Glad I voted against him during his "third party" bid for Lt. Governor in 2002. He and Cal "I served 18 years in the same office and my main campaign issue is term limits" Skinner are quite the pair.
Posted on 02/04/2009 11:20:45 PM PST by malkee
"New York is fantastic," a pumped-up Rod Blagojevich said after strolling his way back to the luxurious Jumeirah Essex House on Central Park South just before 11 p.m. on Tuesday, hours after appearing on David Letterman. "Walking down the street here in Manhattan, cab drivers are honking, guys in cars are shouting support, 'Keep it up! Keep fighting!'"
You have to hand to it Rod Blagojevich. For someone who's supposedly the most cuckoo and crooked man in politics, he's assembled quite a fan club. "I must say the guy is growing on me," said Dennis Miller on Fox News. "I love Blago," confessed Maureen Dowd with only a tinge of irony. "Sure, he'll still be kicked out of office tomorrow, but now everyone in America loves him," wrote the media blog Gawker. Blagojevich even won the grudging respect of a teenager who posed for a picture with him outside the governor's home on the day of his impeachment. "He doesn't seem like a total douche," the kid opined to the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Blago is hilarious...dude is a lot funnier than most of the people on TV and film. I will actually miss the dude when he gets sent to prison....
He wuz just trying to save us from a tax hike, that’s why they got him! ;-D
Frankly I think most of our politicians belong in prison - they sell their power on a daily basis. How many head to DC with modest financial means and come out multi-millionaires? Almost all of them.
I’m not saying what Blogo did is OK because everyone does it - I’m saying that what he did is wrong and they all belong in the clink.
Has Blago even been charged yet?
Who’s dumber? Blago, or the idiots who have him on their shows, as if....
Roe Conn, on his WLS 890 AM Chicago drive time radio show today, said that he thought Blago's grand scheme was to send out this message. He referred to his "name dropping", of which I know nothing, not having watched any of this, but Roe Conn thought it was blatant.
He compared Blago's message to HIGH NOON ..."You want to get me? Come and get me. We'll see what happens."
Edwin Edwards, former governor/white-looter-guy of Louisiana, was a loveable scoundrel, too. He's rotting his life away in a Texas prison, and his youngish wife divorced him soon after it became clear that he wasn't going to be getting out early enough to steal and extort even more money to support her.
Blago really is a great character. And though I have no doubt he is very intelligent— I do not think there is any method to his current PR madness.
I think he’s desperate. Understandably so. And he’s playing the only card he has, PR. Maybe capitalize on his notoriety and influence the jury pool. His only hope.
I wouldn’t doubt, however, that Pat Fitzgerald is pushing the envelope in ways I think none of us would want done to us.
But how could he do that? On what basis? Could get interesting. BTW, Roe Conn, having drunk of the Kool-Aid, explicitly excluded Obama from the list of the vulnerable, but ... OK, whatever.
Agree. Blago did wrong; no doubt about that; but he has what our Congress doesn’t have and that is a fighting spirit.
Will Glago be the one to bring Obama’s history to light?
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Seriously, with the secrets that Blago knows, do you honestly believe he’ll survive long enough to go to prison??
Is it just me, or is Blago moving around so fast he reminds me of Ali in a boxing match, trying not to get taken out? Man, that’s some fancy footwork! Wonder how long he’ll last before he [insert air quotes here] ‘accidentally’ [insert more air quotes here] has an ‘accident’??
Will Glago be the one to bring Obama’s history to light?
When asked if it could be ruled out that zer0 wouldn’t be involved he said he would not rule anyone out and he specifically keeps mentioning Rahm and Harry Reid.
Glad I voted against him during his "third party" bid for Lt. Governor in 2002. He and Cal "I served 18 years in the same office and my main campaign issue is term limits" Skinner are quite the pair.
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