Ah, yes. Liddy Dole’s gone…can’t wait to bounce this tool out of office.  From the N&O’s Under the Dome:

U.S. Sen. Richard Burr wouldn’t mind watching basketball with Barack Obama. The Winston-Salem Republican was recently on the Charlotte sports talk show “Primetime with the Packman.” Repeating a question from the Democratic primary last year, host Mark Packer asked whether Burr would rather have dinner with Hillary Clinton or Obama.

“Hillary Clinton in a heartbeat,” Burr said. “I’ve had an opportunity in the last week to have dinner with Barack Obama. I passed on that one.”

Obama held a bipartisan “timeout dinner” at the White House with about 180 guests from Congress and his Cabinet, as well as staffers and spouses. Burr said the president is a “straight-up guy,” a “tremendous athlete” and “a very disciplined individual,” but he disagrees with him on the issues.

Perhaps Burr would prefer to break bread with the late Jimmy the Greek:

the black athlete is “bred to be the better athlete because, this goes all the way to the Civil War when ... the slave owner would breed his big woman so that he would have a big black kid.”

Or this fun statement by Snyder about black coaches taking away jobs from the white man:

Perhaps I should just be kind and assume he wasn’t being racist, and just stupidly partisan. Ahem. As one reader noted:

You have an opportunity to dine with the President of the United States, and you pass on it?

How can we expect you to best represent NC when you won’t even sit down to break bread with our President (a President for whom the majority of your constituents voted.)

This seriously defies belief. I don’t care if it was racism or partisanship that led Dickie Burr to this decision; it was stupid. He had a chance to meet with the President, and possibly advocate for issues affecting North Carolina, and he passed on it?

What a jerk.