IsItJustMe
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Wed Jan-07-09 01:52 PM
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Is Harry Reid turning his lemon into lemon aid? |
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Like it or not, race does play an important role in our politics. Symbolism also plays a very important role in our politics, and a black person, who would be the only black person in the senate (Burris), taking another black persons seat (Obama), is highly symbolic. It is what it is.
Now I see that Harry wants to put Burris’s acceptance to the senate in front of the full senate for a full senate vote.
I get this picture in my head of all of the Republican Senators voting against Burris, while the Democrats voting for him. Not a good picture for the good old boys from mostly the south.
Politics is stranger than fiction.
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Wed Jan-07-09 01:54 PM
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1. Reid is a very smart and tactful politician. He's also ethical. (nt) |
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Wed Jan-07-09 02:10 PM
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5. Yes, I am sure Harry is above all that. |
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Wed Jan-07-09 02:40 PM
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6. well - so why does he ignore the lack of ethics with his peers? |
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He seems to think that Ted Stephens has suffered enough - even though he broke the law and was convicted.
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Wed Jan-07-09 01:55 PM
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2. Reid's lemons dried up long ago. n/t |
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Wed Jan-07-09 02:03 PM
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4. I'd like to puree his lemons and serve them to him in a glass. |
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Wed Jan-07-09 03:55 PM
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Wed Jan-07-09 03:43 PM
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7. Problem with that theory is that it is the republicans who are insisting |
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that Reid follow the law and seat the guy, and the Dems who are painting Burris as 'tainted' by Blagojevich.
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Wed Jan-07-09 03:45 PM
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Republicans will vote yes on Burris and the Democrats who don't will look like the racists, not them.
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