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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (255464)	6/24/2008 2:12:57 AM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 793838

Even after Martin Luther King called Chicago more hate-filled than Mississippi Boss Daley of Chicago - Ubi est mea? Aug 10th 2000 From The Economist print edition economist.com HOW Democrats have changed. As his biographers recall, Chicago’s lakefront liberals both loathed him and laughed at him. A podgy, jowly man with a porcine face, he personified the big-city boss. His thick ethnic speech was sprinkled with “dis’s” and “dat’s”. He referred to a bicycle made for two as a “tantrum bike”, talked of “walking pedestrians”, told reporters that he resented their “insinuendos” and urged audiences to “reach higher and higher platitudes”. In a moment of self-pity, he said: “They have vilified me, they have crucified me, yes, they have even criticised me.” Yet somehow from 1955 until his death in 1976 this crude politician, Richard Daley the Elder, routinely won mayoral elections by a landslide in Chicago. Even after Martin Luther King called Chicago more hate-filled than Mississippi, even after a presidential commission found that his police had engaged in a “police riot” at the Democratic Party’s national convention in Chicago in 1968, he carried all but two of the city’s 50 wards. … * * *