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Monday, March 5, 2012

Gee, no eight. « Fred Klonsky

Gee, no eight. « Fred Klonsky:

Gee, no eight.

Obama says he is moving the G8 meeting out of Chicago to Camp David, Maryland.

He says the reason is to facilitate the free flow of discussion.

Obama must have been watching the latest discussion over school closings and decided Chicago under Rahm is not a a good place for free flowing discussion.

There’s an old Chicago joke about how the first Mayor Daley and three Alderman were on a boat out on Lake Michigan. The boat sprung a leak and they decided that the only way they could get back to shore in time was for three to jump overboard in order to save the one. They took a vote on who would survive and Daley won, five to