Big O.’s big change we can believe in could start at his home base in Chicago in this age of federal interference in state and city doings.  He disowned Rev. Wright, what about Emil Jones, the state senatorial president who godfathered him into elective office?

Jones is dipping into campaign contributions, making of them an apparent “slush fund,” per Cindi Canary, director of the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, even as he plumps for a pay raise because he needs the money.  Can’t O. at least talk to him about this?

Ditto Winston Cole, the little known South Side sewer superintendent who drove his GPS-equipped city vehicle to the golf course while toting his GPS-equipped city-issued cell phone and was — yes, dear reader — tracked!  He’s on desk duty for the nonce, but hey, it’s been done before.

Eight city clerk’s office employees were caught golfing on city time — with their boss, later convicted of bribe acceptation — in 2000.  This is the governmental togetherness that we all cherish.

Meanwhile, the mayoral cousin who ran a fast track to judgeship six years ago, though barely qualified if at all, whose husband is asst. city building commissioner, hit a minivan (with another vehicle, we presume, not with her fist) in Tinley Park and declined testing for sobriety.  Have one of your people talk to her, O. — if you have time after discussing gun ownership with Alderman Richard Mell, estranged father-in-law of the governor. 

Ald. Mell, caught in violation of a strict gun-registration law dating from 1982, wants a freebie — re-registration of his many guns, currently of lapsed registration.  Mayordaley II wants it too — so he can invite other violators to come forth and be counted.  The Fraternal Order of Police says it would be using a “double standard.”  Your thoughts, O.

Police are also unhappy about their buffed-up superintendent, formerly of the FBI, hand-picked by Mayordaley II, who is taking bank robberies from police and assigning them to FBI agents.  It’s a change in job description that says, cops butt out.  What does O. think of this vote of no confidence by the super?

Which brings us to law enforcement and the near-missing by movie actor Depp of a drive-by shooting near the Green Mill bar on Broadway, per item-purveyor Sneed.  He’s in town shooting (secondary meaning) a gangster film but might have been part of real-life mayhem. 

Now that would have gotten Daley off the dime on anti-gang activity.  Maybe he would take a cue from Chi Trib columnist Dennis Byrne and approach Chicago gangsterism as a form of terrorism, then attack it with a troop surge.  However, D. prefers making it a gun-control issue, referable to state legislators with help of demonstrators bused into the Loop or Springfield from St. Sabina parish.

Or jobs-for-teens in the summer time or church programs.

When all is said and done, however, the Big O. better stay out of all these matters, rehearsing rather the glint in his eye he will have when he talks to Big A. of Iran and other gangsters on the world scene.  We’re the ones who ought to keep Chicago and Cook County in mind when we think of O.