OBSERVER
Campaign 2016 Was Born and Bred in Obama’s Hometown
by Keith Liscio
October 31, 2016

In the run-up to his election in 2008, President Obama jokingly warned attendees at a political fundraiser in Philadelphia that the general election could get ugly, paraphrasing a line from the Chicago gangster movie The Untouchables: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said…The fact that recent undercover videos by an investigative reporter reveal a close associate of Mr. Obama participating in a scheme to incite violence at the rallies of Donald Trump should, therefore, be unsurprising. Chicago Way politics preceded Barack Obama—he just seized upon the opportunity to take the quaint, parochial practices of the Windy City national. Also unsurprising is that his political heir Hillary Clinton, herself a native of the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, is the primary beneficiary of this action. READ MORE