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By Steve Rhodes
I will be attending to other business today so there will be no Papers column, but there is plenty of new and great stuff elsewhere on the site. ->>>
The [Tuesday] Papers
“In my own small way, I’ve tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,” Michelle Obama said in her speech last night. “That’s why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service.”
Really?
Posted on August 27, 2008
By Steve Rhodes
“In my own small way, I’ve tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,” Michelle Obama said in her speech last night. “That’s why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service.”
Really?
“One of Michelle Obama’s signature efforts has been working to relieve crowding in the emergency room, the second-busiest in Chicago,” the Washington Post reports.
“Backed by a federal grant, Michelle Obama in 2005 launched the South Side Health Collaborative, under which counselors advise patients with noncritical needs that they can receive care elsewhere at a reduced cost. The medical center said in a report that some patients ‘make frequent visits to the ER because no one in the family has a personal doctor . . . ‘
“[A] hospital report quotes Michelle Obama as saying, ‘The world is seeping in, and our salvation will be the success of our partners’ at local clinics.
“Obama’s program has enjoyed favorable news media coverage in Chicago and was eventually expanded into a broader program, the Urban Health Initiative . . . Critics, however, describe the program as an attempt to ensure that the hospital retains only affluent patients with insurance.
Posted on August 26, 2008
By Steve Rhodes
Not only do we have the city’s best baseball roundup, we have the world’s best collection of Joe Biden material. I mean, really. We’re good.
* The Best of Beachwood Biden
* Joementum!
* The MasterCard Senator
Plus, “Rocky Mountain High” in Song of the Moment.
Posted on August 25, 2008
By Natasha Julius
It may be closing time for some, but here at the Weekend Desk we’re just getting started.
Market Update
Officials with John McCain’s presidential campaign note the nation’s mortgage crisis has reached such desperate levels their candidate no longer can remember how many of his homes are in foreclosure. Not to be outdone, the Obama campaign has announced his shady real estate holdings now stay on the market at least twice as long as they did this time last year.
Posted on August 23, 2008
By Steve Rhodes
Unless that was a drunk and horny Barack Obama trying to reach me last night, he still hasn’t sent his vice presidential text.
Q: If he sends it while walking down a Chicago street, will he be arrested?
Posted on August 22, 2008
By Steve Rhodes
“Will that be the motto: ‘Come to my university. Drink as much as you can as long as you pay your tuition’?”
Actually, yes. If I had a university, that would be my motto.
“Do you think you send your son or daughter to come home as an alcoholic?”
No. I send them to Cubs games for that.
Posted on August 21, 2008
By Steve Rhodes
John Kass wins the Emil Jones Punditry Sweepstakes today.
From his winning entry:
“I’ve used this theme in the past, particularly about Stroger, fumbling, stumbling, suffering self-inflicted media wounds, his ridiculous haplessness reinforcing the political subtext the mayor of Chicago thrives upon:
“That without Daley to protect us, we would get a Stroger, and the sky would fall.
“That’s a political lie. Chicago thrives in spite of its politicians, not because of them, but it is a convenient falsehood, artfully dropped into the news to help maintain the status quo.
“And Emil Jones? The wily boss hog Democrat, gorging on patronage and the fruits of politics, should have a new political job soon, once his protege, President Obama, finds one for him.
“How about ambassador of reform?”
Posted on August 20, 2008
By Steve Rhodes
Seeing as how “this reporter” has an “exclusive” about Barack Obama calling Emil Jones on Monday, the time is ripe to ask the candidate of a new kind of politics if he condones his self-described political mentor installing his son into his old job.
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Maybe at Chicago Night in Denver, which sounds an awful lot like Apalachin.
Posted on August 19, 2008
By Steve Rhodes
Emil Jones is expected to announce his retirement today, according to the Tribune.
A) “I’ve done enough damage here.”
B) “I’m wanted back in Hell.”
C) Obama-Jones!
Posted on August 18, 2008
