I have been saying for some time that we will have our recalcitrant Illinois Senator Roland Burris representing himself… er, I mean us… at least until 2010 and quite probably during the upcoming primaries for those seeking a full term afterward, as well. This weekend more proof to that eventual end was arranged by a room full of black ministers from Chicago.
ABC channel 7 news televised a report of Senator Burris’ appearance in a church on the south side of Chicago for a laying on of ministerly hands and a defiant claim that he isn’t going anywhere but right back to Washington D.C.
The black church was full of hosannas for Roland Burris as he kept race front and center by reporting that his most cherished vote thus far was for a resolution recognizing the black slaves that helped build the Capitol back in the late 1700s.
“It’s a long overdue recognition for the part they played during our nation’s earliest days,” Burris told the congregation.
If you are wondering why all this race specific talk is going on, don’t. Burris is appealing for all he’s worth to blacks in Chicago to fend off the calls for his resignation. He’s dealing from a whole deck of race cards in a desperate attempt to save his seat. Naturally, it is working, too. ABC 7 reports that Rev. Dr. Albert Tyson III. told the church goers, “If you will stop trying to make something out of nothing, you will discover that the senator is the right person for the right job at the right time.”
Former radical Black Panther member and now Congressman Bobby Rush (D, Chicago) even intimated that if Teddy Kennedy could kill someone and stay in office, why can’t a liar from Illinois scoot by unpunished. With logic like that, who could argue.
“There have been senators who have been drunk, drove off a bridge, people died, no outcry for their resignation,” Rush told reporters referring to the 1969 Chappaquidick incident where Teddy Kennedy left Mary Jo Kopechne to drown after he drove his car off a bridge, her inside. How’s that for audacity, eh?
It is highly doubtful that Roland Burris will be stepping down any time soon. My guess is he’ll announce that he’ll run for election in his own right for the 2010 election, too. Furthermore, his Senate seat will be forever anon defined as “Illinois’ black Senate seat” by Chicago’s race exploiting Democratic Party.
Not even God himself would be heeded should he demand Burris to resign. It’s the Chicago way, folks. Get used to it.
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c17wife (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 7:33AM EST (link)n/t
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Wow. I'd probably vote for Bobby Rush.
mbecker908 (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 7:44AM EST (link)He should be invited to speak somewhere. I love that.
Now if we only had a Republican in the US Senate with the balls to say that. (Seriously!)
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6eorge Jetson (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 8:43AM EST (link)So that's the democrat standard for staying in the Senate
SG_Lominac (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 8:45AM EST (link)“There have been senators who have been drunk, drove off a bridge, people died, no outcry for their resignation,”
With a bar set that low, I can see Bobby Rush’s point.
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He's going to have a primary fight.
Brian Hibbert (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 9:02AM EST (link)All the better for us!
Alexi Giannoulias announced on CNBC that he’s formed an exploratory committee for a run for Senate in 2010. I assume there’ll be others. I hope it’s a really nasty dirty primary (on their side).
If we can field a solid candidate for 2010 and NOT violate the 11th commandment during the primary, we have a good shot at taking this seat back.
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that's been a frustration...
liandro (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 1:23PM EST (link)fielding a solid candidate in IL…and then unifying behind them.
To be consistently successful here we have to compete better in the suburbs, mount any kind of challenge at all in Chicago, and not let inter-party fighting stave away rural voters (Oberweiss vs Lauzen come to mind?). But in this particular race all we need is a solid candidate who can unify base as it stands–with perhaps a little fratricide amongst the Dems during their primary.
We have a long way to go in terms of expanding and strengthening the party here…getting either the Senate or Gov spot while the Dems are wounded and fighting is the perfect opportunity.
no love lost between Rush and Obama
pilgrim (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 9:03AM EST (link)In 2000 Obama made a political miscalculation that he could defeat Rush for a US House seat. Rush had just lost in a bid to defeat Dailey for mayor of Chicago, and Obama thought that made Rush too weak politically. Rush beat him 61-30.
It's usually just a matter of time
theduck6 Monday, March 2nd at 9:18AM EST (link)The race card is almost always played.
How long it takes is proportional to the weakness of the argument.
Burris Waited *Way* Too Long on This
IJB Monday, March 2nd at 9:24AM EST (link)He should have done this a *week* ago, and he should have done it via press conference.
Burris is weak and passive enough that even moves like this may be too late, and too half-hearted, to save himself.
We’ll see…
The More of this we get, the Better!
papalee Monday, March 2nd at 10:40AM EST (link)It is really necessary for the Democrats to be seen as the party of establishment racism. King could and did say it, but there is very little evidence that he meant it. The Democrats certainly don’t. But we must. And we must take risks for people to see it which is why Bobby Jindal is such a great spokesman just as J. C. Watts was.
There are several Chicago pastors that have spoken
liandro (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 1:29PM EST (link)out against him as well, though–only fair to point that out.
It bothers me that minority leaders (and pastors no less) somehow feel that propping up these ethically problematic leaders (Blago, Burris) is beneficial to their cause, and to ignore that it reflects their own willingness to ignore ethics (and morals!).
It is degrading and destructive, plain and simple.
Laying of the Hands??!
jo_davi (Diary) Monday, March 2nd at 1:35PM EST (link)What kind of crazy right wing christian conservative Alaskan kook is Burris? We can’t have someone like that in the Senate.
I’m sure the rest of the Left wingers will get on this right away. They don’t want to be hypocrites or anything.
And I think Kennedy killing that woman is a problem and he should have never gotten into the Senate. But when you have a culture that’s willing to dismiss morality because you like the person, this is what you get. Murderers, tax cheats, liars, adulterers, and con artists.
Christianity is only a problem if you're white and a conservative
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If you’re Democratics, black, or use Christianity to baptize your political liberalism – then no problem.
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