What’s with the track/sweat suits? Is Blagojevich *trying* to look more like a shady wanna-be thug than he already is?
Someone tell Blago to read Shakespeare’s Richard II — and understand that power isn’t simply money (or campaign contributions). It’s what you wear, how you look, and how you carry yourself. It’s also where you live — and the traditions you choose to carry on. There’s a reason, for example, that the governor’s mansion is a mansion. There’s a reason why our presidents live in a big white house — and not their own little bungalows.
I’m no psychologist, but Blagojevich is making himself look guiltier than he probably is (and that’s saying a lot.)
I’m astonished that his handlers — or whatever staff he has left — isn’t insisting (strongly) to ditch the black track suits. It’s amazing.
It also speaks volumes that his hair is always a neat little compact helmet — even when his clothes are a mess.
I suspect the focus on the hair — probably to the exclusion of everything else — is his own weird Kennedy/Clinton fantasy. Hair means strength, I guess — the Samson and Delilah thing — and I suspect this has been the sole item on Blagojevich’s self-styled “checklist of virility.”
(And I won’t even go into Blagojevich’s own comments about virility when his wife was under scrutiny.)
Blagojevich seems like a classic case — of a *lot* different cases.
I would suspect he’s been advised to go about his normal routine and look about as if he has no care in the world, but Rod rather looks to me like he’d have jumped out of his skin if the reporter would have went “BOO”. I’m thinking that trying to look/act ‘normal’ is putting a lot of stress on Rod.
I’m a big fan of The Sopranos. The crew (except for Tony) routinely wear track suits during the day on routine business, but always dress to the nines for important sitdowns and events. Plus, consider his actions — the shakedowns, the kickbacks, the F-bombs, the work ethic, the choice of lawyer.
On the other hand, we’ll know he’s channelling Elvis if he starts wearing capes, jumpsuits and wraparound glasses, passes out silk scarves, inexplicably does karate moves and calls everybody “Red.”
“Prison inmates are treated to cable TV, hot meals and a college education, while on the outside some people can only afford these things through a life of crime!”
“Yes, I am the one who is going to run the People of the State of Illinois around the proverbial mulberry bush. That’s me, see me pointing. Hey, wait a minute…is it POP goes the weasel?”
- He Makes Ryan Look Like a Saint - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:09 am:
“Can’t Touch This!!!!”
- One of the 35 - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:11 am:
“In my own perverse way, I’m still the man!”
- Pekin Tom - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:11 am:
Who’s a winner? This guy!
- Fire Ron Guenther - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:11 am:
“Me Love Me Some Me!”
- Edward Morgan Blake - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:12 am:
“I just love the feel of a velour track suit…don’t you?”
- Downstater - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:12 am:
It’s all about me!
- Anon - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:13 am:
“What, me worry?”
- Lurker - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:13 am:
HAHA Fire Ron
Is it me or does he look just very sad?
- Ghost - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:15 am:
“you talkin to me (bleep)?”
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:15 am:
I’ve got nothing but sunshine in here. I had a passport too, but the judge took it. But the sunshine - I still got.
- anon - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:15 am:
Looks to me like he’s stuck between a “thumbs up” and a “who, Me!”
- Macbeth - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:16 am:
What’s with the track/sweat suits? Is Blagojevich *trying* to look more like a shady wanna-be thug than he already is?
Someone tell Blago to read Shakespeare’s Richard II — and understand that power isn’t simply money (or campaign contributions). It’s what you wear, how you look, and how you carry yourself. It’s also where you live — and the traditions you choose to carry on. There’s a reason, for example, that the governor’s mansion is a mansion. There’s a reason why our presidents live in a big white house — and not their own little bungalows.
I’m no psychologist, but Blagojevich is making himself look guiltier than he probably is (and that’s saying a lot.)
I’m astonished that his handlers — or whatever staff he has left — isn’t insisting (strongly) to ditch the black track suits. It’s amazing.
- Shelbyville - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:18 am:
Near the end, even Elvis went to “warm ups.”
- bored now - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:19 am:
macbeth, you seem to be under the impression that blagojevich listens to people…
- Retired State Employee - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:20 am:
“Its all about me me me” A legend in his own mind.
- Jim - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:20 am:
Who da man? This guy.
- tanman - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:20 am:
see this track suit? I bought it with YOUR tax dollars.
- Macoupin County Kid - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:20 am:
“I auctioned off an empty Senate seat, and all I got was this crappy sweat suit.”
- Fan of the Game - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:21 am:
See, when I point at myself, I have four fingers pointing at Mike Madigan.
- hhhmmmmmm! - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:23 am:
“Who’s guilty? … This guy”
- stones - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:23 am:
Why does everyone make fun of my hair?
- Jechislo - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:23 am:
Ya’ll can kiss what’s just around the corner.
- earnest - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:24 am:
>Someone tell Blago to read Shakespeare’s Richard II —
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious sunshine by the fall of this jerk.
- sneaker - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:25 am:
I’m looking out for number one!
- Macbeth - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:25 am:
It also speaks volumes that his hair is always a neat little compact helmet — even when his clothes are a mess.
I suspect the focus on the hair — probably to the exclusion of everything else — is his own weird Kennedy/Clinton fantasy. Hair means strength, I guess — the Samson and Delilah thing — and I suspect this has been the sole item on Blagojevich’s self-styled “checklist of virility.”
(And I won’t even go into Blagojevich’s own comments about virility when his wife was under scrutiny.)
Blagojevich seems like a classic case — of a *lot* different cases.
- BandCamp - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:26 am:
“Bite this.”
- Cassandra - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:26 am:
I’m reading that he is back to his daily jog and promising to address Illinoisians very soon to tell his side of the story.
This could go on for a looooooong time.
- South Side Mike - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:28 am:
1. “What, I should stop wearing the coat some Halloween prankster dressed as Patrick Fitzgerald left me in October?”
2. “Who knew that an interrogation spotlight feels a lot like sunshine over a person?”
3. “The woman made me do it.” (A la the paintings of Adam pointing to Eve.)
- Amy - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:28 am:
too much talk and not enough action.
- get a grip - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:29 am:
does he wash the jogging suit? does he have a closet full of jogging suits? hmmm.
- Carbon Deforestation - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:30 am:
This one? Yes, it is the same track suit as yesterday.
Patti stopped doing laundry, told me to F**k off.
- J. Mascis - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:30 am:
The man has no upper lip. That has to be a sign of something.
- Rob_N - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:30 am:
“That’s the wrong finger, governor.”
- Macoupin County Kid - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:33 am:
“Today I plan to ask the Illinois Congress to grant me the power to name my own replacement.”
- Speaking at Will - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:33 am:
RB thinking to himself.
How did it all come to this.
- Skeeter - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:33 am:
“and the appointment as next Senator from the State of Illinois is . . .”
- sal-says - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:33 am:
From the old Karen Brooks & Randy Sharp song:
“Baby, I’m the One”
- "It's An Up Day" - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:34 am:
“I’m wearing this thing that detects microphones now. Me safe. No about that job opening…..”
- Greg - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:34 am:
Don’t worry, the Football is protected by this coat.
- R.A. - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:35 am:
Interesting story on CNN about Jesse Jr:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/16/blagojevich/index.html
I guess Jesse’s spin is going to be that he’s been a secret-agent man for the G all along.
Not buying it.
- Levois - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:36 am:
Is he hiding a pistol in that coat over his hand?
- "It's An Up Day" - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:36 am:
“I’m wearing this thing that detects microphones. Me safe now. So, about that job opening….”
- anon sequitor - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:38 am:
Hey cameras, I’m over here…
(Explanation from grumpy Guerrero: All publicity is good publicity when you want to run for President in 2016.)
- Princess - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:38 am:
I would suspect he’s been advised to go about his normal routine and look about as if he has no care in the world, but Rod rather looks to me like he’d have jumped out of his skin if the reporter would have went “BOO”. I’m thinking that trying to look/act ‘normal’ is putting a lot of stress on Rod.
- phocion - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:40 am:
My other finger is broken.
- Bill Baar - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:42 am:
Are you looking at me? Are you looking at ME?
- wordslinger - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:44 am:
I think it’s more of a Wiseguy than Elvis look.
I’m a big fan of The Sopranos. The crew (except for Tony) routinely wear track suits during the day on routine business, but always dress to the nines for important sitdowns and events. Plus, consider his actions — the shakedowns, the kickbacks, the F-bombs, the work ethic, the choice of lawyer.
On the other hand, we’ll know he’s channelling Elvis if he starts wearing capes, jumpsuits and wraparound glasses, passes out silk scarves, inexplicably does karate moves and calls everybody “Red.”
- TDPurcell - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:46 am:
I’ve got the F***ing golden ticket right here in my shirt pocket.
- Porter - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:48 am:
I got your impeachment right here…..
- Bluefish - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 9:54 am:
Not trying to make a joke but he looks like he’s aged considerably since his “tape me” presser last Monday.
- Master of the Oblivious - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 10:01 am:
“Pull my finger”
- Gabriel - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 10:01 am:
==Not trying to make a joke but he looks like he’s aged considerably since his “tape me” presser last Monday.==
In a week he’ll look like Governor Palpatine.
- Anon from BB - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 10:11 am:
In order to be the man, you gotta beat the man. And I’m the man. WOOOOOOOOOOO!
- BehindTheScenes - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 10:14 am:
“Lotta names on the list I got right in here!”
- Keep Smiling - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 10:18 am:
“Me, that’s who the nation is talking about. This is definitely an up!”
- curious george - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 10:49 am:
“Prison inmates are treated to cable TV, hot meals and a college education, while on the outside some people can only afford these things through a life of crime!”
Alfred E. Neuman, MAD Magazine
- Say WHAT? - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 10:59 am:
Me look worried? Do I look worried to YOU?
- Macoupin County Kid - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 11:17 am:
“Here, pull my finger.”
- GOP'er - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 11:36 am:
“If I was from your planet this is where my heart would be.”
- Carnac - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 11:46 am:
“I’m wearing a wire to catch the misdoings of the Thompson Center janitor, who’s the only guy who will talk to me anymore besides my lawyers.”
- Jail house Rod - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 12:00 pm:
“Yeah baby. The tight pants show off my testicular virility. Check it out.”
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 12:08 pm:
Hey, I got your impeachment right here!
- say hey willie - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 12:10 pm:
“I’m the senator!”
- Suburban Republican - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 1:50 pm:
“Oh, and one more thing. I think Dennis Franz should play Bill in the movie.”
- City Voter - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 2:54 pm:
“Yes, I am the one who is going to run the People of the State of Illinois around the proverbial mulberry bush. That’s me, see me pointing. Hey, wait a minute…is it POP goes the weasel?”
- anon - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 3:58 pm:
“You will never catch me wearing stripes!!!”
- getting too old for this - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 4:51 pm:
“L’Etat, c’est moi!”
- Ahem - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 5:39 pm:
See this? It’s the zipper to [bleep]. And the governor did not say [bleep].
- Big Mama T - Wednesday, Dec 17, 08 @ 5:59 pm:
There ain’t no bleeping honor in here.