by Mark Silva
Okay, so maybe Chicago has a reputation for doing politics its own way.
In this reputation, the after-life comes with full voting rights.
But the late Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley serving as a superdelegate for Sen. Barack Obama's presidential bid?
Daley, who served as mayor for 21 years and passed away in 1976, may have played big roles in the presidential campaigns of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and Hubert Humphrey in 1968. But this is taking power-broking beyond the beyond.
At least, that's what the typo at PBS.org would have a reader believe.
Its comprehensive list of superdelegates supporting the candidacies of either Obama or Sen. Hillary Clinton includes this one: "Former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley.''
Of course, it's the current mayor of Chicago, Richard M. Daley, who backs Obama. He is no former mayor - having first won election in 1989, his reelection last year sets him up to surpass his father's record of 21 years in the office.
With empathy for all good typos everywhere - PBS can explain this one on Jon Stewart's The Daley Show (insert smile here).
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Comments
Those of you who are not from Chicago should know that Ritchie's reign has been every bit as corrupt and inefficient as his late father's was. Daley the Younger and Obama being joined at the hip says it all about both of them... both are run-of-the-mill Cook County sharpers.
This wasn't so much a typo as a Freudian slip.
Posted by: MJ | May 27, 2008 6:13 PM
What's new about this? Dead Democrats have been voting for decades in Chicago.
Posted by: Grady | May 27, 2008 6:54 PM
It was probably one of the Bushes, trying to vote for Senator Clinton!! All they are trying to do is give the Daleys a bad name. Go, Senator Obama, President Bush just pulled a hatchet job on Senator " Questionable Conduct " McCain. Those Ridiculous Republicans have lost all that compassion and now they are bought and paid for !! What a shame !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, Chicago | May 27, 2008 8:07 PM
"What's new about this? Dead Democrats have been voting for decades in Chicago." -Grady
It's not just dead democrats Grady, dead people of all political persuasions seem to vote democrat. Must be related to decomposition of the brain.
Posted by: Chris | May 27, 2008 8:53 PM
"It was probably one of the Bushes, trying to vote for Senator Clinton!! All they are trying to do is give the Daleys a bad name. Go, Senator Obama..."
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, Chicago | May 27, 2008 8:07 PM
Give the Daleys a bad name?? The Daleys give the Daleys a bad name!! Don, If you're really from Chicago -- and you really don't know about the Daleys -- then you must've been comatose for your entire life!!
Go Senator Obama!! Go far away!! And stay away!!
Posted by: MJ | May 27, 2008 9:25 PM