Expressing Opinion on Policy is Fair Game

Published March 12, 2008

While it was inevitable that Barack Obama's high-flying primary campaign would descend to earth, it is ironic that the arrow that deflated his balloon was loosed by a Canadian. Chicago consul-general Georges Rioux, and political and economic affairs officer Joseph DeMora, probably had no clue that their otherwise routine and unremarkable meeting with an Obama campaign advisor would have such repercussions on both...