{"id":2974,"date":"2008-12-30T22:45:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T22:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2974"},"modified":"2008-12-31T04:19:56","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T04:19:56","slug":"blagojevich-circus-heads-for-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2974","title":{"rendered":"Blagojevich Circus heads for Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the low cunning of an escaped mental patient, the heavily indicted Illinois <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/toby_harnden\/blog\/2008\/12\/30\/the_race_card_is_played_dont_hang_or_lynch_the_black_man_chosen_by_rod_blagojevich\"><strong>Governor Rod Blagojevich<\/strong> (D-IL) appears at a &#8220;bizarre&#8221; press conference<\/a> to appoint the formerly respected ex-Illinois Attorney-General <strong>Roland Burris<\/strong> to the U.S. Senate to the seat <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.necn.com\/files\/2008\/12\/09\/vlcsnap-425266.jpg\" height=\"360\" \/>vacated by <strong>President-elect Barack Obama<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He urged people &#8220;not to hang or lynch the appointee as you try to castigate the appointer&#8221; and, after saying repeaedly that Burris would be the only African-American in the Senate,\u00a0said that he believed no senator would want &#8220;to go on record to deny one African-American from being seated in the US Senate&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Roland Burris thought this was a good idea. Who is advising him these days ? He must be sticking it to somebody in the Democratic\u00a0Party here in Illinois to lend his good name to this charade.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" width=\"448\" height=\"394\"><param name=\"width\" value=\"448\" \/><param name=\"height\" value=\"394\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/syndication?id=36894974&amp;path=%2Fstation%2Fas_seen_on\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"448\" height=\"394\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/syndication?id=36894974&amp;path=%2Fstation%2Fas_seen_on\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDENDUM:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also commenting on Governor Effing-Golden&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/theglitteringeye.com\/?p=5449\">Glittering Eye<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tdaxp.com\/archive\/2008\/12\/30\/not-exactly-the-new-generation.html\"><strong>TDAXP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the low cunning of an escaped mental patient, the heavily indicted Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D-IL) appears at a &#8220;bizarre&#8221; press conference to appoint the formerly respected ex-Illinois Attorney-General Roland Burris to the U.S. Senate to the seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama. Taking to the podium at the end of a bizarre, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569,181,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blagojevich","category-chicago","category-democratic-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}