Chicago, Il
Chicago may be home to two of the nation's most eloquent people--President Obama and Oprah Winfrey--but when it comes to the articulateness of everyday politicians, yes it can't.
In the city that has had a Mayor Daley for so long people think it is the name of the office--who's your Mayor Daley they ask--tree is still the number that comes after two and orientate is a treasured verb.
Look at Mayor Richard M. Daley--the person not the office.
While his father Richard J. Daley is remembered for proclaiming that "we shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievement," and assuring the public after the 1968 Democratic National Convention violence that, "The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder," Richard M. Daley, our current mayor, also has conversational belly flops under his belt.
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