Here's video of of Burris on Blago, before the appointment...and after (h/t: Progress Illinois for finding the "before" video):
What a difference two weeks and a senatorial appointment makes, eh?
On December 13, Roland Burris said Blago should be forced from office, calling the governor's actions "appalling" and "reprehensible."
But now Burris has abandoned his call for Blago to be booted from office, and has completely dropped his condemnations of the governor. Burris now simply says that Blago hasn't been convicted of anything, and that he doesn't "have an opinion on the governor's problems" other than to say that the governor is "innocent until proven guilty."
That is of course correct, but it is a standard of evidence meant for meting out justice in a court of law. The question here is not whether Blago should be behind bars, it's whether or not he has any business appointing a United States Senator after seeking to sell that very same seat.
Anyone appointed by Blago would be tainted, but the fact that Burris has reversed course on his condemnations of Blago only makes the appearance of taint all the more severe.
Roland Burris is never going to be a U.S. Senator. At this point, the right thing for him to do is step aside, unless he wants to be forever linked to to Rod Blagojevich.