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I’ll add more as the day goes on, but GO WATCH THIS VIDEO CLIP NOW!!! Governor Blagojevich singing.

Don’t quit your day job, dude.

UPDATE: Huge throwdown at the Inside Dope. I wonder if this will make it into the article that a certain newspaper is planning on Quad Cities blogging and Sen. Mike Jacobs.

UPDATE 2: Glad to see that the Chicago Reader is finally planning to revamp its immensely sucky website.

UPDATE 3: Congrats!

UPDATE 4: Don’t forget all the fun stuff at Illinoize!

UPDATE 5: Oy.

UPDATE 6: Sen. Mattie Hunter’s Democratic primary opponent has been removed from the ballot. Also, one of Rep. David Miller’s primary opponents, Thaddeus Jones, has withdrawn.

UPDATE 7: A campaign consultant to Chicago city clerk Jim Laski has been charged with pressuring a witness to lie to a grand jury.

UPDATE 8: A few days belated, but welcome back Kristen McQueary!

posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Jan 13, 06 @ 12:19 pm

Comments

What I was able to hear sort of sounded like a cat yowling to get back into the house.

Comment by Aching Ears Friday, Jan 13, 06 @ 12:40 pm
My God! Where did that come from and do I have to hear it again? Is that Hung on harmony?

Comment by Simon Cowell Friday, Jan 13, 06 @ 1:08 pm
Once the Feds get a hold of him they will teach him how to sing.Why would someone other than a drunk embarass themselves in public like that.

Comment by DOWNSTATE Friday, Jan 13, 06 @ 1:20 pm
I just woke up. What the heck was that noise and who’s who’s got some ‘ludes, man?

Comment by Elvis Presley Friday, Jan 13, 06 @ 1:31 pm
The governor with the good baritone voice was George Ryan. Blago - not too bad. I’ve heard worse (Ditka)

Comment by shelbyville Friday, Jan 13, 06 @ 1:46 pm
He’s no Alan Keyes.

Comment by Anon. Friday, Jan 13, 06 @ 1:59 pm
His singing was terrible!

Comment by SouthernILRepub Friday, Jan 13, 06 @ 3:01 pm
Foreshadowing?

http://jobsillinois.us/news/contentview.asp?c=137864

Exerpt: “At a Washington restaurant called Mr. K’s, known for its Peking duck and tuxedo-clad waiters, Rod Blagojevich gathered his closest political friends in early 2001 to begin thinking about the pros and cons of running for governor.

At dinner were his college roommate, Lon Monk, his onetime congressional chief of staff, John Wyma, and an open-collared, twentysomething friend of Wyma’s whom the Democratic House member from Chicago did not know, Bradley Tusk.

“What do you all think of a guy who would go to a church in southern Illinois and sing a gospel song, ‘Peace in the Valley’ or ‘Take My Hand, Precious Lord’?” Blagojevich asked the group, testing an offbeat, almost Clintonesque strategy to win Downstate votes. “Would that be a plus or a minus?”

Generally, the group turned thumbs down at the prospect, particularly since this potential candidate was a Democrat with a Chicago accent and no known singing skills. But Tusk broke ranks. “That’s interesting,” he said. “Under the right circumstances, sure, yeah.”"

Comment by Anon Monday, Jan 16, 06 @ 10:20 pm
If memory serves, wasn’t it Bradley Tusk’s brilliant rejoinder at a meeting in DC years ago that Blago should sing at an african american church? Way to go BT! This was just too much for words.

Comment by Been There Tuesday, Jan 17, 06 @ 3:08 am