You are making a lousy inference. These are not off-the-boat Irish people, which is why I am calling them Irish-Americans.

The Irish-American political community in Chicago as is insular as the Outfit. Do you seriously disagree with that? JFK was a third generation Irish American who had a strong Irish identity. You don't think the these pols have an Irish identity because they're [x] generation? I am not attacking Irish people, by the way.

You have a very naive perspective on Mayor Rahm. What is more relevant than who ran against him is who didn't run against him--and why. I can only assume you are not from Chicago because you are struggling to relate to a perspective shared by most Chicagoans.

And where did I say anything about the Irish keeping the "Sicilians" down?