Citing Israel and Obama, Chicago’s Daley Quashes Anti-Iran-War Resolution

In ’68, Mayor Daley’s police force brutally broke up the antiwar demonstration in Chicago so as to preserve the dignity of the Democratic convention…

Forty years on, and Daley’s son, Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago, has quashed a City Council resolution opposing war with Iran saying that it hurts  native son Obama. "Passing a resolution like that puts a… burden upon his candidacy and injects something that should not be injected” into the presidential campaign, Daley said.

What’s being injected? Daley brings up Israel. "Let’s be realistic. The U.S. did [create Israel]," he says. I.e., we’re joined at the hip. The resolution came after a hearing featuring realist John Mearsheimer and Scott Ritter. The Sun-Times account of course fails to point out the importance of Jewish votes in FL, let alone Jewish money to Obama…

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  1. samuel burke says:

    Phil, thank you for your comments.
    Let us hope that a change is starting to take shape.

  2. Charles Keating says:

    It would really be explosive if somebody in the MSM, especially on TV, actually raised the questions samuel burke raises, and
    then showed a real pro and con discussion–over, say at least a half hour program…

    Of course that's asking way to much of the only superpower's Fourth Estate, to actually clue the American public in, especially when we have more important things to do like choosing the next President where that office is much more important than it is in, say, Iran…

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