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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Obama will deliver another speech tomorrow in Chicago. But why?

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Obama will deliver another speech tomorrow in Chicago. But why?:


Obama will deliver another speech tomorrow in Chicago. But why?

I know there's a lot of people glad that the Obama is coming to Chicago to focus on the gun violence epidemic plaguing the city since Rahm took office. But I think Obama's people may be making a mistake by sending him here on Friday. He's scheduled to speak at Hyde Park High School, no doubt surrounded by the mayor and his gaggle of Democratic Party pols -- maybe the most corrupt and most hated group of inglorious bastards in the history of Chicago City Hall -- and that's saying something.

I'm sure he will be trying to turn the local focus away from school closings (mandated under his Race To The Top), UNO corruption, more local pols going to prison, and the pension grab, and onto gun control -- an issue that even do-nothing Dems somehow claim as their own.

Protesting parents at Chalmers last night
But with thousands of angry parents packing community hearings demanding that their children's schools be saved, the last thing the city needs is more