Reply #4: I used to live in Fast Eddie's ward when I lived in Chicago. [View All]

[charlyvi]

On the Southeast side--back when he was a Democrat. His house was WAY out of place in that working class neighborhood. One time he was campaigning at the South Chicago IC station in the beginning of November, shaking hands and passing out Vote for Vrdolyak stickers. It was one of those Chicago winter days when the snow had turned to dirty slush and the people walking to the morning train had that wintery pastelike cast to their skin. And there Fast Eddie stood in a cashmere coat, with a Boehner-like tan and perfectly white, straight teeth--back before people used whitening strips. He looked like the stereotypical slick politician. Like reality couldn't touch him. Damn, I haven't thought about him in years!