Roland Burris is the person appointed by Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich to fill the United States Senate seat vacated by BHO. Given the governor's arrest for attempting to sell this same Senate seat one wonders what motivates Mr. Burris to accept this appointment.
After all, wouldn't an honorable man immediately decline such an appointment? Would not an honorable man consider that the attempt in the immediate past by the governor to personally profit by selling a US Senate seat corrupts any future decision relating in any way to that Senate seat?
I argue that Roland Burris, were he an honorable man, would have declined this appointment with prejudice. Instead he vigorously accepts; he shrilly attempts to flick away any suggestion of improper conduct by playing up his being "African-American"; he steeples his hands and presumes intractable superiority.
Roland Burris is not an honorable man. He must not be allowed to take a seat in the United States Senate.
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Yes!
It could be said that the core issue of the modern world is the question of deservedness.
Often the question is raised using the word "entitlement," however the meaning of that usage is most clearly expressed by the word "deservedness" and the question of its existence, non-existence or partial existence.
The question of deservedness exists differently in each dimension of life, from the inorganic to the spiritual.
The situations it meets and with which it struggles to cope differ from dimension to dimension.
And the conclusions it reaches can be dissimilar and even seemingly at odds as between the dimensions.
Fundamentally and ultimately, the question of deservedness hinges on the doctrine of justification, which is a doctrine of Theological Geography (formerly known as Theology, Queen of the Sciences).
The doctrine of justification, the central Pauline formulation of the soteriological act, expresses the paradox of acceptability despite the fact of undeservedness.
However, this acceptability is contextually conditioned and is not actual outside the context specified, namely, the the life and work of the Divine Personality.
Acceptability despite undeservedness is not a general condition of life. It is not an ordinary fact characterizing all creatures per se.
It's actuality is relative to, conditioned by, characteristic of, a specific miraculous -- therefore mysterious and ecstatic -- context or, in the old language, "estate of Grace."
The central perverse pretense of the modern world is expressed in the assertion that all creatures not only are acceptable but also deserving per se.
This declaration is invita Minerva and its proponents deserve to be locked out of leadership roles and locked up in the Big House if they persist in propagating this perversity.
The great Democratic Party has become Debauchacratic. It is not a Party but an orgy.
Its proponents deserve the Big House.
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