That Toddlin Town
Via Instapundit via Just One Minute [MT for some reason won't publish the url for Just One Minute]
Global Labor and Politics: "Who sent Obama?"
In Chicago politics a key question has always been, who "sent" you? The classic phrase is "We don't want nobody that nobody sent" - from an anecdote of Abner Mikva's, the former White House Counsel (Pres. Clinton) and now retired federal judge. (And someone I campaigned for while in high school when he ran, unsuccessfully, for Congress in the early 70s.) As a young student, Mikva wanted to help out his local Democratic Party machine on the south side of Chicago. In 1948, he walked into the local committeeman's office to volunteer for Adlai Stevenson and Paul Douglas and was immediately asked: "Who sent you?" Mikva replied, "nobody sent me." And the retort came back from the cigar chomping pol: "Well, we don't want nobody that nobody sent."So it is reasonable to ask, who "sent" Barack Obama? In other words, how can his meteoric rise to political prominence be explained?
Now that's entertainment.
See, I'm from Jersey and started paying my union dues to the Teamsters just a couple of years after Jimmy Sr. disappeared into the Meadowlands- and I know guys that talk like that. Sometimes I still talk like that. I laughed till I cried when I first saw Goodfellas.
Of course, one must be interested in this type of thing in the first place.
