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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on January 11, 2010

Disgraced ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich: 'I'm blacker than Barack Obama'

Is January “Democrat Racist Month?” Good grief…

Another Democrat comment that is racially tinged has hit the fringe media… this one from Illinois corruptocrat ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich is just plain weird.

Democrats are having a tougher time covering up the racism of members of their party. They’re running amock.

Blago, you’re a washed-up, money-grabbing, power-whoring racist jerk. Oh, wait… YOU APOLOGIZED. So, your ridiculous racist comment published in Esquire should be all peaches and cream with the Dems.

From CBS2, Blagojevich: ‘I’m Blacker Than Barack Obama’… Ex-Governor Later Calls Remark ‘A Stupid Thing To Say’:

CHICAGO (CBS) ― Deposed Gov. Rod Blagojevich tells CBS 2 his remark that he is “blacker” than President Obama was a “stupid thing to say.”

Deposed Gov. Rod Blagojevich is apologizing for comments in a new interview, in which he claims he is “blacker” than President Barack Obama.

“It was a very stupid thing to say,” Blagojevich told CBS 2’s Susan Carlson outside his house Monday morning. “Obviously, I’m not blacker than President Obama.”

That is what Blagojevich said when CBS 2 caught up with him Monday morning, taking his daughter to school.

But that is the opposite of what he told Scott Raab of Esquire Magazine in an interview published early Monday morning.

In the interview, Blagojevich says: “I’m blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little Laundromat in a black community not far from where he lived. I saw it all growing up.”

Blagojevich defended his comments Monday morning, saying he had meant to articulate something other than he did.

“I was speaking metaphorically, and it was, again, a stupid way of saying it,” Blagojevich said, “but the frustration is real, and the frustration is still, today, average, ordinary people aren’t getting a fair shake.”

The White House has declined to comment on the Esquire interview. But people who spoke to CBS 2 were not impressed with the former governor’s comments in the article.

The White House wouldn’t comment on the quote, but it’s generating a lot of controversy, even in Blago’s own neighborhood.

“It’s not right when people go around with a black-o-meter trying to decide that certain things make them more black than another person,” said Shawn Coleman. “If you’re black, you’re black.”

“He really said that?!” asked Liz Hishmeh. “That’s a rough comment. I don’t know what to say. That’s a really bad comment.”

“Because one may have been through a tragic experience in their life does not mean that their ethnic cultural background makes them blacker or whiter than anyone,” the Rev. Richard Bush said earlier Monday.

Coming next, no doubt… Nancy Pelosi will admit to liking Snoop Dogg’s music…

This is an except from HillBuzz, which was posted last year in January. It’s very telling about Reid, Blago, and the Democrats… how quickly they forget their racism:

Things are getting more and more interesting in the drama to replace Obama in the Senate.

Apparently, Harry Reid’s on tape in conversations with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich shortly before his arrest insisting no black replace Obama in the Senate. Reid wanted either Tammy Duckworth or Lisa Madigan, since Reid believed (correctly) that Jesse Jackson Jr., Emil Jones, Danny Davis, or other black politicians won’t be able to win election in their own right in 2010.

The other day when Congressman Bobby Rush whipped out the race card to pressure acceptance of Roland Burris as Obama’s Senate replacement, it seemed like Rush was just reading from the successful Obama playbook, and race-baiting without cause for political gain.

Now, it looks like Rush was really onto something, and Reid is doing everything he can to keep a black Senator off the table…because Reid wants to hold that seat in 2010 and does not believe a black Senator will hold it. Based purely on the color of that Senator’s skin.

Which makes Reid, in a sense, racist…and the parallel between him and George Wallace, as used by Rush, just got more credible. Threatening to bar Burris from the Senate with armed guards is indeed very similar to Wallace’s use of armed guards to bar black students from schools. Just because Burris is black, and does not fit into Reid’s 2010 plans.

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And Democrats’ claims to be the champions of black voters are just plain ridiculous. Blacks aren’t even being CONSIDERED for Senate replacements in Delaware, New York, or Colorado. Why not? Surely there must be a black candidate SOMEWHERE in all of those states.

But, evidently, Harry Reid doesn’t want any blacks to serve in the Senate, for whatever reason, so what does that say about Democrats?

Not that anyone seems to care, in the lingering haze of hopium, but it’s there for you to see it.

Related reading:
Mcnorman’s Weblog: Rod Blagojevich Blacker Than Barack UPDATE: Apology and POTUS, The Hypocrite
Mike Flynn, Big Government: Harry Reid: Obama ‘Light-Skinned’ ‘with No Negro Dialect’
Frugal Café Blog Zone: The Black Sphere Presents “Great Moments in Democrat Racist History” (video) and Black Caucus & Rev. Al Sharpton Forgive Harry Reid’s Racist Comment… Ann Coulter Challenges Sharpton on Democrats’ Race Card Double Standard (video)
HillBuzz: Is Harry Reid a racist, or just a bigot?
The Powers That Be: Sharpton Takes on Coulter, Defends Harry ‘Jolson’ Reid and DNC Chairman: Harry Reid Apologized for Giving Obama a Compliment and Harry Reid Eats (Jim) Crow
Village Voice: Rightbloggers: Blago, Richardson Prove Obama Corrupt, Dems Racist
Gateway Pundit: The Obama Double Standard– How Team O Treated Ferraro vs. Harry Reid (Video) and Ann Coulter to Al Sharpton: “Did Harry Reid Ask You to Stop Using Your Negro Dialect Too?” (Video) and Congressional Black Caucus: We’re Cool With Reid Calling Obama a Light-Skinned Negro and Bubba Too? Bill Clinton on Obama: “A Few Years Ago & This Guy Would be Getting Us Coffee” and Obama in 2002: GOP Has to Drive Out Trent Lott and Democrat Harry Reid Apologizes For Racist Remarks About Obama
Another Black Conservative: Harry Reid will pay no price for his Negro comment
Hot Air: Video: Coulter, Sharpton square off over Reid remarks
Dancing Czars: Republican Chairman Calls for Reid to Step Down
Lurita Doan, Big Government: The Democratic Double Standard on Race: I’ve Lived It
Michelle Malkin: Dem leader who compared Republicans to slavemasters referred to “light-skinned” Obama and “Negro dialect;” Obama accepts apology, praises Reid on “social justice” and Liberal racism in Berkeley: Cut h.s. science labs for “diversity’s” sake

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