Raise your hand if you did a spit take...

[acmespaceship]

... when Rod Blagojevich compared himself to Mandela, King and Gandhi.
(raising hand)

Comments

[qnofhrt.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too. Also when I heard that he considered OPRAH!

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

What, he left out JC?

[skaldic.livejournal.com]

no, apparently he thinks he is JC...

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

Basically, yeah. Just envisison him sitting in lotus position, hovering in the air with a halo. Ommmmmmyghod.

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

He said it enough over the phone. Along with a lot of other things.

Honestly, the reason he's doing this is that he thinks he can (a) get political pressure on the legislature to Not Hurt Him, or (b) court the press and court the jury pool in Da City.

You see where his lawyer dumped him? At this point, nobody but hacks hard up for publicity would take him on. He just paid off Winston and Strawn, one of the biggest firms in Chicago, around a mil, and another almost-mil to other firms. His wife's been fired, and he's about to be. There's no money coming in, and he has no consituency out there to bankroll him in the future.

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

Or he's going to go out like this (Youtube)

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

I think it was more of a effort to call on my buddy (Ralph) and his car (Buick), but yeah.

[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

Hands up!!!

[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

It's like Sarah Palin and George W. Bush had a love child.