Ridicule for Roland Burris

Most of all he wants respect.

But the very junior U.S. Senator from Illinois is not getting much.

He’s the Rodney Dangerfield of Illinois politics.

I’m embarrassed to admit that I lost the State Comptroller’s race to Roland Burris in 1982.

First the Chicago Tribune provides a fold-up representation of Burris as Pinocchio.

The nose even moves in and out.

The plans are below, just in case you are into crafts (click to enlarge):

And St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Pat Gauen heaps joined the pile-on Thursday.

After explaining how Burris explained the FBI tape of the conversation between and Rob Blagojevich, Rod’s brother, Gauen observes,

“One, Burris was the victim in this, deprived by poor questioning in the House of the opportunity to tell his constituents exactly how he curried Blagojevich’s favor.

“Two, Burris will make hollow promises to get what he wants — and brag about it later.

“Three, Illinois’ junior senator apparently thinks we’re idiots.”


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