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I love Blago. He's the best example we have of a complete narcissist moron with no shame whatsoever, ready to sell his own grandmother for a buck.

All the rest of the current crop of politicos are merely pretenders. Blago is the real deal! Blago for President in 2012. Or 2016. Or whenever he gets out of the clink! :dance: :dance:

January 11, 2010, 12:09 pm

Blagojevich Retreats From Race Remarks About Obama

By MONICA DAVEY

CHICAGO – Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader, is not the only one apologizing for using racially charged language when it comes to President Obama. On Monday, Rod R. Blagojevich, the indicted, ousted former governor of Illinois turned reality television show contestant and Elvis impersonator, had his own apologies to offer.

In an interview with Esquire Magazine for its February issue, Mr. Blagojevich is quoted as saying that he is “blacker than Barack Obama.”

In the article, the comments follow the former governor portraying most politicians as phony, but saying that he was “real,” going on to note (as Mr. Blagojevich often has over many years) that he shined shoes as a child, grew up in a five-room apartment, and that his father had a laundromat “in a black community not far from where we lived.”

By Monday morning, as word of the comments became public, Mr. Blagojevich, who faces a jury trial this spring on charges of corruption and trying to sell the Senate seat left empty when Mr. Obama became president, was back-pedaling.

On WLS radio, an AM talk station in his hometown here, Mr. Blagojevich said he had chosen his words poorly and was sorry if he had offended anyone. He described his comment about being “blacker” as a “stupid thing to say.”

Over the weekend, President Obama said he had accepted the apology of Senator Reid, who had once predicted that Mr. Obama could become the nation’s first black president because he was “light-skinned” and had “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”

No word from the White House on any acceptance (or otherwise) of Mr. Blagojevich’s radio apology.

 

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