usao/iln/aboutus/index.html

7/28/10, 7:38 AM

Anonymous JPW said...

"... and they took patches of every description, and that's our Chicago that I'm so proud of."
I hear that quote every day on the radio (WBEZ) but I don't know who it is. And this is the only reference to it I can find on the web. Hoping you will revisit this and leave an answer, Sen.
Thanks

7/30/10, 7:09 AM

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