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: convention to the city for a quarter century. But if Obama is elected president, all will be forgiven, and the current Mayor Dick Daley, son of the late, original Mayor Richard Daley — chief villain of the 1968 convention — will return the family name to its old power-soaked glory. It will all get rougher if Michelle Obama doesn’t get in line with the candidate’s public service message. Politics, as the late Speaker Tip O’Neill used to say, ain’t bean bag. During the primaries, Michelle Obama told an Ohio audience: “We left corporate America, which is a lot of what we’re asking young people to do. Don’t go into corporate America.” What is she talking about? She is clearly not someone who believes the business of America is business. Her husband says he doesn't directly take lobbyist contributions, but he is happy to take them when they come to him through third parties. Money, after all, is necessary in politics, as in the rest of life. All of us, including the Obamas, are part of the same democratic, money-fuelled system.
—NY Times / Marianne Means...
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