The bold championship of term limits in the Dole-Gingrich revolution of 1994 has vanished. Those men retired voluntarily from Congress, but few other members of the congressional leadership have. The presidency alone has term limits in this system, but on the only occasion when a president sought a third term, Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940, all civilization depended on his success, as the champion of “all aid short of war” for Britain and Canada against Nazi Germany. Without him, those countries could not have stayed in the war until the U.S. joined it after Pearl Harbor.
Yet almost the only dignified retirements of major democratic leaders since World War II have been those of term-limited U.S. presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan. In that time, great leaders of other democracies, Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl, Charles de Gaulle and Margaret Thatcher, have all, after eleven to fourteen years in their countries’ highest offices, been plunged inelegantly into honored retirement.
Of all the rotten boroughs in America, the most egregious is Chicago. The great-shoulders-and-elbows metropolis of ethnic diversity at the core of America, traditional architectural capital, and rival to New York as cultural center of the nation, one of the most folklorically rich cities in the world, the country’s third-largest urban complex with 10 million people in its environs, has been in the iron and generally benign grip of the Cook County Democratic machine for 80 years.
The last Republican mayor of Chicago, Big Bill Thompson, was largely identified with the rise to immortality of Twenties mobster Alphonse Capone, Chicago’s most famous historic figure, surpassing such eminences in more respectable fields as Clarence Darrow, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, Enrico Fermi, Milton Friedman, and Michael Jordan, and perhaps even Barack Obama. Thompson’s most lapidary utterance was his promise to “punch King George [V] in the nose.”
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Interesting! By someone in the media as powerful as Conrad Black naming Joe Fosco in one of his articles, Fosco has achieved national spotlight attention, in the mainstream arena. This is very impressive considering that Fosco’s publication, KTF, is a grassroots media group. I congratulate Joe Fosco on his success! Joe, when is the book coming out?
Way to go joe! Accolades like these not only lend further creedence to your work, further draw attention to a culture of corruption that chicagoans have accepted as status quo, but i believe will also aid your personal safety as you battle what i see as a dangerous group of juvenile minded ill intentioned thugs.
Thank you Rick and Vince. I am not pretending to be an Angel. I made my share of mistakes in the past, however, I am a new person the last several years and I fight crime the best that I can. My safety is a concern, but not as much as the safety as my loved ones.
joe,
you were never a labor arbitrator. prove it.
yes, you’ve never been… (YOUR COMMENT HAS BEEN MODIFIED – repetitive rants are considered harassment by our management team and forbidden on this site. Thank you, American News Post).
i hear you owe… money. why is that? (YOUR COMMENT HAS BEEN MODIFIED – repetitive rants are considered harassment by our management team and forbidden on this site. Thank you, American News Post).
oh no! joe fosco has an ip address. did you ever think i could be using a computer at an apple store, library, or borrow someone’s comoputer at a coffee shop for $5? i could use someone’s cell phone for god’s sake… (YOUR COMMENT HAS BEEN MODIFIED – libelous statements are forbidden on this site. Furthermore, your comment proves your intent to harass. Every time you ask someone to barrow their phone to send harassing comments to this site, you are exposing your physical identity to an eyewitness. Thank you, American News Post).
mr. cerone still has all the voice mails you ever left him… (YOUR COMMENT HAS BEEN MODIFIED – libelous statements are forbidden on this site. Thank you, American News Post).
i never… (YOUR COMMENT HAS BEEN MODIFIED – false statements and insults are forbidden on this site. Thank you, American News Post).
Dear IP Address 66.251.244.218,
I thought it was understood that I was never an actual labor arbitrator; I have never stated that I was. In fact, I explain it in detail here: http://americannewspost.com/?p=66
Yes, my finances are somewhat compromised right now. You are asking me why my finances are compromised. Ask John and Peter DiFronzo, Rudy Fratto, Jack P. Cerone, Esq., and Joseph L. Giacchino, Jr.
As to the voice mails that I left Jack P. Cerone, Esq., regarding the threats on my life that he played a part in, you may read the court transcripts, which detail the voicemails, here: http://americannewspost.com/?p=278
In addition, you may access this article, http://americannewspost.com/?p=819, which provides a very clear understanding of the details pertaining to the voicemails that you have mentioned. Thank you.
Please Cease And Desist With Your Lunacy!
Sincerely,
Joseph Fosco