So I guess for the last eight years, you've had a cigarette constantly in your mouth. Well now you can have a pack and a smile and relax.
‘All Things Are Possible’
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President-elect Obama was the only African-American currently serving in the United States Senate. When his successor is named by Gov. Rod Blagojevich, according to prevailing wisdom in Illinois, that person is likely to be an African-American. That would put Illinois in a position of being a powerhouse of racial change in national politics. Carol Moseley Braun, one of the two African-Americans in the Senate since Reconstruction, also came from Illinois.
Don Rose, a former political consultant regarded as a warhorse for liberal causes and candidates in Illinois, insists that these days Chicago—which legendary local alderman Paddy Bauler had once famously insisted was not ready for reform—has become nothing less than the "epicenter of progressive politics in America."
There was a time, he noted, when Chicagoans traveling abroad would be asked questions about being the home of the notorious gangster Al Capone. From now on, he said, Chicagoans will be able to tell the world, "I'm from the city of Barack Obama."
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