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Not all of Blagojevich's missteps were criminal, some were just stupid
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| Contributor | Imperator |
| Last Edited | Imperator Mar 15, 2012 06:01pm |
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| Category | Opinion |
| Author | John Kass |
| Media | Newspaper - Chicago Tribune |
| News Date | Thursday, March 15, 2012 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | There he was outside his Chicago bungalow Wednesday, well-coiffed and determined to star in his own crazed fantasy, the Prisoner of Zenda giving us the long goodbye.
Rod Blagojevich, convicted former governor of Illinois, leaves us as Gov. Dead Meat and arrives in prison Thursday as Gov. New Fish, the second consecutive governor to go to the federal slammer in this thoroughly crooked state we call home.
He'll be around 67 years old when he leaves prison, old and gray and without prospects, but you wouldn't know it from his defiant goodbye speech, with the groupies chanting "Free our governor!" and lumps forming in the throats of some broadcast journalists who should know better.
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Yet corruption isn't enough to explain his fall. It's too easy. It won't help us understand this crooked state we live in. And it won't explain why he'll be a human trivia question in a few months, and why his former rival and fellow Chicago Democratic machine creature, Obama, is moving toward a second term in the White House.
Chicago is a thoroughly corrupt city. Illinois is a thoroughly corrupt state. We have many politicians who are corrupt. But the alpha males don't go to prison. |
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