While Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gets pilloried by some Republicans for having once said that President Barack Obama is "light skinned" and only employs a "Negro dialect" when he wants to, there's this from the always-ready-to-offend Rod Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois in the new Esquire (we've deleted two obscentities):
"It's such a cynical business, and most of the people in the business are full of (@#$%) and phonies, but I was real, man --- and am real. This guy, he was catapulted in on hope and change, what we hope the guy is. What the (@#$%)? 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."
As the AP reminds us, "the twice-elected Democrat was impeached and removed from office last year after federal prosecutors arrested him on corruption charges that included trying to sell Obama's old U.S. Senate seat. He has pleaded not guilty."
Source: NPR
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