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Rockford Register Star political columnist Aaron Chambers asks a shrink to analyze the governor’s recent dream.

You may have seen this weird dream story elsewhere. Here’s how Governor Blagojevich described it:

“I’m with the security detail. This is shortly after what happened in Springfield happened. And in the dream we’re in Rogers Park and for whatever reason we’re there. And I tell the security detail, ‘Stop the car. I want to get out. These buildings look like they’d be good investments. This neighborhood is gentrifying. OK?’

“We get out of the car. A crowd gathers because the governor is there. People came up and started talking to me, and there was a young man who was very threatening. And a friend of mine who I’ve known since I was a child happened to be with me. He comes up to me and says, ‘The security detail is concerned about your security. We’ve got to get back in the car. We’ve got to get going.’

“And I said, ‘I hear you. Let me just finish up.’ So I’m finishing up a conversation. As I’m doing that, a taxi cab pulls up, stops and out of the car comes Barack Obama. This is my dream. I can’t leave now. I say hello to Barack. We exchange pleasantries. I commend him on his Spartan campaign and frugalness for taking a cab.

“The friend comes up again and says, ‘The security detail wants you to leave. It’s really getting bad here.’ I said, ‘OK.’

“I’m about to say goodbye to Barack (when) I see the cab has a flat tire, and Barack is going to go help fix the flat tire for the taxi cab. And I said to my guy, ‘I can’t leave now. If Barack’s fixing that flat tire, I’ve got to help, too.’

“So as Barack and I are fixing that taxi cab and the security detail is getting more and more nervous about security, the taxi-cab driver gets out of the taxi cab and it was Alan Keyes.”

Chambers consulted Rosalind Cartwright, the director of the Sleep Disorder Service at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago and an expert in dream psychology:

“The main theme is security/insecurity. He plays that financially, personally, socially and politically — all in one dream.” [Snip]

“He’s got Barack as popular and he needs to ally himself with him,” she said. “Barack is frugal and maybe it’s, ‘I’m not. I need to be more like him.’ And Barack is a good Samaritan so it’s, ‘I’m gonna help change the tire.’”

We’ve got corruption everywhere, a looney US Senate candidate and a governor who shares details of his nighttime dreams with reporters. Illinois, the slap-happy state.

posted by Rich Miller
Sunday, Oct 10, 04 @ 5:54 am

Comments

Governor Blagojevich talking about his dream is part of his extremely likable side. His self-deprecating candor is charming. I know it’s a stump speech, but every time he tells the story about his greatest accomplishment in his three terms in Congress — naming a post office in his district — I laugh out loud.

Comment by Dan Johnson-Weinberger Wednesday, Oct 13, 04 @ 11:40 pm