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Not One Iota of Taint?

by David Kurtz
05.28.09 | 8:23 am

Can we all agree now that at a minimum Roland Burris wasn’t really the elder statesman of Illinois politics with a sterling character who was utterly removed from and disinterested in all the unseemly jockeying for Obama’s empty Senate seat?

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