Video: The surreal, race-baiting Blagojevich press conference; Update: No seat for Burris, says Obama; Update: Blago’s General Counsel quits
posted at 4:39 pm on December 30, 2008 by Allahpundit
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A transmission from Bizarroland, where Blago’s only option to make sure Illinois has two Senators in January is to appoint someone himself rather than resign now and let the lieutenant governor make the appointment. I’m giving you four and a half minutes of lowlights, but if you can’t spare the time, skip ahead to 3:25 and watch Rep. Bobby Rush — a former Black Panther and the only person to defeat Barack Obama in an election — stoop to some of the most exquisite race-baiting you’ll ever see. I don’t want to spoil the surprise, but the word lynch makes a cameo. Or rather, its first cameo; a second followed shortly thereafter.
Below that you’ll find Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn responding to Blago by tearing him to pieces.
Update: Another plot twist: The Illinois secretary of state says he won’t certify the appointment. Does he have to?
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Update: I told you what it would take to give Reid racial cover on this, right down to the complimentary pat phrase that would be used to describe Burris. And now, right on cue, here it is:
“Roland Burris is a good man and a fine public servant, but the Senate Democrats made it clear weeks ago that they cannot accept an appointment made by a governor who is accused of selling this very Senate seat,” Obama said in a statement. “I agree with their decision, and it is extremely disappointing that Governor Blagojevich has chosen to ignore it. I believe the best resolution would be for the Governor to resign his office and allow a lawful and appropriate process of succession to take place. While Governor Blagojevich is entitled to his day in court, the people of Illinois are entitled to a functioning government and major decisions free of taint and controversy.”
Durbin chimed in, saying the appointment “will lead nowhere.” On to the Supreme Court!
Update: In court, the smart money’s on Blago and Burris.
Update: Tough day for Blagojevich: His General Counsel’s resigned, presumably to help the feds build a case against him.
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This story just broke on the Chicago Sun Times:
Blagojevich’s General Counsel resigns
The Blagojevich administration’s top lawyer, William J. Quinlan, resigned today — the same day that the governor announced he’s decided to fill President-elect Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat.
“Today, I have decided to resign my position as General Counsel and return to private practice,” Quinlan wrote in a memo to his staff.
More at:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/1355168,blagojevich-general-counsel-resign-123008.article
pilamaye on December 30, 2008 at 5:45 PM
I heard the presser on the radio and it was KILLING me to not see the expressions that must have accompanied the idiocy! I know it’s been said over and over again, but I think we should all thank McCain for running such a crappy campaign- we would never be having this kind of fun if he’d been elected! Where does one go to find out what Senator’s Reid and Pelosi have to say about their party??
Culture of corruption, indeed!
anniekc on December 30, 2008 at 5:46 PM
Thanks, Hornet, that i could do. It will go good with my steak that is ready now. Good day to you all!
MDWNJ on December 30, 2008 at 5:46 PM
How will Bobby Rush affect US/Afghanistan relations with his references requiring more Afghan-Americans be represented in the US Senate?
Is this Obama’s secret weapon to win the war he’s promising to wage like the Russians did in Afghanistan? Have some jerk like Blagojevich put Bobby Rush in front of the press with a microphone making illusions of promises ne’er to be kept. Surely, this jive from the NEW ugly American will improve US/MidEast relations.
/snark off
maverick muse on December 30, 2008 at 5:47 PM
Is this black panther guy drunk or is his English really that horrible.
church on December 30, 2008 at 5:49 PM
I was wondering the same thing. I need a 12 pack to sound that slurred.
Flunkee on December 30, 2008 at 5:52 PM
had a tumor removed from his jaw. i just made the same mistake.
eh on December 30, 2008 at 5:52 PM
Heh. The water is getting a little deep in that end of the pool, ain’t it?
a capella on December 30, 2008 at 5:52 PM
Breaking news on Fox…………..Obama just released a statement and supports Reid to not seat Burris.
I’m buying stock in Orvile Redenbacher’s popcorn.
Knucklehead on December 30, 2008 at 5:53 PM
This is all about taking Blago out before he taints Teh One and Only.
Blago is having none of it.
If you haven’t already, traipse over to Blago’s web site and voice your FULL SUPPORT for his actions.
ROFL!
I hope Barry can run the country from jail.
ex-Democrat on December 30, 2008 at 5:54 PM
What a circus.
Terrye on December 30, 2008 at 5:55 PM
I wouldn’t apologize until he apolgizes for lobbing racist threats….this assclown is still a racist bastard.
HornetSting on December 30, 2008 at 5:56 PM
Translation: “they showed me the cement shoes in my exact size”
ex-Democrat on December 30, 2008 at 5:56 PM
Knucklehead on December 30, 2008 at 5:56 PM
That is “insane in the membrain” L’dOL and my team just came in to my office wondering why I spit my coke on my screen.
Was that Bobby Rush or Bobby Brown??? Say no to crack!!!!
Brian on December 30, 2008 at 5:59 PM
hmm. kinda two different issues, no?
eh on December 30, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Governor Blago’s contact form:
http://www.illinois.gov/gov/contactthegovernor.cfm
I told him to keep up the great work. ROFL.
ex-Democrat on December 30, 2008 at 6:01 PM
regardless, i’m curious:
does anyone remember who was the congresswoman who was totally slurring-her-speech drunk on the floor when she gave some trenchant anti-war speech?
eh on December 30, 2008 at 6:01 PM
Not really. Reverse racism and bs coming from his mouth.
HornetSting on December 30, 2008 at 6:02 PM
[phew]
i don’t really want to derail the thread, but so-called “reverse racism” is one of those stupid things conservatives make themselves look like clowns by invoking.
there’s no such thing as “reverse racism”. there’s just racism: whites can be racist against blacks, blacks can be racist againt whites, asians can be racisist against…everyone.
the affixing of “reverse” to the word racism only signifies a recognition that it’s different for blacks to be racist against whites. to be precise, it’s neither as pernicious nor as morally unjustified as white racism against blacks.
eh on December 30, 2008 at 6:13 PM
I saw that press conference live and Bobby Rush delivered what was the single most jaw-droppingly racist performance I’ve seen in years. His sole argument seemed to be that Burris’s appointment should be honored because Burris is black. There was absolutely no further nuance to his position.
Blacklake on December 30, 2008 at 6:14 PM
that’s why most people didn’t give a sh*t about jeremiah wright.
eh on December 30, 2008 at 6:15 PM
First Rowdy Roddy, then Mudbone, now Osama Obama.
If I was that “clean, articulate” Mr Burris, I’d back the heck out of this mess.
They’re all talkin’ as if they’re from the Land of Drinkin’….
MrScribbler on December 30, 2008 at 6:15 PM
right. it’s a joke and it’s shameless.
eh on December 30, 2008 at 6:16 PM
in any case, let’s not be like the “tony snow deserves cancer” progressive nutroots, okay? (i just know i’m p*ssing in the wind here.)
eh on December 30, 2008 at 6:18 PM
My prediction of Obama supporting this was so far off, but I did request more popcorn…I may be wrong, but I love popcorn.
right2bright on December 30, 2008 at 6:19 PM
You smell that? Do you smell that? Illinois politics, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of Illinois politics in the morning. You know, one time we had a Governor indicted, for three years we waited. When it was all over I walked up. We didn’t find one of ‘em, not one stinkin’ Democrat body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole State. Smelled like… corruption. Someday this Presidency’s gonna end…
grdred944 on December 30, 2008 at 6:20 PM
Blago is so shameless I almost admire him.
Little Boomer on December 30, 2008 at 6:22 PM
MORE POPCORN!
SouthernGent on December 30, 2008 at 6:22 PM
That’s all very true, but the fact is that whites, asians, … don’t really care about what others think of them. It is only those groups that are so insecure that go spastic when anyone says anything even slightly unflattering about them. In intelligence discussions, whites never seem to care that asians score above them, while some groups go absolutely ballistic if they don’t score at the top.
And I would just say that the “reverse” is put in to pay heed to delusional white guilt, which still drives most of our bad policies.
progressoverpeace on December 30, 2008 at 6:24 PM
Plese note that Reid said that he would not allow Burris to sit in the Democratic Caucus…not the Senate…that is something he can do…
RedSoxNation on December 30, 2008 at 6:24 PM
Put down the pipe, junior. Fine….racism is racism…just making a point.
As far as “the tony snow deserves cancer” spiel, don’t shame Tony’s name by invoking it along with this racist nutjob Rush. I didn’t say Rush deserved cancer….
HornetSting on December 30, 2008 at 6:26 PM
So Obama has an opinion on this but nothing on all those poor innocent Palestinian children being killed! The Brits will love that!
ctmom on December 30, 2008 at 6:27 PM
Ya lost me there, Sparky. Are you referring to the use of the word “reverse” as a descriptor, or racist acts themselves? As written, it sounds like you feel white on black racism is worse than black on white. I assume you are opposed to affirmative action??
a capella on December 30, 2008 at 6:30 PM
two names:
forrest claypool
tony peraica
eh on December 30, 2008 at 6:30 PM
Nancy Pelosi?
baldilocks on December 30, 2008 at 6:31 PM
I think Dave Barry would agree that “An Iota of Taint” would be a good name for a rock band.
mikeyboss on December 30, 2008 at 6:34 PM
LOL! Good one.
terryannonline on December 30, 2008 at 6:35 PM
Well one thing is for certain…Blago will get 99.9% of the black vote when he runs for re-election.
angryed on December 30, 2008 at 6:35 PM
I think this was a ’smart’ move by Blago. Keep muddying those waters. He may be able to cut a deal with the party bosses.
Notice Reid never seems to consider a special election. Very eager to get that Lt. Governor in… which makes me even more convinced the GOP should be pushing hard for a special election. Anyone Reid trusts to pick the next Senator is not someone I’d be eager to trust to do it.
Y-not on December 30, 2008 at 6:36 PM
….uh RRRRAAACCCIIISSSTTTT!
HornetSting on December 30, 2008 at 6:36 PM
Good for Obama. Wow, I’m impressed by him here. (ducking)
bridgetown on December 30, 2008 at 6:37 PM
HornetSting on December 30, 2008 at 6:36 PM
Hey, kiddo, run out of popcorn yet? This is gettin’ good.
Where are the Justice Brothers (Jesse and Al) to fight for Burris? Evidently, Barry’s not down with the stuggle.
kingsjester on December 30, 2008 at 6:40 PM
Don’ be ha’in’.
TheSitRep on December 30, 2008 at 6:40 PM
This will pit Obama against the Congressional Blank Caucus.
Dope and Change!
Firebird on December 30, 2008 at 6:42 PM
I am stuffed with popcorn, Jester, thanks to Jersey guy. Need more Jager, though.
This is more twisted than a barrel of snakes….Jesse and Al need to make a cameo to make this zoo complete.
BTW, pass the salt.
HornetSting on December 30, 2008 at 6:43 PM
He was just restating what the use of the “reverse” modifier really meant, not endorsing it. I agree that it was a little confusing on the first read.
progressoverpeace on December 30, 2008 at 6:45 PM
taint. taint? what’s all this talk about taint.
i thought the taint was that space between the….oh never mind.
DrW on December 30, 2008 at 6:47 PM
The IL legislature v. Blago.
Crooks with things to hide going after a crook with nothing to lose?
I’m giving odds that Blago walks.
yo on December 30, 2008 at 6:49 PM
Eh is just trying to yank my chain….”reverse racism” is a problem. ALL racism is a problem, but when you hide behind your color and pull the race card and try to guilt everyone into installing a man or woman based on color, I have to call bullsh*t. I am sick of the race card.
This is 2008, we, not me, but the Americans that want free everything voted in a man of color, 1/2 black, uh 1/2 white, and it’s time to burn the deck.
We are all equal. STFU already.
Rant off.
I am just tired of hearing about how guilty I must be for things I had nothing to do with….just sick and tired and don’t need Mr. Mealy Mouth Rush giving me a bunch of bunk aobut it.
Okay, now, rant off.
HornetSting on December 30, 2008 at 6:51 PM
Obama said “taint”, too.
SECOND LOOK AT TAINT!
mikeyboss on December 30, 2008 at 6:56 PM
That “taint” enough, Mikey!
LMAO!
HornetSting on December 30, 2008 at 6:57 PM
Why are these idiots (specifically PEBO and Durbin) making all this “we won’t stand for it” noise? It seems pretty obvious that, sleazy as the whole thing is, it’s legally sound.
But, didn’t I read somewhere that the appointment must pass the Illinois state senate? I can’t find it, but I thought there was something in one of the comments.
Anyone know the answer to this?
califcon on December 30, 2008 at 6:57 PM
to be quick about it, the problem is peculiar to indentity politics, not any real racial differences. it’s best taken as a left versus righ thing, and not a black versus white thing. in favt, you’re more likely to get it from a white liberal than a black liberal.
the bad reflex conservatives have is that when a white liberal tries to defeat a substantive policy dialogue by calling them a racist, conservatives say, “no wait, i can prove that blacks are (low-achieving, prone to criminality, etc.). it’s like the bugs bunny cartoon where bugs get’s daffy to say “duck season”. and since the original claim of racism was just an indirection to begin with, such a response gives them a wider rhetorical space to portray you in whatever way they like.
now, there’s a catch 22: this is a leftwing kink and not a racial kink, but most black poeple tend to the left. but to make conservatism an attractive option for black people, conservatives have to stop walking into these lefty traps wherein a lefty calls a righty “racist” and he responds, “no i’m not, but so what if i was?”
yes. white on black racism is worse than the reverse just as a 10 on 1 dodgeball game with ten throwers and one dodger is worse than the reverse.
i had no problem with affirmative actionwhen it was being hotly debated. being in the era of the first black head of state in the entire west might prompt a readjustment there though.
eh on December 30, 2008 at 6:58 PM
HornetSting on December 30, 2008 at 6:36 PM
Y’know, you’re gonna be okay when you come out of your shell! *snort*
I don’t think the POTUS-Elect is in the clear yet. Nothing may happen, but I know he’s paying attention by his comments to Reid. It’s getting crowded under that bus.
And say “The R*** C***” or that interesting individual may show up to blame everything on us.
kingsjester on December 30, 2008 at 6:59 PM
nah not her.
eh on December 30, 2008 at 7:00 PM
I meant don’t say.
oops.
kingsjester on December 30, 2008 at 7:00 PM
Actually, Blago might be able to keep the guy quiet by claiming attorney-client privilege. The privilege belongs to th client, who has the choice to invoke it or waive it. Unless there’s an ongoing crime, the GC probably has to stay mum.
Wethal on December 30, 2008 at 7:00 PM
In the press conference, Blago actually said, “I’ve enjoyed the limelight I’ve had over the past couple of weeks.”
I am beginning to embrace the argument that he might be insane.
I love his implied logic — they can’t criticize me if I appoint a black guy! Subtle.
johnboy on December 30, 2008 at 7:02 PM
Hope,Change,and Defiance!
Blago,has done gone Liberal ROGUE!!!
Oh,this is getting political juicy,
a Liberal Democrat that won’t tote
the Liberal Party Line,and still re
fuse’s to leave!!
When will Nancy(It just might take a woman to clean the House)Pelosi,
issue the hit on Blagojevich,and sweep him out?Ha ha.
canopfor on December 30, 2008 at 7:02 PM
i hear you, and i’m not trying to accuse you of anything. i’m just saying, the first thing you do when stepping into the political battlefield to ensure ultimate victory is to not step on a landmine.
eh on December 30, 2008 at 7:04 PM
So Dear Leader doesn’t want Buriss to succeed him? Doesn’t that make him a a racist?
rbj on December 30, 2008 at 7:07 PM
I don’t believe it is a landmine, eh.
They think because we are conservatives, we are racists. Well, after amnesty and all that, I wear it as a badge. I’m tired of hearing a bunch of bellyaching about race. People need to STFU and get over themselves. And that blowhole, Bobby Rush, a black panther…well the black panthers are equal to the KKK.
HornetSting on December 30, 2008 at 7:08 PM
So let me see. The lunatic plays a game of race baiting. He states we should have lots more black senators. As long as we are not going to be colorblind he needs to realize that blacks do not make up a majority of any state or commonwealth. Based on liberal racial thinking they should not have ANY blacks seated as senators.
Can we not just pick the best person for the job?
http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-5.pdf
Jamson64 on December 30, 2008 at 7:12 PM
Perhaps as far as initially taking the seat, however, the Constitution is quite clear about expulsion:
There are no words in that section that limit that power to any specific circumstances. Not every action has to be considered as setting a precedent. This is a very unique circumstance. The Senate could seat him and then immediately expel him. I don’t see where SCOTUS could block it.
KSgop on December 30, 2008 at 7:14 PM
grdred944 on December 30, 2008 at 6:20 PM
You sir, are a genius..Well Done.
Living in FAR west suberban Chitown, I’m lovin this.
Family I havent talked to in months are calling asking just what in the hell are we doing over here….
All I can say is keep watching, it aint over yet..
CBarker on December 30, 2008 at 7:14 PM
IMHO, Blago’s not going pay a bit of attention to Obama. I seriously doubt Blago is taken in by hope-and-change hype. He probably has taken O’s measure quite well.
O should have stayed quiet as he’s only going to come across as ineffective and without influence. However, I bet Reid or someone burned up the phone to Hawaii talking with O.
INC on December 30, 2008 at 7:17 PM
What a circus the “smart” ones have going here.
It is going to get even funnier if that a$$hat SNL reject Smalley gets in.
Combine that with the super smart uh…you know….well…you know…uhhhh…did you know my last name is Kennedy trust fund fairy princess and their failed community organizer Mr. 57 states with his VP that can’t count to four.
Is this “The Gong Show 2009″ or what.
These idiots couldn’t make the cut on the next American Idol and make the likes of Britney Spears and Madonna look like Rhodes Scholar’s.
Watching Democrats play the race card is as old as the day is long.Watching them play it against each other is PRICELESS!!!
Here is another example of the democratic elite basing someone’s credentials and expertise on the color of their skin:
With Extreme Prejudice
By JAMES TARANTO
March 21, 2008
http://www.veracifier.com/post/6398/john-kerry-obamas-cred-is-due-to-his-race
But democrats are “colorblind” right.
I love this”place of oppression and repression”:
Where is this “place of oppression and repression” in which Obama has suffered “through the years”? Hawaii? Harvard? The Senate? We should find out immediately and do something about this horrific crisis.
I mean really…how could you possibly sit through a dinner conversation with this type of pathetic drivel coming out of this super smart liberals mouth.
Jerry Springer could not put on a more hilarious show than the democrats are putting on right now.
Baxter Greene on December 30, 2008 at 7:19 PM
If things don’t work out for this guy Burris, how about Cynthia McKinney…fresh from her Hamas rescue mission?
I do believe this has the potential to become much more entertaining…being from New Orleans, nice to see we have competition for corruption.
lukespapa on December 30, 2008 at 7:21 PM
i know you don’t, but it really is. i think a lot of people on the right wish that black/white relations were like italian/irish or italian/puertorican relations where the occasional spic/wop/mic joke gets taken in stride, but it’s not like that.
i don’t think they are. the paradox is that they both killed mostly black people. believe it or not, that is a direct effect of 300 years of slavery followed by segregation.
eh on December 30, 2008 at 7:22 PM
Hey, give it to Burris. After all, that’s a chocolate Senate seat.
Sergeant Tim on December 30, 2008 at 7:23 PM
like i said: lefty mentality. i used to live with a protest-puppet maker. we both came from middleclass suburbs (though he had a maid and went to a private school growing up), and he kept trying to convince me that we stopped being middleclass and became “poor” on the sole basis of income. that always stuck with me – not just because he proceeded from there to tell me that i don’t understand poor people as well as he anyway, but because i’ve known a lot of such types: “poor” and “homeless” people with college degrees and infinite family resources who nonetheless subsist off of social security benefits.
eh on December 30, 2008 at 7:33 PM
I thought Americans would reject Obama out of revulsion at his frequent use of the race card, but I was wrong.
So now I’ll be pessimistic and say that Americans love being called racists by “wonderful” fellows like Bobby Rush.
shrug
funky chicken on December 30, 2008 at 7:36 PM
HornetSting on December 30, 2008 at 7:39 PM
These nuggets promise to make this process a lot more entertaining for the Reid/Pelosi crowd.
Throw in Rangel, Dodd with “freezer Jefferson’s” trial coming up and draining that swamp is starting to look even more of a farce than Al-gore’s fear mongering global warming
fundamentalism.
Blagojevich names Burris for Obama seat
By Hal Weitzman in Chicago and Andrew Ward in Washington
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d3b7b68a-d69b-11dd-9bf7-000077b07658.html
“unclear” is code word for lawyers being able to make a total cluster fu$k of this whole situation.
“Yes we can”,”Yes we can”!!!
I am also starting to hear some of the pundits mention that no matter what the Senate does,the Supreme Court will probably rule in favor of Blago boy.
For a party that basis all of it’s decision making on polls and the political winds,this is going to be ugly watching those approval ratings go “back” to single digits for the “smart ones”.
With economic and international crisis reaching critical mass,this circus of morons is the leadership we have place.
Thanks for the “Hope” and you can keep the “change”.
Baxter Greene on December 30, 2008 at 7:40 PM
I’m with ya. I’m raising the BS flag myself. It’s wrong to deny someone a job because of his or her race…and it’s just as wrong to GIVE someone a job just because of his or her race.
uncivilized on December 30, 2008 at 7:43 PM
It’s nice that it took, “Barak the magic Negro” out of the news cycle, if anything.
Isn’t it?
I think so.
bridgetown on December 30, 2008 at 7:45 PM
Oh. My. Frickin. God. That was beautiful. That was one of the most beautiful displays of political bullshit/theatrics I have ever seen. In it’s own twisted way it was stunningly impressive to behold. Cancer ridden Bobby Rush, former Black Panther, now entrenched Dem Congressman has the GALL to inch his way up to the microphone and claim that opposing Roland Burris is racism. Oh Chicago race politics will you never cease to entertain, bemuse and horrify? I think not. Harold Washington had a point. Folks who get killed or beaten down by the police have a point. But Roland Burris with Bobby Rush pleading for him. The audacity of pandering!
And yes I’m a progressive/liberal/whatever. But this is absolutely ridiculous and I think conservatives have it 100% right on this crap.
DeathToMediaHacks on December 30, 2008 at 7:47 PM
I’m interested in the answer to this, too. From all I understand about Hawaii, just about everyone who is actually FROM there is of mixed ancestry; it’s just a part of who they are, and they’re quite proud of it. I just don’t see the oppression…
uncivilized on December 30, 2008 at 7:48 PM
Is this some kind of “martyrdom” syndrome or have they had it so easy that this is the only way they can feel like they are accomplishing something in life or “keeping it real”.
In my business I often take care of expensive cars and my accounts will sometimes ask me to go to their homes to take care of the PDR.
You would ride into the upscale neighborhoods and stop at a store where all the rich white kids are hanging (or according to them “gang banging”) in front of the stores with their pants down to their knees and talking like they are “Puff daddy”.These kids don’t know a da#n thing about Compton or ghetto life and the irony is that most of the people living in the ghetto would love to have the privialge
life they are rejecting.
Just running to stand still.
Baxter Greene on December 30, 2008 at 7:52 PM
It’s a hardknock life.
HornetSting on December 30, 2008 at 7:56 PM
okay.
a toothbrush and a toilet brush are both plastic brushes.
but you’re free to live in a world in which distinctions don’t matter if you want to. just don’t whine when people tell you your breath stinks like sh*t. it was your choice.
eh on December 30, 2008 at 7:57 PM
There is a lot of economic oppression in Hawaii, because the cost of living on the islands keeps going up and up. It also has a history of oppressed native labor on sugar plantations. But you’re right, culturally there’s a natural multi-culturalism in Hawaii that makes it really different than the mainland. It’s not surprising that the first black President emerged from a social setting where overt racism wasn’t really the norm.
DeathToMediaHacks on December 30, 2008 at 7:57 PM
“keepin it real” with a little but of “how can we dance while the beds are burning” mixed in.
the case you describe is at least widely mocked:
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Icy_Hot_Stuntaz
eh on December 30, 2008 at 8:02 PM
Anything else, Junior?
I’ll give you a choice. Are you a douchebag or a liberal? “It was your choice”. ;0
HornetSting on December 30, 2008 at 8:03 PM
Is it just me or does Rep. Bobby Rush sound just like Grady from Sanford and Son?
equanimous on December 30, 2008 at 8:05 PM
i guess i don’t care.
he had part of his jaw removed due to cancer.
eh on December 30, 2008 at 8:11 PM
you make it sound as though he was raised in Hawaii…???
both…
btw, was that garlic or iodized….lol
jerrytbg on December 30, 2008 at 8:26 PM
That sums it up perfectly.
I don’t want to demean or ridicule adolescent cultural cycles like my parents and many others did with my long hair and Led Zeppelin T-shirts in pursuit of our Magical Mystery tour.
But I don’t remember our generations fads or lifestyles being so destructive across the board as this is(I know,drug use is a big problem)concerning the celebration of the abuse of women,pursuit of money and material things being NO.1,and violence considered so cool and necessary.
I mean we enjoyed partying and sex as much as this generation,but violence against women would get your a$$ kicked in a big hurry and we did everything we could to prevent pregnancy.
Having a bunch of kids spread around that you are not supporting and showing everybody naked pictures of your girlfriend/Wife on your phone while you brag about all the”bitc#s” your nailing and keeping in line seems to be a wright of passage for the average youth now.
Driving around in a $50,000 Benz while you still live at home with your parents is talked about with glee while they are getting by “for nothing”.
“just point me to the club!!”
It is not everybody and I may be a little to critical,but when I went to college at night while I worked during the day,the students from India,China,and Pakistan to name a few
were light years ahead of us(major Computer information systems/Business).
We are not going to be the “leaders” in any category if we have to compete with the focus and hunger of other nations with the average spoiled,entitled American.
Baxter Greene on December 30, 2008 at 8:27 PM
Fear not…their plastic world is about to come crashing down all around them…
jerrytbg on December 30, 2008 at 8:32 PM
…OK…here’s the scene:
You’re being presented to the press, which is to say God and everybody, by a governor so corrupt that it’s only the fact of Thomas Nast’s death that prevents his being immortalized in print standing next to Boss Tweed…as this governor’s candidate for a Senate seat that the Feds have hard evidence (evidently) that this same governor was trying to sell….
…what kinda cohones do you have to have to think you can pull this one off?
Even the Dems are treating Blago as sort of a post-Obama Julius-Streicher-at-the-bar-mitzvah pariah. Burris, if’n I remember correctly, was in on the ground-floor of Obama, Inc., and — in his one admirable move lately — Mr. O’s at the head of the pack to throw him under the taxpayer-subsidized mass-transit conveyance….
…all we need here are rumors of a Ring of Power unaccounted for, and the story would be epic…as it is, it’s just Democrats being Democrats….
Puritan1648 on December 30, 2008 at 8:35 PM
*CHECKS SYMPATHY TANK*
*NEEDLE ON EMPTY*
…so, he’s a racist who’s difficult to understand when spouting hs hateful and racially divisive bilge?
…it’s unfortunate that he’s still intelligible…his sort of shite is the last thing we need….
Puritan1648 on December 30, 2008 at 8:38 PM
Were you on Mars for the recent Presidential election? Cut away all the BS and that is why most of OBama’s supporters voted for him.
For all my adult life I strove to ignore candidates’ ethnicity, gender, religion, color, whatever, even long before I heard about how right that was from people who said they were moral leaders.
But then it turns out that all the things that I knew on first principles were wrong for me to do, were just great for those moral leaders to do just as soon as they got the chance to.
Guess how much moral authority they have with me now?
drunyan8315 on December 30, 2008 at 8:41 PM
Has anyone else seen the humongous monument Burris has built for himself at Oak Woods Cemetery for “future use?” The Crypt over at Politico has a great picture, you can even read some of the inscriptions he’s had placed on it. Starting with a great big “Trail Blazer.”
Seriously, who does this kind of thing?
califcon on December 30, 2008 at 8:43 PM
no i know. stoner/metal culture respects social foundations.
eh on December 30, 2008 at 8:47 PM
What is this supposed to mean?
If someone smoked a little dope as a teenager they can’t have morals or guidelines.
What are you,some holy white nun?
Baxter Greene on December 30, 2008 at 8:57 PM
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