The Chicago Tribune’s John Kass is like a pit bull when he gets on a subject.
He just won’t let go.
And he is most tenacious about political corruption.
Yesterday his column was advice to John McCain about following his example about attacking Chicago corruption and Barack Obama’s
“see no evil, hear no evil, tell no one, especially, the U.S. Attorney, about evil”
approach to his rise to power.
Kass suggests that McCain follow “the Chicago Way.”
Talk about how Obama supported Richard Daley for mayor after white “minorities” got $100 million in affirmative action contracts, sending one to jail.
Talk about the Chicago machine that Daley says does not exist, but his patronage chief is in prison for handing out jobs.
Talk about Obama’s endorsement of that legendary leader Todd Stroeger for Cook County Board President over a Democrat who is, shall I say, a bit more independent.
“Obama definitely does not want to go there. It would be a forced march for him. Obama’s gauzy references to Chicago involve baseball and where he met Michelle and those blissful hours he spent as a community organizer. What he doesn’t want discussed is his evolution from independent Democrat to potential White House enabler of the corrupt Chicago Democratic machine.”
Ask,
we’ve been waiting for?”
Kass advises.
And, of course, with Tony Rezko in the news still and again today, McCain could ask embarrassing questions about the man Kass calls “the Real Estate Fairy.”
Why didn’t the Senate Ethics Committee investigate that?
After all, they investigated and pretty much exonerated (at least that’s what I heard committee counsel Robert Bennett say on TV one night and here’s a press release from him about it) McCain for the Keating savings & loan scandal.
Kass suggests McCain provide some “straight talk” on that, too.
Perhaps sitting in Kass’ craw is the following quote from Obama that Kass offers up:
“I know there are those, like John Kass, who would like me to decry Chicago politics more frequently.”
And Obama’s sin of omission?
“…Obama looked the other way in order to prosper and assiduously avoided conflict with the machine to the point of embrace. In this, he offered Americans a glimpse at the real man inside that nice suit, the Chicago Way.”