A look at Obama’s home turf in Chicago
By Peter Slevin | Sunday, October 19, 2008 | The Boston Globe
“…No American president has been elected from a place quite like Hyde Park, the home of Senator Barack Obama. Among the community’s notable features are a university famous for intellectualism, a pair of 1960s Weather Underground radicals famous for being unrepentant, and a bloc of voters famous for choosing Senator John Kerry over President Bush by 19 to 1.
Judging by the swift demonization, Obama might as well live at the corner of Liberal and Kumbaya. Republican strategist Karl Rove placed Hyde Park alongside Cambridge and San Francisco in a triad of leftist tomfoolery. The Weekly Standard, recalling Obama’s description of former Weatherman Bill Ayers as merely ‘a guy who lives in my neighborhood,’ asked who lives in a neighborhood like that….”…BS
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/10/19/a_look_at_obamas_home_turf_in_chicago?mode=PF
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