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Ноябрь 10th, 2008 by thepleasurespredator

Ticket blogger Andrew Malcolm on Obama’s rally and McCain’s slips

Here’s a switch: This is an article written for The Times’ print edition today by one of The Ticket bloggers. So we’re re-publishing it here online. (The other blogger’s article is available here.)

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When those 200,000 or however-many Barack Obamians gathered in Chicago’s Grant Park late Tuesday and early Wednesday to celebrate the election of America’s first African American president, they were literally and figuratively standing on historic ground.

Andrew Malcolm Top of the Ticket political blogger on LATimes.com/ticket

Democrats celebrated their black candidate’s victory in a 319-acre park named for a Republican president, Ulysses S. Grant, an Illinois native who was the final Union Army general of the many named by President Lincoln, another Illinois Republican, to crush the Confederacy and end slavery.

Grant Park was also the site of the 1968 self-immolation of Obama’s Democratic Party in violent antiwar (and witnesses testified) police riots that besmirched the city’s name for a generation.

It also shook Cook County’s long-running Democratic machine, then headed by Mayor Richard J. Daley and now not coincidentally headed by his son, Mayor Richard M. Daley, brother of William Daley, now not coincidentally a member of an Obama transition team.

Today’s Mayor Daley is political patron of both Obama and his newly announced White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, a city….

…congressman who not coincidentally was schooled in hardball politics throughout the 1980s by the mayor’s minions and then cadged free lunches from local journalists in exchange for the political gossip he proferred.

President elect Barack Obama with a Chicago political mentor Mayor Richard M. Daley

That was before Emanuel became Bill Clinton’s national finance chairman for the 1992 election.

But back to Grant Park. The city once ended at Michigan Avenue, where Lake Michigan began.

But when the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 ? that was not started by a cow kicking a lantern ? killed hundreds and destroyed four square miles of Chicago over three days, the famously rapid rebuilding began only because the rubble was simply dumped in the lake as landfill. No need for environmental impact statements back then.

That became Grant Park ? and a fitting metaphor for the Republican Party that Obama celebrants danced on it much of the night.

John McCain, the Republican of many comebacks, who survived a North Vietnamese missile, nearly six years of torture and isolation in a POW camp, a savings-and-loan scandal, defeat at the hands of George W. Bush, an inept initial campaign staff that spent him into oblivion in 2007 and younger GOP competitors with far more resources.

But he could not survive the legacy of that same Bush, an unhealthy dose of ageism, the financial meltdown and his own Apple Dumpling Gang staff, which squandered the Sarah Palin phenomenon.

A fan snaps a cellphone photo with Alaska Governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin

People forget that, before the Wall Street walloping, the McCain-Palin ticket was ahead in some polls.

They remember Palin’s poorly handled interviews with Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric. They forget the 100 others she did ar

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