Barack Obama will be on Meet the Press for the entire hour on Sunday. One of the more underreported aspects of this campaign is Chicago’s descent into criminal anarchy. Fifteen people have been killed in the past two weeks alone.

Here’s another sobering statistic:

Since the beginning of the school year, 24 public school students here have been murdered, most by gunfire. None was killed on school grounds but most lost their lives in their neighborhoods, sometimes on the way to class or the trip home. The youngest victim was a 7-year-old girl, waiting for an afternoon snack at a fast food drive-through with her father.

and this…

Last year, 32 school-age children were killed, a record, compared with half that number or fewer in the preceding years. This year’s toll could surpass that if the pace continues.

Shouldn’t Russert and the MSM start asking Obama why Chicago is in such bad shape?