What’s in the article is nothing new. When I lived on the South Side of Chicago in the late 1960s and early 1970s it was a violent, corrupt, decaying place and had been that way for almost two decades. It was so bad that guys who came to the University from Harlem, then at its worst, were afraid to leave Hyde Park and go into the ghetto. In those days it was the Reverend Jesse Jackson, the precursor of the Reverend Wright, who was running the scams, though he was taking money from the do-gooders instead of colluding with them.

What’s most interesting to me is not what’s in the article, but the fact that it appeared on the front page of the Boston Globe, a paper that’s well to the left of the New York Times. I can’t tell if this means that they are slowly waking up to who Obama is, or if they are putting the information out so that come October is will be “old news” as the Clintons liked to say.