Associated Press declares Rahm Emanuel winner in Chicago mayor's race

[The Straight Story]

Associated Press declares Rahm Emanuel winner in Chicago mayor's race

http://www.breakingnews.com/

[LAGC]

1. Chicago's fucked now.

And here we thought they were going to vote corruption out for a change?

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2. Weird, but I am ok with it.

People voted, after all.

[Ken Burch]

6. Some of those voters were actually ALIVE this time.

:sarcasm:

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8. I love 50 year old insults (lies). THEY ROCK!

Like granite.

[Ken Burch]

9. It's just a joke. Chill.

Why would you be touchy about dissing the Daleys, anyway?

Actual Chicago people laugh about this stuff(at least the ones I've met).

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12. Honestly, I believe that it is disrespectful to the dead (and buried).

But jokes! They are so fun!

[Ken Burch]

14. It's only disrespectful to the hacks of the Daley Machine

And no one in that machine deserves ANY respect. Those are the people who cost us the 1968 election by soaking the streets of their own city with the blood of protesters(no, they didn't actually kill anybody, but they often didn't miss by much, and none of the protesters ever DESERVED to get gassed or beaten just for trying to make their voices heard during a rigged convention).

Besides, you live in Texas, not Chicago, so what's it to you? The Daley Machine never did anybody in the Lone Star State any favors(btw, I actually believe that Kennedy-Johnson ticket DID legitimately win).

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16. You're in Alaska. Why does your opinion mean more than mine?

;)

[Ken Burch]

18. I didn't say it did.

But you're the one getting offended about a harmless old joke.

Then again, you probably LIKE it that Rahm won...even though no good at all can come from giving that bastard any power. We don't NEED people like Rahm running things. They have nothing positive to offer.

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19. I just don't like it, I LOVE it. People voted, a candidate was elected.

:party:

[Ken Burch]

20. A candidate ALWAYS gets elected when they have an election

(other than in Ivory Coast, of course)

Rahm isn't a Democrat and he's never brought anything positive to public life. Chicago doesn't need an arrogant right-wing jerk as mayor.

Why would you enjoy that city having ANOTHER mayor who hates everything Harold Washington stood for?

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21. He sure helped in the 110th

Oh well.

[Ken Burch]

22. There was nothing that passed in that Congress that ONLY passed

because Rahm dissed the progressive wing of the party.

We don't owe him anything and your smugness is totally unjustified.

A PROGRESSIVE White House chief of staff would have got at least as much stuff passed and possibly more.

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23. It sucks you don't get it

But it's ok.

[Ken Burch]

24. I do get it.

Nobody in Congress was DEMANDING that Rahm treat progressives like shit. And we could have passed bills that weren't as watered-down if Rahm hadn't made it clear that progressives were going to be just as far out in the cold under Obama as they were under Bush.

It was NEVER Rahm's way or the highway.

The man didn't do anything that was THAT important.

And he was never entitled to treat the people who did most of the actual work of electing the administration like they had no right to expect anything from it.

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25. I will say that I am offended, deeply, by your use of Gabby as your avatar.

Please reconsider

[Ken Burch]

26. Why? I stand with Gabrielle Giffords as a victim of right-wing violence.

The attack on her was an attack on ALL Democrats.

You can't claim her solely for the RIGHT wing of the party.

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31. The absolutism

Either you are a Chick-fil-a person or you are a KFC person.


There is a place in the middle between "progressives" and "liberals".

[Ken Burch]

32. Fine. There's a place between "progressives" and "liberals"

And Rahm is neither. People who treat activists with contempt can't achieve anything progressive OR liberal.

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33. You know that I would NEVER, EVER say something like that

You are intense, but you are a friend, imho.

There is not a person that I know or "know" that I would ever say was as bad as the person that ruined that day in Tucson.

[Ken Burch]

34. I appreciate for the clarification.

The reference to Rep. Giffords raised the question in my mind.

(I'll now delete the last line in that post).

[Gidney N Cloyd]

29. Bravo.

Chicago will survive Rahm but we don't have to like him.

[riderinthestorm]

17. I laughed. I'm in the far western Chicago suburbs but still, I get it. nt

[Ken Burch]

3. Four more years of Machine ugliness for the Second City

And the legacy of Harold Washington continues to be destroyed for no good reason.

Once, there was a chance that that city might be progressive.

[frazzled]

11. The machine candidate was actually Chico

Chicago politics is a thing unto itself: don't wade into it if you don't know how deep the water is.

The real story tonight is going to be the Aldermanic seats: we may have a whole new ballgame in the City Council, and I hope for the better.

[Ken Burch]

13. I hope you're right.

Why would ANYBODY, anywhere, want Rahm to run their city? I just can't get my head around that. Do people in Chicago really believe that municipal government only works if it's run by an arrogant jerk?

Thanks for the info, btw.

[riderinthestorm]

15. My opinion? Chicagoans know that it pays to have connections.

And Rahm has the biggest connections on the face of the planet: Obama Inc.

Chicago has long ago capitulated to corruption, it's easier to just ask forgiveness than try to work shit through legal channels. Pat Fitzgerald can only do so much.

Obama and Rahm have now ensured that Chicago will never be a second rate city. If you haven't been here lately, it's clean, it's beautiful and it's world class. And corrupt but who cares? That's just politics as usual here.

I think what's the most interesting is how the machine here got thrown over (Chico was their guy) and how Rahm was able to steamroller them. That's going to make some interesting days ahead here.

[madfloridian]

4. Teachers beware. He's closing 35 schools.

And turning them into charters.

http://michaelklonsky.blogspot.com/2010/12/emanuel-blowing-more-smoke-on-chicago.html

[HuckleB]

7. Teachers and students and parents beware... -eom-

[Ken Burch]

28. Anyone in Chicago who isn't a right-wing corporate toady, beware

It's not going to be a people's city for a long time to come...if ever.

Nothing progressive can happen while Rahm is mayor.

[Raine]

5. Condolences to Chicago

but at least he's out of DC.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

30. Chicago will survive.

[Ken Burch]

10. The only good news in this is that it probably marks the end of Carol Moseley Braun's career.

She should never have run this time.

[Lucian]

27. So basically a Republican won.

Great.

:eyes:

[BlueIris]

35. There, you got your hush job. Now hush.

Especially now. Shhh.