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Violence, racial divisions in Chicago cast dark cloud over Obama farewell address

The Washington Times ^ | January 9, 2017 | Dave Boyer

Posted on by jazusamo

The weekend before President Obamas planned farewell address was a good one by Chicagos violent standards  only one person was killed by gunfire and eight others were wounded.

As Mr. Obama returns home Tuesday to deliver his final speech as president, Chicago is in the grips of a soaring homicide rate and reeling from a horrific black-on-white torture hate crime that was captured on video. Over Christmas weekend, 12 Chicagoans were killed in a total of 27 shootings.

Amid criticism that the president and his former chief of staff, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, have failed for eight years to address the citys violence and racial divisions, Mr. Obama nevertheless will bask in the adoration of thousands of friends and supporters in a prime-time speech reviewing his presidency and offering his prescriptions for the challenges ahead.

Some Chicago residents say its shaping up as a hollow valedictory speech.

He didnt need to come to Chicago for the speech, and he knows that doing so calls attention not only to the citys troubles but to his administrations failures to solve them, said Charles Lipson, a political science professor at the University of Chicago. Chicagos troubles highlight the deep national divisions, social breakdown, income inequality and gun violence that Barack Obama was elected to ameliorate. His administration not only failed, most of the problems grew worse.



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0bama goes back to Chicago for his farewell address but not to live there.



To: jazusamo

I thought he already gave a farewell speech. Is this going to be like the 12 days of Christmas where we get a farewell speech each day until the end? Sure hope not...



To: jazusamo

Why did he go back to Chicago? That puzzles me.



To: jazusamo

Violence and racial division are his trademark legacies.



by 4 posted onby BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)

To: jazusamo

I could read the last paragraph all night and giggle.... ***** But the first family will depart Washington on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, by flying one last time on the presidential aircraft known as Air Force One, likely to Chicago. The plane wont be designated as Air Force One for that final trip, however, because the designation is reserved only for the sitting president  Mr. Trump.



by 5 posted onby 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)

To: jazusamo

John Favreau wrote Meryl Streep’s speech and I am sure he will keep churning out Goebels kinda crap to fight Trump at every turn of the video feed.



To: jazusamo

“The town too dangerous for a President”.



by 7 posted onby RetiredTexasVet (Dan Rather, a 60 Minutes Investigative Reporter for CBS, invented "Fake News"-fake but accurate.)

To: jazusamo

Is anyone keeping track of how many farewell speeches he is giving and how many times he says “me.” I wish I had the quote from Tucker Carlson on what it will be about. It was hysterical.



by 8 posted onby Mercat (Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.Â (Blaise Pascal))

To: jazusamo

His time has almost expired - tick, tock... MAGA!



by 9 posted onby heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)

To: SandyInSeattle

I suppose because he was a community organizer there, and he was much better at that than _resident.



by 10 posted onby jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)

To: jazusamo

Well, that much is certainly true.



To: jazusamo

Racist headline



by 12 posted onby faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)

To: jazusamo

I plan to record Obama’s Chicago address, edit out Obama’s voice and just listen to the gunfire in the background.



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by 14 posted onby jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)

To: jazusamo

Zero had a judge HACK open Jack Ryan’s sealed divorce records so he could win his IL Senate seat.



by 15 posted onby txhurl (Break's over, kids, back to WAR.)

To: jazusamo

Obama was the first half black , half white president. He accomplished ZERO!! He divided the races and ruined our health care system. I firmly believe he is a moslem which is incompatible with our Christian constitutional nation. Democrats are now ruined. I don’t see them coming back ever!! The Republicans will divide into two or three factions but I truly believe the communist leftist democrat party is totally finished!!Obozo will be forgotten in a fortnight.



To: jazusamo

In the Woody Allen comedy, “Bananas,” there is a Latin American dictator who goes nuts and decides that the national language should be Swedish and that the people should wear their underwear on the outside. That’s how batty O has become.



To: txhurl

I remember that, shows just how low 0bama will go.



by 18 posted onby jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)

To: jazusamo

Obama will depict how great he is and how much he has done for the people of Chicago. In reality, he and his cohorts such as Tony Rezko, stole millions in community grants. Promised his hope and change to catapult black Chicago out of the pits of hell. He lied. I just hope all the blacks show up to protest Obama’s speech. I hate Communists and Islamist sympathizers. He is both. Semper Fi



To: faithhopecharity

The White Hut resident's racist agenda became painfully obvious the first month Omugabe was in office. The capitol security employees went from about 25% black to more than 50% black. You know, representative of "america?" I suppose the SS security teams were similarly "improved."

Just as all TV series, movies and even commercials followed suit shortly thereafter.



by 20 posted onby publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)

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