Must Listen: Todd Stroger is an Idiot

YOU GOTTA HEAR THIS...! From Completely Unnecessary, a partial transcript of a speech by Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, given at the City Club of Chicago in October, 2007: In recent years, economic experts have coined the phrase “food dessert” to support their concern for a lack of quality grocery shopping options for people living in poor neighborhoods. Well, I’m concerned that without Provident Hospital and with Michael Reese and other hospitals having problems, Chicago’s South Side might become a hospital dessert. Ooops! I should say “desert.” That’s why I reject calls for Provident to be closed, and favor the hospital’s continued focus in providing inpatient, acute, obsta… obsta… uh oh… obstatech… I’m gonna skip that word. [I think he's starting a new sentence here] Testify before committees and actively lobby for a brand new law to effecti… ifist… oh… afich… at… Thank you, Donna… effectuate that transfer. Thanks to the Democrat Party giving us such a brilliant leader.