Carol Marin
The president needs to come home to Chicago
“People in Chicago are not dying of the mumps, they are dying from gunshot wounds,” she said. “It needs to be treated as a preventive health issue.”
Unlike a flu virus that touches everyone from Kenilworth to Kankakee, this scourge is largely confined to poorer neighborhoods that a majority of us drive around rather than through.
And though there are pockets of wealth on the South and West Sides, like the Kenwood neighborhood the Obamas called home, Hadiya Pendleton was gunned down just a mile away…
While the first lady’s visit will bring great comfort to the sorrow this city feels, we need her husband, too.
We need the president to come home.
As confronter-in-chief.
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Lord Knows We Tried this November, but he wouldn’t go….I can see why.
JFKY on February 10, 2013 at 8:58 PM
And as “Confronter-in-Chief” oh YES, I see Mr Mom Jeans “confronting” gang-bangers…certainly, just his forte.
JFKY on February 10, 2013 at 8:59 PM
Go and stay there.
Community organize that.
vityas on February 10, 2013 at 9:04 PM
Bark won’t be visiting the ‘hoods which need the most attention, he will however visit the high-priced homes of those who donated millions to his campaign.
Bishop on February 10, 2013 at 9:05 PM
When its time for vacation, he does go home. To Hawaii. When he needs some of the “Chicago Way”, he goes to Chicago.
What part of that don’t you get, folks?
ted c on February 10, 2013 at 9:10 PM
Definitely snorked some tea on that! Plus two, JFKY!
ProfShadow on February 10, 2013 at 9:11 PM
Too far away from Hawaii…
viking01 on February 10, 2013 at 9:12 PM
Let’s hope he looks around and goes “you know, if these people could just defend themselves, things would turn around. Hey Rahm! Get those stupid gun laws overturned! Stat!”
but yeah…no frackin’ way he’d actually “see the light.”
ProfShadow on February 10, 2013 at 9:12 PM
Send Dr. Carson.
Ben Hur on February 10, 2013 at 9:19 PM
He doesn’t care.
This clown was a state senator for 4 years from the South Side and did nothing but cash a check and vote present.
Ted Torgerson on February 10, 2013 at 9:23 PM
LOL.
Pork-Chop on February 10, 2013 at 9:33 PM
It’s beneath him.
petefrt on February 10, 2013 at 9:48 PM
The Precedent needs to go home to Jakarta.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on February 10, 2013 at 9:48 PM
Heh the Divider in Chief claims HI his home.
Schadenfreude on February 10, 2013 at 9:59 PM
Maybe “Skeeter” should bring his “rifle”, gun, shotgun, whatever the gun-ignorant media is calling it, with him. Then, maybe not, since he really doesn’t know how to use it.
IrishEyes on February 10, 2013 at 11:04 PM
Yeah yeah yeah, Obama needs to spend a month or so walking the numbered streets around Ashland on the south side for at least a summer.
tom daschle concerned on February 11, 2013 at 6:43 AM