Day: March 19, 2006

Feeling pain publicly

Never saw noosepaper and community so play into hands of elected officials as Sun-Times Sunday, with its weeper, “Englewood kids in the crossfire,”  and Chi Trib with its “LIVING IN WEST ENGLEWOOD: A family endures,” about the fearful and the beleaguered in Englewood, and 500 people following Daley and Blago and ex-Black Panther Rush around in a compassion parade.  Blago talked gun control, Daley said (not kidding) “There is no excuse for anyone to take a gun and point it at a child or at a home in any community.”
 
Does Blago think he can keep guns out of gangsters’ hands with a new law?  And does Daley think there are people who defend pointing guns at children?  Do any of them see this as a law enforcement problem rather than an opportunity to make sad and serious while making political hay?

Feeling pain publicly

Never saw noosepaper and community so play into hands of elected officials as Sun-Times Sunday, with its weeper, “Englewood kids in the crossfire,”  and Chi Trib with its “LIVING IN WEST ENGLEWOOD: A family endures,” about the fearful and the beleaguered in Englewood, and 500 people following Daley and Blago and ex-Black Panther Rush around in a compassion parade.  Blago talked gun control, Daley said (not kidding) “There is no excuse for anyone to take a gun and point it at a child or at a home in any community.”
 
Does Blago think he can keep guns out of gangsters’ hands with a new law?  And does Daley think there are people who defend pointing guns at children?  Do any of them see this as a law enforcement problem rather than an opportunity to make sad and serious while making political hay?