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Title: Rod Blagojevich is too black, too strong
Post by: Savonarola on January 11, 2010, 04:32:44 PM
Okay, but is he blacker than Bill Clinton:

QuoteEx-governor Blagojevich: 'I'm blacker than Barack Obama'
Posted: January 11th, 2010 12:10 PM ET

From CNN Political Producer Kristi Keck


(CNN) - Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says he's "blacker than Barack Obama," and tells Esquire magazine that the "strength of the truth in America" will one day vindicate him.

The governor, who was impeached after being accused of trying to sell the Senate seat vacated by President Obama, says most of the people in politics are "full of s*** and phonies, but I was real."

Blagojevich tells the magazine that Obama was "catapulted in on hope can change, what we hope the guy is...

"What the f***? Everything he's saying's on the teleprompter. I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up," he says.
Title: Re: Rod Blagojevich is too black, too strong
Post by: merithyn on January 11, 2010, 06:11:11 PM
I really really hate that guy.  <_<
Title: Re: Rod Blagojevich is too black, too strong
Post by: Razgovory on January 11, 2010, 06:13:12 PM
Quote from: merithyn on January 11, 2010, 06:11:11 PM
I really really hate that guy.  <_<

Why?  What did he do to you?
Title: Re: Rod Blagojevich is too black, too strong
Post by: Ed Anger on January 11, 2010, 06:45:06 PM
I love his hair.
Title: Re: Rod Blagojevich is too black, too strong
Post by: grumbler on January 11, 2010, 10:13:50 PM
"Blacker than Barack Obama" isn't setting the bar very high.
Title: Re: Rod Blagojevich is too black, too strong
Post by: merithyn on January 11, 2010, 10:27:03 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 11, 2010, 06:13:12 PM
Why?  What did he do to you?

Tried very hard to bankrupt my state morally and financially. Tried even harder to embarrass us (which, imo, he accomplished quite well).

I did not vote for him, and I was incredibly happy that he was kicked very far out of the political structure in Illinois.
Title: Re: Rod Blagojevich is too black, too strong
Post by: CountDeMoney on January 11, 2010, 10:28:33 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 11, 2010, 06:13:12 PM
Quote from: merithyn on January 11, 2010, 06:11:11 PM
I really really hate that guy.  <_<

Why?  What did he do to you?

I believe she was a constituent.

Edit: I wuz right.
Title: Re: Rod Blagojevich is too black, too strong
Post by: katmai on January 11, 2010, 10:34:45 PM
Hmm Rod or Sarah, such tough choices :P
Title: Re: Rod Blagojevich is too black, too strong
Post by: Syt on January 12, 2010, 01:47:14 AM
Serbs :lol:
Title: Re: Rod Blagojevich is too black, too strong
Post by: Queequeg on January 12, 2010, 03:05:26 AM
Quote from: Syt on January 12, 2010, 01:47:14 AM
Serbs :lol:
I thought you worked with reasonably decent Serbians all the time?  For some reason, I've liked all the Serbians I've ever met and hated all the Bosnians.  Especially cause one of them went fucking retarded postal and killed my 15 year old cousin.   :(
Title: Re: Rod Blagojevich is too black, too strong
Post by: Caliga on January 12, 2010, 05:57:19 AM
Quote from: Queequeg on January 12, 2010, 03:05:26 AM
I thought you worked with reasonably decent Serbians all the time?  For some reason, I've liked all the Serbians I've ever met and hated all the Bosnians.  Especially cause one of them went fucking retarded postal and killed my 15 year old cousin.   :(
Serbians = not Muslim
Bosnians = Muslim

Any questions? :)
Title: Re: Rod Blagojevich is too black, too strong
Post by: Syt on January 12, 2010, 06:30:08 AM
Quote from: Queequeg on January 12, 2010, 03:05:26 AM
Quote from: Syt on January 12, 2010, 01:47:14 AM
Serbs :lol:
I thought you worked with reasonably decent Serbians all the time?  For some reason, I've liked all the Serbians I've ever met and hated all the Bosnians.  Especially cause one of them went fucking retarded postal and killed my 15 year old cousin.   :(

Sorry about your cousin. :(

Still, Serbs are usually pretty ok folks, but that doesn't preclude them form being silly now and then. :)
Title: Re: Rod Blagojevich is too black, too strong
Post by: CountDeMoney on January 12, 2010, 06:31:42 AM
Quote from: grumbler on January 11, 2010, 10:13:50 PM
"Blacker than Barack Obama" isn't setting the bar very high.

Yeah, kinda like promoting yourself as "Whiter than Welk".
Title: Re: Rod Blagojevich is too black, too strong
Post by: dps on January 12, 2010, 05:11:15 PM
This thread reminds me of the white politician who was giving a campaign address to a group of black voters and told them, "My heart is as black as yours".  I don't think there are many people of any race whose hearts are any blacker than Blagojevich's.
Title: Re: Rod Blagojevich is too black, too strong
Post by: Savonarola on January 12, 2010, 05:16:24 PM
Quote from: dps on January 12, 2010, 05:11:15 PM
This thread reminds me of the white politician who was giving a campaign address to a group of black voters and told them, "My heart is as black as yours".  I don't think there are many people of any race whose hearts are any blacker than Blagojevich's.

George Wallace said that (well according to wikiquotes it was: "Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here." but close enough)
Title: Re: Rod Blagojevich is too black, too strong
Post by: dps on January 12, 2010, 05:41:20 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on January 12, 2010, 05:16:24 PM
Quote from: dps on January 12, 2010, 05:11:15 PM
This thread reminds me of the white politician who was giving a campaign address to a group of black voters and told them, "My heart is as black as yours".  I don't think there are many people of any race whose hearts are any blacker than Blagojevich's.

George Wallace said that (well according to wikiquotes it was: “Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here.” but close enough)

Uh, no, the quote I used was from a candidate named Mario Procaccino running in the Democratic primary for Mayor of New York in 1969.  I was unaware that Wallace had said something similar.
Title: Re: Rod Blagojevich is too black, too strong
Post by: Savonarola on January 12, 2010, 05:47:48 PM
Quote from: dps on January 12, 2010, 05:41:20 PM


Uh, no, the quote I used was from a candidate named Mario Procaccino running in the Democratic primary for Mayor of New York in 1969.  I was unaware that Wallace had said something similar.

:o

No kidding, you would have thought one of them would have learned from the other's mistake.