Well, in some respects -- like this:
After a historic vote legalizing civil unions this week, Mayor Daley on Thursday welcomed the Illinois General Assembly into “this new century” and urged lawmakers to “move faster” — and legalize gay marriage.
“Finally, they realized they should have the same rights under state law. But eventually, [gay] marriage will take place. It has to. . . . We have to move faster,” the mayor said.
Can you imagine our leading candidate to replace him, that heroic risk-taker Rahm Emanuel, making a statement like that?
Update:
Of course, considering some of the other clowns cluttering up the field . . . Well, there's always James Meeks:
"I would hope people are not looking for your average politician in the next mayor of the city of Chicago," Meeks said. "We have a lot of systemic problems that are going to have to involve people working together, blacks, whites, North Siders, South Siders . . . You need somebody that can bring all of those different groups together, so I don't want to be the average, normal, square peg in the round hole."
Meeks is presently a state senator, and the only member of the Black Caucus to vote against the civil unions bill. He's also a pastor at a South Side church. He is not the person to bring this city together. (He's making nice noises now, in spite of his civil unions vote. He's been pretty vicious in the past.)
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