Aileen, you and a few others need some kind of a wake up call / reality check, and I mean this in as positive of way as I possibly can.
If there were acts of violence in Chicago, they were minimal.
Barack Obama respects the flag and the Pledge of Allegiance, despite what was implied / insinuated on this board.
Michelle Obama did not spend $450 on room service at the Waldorf Astoria.
Honestly, mean people circulate these untruths. They are more concerned about getting their point across, than they are about being honest. In this, the information age, it is
everyone's duty to verify any story or email before passing it on. Right now, a lot of people are passing on...and insuating a lot of BS, and it needs to stop.
We each need to verify that information we pass on, via emails, blogs, boards like this one, is correct. Otherwise we are contributing to the problem; not part of the solution.
I hope all of us will commit to a little more fact checking and a little less mud slinging.
For Heaven's Sake We Need It Now,
all the best
I can't even read the posts after Aileen posted. Let me clear up a few details.
My husband is a former Chicago Police officer (now works in a suburb) so we were talking with the commanders all evening and THERE WAS NOT 1 SINGLE ACT OF VIOLENCE AT THE RALLY. NOT 1!!!!!!!!!!!!! Elsewhere in the city there may have been some people acting like asssholes... but there, no one so much as uttered an unkind word. When I read your post, I called my brother in law, a lieutenant in the 3rd district and he concurred that there were NO arrests and NO reports of violence of any kind. Please double check with your source before spreading anymore tarnishing statements. It is just not true!
The national media preys on stuff like this, so had there been 1 incident of pick-pocketing (or anything more severe) it would have been all over the news.