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Blago: I’m Blacker Than Barack Obama

First Harry Reid says that President Obama is a “light-skinned negro” (here) and now former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has announced that he’s “blacker than Barack Obama.”

Here is the case Blago made for his entry in the NAACP Hall of Fame:

“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,”

Just a “five-room apartment”? My God, he was a virtually a street urchin.

Does Blago’s boast seem strangely familiar?

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54 thoughts on “Blago: I’m Blacker Than Barack Obama”

  1. When you’re on your way to prison, these are not the smartest things to say. Then again, like another attention-hounding former governor, they are where they are because of being stupid. (The more I think about it, the more parallels, beyond simple stupidity, I see between Blago and Palin – “I’m special – I don’t have to follow the rules! I’m all about fighting fore the little guy! The world revolves around me! Hey, over here! Look at MEEEEEE!”)

    As an aside – why do you people keep feeding the troll? Disengage. I don’t seen anything productive coming out of engaging this guy.

  2. “Update 10:30 am: Blagojevich apologized Monday for what he called “stupid comments” made in the Esquire article.

    “What I said was stupid, stupid, stupid,” he told reporters outside his home.

    “I was speaking metaphorically. Obviously I’m not blacker than President Obama,” he said.

    The governor took responsibility for his words, but said he was expressing “real frustration” that nothing has changed under the Obama administration.

    “Am I frustrated? Yes. Was I expressing frustration? Yes. Was that frustration real? Yes. Is it still real? Yes. Was the way I said what I said stupid? Absolutely yes, stupid,” Blagojevich said.”

  3. I’ll agree with those choices. I know it appears that thats ALL I watch, Fox that is, but it’s not. I posted to AY yesterday that I watched Stephanopoulos yesterday. I try to watch the Sunday Morning roundtables and C-span call in segments early Sunday morning. I like the way C-span does it by highlighting news articles from print then discussing the subject

  4. bdaman I don’t watch much TV news but mainly MSNBC or PBS. I watch CNBC and Bloomberg for financial news not Fox.

  5. I’m I taking his wifes comments out of context as well, they do sleep in the same bed, well on occasion they do.

  7. Bdaman,

    You are severely misquoting and taking out of context the usage of the verbiage. The problem is I don’t think you are any the wiser or know better. Sad.

  8. Was husband Bill a birther

    “I never was mad at Sen. Obama,” the former president said. “I think everybody’s got a right to run for president who qualifies under the Constitution. And I’d be the last person to begrudge anybody their ambition.”

  9. Looks like Hillary didn’t have any love loss either.

    Hillary Clinton is depicted — and quoted — as foul-mouthed and consumed with anger over what she saw as the media’s kid-gloved treatment of Mr Obama. She was convinced that he had cheated at the start of their marathon primary contest by bringing in outsiders to vote in the Iowa caucuses, and when it was over she was supremely reluctant to work for him, the authors claim.

    http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article6982957.ece

  12. bdaman The only time I watch Fox News is on election nights when the repubs are losing.

  15. “Obviously like the rest of the people of Illinois I am saddened and sobered by the news that came out of the US attorney’s office today,” said President-elect Obama this afternoon in Chicago, speaking of the criminal complaint against Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich for corruption. “But as this is a ongoing investigation involving the governor I don’t think it would be appropriate for me to comment on the issue at this time.”

    Asked what contact he’d had with the governor’s office about his replacement in the Senate, President-elect Obama today said “I had no contact with the governor or his office and so we were not, I was not aware of what was happening.”

    But on November 23, 2008, his senior adviser David Axelrod appeared on Fox News Chicago and said something quite different.

    While insisting that the President-elect had not expressed a favorite to replace him, and his inclination was to avoid being a “kingmaker,” Axelrod said, “I know he’s talked to the governor and there are a whole range of names many of which have surfaced, and I think he has a fondness for a lot of them.”

  16. All this time it was thought that many African Americans were poor because of a socio-economic system that creates a feedback loop of poverty. Turns out they were poor because that’s the definition of being black. Who knew?

  17. Well, he is from Chicago in his defense. Please forgive them for they know not what they do. You see reality is one mans perception. Some say that we have never landed on the moon.

  18. The more appropriate phrase that comes to mind is “dumber than a bag of hammers.” Although, unlike Blagojevich, hammers do have actual utility other than merely taking up space.

  19. When you have to earn your living appearing on celebrity reality shows you need to do something to maintain your celebrity. That being said I was disturbed that Blago was tried in the press by Mr. FitzGerald. He
    was proven guilty by publicity and the mainstream media was the accomplice. It is still curious to me that FitzGerald could only prosecute Scooter after all that investigation. Methinks he is himself not quite the outstanding lawyer people and the press have tended to make him out to be.

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