Reply #5: Then you are totally wrong.... [View All]

[ddeclue]

the math is the math... and you apparently are math challenged too..

I understand he's talking about crime which IS a real problem all over the country not just in Chicago but his comparison is a terribly terribly flawed one. If he wanted to make a VALID comparison he would say the murder rate in Chicago is up by X% over last year and THIS would be both valid and prove his point that crime us up. Instead he made a very sloppy flawed comparison between a REAL war zone and a domestic crime wave - NOT even CLOSE to the same thing... do 600 people a month show up dead in the streets of Chicago shot in the head and thrown in the ditch or with holes drilled in their heads by power drills? Certainly car bombs and suicide bombers are extremely uncommon in Chicago but they happen every day in Baghdad.

As I said it was a very poor comparison for Obama to make and he deserves to be called on it.

And YES I definitely appreciate the crime problem as it is up here too and I've lived in and near big cities like Atlanta, Detroit, and Miami and in fact lived downtown Atlanta for about 10 of my 12 years there (1984-1996) when it had a reputation as the "murder capital" of the nation.

Doug D.