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After months of wasting a valuable seat on the senate floor, Roland Burris finally realized that when we said ”Don’t take it,” we meant it. He’s useless as Illinois’ senator. His hasty, shady appointment by Rod Blagojevich pretty much guaranteed that.
Scraping together the little pride he has left, last week the 71 year old Burris announced he would not be campaigning to keep his senate seat. Still displaying that cute little clueless thing he does so well, he proclaimed that he was not bowing out because of the controversy surrounding his appointment, but because he couldn’t afford to stay in the race. We think he spent a couple of months in the senate and realized he didn’t know what the hell anyone was talking about. He then decided that bowing out gracelesslyfully was better than being thrown out on his ass.
Burris’ bow-out comes on the heels of Blagojevich’s top aide making a deal with the feds that could reveal a lot more about the depth of Blagojevich’s corruption. Is it possible Burris knows the scope of what’s about to be uncovered and wants out before it gets too deep? Probably.
It’s a shame that Burris will go down in history as Illinois’ first African American senator. At best his tenure will be laughable. But his worst fear, that he won’t be remembered at all, is probably much more likely.
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