Race card being played in the U.S

[Alan]

As expected with Obama's election win the Dems would put playing the race card into top gear. Except they're using it on each other

Taking to the podium at the end of a bizarre, shambolic press conference in which Governor Rod Blagojevich sought to appoint Roland Burris to the US Senate, Congressman Bobby Rush dared white Democratic senators to block a black man from joining their ranks.

He urged people "to not 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".

Rush is a former Black Panther who trounced Barack Obama in the 2000 Democratic primary when the then state senator challenged him for his House of Representatives seat.

The grinning Burris was told by Blagojevich - who policed the press conference - that "you're the senator". He appeared clueless about the money he'd donated to the governor, which will only add to the taint of the appointment.

As he left the room, Blagojevich echoed Rush, saying: "Feel free to castigate the appointer but don't lynch the appointee."

Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, has already said that Burris "cannot be an effective representatives of the people of Illinois" and "will not be seated by the Democratic caucus". But the blatant injection of race into the equation will make life very uncomfortable indeed for Obama and his party.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_h...chosen_by_rod_blagojevich?com_num=20&com_pg=1

and this is only the beginning. Poor U.S

No surprise it's Obama's seat that Blagojevich tried to sell and his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel talked to Blagojevich about who should fill it. He also has ties with Obama's corrupt jail bird pal Tony Rezko.


Intersting comment on Chicago politics from the same site

Chicago .... Who Runs it?

Senators: Barack Obama & Dick Durbin
Congressman: Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Illinois Governor: Rod Blogojevich (arrested this week)
Illinois House leader: Mike Madigan
Illinois Attorney General: Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike)
Chicago Mayor: Richard M. Daley (son of Mayor Richard J. Daley)
The leadership in Illinois ? .....all Democrats.

Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago .
Body count in the last six months: 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago
221 killed in Iraq

State pension fund - $44 Billion in debt, worst in the country.

Cook County ( Chicago ) sales tax - 10.25% highest in country. (Look it up).

Chicago school system - rated one of the worst in thecountry.

Of course, they're all blaming each other. They can't blame Republicans
because there aren't any.

This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois!

And he's going to '"fix" Washington politics for us?


Good luck and may God help us all!!

Sounds like S.A

 

[koffiejunkie]

Over-sensitive. How is talking about lynching/hanging using the race card? As if only black people were lynched in the US back in the day...

 

[Fudzy]

Over-sensitive. How is talking about lynching/hanging using the race card? As if only black people were lynched in the US back in the day...

Don't get him started. It's pretty warm in Pmb at the moment, must be getting hot under that bridge.

 

[Alan]

Over-sensitive. How is talking about lynching/hanging using the race card? As if only black people were lynched in the US back in the day...

said that he believed no senator would want "to go on record to deny one African-American from being seated in the US Senate".

clearly not playing the race card

 

[koffiejunkie]

Right sorry, I read that way too fast.

 

[koffiejunkie]

Damn, I actually saw this on TV yesterday - disappointing.