“According a story in the Tribune by Rick Pearson and Mike Dorning, Obama didn’t want the Chicago Way on parade in Washington, less than two weeks before his inauguration, when he formally becomes the agent of the change we can believe in.”
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I spent 37 years in Chicago/burbs and Roland Burris is one of the few politicians from Chicago area who has not been caught in corruption.
Ann Coulter could have edited this article. It had a touch of her humor in it.
That’s great~! I really enjoyed reading that and laughing at ole reid and barry. If this wasn’t so dangerous for America it would be funnier.
Too bad the overwhleming majority of Obama voters will be apologists for him, no matter what he does or how he does it.
This is going to happen again and again. The Dems’ horror at corruption was always more lip service than anything else, and appeared only when one of them actually got caught with his hand in the cookie jar, but now you’ll see them simply shrugging and taking another cookie. The Dems created the race card, have used it effectively as a virtually invincible weapon (primarily because it is up to them to define who is black - Justice Thomas, for example, is not black, but the half-white foreign-rooted Obama is), and now it’s slipped out of the control of the party honchos.
Actually, this happened before Bambi got elected. Think of Jefferson and Rangel, both of whom relied on it to simply scoff at attempts to discipline them. But it’s going to be worse by about a magnitude now. The entire federal government and all its branches are going to end up looking like the city of DC or maybe Detroit or some other dysfunctional, corrupt, black-Dem controlled pit. But the Reids of this world brought it on themselves, because the Dems have all benefitted from it.
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Burris faces toughest step up political ladder - Candidate points to experience in bid for governor
Chicago Tribune - Sunday, February 17, 2002
Author: Dan Mihalopoulos, Tribune staff reporter.
EXCERPT
“I handle the state’s money like my own,” the candidate said. “I’ve made relatively little money, but I live as comfortably as anyone. Money has never been important to me, not at all.”
It’s not clear how much Burris has made, since he refuses to release tax returns. After leaving the attorney general’s post, he became the managing partner of the Chicago law firm of Jones, Ware and Grenard, and pocketed a settlement, the size of which he refuses to disclose, when the firm dissolved in 1998.
Before Burris became attorney general, the firm he would later join had never received a state contract. But it earned more than $744,000 from the state between 1991 and 1997, records show. Burris said he was justified in steering work to a qualified minority-owned firm.