Mayor uses billionaire conservative Joe Ricketts to show how political pressure is applied the Chicago Way

Chicago Tribune "Ricketts' mistake? He's not a fan of President Barack Obama. So Joe Ricketts considered putting $10 million into a political campaign tying the controversial and racially charged rhetoric of Obama's former pastor — the Rev. Jeremiah Wright — to the president seeking re-election.

"Ricketts' children own the Cubs. And now their multimillion-dollar proposal to refurbish decrepit Wrigley Field — mostly with their own money but also with revenue from the city amusement tax — is in jeopardy.

"City Hall has made that clear, putting out the word that The Rahmfather won't even return their calls in the wake of Joe Ricketts considering — but deciding not to bankroll — an ad blitz against Obama.

...."I've said before that Obama will win re-election. But the way to go after Obama isn't to tie him to old Rev. Wright or to elderly revolutionaries like Bill Ayers. The way to do it is to tie him to Chicago politics. But Republicans can't risk it.

"Democrats run the politics here. But Republicans — particularly the big-money corporate types — go along and feed the Combine beast. ....

"Republicans might have businesses here. And they might live in America.

"But they eat in Chicago."

Joe Ricketts’s Retreat From Obama Attack Campaign: Are the Chicago Cubs to Blame?  "Joe Ricketts was reported to be an architect of a major anti-Obama campaign invoking Jeremiah Wright. Within hours, he’d backed off. James Warren on why the Chicago Cubs may be to blame."


Jonathan S. Tobin: Democrats have made it very clear that they will get their revenge on anyone who dares to attack President Obama

The Enemy Within; Since the end of the Cold War, America has been on a relentless search for enemies. But the real dangers are at home.

FOREIGN POLICY   "By far, the greatest threats to the United States right now are internal ones -- like that Big Mac. They don't come from terrorists. They come from political obstructionists and know-nothings who are blocking needed economic and political reforms, whether fixing a health-care system that poses a debt threat many times greater than the immense U.S. budget deficit or tackling the growing inequality in American society or overhauling the United States' money-corrupted, dysfunctional political process.

"If America stopped searching for goblins under the bed, it might actually be able to reset its economic priorities and start investing in the things that would make the country stronger, more prosperous, and safer again, from infrastructure to energy security to better schools. What's more, Americans might find that a foreign policy that identified real risks but kept them in perspective and was more about deepening ties, finding common ground, and avoiding unnecessary conflict would work better than the tired us vs. them formulations of the recent past."

Marco Rubio: Obama Is Most “Divisive Figure In Modern American History”

Weasel Zippers

Let's visit Joe Biden's world for a bit, shall we?

Weasel Zippers   RNC rubs Biden's nose in his own words:

Bill Kristol: Why Not the Best?   "So we sincerely suggest to President Obama: Dump Joe Biden." 
...."President Obama’s Barnard speech looks like the beginning of an “evolution,” which will culminate with his dumping Joe Biden and elevating a woman who has worked hard and played by the rules—Hillary Clinton. 

"Why not the best for President Obama and the Democratic party? And how much more will victory be worth having this November when it’s a victory over the liberal dream team of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton?"  Thanks for nothing, Bill. Lock up the interns.

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Biden OK With Voting for Felon over Obama  "NBC's Carrie Dann reports another instance of buffoonish foot-in-mouth behavior by Vice President Joe Biden:"


Dr. Charles Krauthammer Comments on Joe Biden: “I have no idea what the hell he’s talking about. . . I think he needs an adjustment in his medications”