Writer calls on Putin to broker cease-fire in Chicago violence since Obama won't or can't

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5. Do you realize the whole Putin Op Ed thing was nothing more than a publicity stunt?

He hired a fancy PR firm and it sure worked for him.

(Reuters) - In April 2011, then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was asked an unusually flattering question by an American journalist: "Are you the coolest man in politics?"

The interview, which ran on the website of Outdoor Life magazine, was set up by Ketchum Inc., the U.S. public-relations firm that has worked to burnish Russia's image since 2006.

On Thursday, Ketchum scored another public-relations coup: It helped place a Putin commentary in opinion pages of The New York Times, just as representatives from Russia and the United States were beginning to meet in Geneva to negotiate a plan for Syria to give up its chemical weapons.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/13/us-syria-crisis-usa-ketchum-idUSBRE98C00S20130913

I do believe the problems of violence in my city are more complicated than getting some politician to magically make it disappear. He is a politician as much as our President is a politician.