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Friday, December 19, 2008
Politics Fighting Until the Last Breath (Or, "Don't Hate!")
Posted by Eli Sanders on Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:41 PM
Illinois Governor Ron Blagojevich speaks:
This video, from Blagojevich's first post-arrest press conference, is pretty amazing. He quotes Kipling ("Don't give way to hating..."), he sounds like Nixon in moments, and he's every bit as feisty and petulant as you'd imagine. (But no curse words, dammit!)
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