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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: bijou on January 11, 2010, 07:57:29 AM

Title: Blagojevich: 'I'm Blacker Than Barack Obama'
Post by: bijou on January 11, 2010, 07:57:29 AM
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is not the only one making headlines for racially insensitive remarks about the president.

Deposed Gov. Rod Blagojevich is generating heat for comments in a new interview, in which he claims he is "blacker" than President Barack Obama.

In the interview with Esquire Magazine, Blagojevich says: "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 he lived. I saw it all growing up." ... 

He also repeats a claim that the real story behind the allegations that he tried to sell President Obama's Senate seat, claiming that he was really striking a deal to appoint Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan to the U.S. Senate in exchange for public works jobs, expansion of health care for Illinois citizens, and a promise against a tax hike.

He says he talked to Rahm Emanuel about engineering the deal to put Madigan in the Senate. This, Blagojevich says, was even though he "hates" Madigan and her father, state House Majority Leader Michael Madigan. ...
  link (http://cbs2chicago.com/governor/rod.blagojevich.interview.2.1417753.html)
Title: Re: Blagojevich: 'I'm Blacker Than Barack Obama'
Post by: thundley4 on January 11, 2010, 08:00:15 AM
How long before Blago has an "accident"?
Title: Re: Blagojevich: 'I'm Blacker Than Barack Obama'
Post by: JohnnyReb on January 11, 2010, 08:54:15 AM
How long before Blago has an "accident"?

....as soon as he can find his car keys...... :-)
Title: Re: Blagojevich: 'I'm Blacker Than Barack Obama'
Post by: The Village Idiot on January 11, 2010, 09:12:14 AM
Yet another racist Democrat. Apparently being lower-middle class is now blackness. Or being black and poor are the same thing.

Poor=black?

Sounds racist to me.