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| EMANUEL: Mayor Double Negative? |
Those
were the words of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, as spoken to the student body at Mount
Carmel High School – which on Saturday beat a large suburban school (Glenbard
North) for the Class 8A state championship in football.
Emanuel
showed up Thursday at the high school, escorted by the Caravan football team,
and school officials noted the day was also the mayor’s 53rd
birthday.
HENCE,
HIZZONER GOT a Caravan football champs t-shirt as a gift (they were also sold
on campus to anyone willing to fork over some cash) and had the student body
sing “Happy Birthday to him.
Which
caused Emanuel to express his line after he mugged for the newspaper and
television cameras while wearing the t-shirt over his white dress shirt and
blue-ish tie.
I’m
sure the grammarians are going to get all worked up over the fact that Emanuel
used a double-negative – which often is awkward and has the negatives
cancelling each other out.
Which
means in this case that we should always expect politicians to behave in “shameless”
ways. That might well be the most honest thing those young people ever hear
from a government official in their lifetimes!
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