It's strangely ironic that he should die right when Chicago mayoral candidate and former Senator Carol Moseley Braun brought Franz Liebkind back to the front pages:http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49491.html
“The joke in it, was this guy who was still in love with the Fuhrer, with Adolf Hitler,” Braun said, describing part of the storyline. “And he said, ‘The Fuhrer, he was a kind man, he was a gentle man.’”
That joke, she said, could be extended to Emanuel. But no one laughed.