MORE RIOTING IN CHICAGO

Welcoming you back to our beloved site with regards from here in the Windy City.

Tell me if all of this sounds familiar. We've got a Mayor Daley. We have a war that many believe never seems to want to end. Why not spice things up with a little sentimental convention-style rioting, just like 1968? Should the Democrats have their policial convention in 2008 in Chicago, it could be accompanied by a nice war protest.

Think about it. You've got the Humphrey-like insider who's the anointed Dem favorite for the nomination and viewed by the radicals in the party as a war supporter: Hillary. You've got complete nutcase peacenicks on the left, gearing up to oppose anyone, even a politician carrying the Democrats' banner, who even hints at supporting the war. To know what radical leftists do when they feel powerless, just watch the footage from any WTO meeting. Mix all of this together and you get riots.

Disbelieve? Read this from the New York Sun, quoting Molly Ivins:

The lack of any ideological agreement among Mrs. Clinton's Democratic
skeptics is a boon to her because it prevents support from coalescing around an
alternative. However, the senator's most vocal opposition at the moment is coming from the anti-war left. For instance, a left-leaning syndicated columnist, Molly Ivins, declared in a recent column that she could not support Mrs. Clinton in 2008. "Enough triangulation, calculation, and equivocation. Enough clever straddling, enough not offending anyone. This is not a Dick Morris election," Ms. Ivins
wrote.

Who needs a cow and a lantern?