Many may remember the discussion between Federal Agent Elliot Ness and Chicago Cop Jim Malone from the movie “The Untouchables” in reference to the way to defeat the biggest threat coming out of Chicago since the great fire:

Malone: “You said you wanted to get Capone. Do you really want to get him? You see what I’m saying is what are you prepared to do?”

Ness: “Anything and everything in my power.”

Malone: “And then what are you prepared to do? If you open the can on these worms you must be prepared to go all the way, because they’re not gonna give up the fight until one of you is dead.”

Ness:  “How do you do it then?”

Malone: “You wanna know how to do it? Here’s how, they pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That’s the Chicago way, and that’s how you get Capone. Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that?”

Ness: “I have sworn to capture this man with all legal powers at my disposal, and I will do so”

Malone: “Well the Lord hates a coward”.

 Now that’s hardball, Chicago style, not like the kind played in Wrigley field in October or on television by those who go weak in the knees over a political speech. But today we face a threat far greater than 50 Chicago Fires or 100 Al Capones. We need to draw upon the sometimes brutal history of the city of Big Shoulders. We need to stand up and face this threat in the same steely-spined manner that a rag-tag group of cops, agents and accountants did some seventy-seven years ago. Here’s the speech required to enable a rag-tag campaign to defeat this very real threat to our American way of life:

"I've tried to avoid putting a spotlight on the many deep and troubling associations of my opponent, believing that an unbiased media would actually do their job, but sadly that has not been the case.

At the same time I've been attacked by my opponent on a daily basis based upon a perceived association with our President

So now that I finally realize that I can no longer rely upon an unbiased media and a fundamental sense of fairness which will never come, while at the same time unfairly being saddled with the mantle of an unpopular President, unfortunately I now have to do both my job and theirs.

So every time my opponent brings up George Bush in relation to me, I'll bring up William Ayers, and how he bombed, and to this day wishes he bombed more, how he and Sen. Obama worked together to radicalize students, how they worked together to funnel money to the radical group Acorn, how his socialist, anti-U.S. views have never been repudiated by Sen Obama, how Sen. Obama even wrote a blurb for this terrorist's book, a socialist who obviously impacted the Senator's view of education, respect for the law and distribution of wealth. That's a lot of contact for someone the Senator first described as "just someone in my neighborhood".

And every time my opponent tries to draw a comparison between my beliefs and those of President Bush, I'll draw comparisons between Sen. Obama's beliefs and those of his spiritual advisor whose church he sought out, who married him, baptized his children whose services he attended at least 500 times without even once objecting, a pastor who believes that the white man invented the aids virus for the purpose of infecting Blacks, calls upon God to damn America, and otherwise believes in an Africa-centric liberation theology world view where this great nation of ours is one of the greatest evils in the world, and someone who likely influenced his particular Christian view of the world and the role of the United States in it.

And every time my opponent chooses to attack me by referencing our President, I'll reference convicted felon Tony Rezco who helped Sen. Obama buy his first house, was one of his biggest fundraisers, who introduced Sen. Obama to Iraqi Nadhami Auchi, loyal to Saddam Hussein, a slumlord and his contacts who helped shape his Middle-East view.

And every time my opponent, for cheap political gain, brings my name up in the same sentence with President Bush, I'll remind the citizens of this great nation that the Senator is closely alligned with and never once opposed democratic congressional leaders Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi who are far less popular than President Bush. And remember, President Bush will soon be out of office, and bringing him up is living in the past. But Pelosi and Reid and the democrats in Congress, who brought you this lending and housing crisis, would be closely working with an Obama administration entirely unchecked by any fiscally responsible opposition.

And every time my opponent wrongly mentions how my foreign policies are identical to those of President Bush, I'll mention to all Americans that the ones who truly prefer Sen Obama's foreign policy to mine and hope he gets elected are not Americans, they're names like Putin, Chavez, Ahmadinojad, Kim Yong Il, Hu, who are looking forward to a day of a weaker America that doesn't know how or refuses to react due to the creeping cancer of moral equivalency.

I will not sit idly by without the citizens of this great Country being made aware of the real Barack Obama, what he really believes, who have influenced his world view, and how we cannot afford at these troubled times at home and abroad to elect someone without knowing who he really is, not the recently packaged centrist candidate that is running for President, but the Senator ranked most-liberal, the person more radical on issues of education, distribution of wealth, and killing of the unborn, the soon to be born and recently born than any candidate in history. I'd rather stand by my association to an honorable man in George W. Bush, than let Sen. Obama lie about his much closer associations to William Ayers, Jeremiah Wight, and Tony Rezco. Ask yourself not only why did Barack Obama associate himself with radicals such as these terrorists, socialists, anti-American radicals, but more importantly ask what these terrorists, socialists, pro-death anti-American radicals see in Barack Obama, and why they want so desperately for him to be the next President."

Now that’s the Chicago way. To date John McCain’s been too much Ness and too little Malone.

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