"I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes."

[MrCoffee]

Ladies and Gentlemen, Rod Blagojevich!

It's an ill wind that blows no good, even in Chicago in November. Take Skittles Blagojevich, a small white dog — could be a bichon frise, maybe a Maltese — who joined the family shortly after Governor Rod's arrest on December 9, 2008, when it was alleged that he was auctioning off Barack Obama's Senate seat. Whatever Skittles allegedly was doing on or before that date, he or she — I didn't look; who am I, Woodward and Bernstein? — landed soft on his or her paws as the newest member of the former first family of Illinois, obtained to distract and console Rod and Patti's two young daughters, Amy and Annie, when their home was hemmed in daily by satellite trucks and Dad was crowned Blago, clown king of political corruption.

Skittles was there when the indictment was handed down last April, charging Blago with sixteen felonies, including making false statements to federal agents, racketeering, conspiracy, and attempted extortion. Skittles was there when Mrs. Blago went to Costa Rica and ate a dead tarantula on I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, because the judge in Blago's case, fearing Blago might not return for the trial, refused to allow him out of the country to appear on the show. And Skittles is here now, at Revere Park, walking the sidelines while Annie's Saturday-morning soccer team plays to yet another scoreless tie under a high autumn sky.

They could be any family anywhere, a fiction they're trying to maintain under dire circumstances. Nobody has a steady job, Blago's staring at a prison stretch as long as twenty years, and however corrupt he may have been as governor, he apparently botched the part about putting a pile of money aside, just in case. Hence the tarantula, which turns out to have been the dignified choice.



Read more: http://www.esquire.com/features/people-who-matter-2010/rod-blagojevich-interview-0210#ixzz0ebnV9JrM

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. Soon to appear on Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice"

Battle of the bad hairpieces! :rofl:

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. isn't that his real hair?

[Sebastian Doyle]

12. Well, if it is, he's got so much hairspray (or something) on it, that it really looks fake anyway.

Always reminded me of the Lego people.....

[TlalocW]

2. Well, I was a poor Black sharecropper

Because I bucked bales one summer at my Grandma's farm when some cousins were living there and were actually farming instead of renting out the fields.

TlalocW

[Midlodemocrat]

3. His hair was perfect - Sorry Warren Zevon.

Where you been, homie?

[Berry Cool]

4. "I was born a poor black child..." n/t

[Bluebear]

5. I don't think Skittles is going to be pleased.

[11 Bravo]

6. ASS WILL BE KICKED!

[mucifer]

7. I was very surprised he apologized for that. He has an ego the size of Illinois.

[Chisox08]

8. It grew to the size of Texas

[Blue-Jay]

9. I can't even express how much I hate that rotten motherfucker.

[Dr. Strange]

10. Wow.

"We had all kinds of offers to do reality shows," says Blagojevich. "This bullshit where they come in the house — Keeping Up With the Kardashians — I won't do that shit."

Yeah, 'cause that would have made him look bad.