Anywho…

Face it, the responsibilility of assuring that people of color are present in the Senate does not rest solely on the shoulders of the legislators in the Land of Lincoln. That responsibility rests with every voter registered in every representative state and territory making up what we call the United States of AMERICA! However, until WE THE PEOPLE finally come to find it unacceptable that no American can be seated in OUR houses of legislature unless preferably he boasts an occidental European ethnic heritage, and we finally work to judiciously rehabilitate our abysmally amoral unethical election processes, we can expect more legislative misrepresentation from the handful of corporately connected political party whores representing the interests of opressive imperialistic religio-fascist military industrial corporatocracy over those of the woefully ill-informed voters.

Without question, it was brilliant, courageous, and yadda, yadda, yadda-ya that Illinois voters had enough confidence in Mr. Obama’s ability to carry on the legacy of the late great Senator Paul Simon to elect him to the US Senate. But, that’s just the thing. Obama was wore the Simon mantle to carry the torch and the sword to fulfill a greater mission. Furthermore, Mr. Obama’s ethnicity had little, if much at all, to do with that. Mr. Obama just happened to be an African America – PERIOD!

Don’t get me wrong. I truly admire and have even supported Mr. Burris. Mr. Roland Burris is a tremendous legislative asset to the state of Illinois. But, face it, in this fiasco, he’s a Blago pawn being used to stick it to Madigan one last time. And, we the People of Illinois are suffering as a result of this ongoing pissing contest Madigan has been waging for too years now against Blago in Springfield. Now, this corny Cobb-ing?!! Enough already!

I know Burris wants to keep that seat. Under any other circumstances, I would want him to keep that seat too. The US Senate is good to get if ever you can get it. His appointment, alas, no matter how folks fell about Blago, is legitimate and legal. In a perfect world, Burris should be allowed to stay in the US Senate on behalf of Illinois until he loses the 2010 election to a candidate elected by the People of Illinois, working closely with Dick Durbin to assure that the people who elected Mr. Obama are still well served. After all, Mr. Burris is standing in for Mr. Obama at the pleasure of the People of Illinois, Blago be damned. But, this isn’t a perfect world, is it? So, instead of returning to Illinois in poverty from amassing legal bills he will never be able to repay, Mr. Burris really needs to first distance himself far, far, far from the opportunistic idiocy of one Del Marie Cobb, and then call an expeditious end to these follies. There, unfortunately, is no rehabilitation for an image so inextricably linked to our infamous former Governor. So, all this craziness is an exercise in futility on which a man of Burris’ great stature should not end his otherwise stellar career.