Willie Horton Part Deux
Newsweek has some background on that extraordinarily lame video being pimped by GOP hacks to try and scare Democrats into nominating Hillary. The sponsor of the bill Obama voted against said:
The ad completely mischaracterizes Senator Obama's position against ruthless criminals and attempts to paint him as weak on crime, when I know that to be the furthest thing from the truth. If anyone should be upset about his not voting for HB1812, it should be me, as its sponsor. But, as I said before, I understood and respected then and continue to do so to this day, his reasons for not supporting that particular bill, none of which were because of a weak position towards criminals. ... I do not agree in any way whatsoever with the ad and that I find it to be a tasteless and reprehensible misrepresentation of the truth.
The fact that the Republican Governor vetoed the bill, based on similar objections given by Obama, should show that this particular effort doesn't have much legs.
Regardless, I'm getting a bit tired of Democrats pissing their pants every time Karl Rove speaks or some GOP hack mentions Rev. Wright. Seriously people, the Republicans aren't magically scary monsters who are able to manipulate the public with their ju-ju. They win for various reasons, generally having to do with the what the incumbent party is doing, and what the mood of the country is...plain and simple. If we control our shit, we just might win this thing.
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Looks liek the video was taken down. Do you have another link.
But yeah. What the hell is up with the murder rate in Chicago? That city's elected leaders are failing the people they are supposed to represent. It's worse that NY and LA and they have way more people.
Chicago is ranked 20th in major cities in terms of their murder rate, and they've cut the number of murders in half since 1992.
Your numbers were from over two years ago. Try these from last year showing Chicago's murder rate higher than America's most populated city of New York. It also beats the second largest American city, L.A., for murder rates
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=6093374
"Wven though there has been a sharp decrease in homicides and other gun-related violence from 10 years ago, the fact remains Chicago last year had 443 homicides, New York had 496, but New York has three times the population, which effectively means Chicago has three times the murder rate."
Christian,
I wasn't disputing that they had a higher murder rate than NY, but in proportion to their population, they rank around 20th. Why? I don't know, I'm sure there are many factors involved...first and foremost I think its Obama's fault.
I'm sure you're joking ;)
I'm not familiar enough with what's going on in the culture of Chicago, but elected officials could do a lot more to curb the murders that are now 4 times higher than our nation's largest city.
I can't say what elected officials in Chicago or the state of Illinois are failing to do, but it is clear to not only me, but also respected community leaders in Chicago and Illinois, they are failing and have failed to do something about making it an unpleasant and inhospitable place to live for murderous thugs.
Whoever these failed leaders should be voted out of office and never given an opportunity to bring their style of leadership to the rest of the country.
Whoever these failed leaders should be voted out of office and never given an opportunity to bring their style of leadership to the rest of the country.
*wink* *wink*
Look, the number of murders in Chicago is lower than at anytime since before the 1960s. Since 1992, they've cut the number of murders in half.
Is there still work to be done? Sure, but there isn't some magical cure-all to crime; and even Barack Obama's charisma isn't going to get people to give up guns and drugs overnight.
The trend lines for crime in Chicago are going in the right direction, and have been since the early 90s, but these things take time.
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