I find this of more than passing interest.  It’s Tom Roeser on Chicago mayor.  He dismisses Moseley Braun, naturally, for her “masterly ineptitude for administration.”  She would do to Chicago in one term what Coleman Young did to Detroit in 20 years.  (Make it 19.)

Roeser continues:

The only two I have any faith in are Rahm Emanuel and Gery Chico…but Chico is malleable and can easily be rolled by the Gray Wolves of the Council.

This be Chicago-dom.  The great Scylla and Charybdis of city politics: rapacious aldermen vs. powerful mayor running weak-mayor governmental form.  Roeser buys the second and says (at this point) he prefers Emanuel:

Rahm is so duplicitous and mean I think he’ll perceive it’s in his own interest not to let Chicago go the way of Detroit.

Point being, you don’t have to like the guy, you just have to respect his ability to save the city.