Ranger,

Your original post also made the point, "This certainly raises questions about Obama's effectiveness as a legislator and previously as a community organizer." For being so concerned with your other point (about Olympics/security) you sure haven't bothered to defend it at all in our back-and-forth. In fact, you didn't bother to support it at all, either in your toppost or elsewhere in this thread.

I might agree with you (on the Olympics/security) point if you pointed out that Olympic-associated gentrification could compress gangland territories and lead to additional problems, or if you said that the infrastructure planned for Chicago (when the Olympics were still a possibility) would create additional disparities between different regions of the city. But you didn't say that. Instead, you made an unsupported assertion that also ignored a substantial investment in security promised were the Olympics to be held in Chicago.

You also took a tragic event, one you apparently have no clue about (Albert's beating wasn't without reason, though of course the reason doesn't justify the attack) and used it to make a cheap, ineffective, and half-assed political point. Classy.