{"id":164786,"date":"2010-01-11T07:39:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T12:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/01\/11\/blacker-than-obama\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T07:39:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T12:39:39","slug":"blacker-than-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/164786","title":{"rendered":"Blacker Than Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~3\/lu8x0UG9P68\/blacker_than_obama.html\" >Blacker Than Obama             <\/a><br \/>Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich sits for an interview with <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/features\/people-who-matter-2010\/rod-blagojevich-interview-0210\">Esquire magazine<\/a> and outdoes himself in a comparison to President Obama.<\/p>\n<p>  Said Blagojevich: &#8220;It&#8217;s such a cynical business, and most of the people in the business are full of shit and phonies, but I was real, man &#8212; and am real. This guy, he was catapulted in on hope and change, what we <i>hope<\/i> the guy is. What the fuck? Everything he&#8217;s saying&#8217;s on the teleprompter. I&#8217;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 we lived. I saw it all growing up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Blagojevich even claims David Axelrod called the day after Sen. John Kerry lost the election in 2004 to convince him to make a White House bid:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You need to think about running for president in 2008. A new face from the Midwest to challenge Hillary Clinton. He used to work for me. He had Obama in his stable already &#8212; he&#8217;s a consultant, so he&#8217;s just gathering potential talents. That&#8217;s what these guys do &#8212; it&#8217;s all about picking winners.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~4\/lu8x0UG9P68\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>             <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blacker Than Obama Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich sits for an interview with Esquire magazine and outdoes himself in a comparison to President Obama. Said Blagojevich: &#8220;It&#8217;s such a cynical business, and most of the people in the business are full of shit and phonies, but I was real, man &#8212; and am real. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}