Comments on: Fattah Rationalizes Mayoral Bid As If He Just Noticed Philly Existed

By: Th:McJunkin

Th:McJunkin — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:44:47 +0000

I think Fattah’s statement was partly in response to Dwight Evans’ invocation of his alma mater’s founder, Jean Baptise de la Salle, in explaining why he is so committed to education reform:

“God, who guides all things with wisdom and serenity, whose way it is not to force the inclinations of persons, willed to commit me entirely to the development of the schools. He did this in an imperceptible way and over a long period of time so that one commitment led to another in a way that I did not foresee in the beginning.”

By: C. The Impaler

C. The Impaler — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:18:08 +0000

You know, you could also paraphrase all that diamonds and wealth stuff as, “I’ve been in D.C. trying to make the big score; but we got all this ethics reform going on so it’s hard now. Philly’s got like this entrenched pay to play culture which even the FBI couldn’t really get inside. I mean. look at what Street’s pulled off. I want some of that. Nutter talks about murder, that’s sad. If you annoint me, I’ll just sit and watch the money train roll in.”

In other words, someone better shake up his communications staff before people really start to pay attention.