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Dick Durbin: Race Played Role In Seating Burris
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin confirmed today what most of us already knew — the democrats caved to race baiting in their decision to seat Blago appointee Roland Burris. Without a doubt, the shrewdest person in this whole affair was Blago himself. He knew without a doubt that nominating a black man to Obama’s seat would guarantee that appointee being seated. Nothing tweaks a liberal more than being labeled a racist and not seating Burris would of course be labeled as “racist” — by black racists in Chicago.
Here’s what Dick Durbin said:
Durbin, a fellow Democrat and Illinois’ senior senator, noted that Rep. Bobby Rush, a Chicago Democrat, appeared at Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s announcement of his appointment of Burris and used racially charged language to defend the appointment.
“My colleague from Illinois, Congressman Bobby Rush, made strong statements along those (racial) lines,” Durbin said on WGN-AM (720). “They were painful and hurtful, and it became part of this calculation.”
If you don’t remember what former black panther Bobby Rush said then allow me to remind you:
“I would ask you not to hang or lynch the appointee as you try to casitgate the appointor,” Rush added. ”Separate, if you will, the appointee from the appointor. Roland Burris is worthy.”
“There are no African-Americans in the Senate, and I don’t think that anyone, any U.S. Senator who is sitting right now would want to go on record to deny one African-American from being seated in the U.S. Senate. I don’t think they want to go on record doing that.
Painful and hurtful? What a liberal pussy. His comments were fucking stupid and ignorant not painful or hurtful.
I love how black racism is just accepted and not called out. The racial makeup of the senate should be irrelevant. What should matter is competence and honesty not skin color. Racist blacks in Chicago have been terrified that Obama’s “black senate seat” might fall into white hands, so getting any black appointed regardless of honesty or integrity was the order of the day. Bobby Rush predictably played the race card and liberal democrats still trying to work out their white guilt issues played right along.
So Illinois and by extension America ended up with another corrupt politician from Illinois — but at least he was black.
-Chris Jones
(hat tip Hot Air)
Predictable: Roland Burris Gets His Senate Seat
Corrupt gov. Rod “The Hair” Blagojevich shrewdly played Harry Reid and the democrats like a fiddle. He correctly surmised that in the politically correct atmosphere we all currently reside in, the race card could successfully be played against the liberal democrats in the senate.
He noticed that without Barack, the senate had no black people in it. Since the race card is the favorite card in Chicago he pulled it out and named Roland Burris to the U.S. senate. Then sat back and dared Harry Reid not to seat him.
Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush (and former black panther) compared the reluctance of the senate to seat Burris a form of “lynching” and “hanging.” A day or so later Rush compared the white senators holding up Burris’s senate seat to “George Wallace” and “Bull Connor.”
Once those words were uttered it was no longer a matter of if Burris would be seated but when. That kind of divisive race-baiting is like a dog whistle to a liberal democrat.
Predictably, Harry Reid folded like a cheap suit and Burris will now get to be a U.S. senator.
For the record, I don’t dispute Burris’s qualifications to be a senator, I just hate it when people so blatantly use the race card to get ahead.
Former Black Panther Urges Public Not To “Hang” Or “Lynch” Blago Appointee
Besides being the most corrupt state in America, Illinois also knows how to play the race card better than anyone. Corrupt Gov. Blago appoints Roland Burris who gave a ton of money to his campaign in the past, but since he’s black he should get to keep the appointment? Racist black leaders in Chicago have been grumbling for weeks about how Obama’s senate seat is “black” and it must remain “black” because somehow that is what is best for the country. As I said last week, I didn’t know Barack Obama’s senate seat was black. In fact, I’m quite sure it’s exactly the same color as every other seat in the senate.
Seeing as how Obama supposedly transcends race, I find it interesting that Congressman Bobby Rush decided to get up during Blago’s press conference and say this:
He urged people “not to hang or lynch the appointee as you try to castigate the appointer” and, after saying repeatedly that Burris would be the only African-American in the Senate, said that he believed no senator would want “to go on record to deny one African-American from being seated in the US Senate”.
Wow, talk about taking two steps forward and one step back. What difference does it make if he’s the only black member of the senate? The senate has to have a black person in it? Does it also have to have a Hispanic, an Asian, and an Arab as well? Also, what’s with all the talk about lynching? Sounds like he’s been hanging out with Rev. Wright too much.
How about electing someone based on the content of their character and their record of achievement instead of the color of their skin.
-Chris Jones
Blago Appoints Former AG Roland Burris To Obama’s Senate Seat
Corrupt Gov. Rod Blagojevich is expected to defy pretty much the entire political establishment and make an appointment to Barack Obama’s senate seat. His choice according to the the Chicago Sun-Times is former Attorney General Roland Burris.
Former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris, 71, had lobbied the governor for the position in recent weeks.
Burris made a previous attempt at the Senate seat in the past — unsuccessfully. In 1984, he was beat out for the Democratic nomination by Paul Simon.
Illinois Sec. of State Jesse White says he will block Burris’s appointment. White must certify any appointment made by Blago and has indicted he will not sign-off on any appointment made by the governor no matter who it is.
Incidentally, senate majority leader Harry Reid has already said he would refuse to seat anyone Blago appointed if it were to get that far. Reid has final say over who is seated in the United States Senate.
Blago’s lawyers say they knew nothing about a senate appointment and were never consulted on the matter.
Rod "The Hair" Blagojevich and Roland Burris
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