Land of Burris

In interview with Sweet, Roland Burris uses the royal "we". Goes with the tomb I guess. Here's another choice interview:

“I am a visionary,’’ he declared in Chicago Sun-Times interview in 2002, when he was running for governor, his third unsuccessful try at the job.

In another interview with the paper, Burris said his past success — election as state comptroller and attorney general — was “divine providence” that began as a teenager when he decided to become a lawyer and officeholder.

“People said I was either crazy or divinely directed. I accept the latter,’’ he said. “I believe without a doubt that I am predestined to be a role model.”

In 1979, he raised eyebrows when, during his inauguration as comptroller — the first African American elected to statewide office — he related how he had “heard” Abraham Lincoln during a visit to his tomb in Springfield. “I know who you are and I am pleased at what’s taking place in Illinois today,’’ Burris said Lincoln told him.

Burris, 71, once mused that while Illinois is known as the Land of Lincoln, “Maybe someday it will be known as the Land of Burris.’’

Bobby Rush sees near conspiracies. One pol's vision is another's conspiracy.

Hey Barack, you'd better check your Lincolnesque train to DC for an extra caboose.

P.S. Per Wiki:

United States Navy Admiral Hyman G. Rickover told a subordinate who used the royal we: "Three groups are permitted that usage: pregnant women, royalty, and schizophrenics. Which one are you?"^{[5][unreliable source?]}