To a certain extent, I agree. I should say that I do think it's important to give credit where credit is due. But really, the Chicago Tribune is in Chicago, Rahm Emanuel represents a part of Chicago -- what would you expect? This isn't that big of a deal.
To the extent that the Chicago Tribune is a right-wing rag, it is in their interest to overcredit Rahm. Whose strategy would they rather face, that of Dean or of Rahm?
It's like crossing over in the 1992 Republican primary to vote for Pat Buchanan because you want to dilute support for GHW Bush.
Had the Chicago Sun Times made such a claim, that would be something to be more worried about. Ergo, this is a joke.
I was thinking the same thing. This actually makes the paper seem provincial. I mean, you expect it of little hometown papers.
The 'little hometown paper' is TMS, Tribune Media Syndicate that owns waaaay more than the Trib - there's tv stations, LA Times, WGN, the Chicago Cubs, the Hartford Courant and much more.
Do ya see now why it's a bigger picture and more going on than hometown paper mentioning hometown boy doing well, esp when it wasn't all Rahm, all the time, not by a long shot. It's about big big biz and corporatism which is what killed the Dems the last time around and is killing the Reeps now.
