Comments on: Burris Clearly a Weasel in Transcript, Proving His Ability to Be Great Politician

By: Rob Crawford

Rob Crawford — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:20:47 +0000

Not guilty. In Chicago, melanin is an affirmative defense.

I thought it was the (D) after his name.

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:14:13 +0000

Cook County (Illinois) Clerk’s open letter to Burris calling for resignation-

http://apps.wbez.org/blog/?p=1433

By: Ira

Ira — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:59:28 +0000

Part of the job in asking questions of a person who just might be evasive is to keep asking the question. For example, many years ago, while Reagan was president, I asked a deponent if he had children. After getting his affirmative answer, I asked how many children he had. “I have a son.” After finding out that the son’s name was John, I asked the deponent if he had any other children besides John. After getting an affirmative answer, I asked how many children he had besides John, he answered, “I have another son.” This went on and on until I found out that he had 12 children in all before his answer was “I have no other children besides the ones I’ve named.” The Burris inquisitors should have pushed for answers until Burris said words to the effect that “there are no others.” Hasn’t any of these guys learned from the Clinton deposition?

By: JD

JD — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:53:22 +0000

About a month from now, Burris will resign, claiming to want to spent more time with his family, someone like Tom Dart or Patrick Hymes will be given the seat in order to avoid a primary battle within the Dem party. Edgar is smart enough to stay out of IL politics while he is still clean, and Peter Fitzgerald is likely still rightfully pissed at the establishment Republicans. At any rate, the Dems will win this seat, but it should continue to be hysterical to watch them do their best to give it away.

By: Huey

Huey — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:46:04 +0000

Not guilty. In Chicago, melanin is an affirmative defense.

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:33:44 +0000

Burris is a bad joke and thankfully, is now history. Most Dems in Illinois and beyond do not want Burris either. Democrat party leaders know he was never going to be electable in 2010 and certainly not after this. Further, they do not want (and they fear) a bruising Dem primary Senate race in 2010. Most Illinois Dems never wanted Burris seated in the US`Senate in the first place but they were overruled from above because another Dem senator and his vote was going to be needed to pass the stimulus package.

Our Illinois Republican leaders are getting a lot of good air time denouncing Burris’ ethical and memory lapses– an excellent development that is helpng raise their profile in a positive way. But believe me there is much going on behind the scenes with the state Democrats denouncing Burris and pulling strings as well. Today, several more “shocked and embarrassed” Dems went public doubting Burris so the tanks are starting to roll over him from two different fronts.

Related to this case, Fitzgerald is a hero as far as I am concerned and is having a great effect on “outing” corrupt Illinois politics for the world to see. There are a lot of very scared politicins in Illinois right now.

The two big Chicago papers are in terrible financial straits and barely surviving, but we all owe both the Sun Times and Tribune reporters big time for digging and getting this latest hideous Burris “affidavit” chapter out in the open.

By: Person of Choler

Person of Choler — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:15:35 +0000

Seriously, now. Who expected anything different from an Illinois politician, especially one appointed by Blagojevich?

By: JD

JD — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:11:03 +0000

You cannot give Chicago away until we complete giving Minnesota to the French-Canucks.

By: JD

JD — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:08:42 +0000

This whole affair is so far beyond parody. It is like a satirical account of a parody. It is ironic that, like Baracky, Burris chose to lie when the truth would have perfectly acquitted him.

By: AD - RtR/OS

AD - RtR/OS — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:59:09 +0000

Comment by John Hitchcock — 2/17/2009 @ 11:56 am
You probably could, but you would first have to pay-off all of the lien-holders behind Daley.