We might not have the best vertical leaping ability. But we sure do a good job of making idiots of ourselves.
There really isn’t much commentary to add to this story. It pretty much speaks for itself. Consistently crazy Rod Blagojevich manages again to make headlines for all the wrong reasons saying that he is/was/always will be:
“blacker than Barack Obama.”
Like you, I was curious as to what Rod’s criteria for determining relative blackness was — because it ain’t skin color or his perfectly straight hair:
he shined shoes as a child, grew up in a five-room apartment, and that his father had a laundromat “in a black community not far from where we lived.”
His dad owned a business and he lived in a relatively large five room apartment? Sounds like he’s more white middle class than black, but who I am to judge?
But he has since seen the err of his ways:
Politicians say the darnedest things.
From the NY Times: Blagojevich Retreats From Race Remarks About Obama
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