Don’t ‘Hang Or Lynch’ Him: Lawmaker Makes Plea To Keep Blago’s African-American Senate Pick

"This is a matter of national importance. There are no African Americans in the Senate, and I don't think that anyone, any U.S. senator who's sitting in the Senate right now, wanna go on record to DENY one African American from being seated in the U.S. Senate. I don't think they want to go on record doing that."

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December 30, 2008 at 5:02 pm - CNN/WGN-TV
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Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   December 30th, 2008 - 4:19 pm

Socialist/communistic “new” Democratic definition for “change” = same ol…same ol!
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Sounds to me that this appointee might be an “honest” man based on the description of this Congressman.

So that would mean the crooked “Chicago” political machine will fight…fight…fight…to not get him approved…because they don’t approve of someone not “one of them”!

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JUST ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE “UNFORTUNATE” CHAPTERS THAT WE WILL CONTINUALLY HAVE UNDER THE “REIGN OF BARRY HUSSEIN”!

DaleW   December 30th, 2008 - 4:22 pm

Burris stands `head and shoulders above most elected officials in the US’? On what is that based? `This is a matter of national importance’? On what is that based? It isn’t important nationally unless you are cowed by a racial pimp like Bobby Rush. Burris may be a fine man, but the governor’s behaviour has now tainted him by association. Unfair perhaps, but real nonetheless.

Gabriel   December 30th, 2008 - 4:46 pm

And you think only white people are racist,..hhmmmm. This is why we will never fully get along.

John   December 30th, 2008 - 4:47 pm

I voted for Obama because he’s black, but this is ridiculous.

eric frederic   December 30th, 2008 - 4:50 pm

Chicago is just a cesspool and a political toilet. They are a joke and a blight on America and will be the downfall of President Elect Obama. Lie down with dogs and you get fleas.

Neal E   December 30th, 2008 - 4:55 pm

Go back to your Ripple, Congressman.

Everett   December 30th, 2008 - 4:58 pm

Representative Rush seems chemically, if not intellectually, impaired.

sfcmac   December 30th, 2008 - 5:00 pm

This ‘Congressman’ is a blathering idiot. So much for recommendations based on qualifications, rather than ethnicity.

Intellectually impaired is an understatement. He’s brain damaged.

JohnII   December 30th, 2008 - 5:07 pm

OH YEA John. Well I voted for Obama because I’M black. That makes me better than you…or at least on better moral high ground.

Charles   December 30th, 2008 - 5:09 pm

This guy brings new meaning to the term moron. Vegas has him as a close edge to Blago in the race to replace his picture in the dictionary. Whoops, did I say race??? …….well, let’s not go lynchin just cause I brought it up…

Anonymous   December 30th, 2008 - 5:17 pm

……Meanwhile, the Barack Obama birth certificate scandal goes on……
http://theobamafile.com/ObamaLatest.htm

HD4LYF   December 30th, 2008 - 5:36 pm

I WISH I HAD A STOP-WATCH RUNNING TO SEE HOW LONG IT TOOK THE TO START PRYING ON THE WHITE-GUILT BAR!!! JESUS! I’M SICK OF IT! I HAVE NO MORE LEFT NONE!

HD4LYF   December 30th, 2008 - 5:51 pm

Oh, but its not racist to say the guy is qualified purely on skin color huh? Dr. 1st, I will never believe you are any kind of doctor with that dead end reasoning of yours. 2nd, way to stereotype everyone on here. Now who is truely the racist?

Dave, Tn   December 30th, 2008 - 6:00 pm

You’re right Dr. Mary

I think about the high tech lynching of Justice Thomas at the hands of slime like 5 deferment Blowhard Biden.

Toldman   December 30th, 2008 - 6:11 pm

Dr. (cough…really!)…your premise is flawed. You profess to KNOW what the ‘typical’ breitbart user automatically thinks. This would be ludicrous were it not so serious. It is impossible for anyone to make such a ridiculous claim. What is more sinister and criminal is your pathetic attempt to tie subconscious race baiting into the equation. This agenda is fueled by your own racism and hatred. Shame on you.

Don't shoot the Messenger   December 30th, 2008 - 6:14 pm

Let’s see now. jews got the hollyco$t, blacks got the lynchings and Whites got the bills.

Seems fair to me. Let’s start sharing the wealth !

Anyone think a oreo president is going to solve this problem ?

Frank, PA   December 30th, 2008 - 6:15 pm

Had a few cocktails at lunch, did we?

If this guy wasn’t black the situation would be hilarious. As it is, Blago has outfoxed everyone. The Senate is already a national joke, this just makes it even funnier. Now let’s watch the Democratic caucus cower in fear.

mtumba jones   December 30th, 2008 - 6:46 pm

I wonder WTF “Dr Jordan” is trying to communicate. Anyway, isn’t Blago brill causing the left to totally implode while facing the conundrum of how to appear to care about political legitimacy while facing the necessity of blocking ANY Blago appointee because whoever it is will be tainted. Brilliant move, really. He’s just trying to get even.

queryous   December 30th, 2008 - 6:50 pm

Why does no one mention that eighty per cent of the state of Illinois is not black? We had Obama and we had Carol Moseley Braun as senators. Can’t we have a nice Hispanic senator for a change and just mix it up a bit?
I love the idea that we have a nearly black president from my home state.
It bothers me that the last consideration was also a person of color and neither were women. I took my daughter to get the first black senator’s signature from Illinois and we all know how that well that turned out.
No, don’t lynch me or tar and feather me for saying this or call me names. Don’t take away my right to vote or objectify me.
My grandfather was half black but not a typical black or white like Obama ( LOL) but no one is going to give me a free ride to the senate or a scholarship on that.
Let this be voted on since the governor is a crook.
This is the truth.

To Mary Pat Jordan   December 30th, 2008 - 6:50 pm

You’re so silly. You wouldn’t know the truth if it came up and kissed you on your bovine behind.

I don’t like Donna Brazille, but in your case she is absolutely correct about needing rules to limit U.S. citizen’s free speech.

YOU are the best reason in the world to infringe on people’s right to bloviate.

pwn   December 30th, 2008 - 6:52 pm

Funny how Burris gave thousands to the Blago reelection fund. Gotta laugh though Dems are sort of damned if they do damned if they don’t. Mary Pat started drinking early tonight I see. BTW name ONE conservative black woman from a small town.

Skippy   December 30th, 2008 - 6:59 pm

It’s all about race with these idiots. Never mind if he’s qualified or not, all they care is that he’s black. Pretty clever by Governor B. though I must say.

ez2fillm   December 30th, 2008 - 7:04 pm

President elect Messiah has spoken! He should not be seated!

Ted Kennedy   December 30th, 2008 - 7:23 pm

Welcome to the Senate!

2009 will mark my 40th year of getting away with MURDER.

It’s all here – http://www.ytedk.com and here http://www.fatboy.cc

Farmer Bob   December 30th, 2008 - 7:29 pm

“YOU are the best reason in the world to infringe on people’s right to bloviate.” — To Mary Pat Jordan

Please do not infringe on the right of the over-educated to “bloviate.” By allowing them to spout off, you find out a lot quicker how dumb they are than if they keep quiet.

Toby   December 30th, 2008 - 7:39 pm

It is not ALL about race. It is also the political party affiliation. Blacks have been sold down the river, blindly voting for the Democrat party that has destroyed black family values. Heck, they don’t even get upset that 78% of black children are born out of wedlock.

Why do I say that it is not just a BLACK issue? Because Michael Steele, a BLACK republican, ran for the Maryland Senator seat in 2006. Blacks OVERWHELMINGLY voted for the WHITE Democrat candidate.

Until Blacks free themselves from the shackles of the Democrat party, they will be asked to ‘Toby’ up each election and vote for the party that is destroying them. And they blindly do so…

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Don't shoot the Messenger   December 30th, 2008 - 8:16 pm

ACT #3: The I.Q.’s of American Neg roes are from 15 to 20 points, on average, below those of American Whites. (26) (16) (18) (22)

FACT #4: These Black\White differences have been demonstrated repeatedly by every test ever conducted by every branch of the U.S. Military, every state, county, and local school board, the U.S. Dept. of Education, etc. The same ratio of difference has held true over a 40 year period. (18) (26) (24)

FACT #5: With an average I.Q. of 85, only 16% of Blac ks score over 100, while half the White population does. The Ne gro overlap of White median I.Q.’s ranges from 10 to 25 percent– equality would require 50 percent. (31) (27) (16)

FACT #6: Blacks are 6 times as likely to have I.Q.’s of 50 to 70 which put them in the slow learner (retarded) category, while Whites are ten times more likely to score 130 or over. (15) (16) (18) (23)

FACT # 7: The U.S. government’s PACE examination, given to 100,000 university graduates who are prospective professional or administrative civil-service employees each year, is passed with a score of 70 or above by 58% of the whites who take it but by only 12% of the Ne groes. Among top scorers the difference between Ne gro and White performance is even more striking: 16% of the white applicants make scores of 90 or above, while only one-fifth of one percent of a Ne gro applicants score as high as 90–a White/Black success ration of 80/1. (27)

FACT #8: Differences between Neg ro and White children increase with chronological age, the gap in performance being largest at the high school and college levels. (31) (26)

FACT #9: White/Ne gro I.Q. differences are constantly excused as results of environmental variations. but at least five studies that have attempted to equate socio-economic backgrounds of the two races indicate no significant change in relative results. As environment improves, the Ne gro does better but so does the White. The gap is not decreased. (26) In fact, extensive research by DR. G.J. McGurk, associate Professor of Psychology at Villanove University, reveals that the gap in intelligence between Bla cks and Whites INCREASES where socio-economic levels of both races are raised to the middle classes. (18)

FACT #10: In 1915, Dr. G.W. Ferfuson took 1000 school children in Virginia, divided them into 5 rac ial categories, and tested them for mental aptitude. On average. full-blooded Neg roes scored 69.2% as high as Whites. Three-quarter Neg roes scored 73.0% as high as Whites. One-half Neg roes scored 81.2% as high as Whites. One-quarter Neg roes scored 91.8% as high as Whites. All of these Blacks lived as and considered themselves “Neg roes.” Their environments and “advantages” or disadvantages were exactly the same. (14) Also see (26) pg 452.

FACT #11: Results of the Army Beta test given by the U.S. Army to over 386,000 illiterate soldiers in WWI showed Ne gro draftees to be “inferior to the Whites on all types of tests used in the Army.” Additionally, tests were conducted upon pure Neg roes, Mulattoes, and Quadroons. It was found that “the lighter groups made better scores.” (14)

Tommy Richards   December 30th, 2008 - 8:35 pm

Every time questions about a black person’s qualifications are raised and, of course, he also happens to be a democrat, one can safely bet on the race card being used as the shield against criticism and or qualifications.

The strategy rarely fails and further validates just how shallow and weak-kneed some people are and that `skin’ color is sole determining factor for one’s success.

When will someone say, “It’s the philosophy, stupid”.

Don't shoot the Messenger   December 30th, 2008 - 9:13 pm

No different than questioning a jew. It is always anti-semetic !!!

Dogbert   December 30th, 2008 - 9:35 pm

preemptive racism accusation just in case it’s needed.

wonder how much the final bid was?

“dr” mary pat is about as intelligent as this guy sounds.

DON'T START WHINING ABOUT RACE AGAIN!!!, FOR GOD'S SAKE!!   December 30th, 2008 - 9:37 pm

If Illinois is SMART, they will DUMP *anybody* that is picked by BLAGONEAVITCH!!! And please, DO NOT START THAT BU11SH1T ABOUT “RACISM,” IF AND WHEN THIS AFRO-AMERICAN GUY IS DUMPED!!!

IT HAS *NOTHING* TO DO WITH RACE, AND *EVERYTHING* TO DO WITH CORRUPTION!!!!

PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY ARE GETTING MIGHTY FED UP WITH BOTH *WHINING ABOUT RACISM* *AND* RUN-AMOK CORRUPTION!!!

Clean White Sheet   December 30th, 2008 - 10:01 pm

What? No hang’n’ or lynch’n?

Why the hell did I get dressed? I heard there was a neck-tie party. Dang.

Demarfus Jackson   December 30th, 2008 - 10:45 pm

So we got a black appointtee to the Senate and the white man gonna take this away from us too.Its just like Mike Vick starts to make white QBs look bad and the Feds come in and arrest him, next thing you know a white boy is Falcons QB.I see how it works.

That boy Rush is a fool   December 30th, 2008 - 10:48 pm

Blacks kill more whites every year in my town, than blacks were killed in 100 years by lynching. Where is the History Channel or PBS to do a story on our white national horror of black oppression of whites

B   December 30th, 2008 - 11:19 pm

It is a shame that when large groups of blacks get in one place crime increases. Not being racist just stating facts. The blacks that want to keep up their neighborhood and care about where they live are victims also.

Influx of black renters raises tension in Bay Area

Dec 30, 3:24 PM (ET)

By PAUL ELIAS

ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) – As more and more black renters began moving into this mostly white San Francisco Bay Area suburb a few years ago, neighbors started complaining about loud parties, mean pit bulls, blaring car radios, prostitution, drug dealing and muggings of schoolchildren.

In 2006, as the influx reached its peak, the police department formed a special crime-fighting unit to deal with the complaints, and authorities began cracking down on tenants in federally subsidized housing.

Across the country, similar tensions have simmered when federally subsidized renters escaped run-down housing projects and violent neighborhoods by moving to nicer communities in suburban Washington, Chicago and Los Angeles.

But the friction in Antioch is “hotter than elsewhere,” said U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development spokesman Larry Bush.

An increasing number of poor families receiving federal rental assistance have been moving here in recent years, partly because of the housing crisis.

A growing number of landlords were seeking a guaranteed source of revenue in a city hard-hit by foreclosures. They began offering their Antioch homes to low-income tenants in the HUD Section 8 housing program, which pays about two-thirds of every tenant’s rent.

Between 2000 and 2007, Antioch’s black population nearly doubled from 8,824 to 16,316. And the number of Antioch renters receiving federal subsidies climbed almost 50 percent between 2003 and 2007 to 1,582, the majority of them black.

Longtime homeowners complained that the new arrivals brought crime and other troubles. In 2006, violent crime in Antioch shot up about 19 percent from the year before, while property crime went down slightly.

“In some neighborhoods, it was complete madness,” said longtime resident David Gilbert, a black retiree who organized the United Citizens of Better Neighborhoods watch group. “They were under siege.”

So the Antioch police in mid-2006 created the Community Action Team, which focused on complaints of trouble at low-income renters’ homes.

Police sent 315 complaints about subsidized tenants to the Contra Costa Housing Authority, which manages the federal program in the city, and urged the agency to evict many of them for lease violations such as drug use or gun possession. Lawyers for the tenants said 70 percent of the eviction recommendations were aimed at black renters. The housing authority turned down most of the requests.

BHO   December 30th, 2008 - 11:24 pm

That ass-clown must be the biggest fool in the world to say “yes” to Governor Blago. Doesn’t my hommie know “I” get to sell that seat!!!

Bad News...   December 30th, 2008 - 11:56 pm

Wow, that article about the black problems in Antioch is pretty startling…

WE DESERVE BETTER   December 30th, 2008 - 11:59 pm

WHO the he11 is that jerk at the podium making that ridiculous slurred speech? HE SOUNDS LIKE RICHARD PRYOR!!???
:-(

WHO NEEDS THIS CRAP???
AMERICA AND ILLINOIS DESERVE BETTER!

john smith   December 31st, 2008 - 1:08 am

The problm Mr. Rush is not that the target is a black man . The problem is that the black man has gotten mixed up with a “white cracker” who needs to be let out to crumble…. Sorry, the Black Man spent so much money on the “White Cracker” ’s macanations.

Pepper   December 31st, 2008 - 2:12 am

Regrettably, it’s not about merit or ability…there is no honor or moral compass within politics or society–it has crumbled before our eyes. Self-serving radicals have skewed the lines. The people of Illinois must stand-up to their state government and demand an accounting, beginning with their Governor. If he does not give immediately acquit himself with a complete disclosure of his actions, he should be removed from office. There must be transparency in government for their to be trust; but above that there must be honor and leadership. I am disgusted at the 3rd world mentality pervasive in politics, and embraced by those looking for a free ride–popularized by the media with deafening regularity. The people of Illinois must elect the best possible Senator from that State, regardless of race, and send him/her to Washington–the ship is sinking my friends, and popularity and political correctness have caused the hole in the hull. All of us should do what is best for the country, above our self-interests. Everywhere I look I see nothing but division…propagated by those with a buck to make, and embraced by hordes without the sense to see the scam. Best of luck people…from where I sit, the future is dark for all of us–especially our children.

Fresh Water   December 31st, 2008 - 9:44 am

So, from this guy’s perspective (and many others like him with similar perspectives, all of the same race, I note), then, “African Americans” are, like, some ALTERNATIVE SPECIES not of the homo sapien kind?

I mean, they continue to advance this “special entitlement” for “African Americans” as if to simply park someone of the negroid DNA in a political seat somehow makes something else, without regard for much of anything else.

African-Americans, as they call themselves, need to get on the bus for a change and get off this “AA” sidestepping assumption of privilege by “difference”. They’re either human beings and Americans or they aren’t.

Which is it?

Fresh Water   December 31st, 2008 - 9:49 am

Maybe we should start requiring all members of the Senate to be painted chartreuse and wear only red plaid four piece suits and a bandit mask.

That way, no one could “play” ANY “race card” and they’d have to actually work at communicating issues that were not these pathetic cosmetic, racist, self-indulgent nonsensicals such as this guy-under-the-influence is engaging in, along with many others like him in today’s mostly-urban political sick soup.

Sean R.   December 31st, 2008 - 10:41 am

Dr. Mary Pat Putz, you happen to be the biggest moron and the biggest loser on this site, you claimed in one of your ignorant post that if John McCain picked a conservative Black woman for his VP, us conservatives won’t vote for him? That is compeletly BULLS**T and RUBBISH, if she had experience (a little more than Sarah Palin), put America first, stood for borders, language and culture, and stood for American values, then I would vote for McCain and that black conservative woman that you claimed. And guess what Dr. Mary Quack, I happen to be African-American myself, that makes me a Black-Conservative. I vote based upon that politicians ideology, not their race, skin color or ethnicity, so I think your the one who’s the real racist here Dr. Mary Pat Schmuck, and your also the real WHACK JOB KOOK here as well, and you wouldn’t know the truth if it smack you real hard in your damn face!

Liberalism is a Mental Disorder!!!!

Sigmond   December 31st, 2008 - 11:58 am

Don’t hang him or lynch him. Just stick a fork in him.

Dee   January 1st, 2009 - 10:30 pm

They always scream racist,racist go away,no more racism, this is a new America. But when they can use there skin color to there advantage,hey,no problem. Feel sorry for me cause I am black. Give me preference cause i am black. Sickening.. Whites are the big racists?

Sean R.   January 2nd, 2009 - 10:26 am

Dee, it’s white-liberals who are the racist here, you know they use minority people by hoodwinking them to vote Democrat all the time, that the white-man is the problem to them in their daily lives, they also want minority people to be a burden to we the American tax-payers, and depend on the government. Dee, I happen to be a Minority-Conservative myself, and I’m not apart of the plantation of the left wing establishment in this country!

Liberalism is a Mental Disorder!!!!

sigh   January 2nd, 2009 - 2:05 pm

That’s simply ignorant Dr. Jordan, simply ignorant. I personally know several black conservatives who are sick and tired of people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. What annoys them the most is how they assist the liberal wing of the Democratic Party in convincing the majority of blacks that they are not capable of achieving a worthwhile existence without the measly handouts of the Democratic Party.

Black people need good jobs, not welfare. I challenge both parties to lobby the corporations that support them financially to create more jobs in the inner cities. For every dollar the lobbyists give them, another dollar should go into creating sustainable inner city businesses so we can put our money where our mouth is.

Of course the Democrats won’t share the wealth; they’d lose their constituency once it started having to pay income taxes.

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