When Obama Began Strangling the Republic
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Posted By: earlybird, 7/23/2025 1:13:03 PM
It was a cold Sunday morning in Chicago in February 2003—I was driving over to the paper, and had a week’s worth or columns to plan—when I stopped in front of the E2 nightclub. Outside there was a police blockade because 21 young people had been killed, but the cops knew me and waved me through. On the sidewalk awkwardly alone, his hands jammed into the pockets of a navy-blue dress coat, was a soon-to-be well known Chicago Democrat: Barack Obama.The E2 was a black bougie hangout where 21 young people were crushed to death in a dark stairway that had been locked in violation of building codes.
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The club, owned by Chicago Way friends of Obie who included Tony Rezko (remember him?), had a court order tp close off the upper area. The owners kept it open. A stairway remained blocked. The owners threw fundraisers for Obie. Kass has known Obie for a long time and has a lot to say.