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Friday, December 12th, 2008 12:32 pm
observed, and by that I mean, me and cnn are bff
Okay, is it just me that is following along with the trials and tribulations of Illinois' Blagojevich with a kind of obsessive addiction? I don't even need to set alerts; I can sense when there is going to be New(ish) Relevations (sort of), in that way that there's a new one every thirty minutes, so call this less sixth sense and more basic pattern recognition.
What will that crazy guy have done next? *utterly riveted*
(Also, I'm with everyone else. His hair is bothering me. Like, to the point where I want to assign it a name and it's own part in this entire thing. Could totally happen.)
What will that crazy guy have done next? *utterly riveted*
(Also, I'm with everyone else. His hair is bothering me. Like, to the point where I want to assign it a name and it's own part in this entire thing. Could totally happen.)
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From:Now I, too, am going out to see what he's done now. It's better than seeing the Republicans destroy the economy in a fit of pique.
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From:I wonder how much of the tough as nails seeped into his (Blagojevich) and his wife's blood, the reason I ask this is that the transcripts from the conversations that he and his wife had just sound so uncaring and so all about them that there has to be something wrong, you know like not just mental instability and a pumped up sense of themselves but something wrong in their core that made them act like animals trying to get the biggest scraps that they could.
I am fascinated by the whole story. I have been reading everything and the story gets bigger and almost overwhelming to grasp.
Oh well sorry for the long winded comment :)
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From:I would love to know what is going on in his head.
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Yes, indeed
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From:That's how I felt, too, until I read this article from Feb 2008. Someone on my flist posted the link the other day, I wish I could remember who (I don't think it was you!):
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/February-2008/Mr-Un-Popularity/
Honestly, it seems to me that this guy is very, very, VERY stupid, and that his Svengali was his father-in-law, who is easily as corrupt, just not stupid enough to get caught. When Blagojevich made governor, he cut off his father-in-law, because he wanted to believe his unlikely success was his own. NOT SO. He's a dim-witted loser who married lucky. If he hadn't gone his own crazed-weasel way and continued to allow his father-in-law to map out his career, he'd have been running for President 8 years from now.
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From:Our local news had a graphic up last night showing that USA Today or something ranked Illinois as #18 in corruption, but that's based on population. North Dakota was first, I think.
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From:I'd guess that most of Chicago's infrastructure runs at least somewhat on bribery. I know for a fact that anyone trying to run a convention at McCormick Place has to grease a lot of palms, or else cords start getting cut and equipment gets mysteriously damaged. Gotta love this town.
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From:I just looked this guy up for a picture of his hair... Does it have it's own area code? And doesn't he know that the era of 'big hair' went out with the 80's? Wow.
And I agree with you on the comment of ' corrupt until proven less corrupt '. I tend to despise politicians as a matter of principal... This one is no exception.
~L
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From:and his hair reminds me of a certain muppet's, but I can't remember which one. It's been driving me crazy since this whole thing began.
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The Hair
From:It's driving me crazy.
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From:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/feb/12/usa.features
Granted, I don't agree with everything Fitzgerald did, but still an awesome person.
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From:*dusts nails*
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separated at birth...
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From:People seem much more pissed off about the blatant stupidity than the corruption.
And he lives within a mile or two of my house, which is always fun. So does Rahm Emmanual for that matter.
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From:I really, really, REALLY wish Molly Ivins were alive to write about this.
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From:But ... his father-in-law is one of the most powerful Alderman (Aldermen?) in the city, a major old-school cog in the political wheel, and for better or worse is my Alderman. And I just wonder if RodB's being caught might be somehow connected with a very public family feud that happened between the Gov and his f-i-l back when the Gov first took office. I hadn't particularly noticed any updates about the feud - last I heard, back when it started, they were definitely not speaking. But they may have reconciled. Which could've meant the activation of the "memories are long in Chicago politics"/"revenge is a dish best served cold"/etc clause. ::cue ominous background music::
Between the recent shenanigans of the Mayor and the Gov - and the election of Obama as President on the other side of the equation, kinda balancing things out - Chicago politics has taken on a very surreal air here in town. It's just ... weird.
This is Djinanna, reporting (editorializing?) live from Chicago, where even the dead once voted early and often... and maybe still do.
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