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Is A Mayor Daley Type of 1968 Needed in 2016?


Improvement over current Chicago mayor or not?

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Trump makes Daley look like Jesus Christ Himself.
He also makes Nixon and Reagan look better every day. And even Bush 43...



🚋🚋 Just take that streetcar that's going uptown...

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This was not a Trump question.

If you are a baby boomer or older you know what I'm talking about.
Note the demonstration scenes and research 1968 Democratic convention.

Daley had complete control of situation!!

Unlike the current mayor who allows the killings in Chicago to go unchallenged.

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Daley had complete control of situation? You've gotta be kidding me!!
Shirley, you can't be serious! The cops were totally out of control.

I suppose you think he ordered all that disorder on the part of his police?
Then he had to try to explain himself afterward.
And he famously said: "The policeman isn't there to create disorder...he's there to preserve disorder." Look it up.

Right...the mayor ALLOWS the killings to go on and on.
The gangbanging and the Convention riots are apples and oranges.
What should he do? Call out the National Guard?
Chicago is too big to lock down...and they'd have to be on duty FOREVER.



🚋🚋 Just take that streetcar that's going uptown...

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Good point but I think what is called for is a Giuliani rather than a Daley.

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