Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is under federal investigation over very shrewd senate appointments. For that simple reason, Illinois Democratic Party had asked him to politely refrain from making a Senate appointment; else they would be forced to refuse the legitimacy of such a person, regardless of experience, credibility and race. BUT Blago is no idiot.Blagojevich knows he is going down in flames, and the smart thing to do will be to find a parachute anywhere he can, even if he can manage one favorable voice in Illinois politics. What many people fail to acknowledge is the fact that Blago didn’t just stumble onto the job as mayor, so he knows how to 'work' the system.
He didn’t just appoint ‘any’ worthy politician. Gov. Rod Blagojevich appointed straight-up highly respected Roland Burris to fill Barack Obama’s vacated seat. None of the above credentials beat the fact that Roland Burris is ‘African-American’. The smartest thing for any shiesty politician to resort to when the rest of the country is on his heels for a corruption scandal, is to change the topic of the conversation. Now that is pure genius.
Congressman Bobby Rush jumped on the podium last week to chip in his two cents (literally). In his own words, the focus of the conversation should not be on the ‘appointor’, but rather the ‘appointee’. He further expressed the fact that outside Carolyn Mosley Braun and Barack Obama, the senate has not seen any black candidate and stopping the appointment of Roland Burris would ignite the issue of racism in the highest places.
This line of reasoning is almost too amusing for words. I like Roland Burris (just like many Democratic leaders). It is the antics of Gov. Rod Blagojevich that is appalling.
This is circus show in the making. A meeting with top dogs Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Majority Whip Dick Durbin would begin the process of making sense of this marginally explosive conversation. Trust me, African Americans are very aware of the color makeup in the Senate, but Barack Obama just because the first African American president. Isn’t that a big sign that the racial card is not what it used to be?
I have no idea of how many Hispanics are in line to fill top positions in either political parties , let alone become President of America, but I don’t see them fuming. I contend that the Bobby Rush injection of racism is extremely premature and unreasonable, but this is exactly what Rod Blagojevich was counting on.
If this was a chess game, this is where Blago yells 'checkmate' and the rest of the Senate members look completely baffled. Now you tell me if that has the markings of an idiot.
