Turn this on its ear – clamor for “only one major white candidate” for exactly the same reasons – and wait for the uproar.

Wouldn’t it be a hoot if the next mayor of Chicago was a Republican? Just think of the howls the state controlled media would put out. I would laying in a major supply of popcorn.

Given their fondness for corruption, they deserve Braun. Useless as a Senator, useless as a mayor. But the unions will rule on.

“Pressure to unite around one African-American candidate has been bubbling here for months, in part out of fear that the city’s black vote would be split…”

“Pressure” ain’t the word I would use. The thought of more than one African-American candidate in a Chicago mayoral run scares the powers-that-be spitless. Because the city WOULD split up up in the support of their favorite candidates, and not in a nice way.

I know, I worked in the Loop back when Harold Washington was the mayor…and when he died in office. The feeding frenzy immediately afterwards (and that for the position of ACTING mayor) fell short of a genuine civil war in the African-American community, but only just.

I suspect that all that held them back was the reality that Springfield or Cook County would just LOVE an excuse to step in and take over.

I’d run across Chicago politics from time to time in my job, and I’d passed it off as individual incompetence, indifference, or something else immaterial. But that event profoundly shook my faith in the integrity of the electoral process at any level in our system.

Frankly, ANYONE running for office in Chicago is likely corrupt. That’s the way the game is played there, and they play for keeps. But some are more corrupt than others, no doubt about it.

In that sense, I suppose Rahm is better than Braun…..but not by much.

Here I was, following a link from twitter thinking the three words that would justify a vote for Rahm Emmanuel would be “He’s a Democrat” (using the phrase as a joke)

How entertaining.

I remember when she was considered a minor league hack from around the University. When I asked someone who she was I was told that she was from the Law School but she belonged south of the Midway because she did not meet the intellectual standards of even the Sociology Department, so maybe people at Social Service Administration would talk to her.

Later she proved to be a major embarrassment and public lunatic as well as by getting embroiled in a sex and bribery scandal with 3rd World thug connections. Clinton sent her to literally the other side of the planet as Ambassador to New Zealand. Which might explain any hostility we face from that nation.

Now is the time to take a naked short position on Chicago bonds.

Hey, there’s a soft-porn flick in there somewhere . . . “Naked Short with Carol and Rahm” . . .

What’s that old phrase again? “You get the kind of government that you deserve.” Oh, yeah.

As an undergraduate at a western U.S. state college in the mid-70′s, I met many students from racially diverse highs schools: Hispanic, Whites and Blacks mixed together. What happened in that time was the Whites would form an alliance with smaller of the Hispanic or Black population. Thus at some high schools White-Hispanic dating was o.k., but Black-White wasn’t, and at other high schools Black-White dating was o.k., but White-Hispanic wasn’t. Nowhere in my informal survey was Black-Hispanic dating considered acceptable. Now, if Rahm can make a deal with the Hispanic voters of Chicago, he will be a shoe-in. I don’t see such a deal being made between Rahm and the Black community, or between Hispanics and Blacks.

Race politics have never, in the long run, worked well for the African-American community. This extends to “Race politics have never, in the long run, worked well for any of us.” Affirmative action may have netted some jobs, but too many times there is resentment about affirmative action hires. The war on poverty has destroyed the Black household with almost 70% of African-American children being raised in a single-parent home. Minority-majority congressional districts produce Black politicians who are so polarizing to the Majority that they never make the switch to the Senate, or any other state wide position.

When push came to shove, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice backed Barak Obama. I felt betrayed. I thought they were Republicans. White politicians in role-reversal would have been crucified for that betrayal.

I don’t say “God Bless Chicago”, I say “God Damn Chicago!”

Some things are so bad that I don’t even wish them on my enemies! The “Morton’s fork” of Rahm v. CMB is one of those.

So Chicago’s black Democrats vote based on race? It’s a good thing for Tim Scott and Allen West that SC and FL white Republicans don’t have the same attitude.

Try this out: Rahm makes a deal with Hispanics, and wins. That coalition shuts Blacks out of city jobs. Then conservatives can say to the Black community: are you sure you want to promote all those illegal Hispanics? But then conservatives say to the Hispanic community: look at what Democratic policies have done for the Black community: a sense of entitlement, 70% of the children in single parent households, the death of the family. How bad do things need to get before they might get better?