Lincoln may be turning over in his grave.
In the Land of Lincoln, there must have been a conversation today that ended, “Let’s get distance from the guy that appointed me to the U.S. Senate yesterday.”
Former Illinois Attorney Gen. Roland Burris was appointed to fill President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant U.S. Senate seat yesterday.
Today Burris said the appointment was “legal” and that he “has done nothing wrong” and that the behavior of the man that appointed him “is reprehensible.”
When you say things that are bizarre and have never been said by sane men before: watch out.
A cast of players in this sad comedy doesn’t know that….
A former Dean of the Harvard School of Law told us: ” innocent until proven guilty rarely applies to stupidity, a crime without a statute of limitations”….
Roland Burris said Gov. Rod Blagojevich is innocent until proven guilty
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December 31, 2008 at 9:56 pm |
Some bloggers are acting as if they are expert analysts of political discourse. Some idiots are reading into it this way too deeply. Burris said that Blago’s actions are reprehensible (in the sense of ‘if found guilty’). He didn’t mean that he “did” anything wrong. It was uttered in the context of whether or not he is actually convicted of any nefarious activities, in a COURT OF LAW. This was not an implication on his part to any wrongdoing, as if he were thumbing his nose at everyone to suggest nana nana boe-boe, you can’t do anything to me, ha ha, nana nana boe-boe. You are all idiots.