Bobby Rush is a transparent race-baiting hypocrite with Blago's endorsement of Roland Burris

[zulchzulu]

I'm sure many people saw Bobby Rush speaking about Roland Burris, who Rod Blagojevich had appointed. He blatantly used the Race Card in his endorsement of Blagojevich's endorsement:

My prayers have been answered, because I prayed fervidly that the governor would continue the legacy established by President-elect Obama and that the governor would appoint an African-American to complete the term of President Obama.

Let me just remind you that there presently no African American in the U.S. Senate. We need to have not just one African American in the U.S. Senate. We need to have many African Americans in the U.S. Senate. 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, want to go on record to deny one African American from being seated in the U.S. Senate.

Rewind back to where Bobby Rush was endorsing a RICH WHITE MILLIONAIRE over a black man (Barack Obama) running for the Senate on July 21, 2003:

I love (Obama), but I'm supporting someone who I think would be an excellent U.S. senator....We were both raised in working-class families, we both served our country in the U.S. Army, we were both educated under the G.I. Bill, and we are both, you might say, products of the American dream. We're both self-made and independent men.

More than that, we're both men who believe in looking at issues and circumstances with a fresh eye and a new approach. We believe in thinking outside the box.... On issues, Blair Hull and I make a dynamic duo....I'm going to be involved in every aspect of the campaign from the schedule of the candidate to the victory party--deciding where the victory party is going to be at.

So either Bobby Rush is a hypocrite or he can't remember who he endorsed for Senate just a couple years ago when the one choice WAS an African-American. If anything, I feel bad for Burris being in the middle of the circle jerk.

Link: http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2009/01/rush-job.html

[mucifer]

1. self delete

:)

[zulchzulu]

2. Thanks

I changed the title...

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

3. yup

[Cha]

4. I love it, not...when

people think they can say anything to fit their agenda and dare anyone to point out the hypocricy.

Now what is Bobby Rush's agenda?

[firedupdem]

5. Exactly! We all need to be asking what blago, burris, and rush

hope to get out of this deal. His comments were totally inappropriate.

[Cha]

6. I'll be glad when this

finally plays out and we get a bonafide Democratic Senator from Illinois. I don't care what color he or she is.

[retread]

7. Rep. Rush has a good voting record. Just a sample of some 2007 ratings from Project Vote Smart:

2007-2008 On the votes used to calculate its ratings, the National Organization for Women attaches more value to those votes it considers more important. For 2007-2008, the National Organization for Women gave Representative Rush a rating of 100 percent.

2007 In 2007 The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law gave Representative Rush a grade of A+.

2007 Representative Rush supported the interests of the Americans for Democratic Action 100 percent in 2007.

2007 In 2007 NARAL Pro-Choice America gave Representative Rush a grade of 100.

2007 Representative Rush supported the interests of the AFL-CIO 100 percent in 2007.

2007 On the votes that the The Children's Health Fund considered to be the most important in 2007, Representative Rush voted their preferred position 100 percent of the time.

2007 Based on a point system, with points assigned for actions in support of or in opposition to Children's Defense Fund's position, Representative Rush received a rating of 100.

2007-2008 In 2007-2008 Human Rights Campaign gave Representative Rush a grade of 90.

2007 In 2007 American Civil Liberties Union gave Representative Rush a grade of 100.

2007 Based on a point system, with points assigned for actions in support of or in opposition to Arab American Institute's position, Representative Rush received a rating of 100.


2007 Representative Rush supported the interests of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights 93 percent in 2007.

2007 Representative Rush supported the interests of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 100 percent in 2007.

[zulchzulu]

9. Bobby Rush's race baiting was really distasteful and hypocritical considering him his 2003 stance

Rush did run against Obama earlier and won and I think he felt threatened by Obama's political successes, which must now must be driving him crazy.

As my OP illustrates, if getting a black Senator was so important to Rush, why did he endorsed the rich white guy when Obama had the chance to be a black senator in 2004... which he did indeed do...

[mopinko]

13. small correction- it was barack who ran against bobby.

he was already a pretty long time incumbent when he was challenged by barack.
i think he is getting more grief here than he deserves. what do you expect from a former black panther? you expect him to not care about having an all white senate? this is what obama talked about- people still fighting the old battles. yes, bobby is still fighting the old battles. lots of us here are, too. human nature.
and no old lion worth his salt lets a young cub take a swipe and him and then forgets about it. be real people.
bobby is a good man. and a good congressman.
he has been in the fight of his life with cancer.
and just fy everyone's i, blair hull was a great candidate.

give him a break. just give him a break.

[cali]

15. sorry, that doesn't change that he's behaving like a race-baiting hypocrite.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

16. One can have a phenomenal voting record and be a great representative...

and still be a colossal asshole and hypocrite. Rep. Rush seems to have accomplished this rare feat.

[grantcart]

8. Burris volunteered to be in the middle er um of the circle jerk

wow that's going to be a messy place to stand

[Tatiana]

10. Please don't feel sorry for that POS narcissist Burris.

He's just as much of a power-hungry megalomaniac as Blago. If Rush wasn't so damn entrenched in his district, I'd start a "Friends of Yet-To-Be-Named Challenger to Bobby Rush" group.

I'm so fucking through with him after this stunt.

[Danger Mouse]

11. Agreed. Burris is nearly as much of an egotistical prick as Blago...

which is quite an accomplishment.

[asdjrocky]

12. Yeah, Bobby really disappointed me on this one.

[tritsofme]

14. It was a shameful piece of political theater.

Makes me wonder what Rush had going on with Blago.

[zulchzulu]

17. It's pretty obvious to me

Rush gave Blago money. Blago, being a snide asshat, decided to use Burris in a classic case of turning the attention now on Burris.

Rush decided to use the Race Card Deluxe (now with lynching!) as some kind of empowerment where a black person needs to replace a person who was black. Perhaps when Blago goes, he needs to be replaced by a Serb, which Blago brags about.

[opihimoimoi]

18. Burris/Rush are level 1 dudes...they think selfinterest.....not whats best for the Situation /Nation

They are making themselves look like the cookie jar thieves from across the street.