Illinois Governor: `I'm Not Going to Quit'

[freakygeek2008]

I think governors should be aloud to sale senate seats. Like in a 50/50 situation, if a party wants to make deals with that state, it shouldnt be outlawed.

[therealestsista]

Love ya Blagojevich and hang in there! You have to stand for something or fall for anything word! 1st of all, you forgot to mention Jesus Christ when you said you felt like MLK, Ghandi etc. and I can identify with how you felt and why u named them. i am surprised that Pres.Obama felt u should step down when u haven't been tried yet in court. Him of all people should know of being falsely accused without evidence! i am sorry black folks aren't rallying behind u as we should, I know you have love

[19punkster65]

So long Blagojevich, hurry up and get in the unemployment line with everybody else. Live and learn.

[cardshowman]

Don't quit! You should hang in there. STAY IN YOUR OFFICE!

[jiggakilla666]

He is going to implicate Obama if he is not paid. He has the goods.

[troy3000866]

oh fucking please...the community acts as if though they are all angels when in fact all people do whatever is necessary to make money and especially us americans. They are humans not fucking robots leave those politicians alone and let them do their duty as governor. Anyways, where in the constitution does it say a governor can not sell a senate seat?

[Brommes]

he is beeing lynched

[emolegroin]

He should have stood on the platform... taken a deep breath and said "And I am telling you, I'm not going! I'm the best man Illinois has ever known, there's no way I'm gonna go... NO NO NO NO WAY NO NO NO NO WAY They're living without me! They're not living without me! I don't wanna be FREEEEE! I'm STAYING, I'm STAAAYAAAAING AND YOU AND YOU AND YOU! YOU'RE GOING TO LOOOOVE MEEEE OOOOOOHhhh OH OH ooo OOO YOU'RE GOING TO TO LOVE ME OH LOVE ME... YOU'RE GOING TO LLLLLOOOOVAH! MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAY!

[tooosweeet]

now you know why democrats are against wiretapping. ha...

[Nickalispicalis]

Is that his real hair or a rug ?

[George21T]

wow 113-0 lol that bad news to the governor.

[TWmovies]

the man extorted a childrens hospital.

HE IS FUCKING EVIL

[enemyoficce]

make that 9.billion and rest to small businesses and public

[Jewishfan]

Israeli prime minister 100 times more corrupted than Blagoevich, but America seems to like Olmert a lot.

[elpatriotaLX]

That's called politics my friend.

Still "in Chicago" we want Blagoevich out. He got cut...

Besides, I think only 3 people like him over here and those who like him may be only his family.

[FredFoothand]

I don't care what they say about him. I like the Beatles hairdo.

[handsontheradio]

Way to be:)

[njattack]

Illinois people to the slav Blagojevich: "We're going to deport your butt back to Serbia where--you--belong."

[handsontheradio]

That's biased and xenophobic. He wasn't even born in Serbia. His parents were just from there.

[njattack]

Too bad. Besides, that's your opinion.

Blagoslav's citizenship is merely ink on paper.

The people of Illinois will deport this inferior slavic trash back to Serbia where--he--belongs.

[handsontheradio]

He's not inferior. We're all equals.

[njattack]

You speak for yourself.

Blagslav is inferior trash who's treasonous actions should be punished by either public execution or immediate deportation to Serbia, where--he--belongs. In both cases, his U.S. citizenship is to be revoked and never allowed into the U.S. or it's terroritories for the rest of his life.

I prefer this slav be publicly executed. I hate treasonous slavs.

[handsontheradio]

Those are some harsh words.

Remember, no one likes a racist;)

[njattack]

As the famous proverb has it:

"It's better to shoot the wrong man than not shoot at all."

[handsontheradio]

What does that have to do with this?

[DuchessAliana]

@njattack

"Inferior slavic trash" invented the electrical system used to power your computer. He also invented your radio, predicted space travel, predicted the Internet, predicted cell phones, developed robotics, created the precursor to electrical transformers, etc. If you are so convinced that slavs are "inferior trash," then I suggest you boycott using everything Nikola Tesla invented. Which would mean living without every modern appliance imaginable. We owe our world to "trash" like him.

[njattack]

Is that a fact? You obviously don't know about Tesla. He didn't use mathematics. He just put things together and got them to work. At that time everything was new. He was a good engineer but nothing out of the ordinary.

The master was James Clark Maxwell. Then there was Gauss, Hertz and Westinghouse.

[DuchessAliana]

@njattack

The reason he "put things together and got them to work" was because of his rare psychological condition. From the time he was around 7 years old he experienced bright flashes of light in which he would have "visions" of either memories (eidetic memory) or of things that did not exist. Eventually he was able to use this to his advantage--essentially what he saw in his mind's eye it appeared to him to be physically in front of him. So whenever he would come up with ideas

[DuchessAliana]

for new inventions, he could visualize them and perfect them just by "looking" at the image he had created in his mind and changing it. This is why he never wrote anything down right away--he wanted to perfect the ideas in his head. This could be pegged as intellectual arrogance, but by today's standards he suffered from an extreme case of OCD triggered by the traumatic loss of his brother Dane when he (Dane) was only 14 and Nikola 7 (the same time the "flashes" started). His feeling of

[DuchessAliana]

inadequacy as a child led to the development of this obsessive-compulsiveness, which explains his ridiculous work rate and also his extraordinary psychological condition, which plagued him but at the same time was the source of his ingenuity. I don't see how any of that is out of the ordinary. Also, George Westinghouse cheated Tesla even after their long-time friendship and partnership. Westinghouse was primarily a businessman, the competitor of J.P. Morgan, who was Edison's major financial

[DuchessAliana]

(*not out of the ordinary, excuse me...anyway...)

...backer. His financial successes were largely due in part to Tesla's patents. The two had a long-standing friendship, so when Westinghouse was experiencing financial trouble and told Tesla he would not be able to pay him the royalties he owed at the time, Tesla took it a step further, and as a gesture of repayment for Westinghouse's friendship, he ripped up the contract pertaining to said royalties. Westinghouse was apparently eternally

[DuchessAliana]

grateful for this, but he never showed it, because instead of repaying Tesla for his selfless act of friendship, regardless of the destroyed contract, after he straightened out his financial problems, he took advantage of the situation and continued reaping profits off the patents although it was Tesla who had partly enhanced his monetary success.

[DuchessAliana]

I would say more about his life story, but since it's off-topic I just suggest reading the book 'Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla' by Marc J. Seifer. Of the biographies about NT that I know of, Seifer's is the most definitive and contains information not previously included in any other bio. You cannot judge the man's being "ordinary" unless you know something of the context of his life.

[ddenuci]

I like the name of Rocket Rod's attorney :  Sam Adam Jr. Yeah, you got to be drinking alot of Sam Adams to say what he says beginning at 0:45

[biggerflexible]

I hope he gets off and makes Illinois look like the dummies they are.

[thermalfreek]

Nixon couldn´t have said it better, " I am not a Crook".

[abarzilai664]

What was George Ryan like before he was forced to step down? It might have been similar to Blago, which means that it an Illinoi problem with corruption.

[christopherspeedy]

this governor is gonna make you all look stupid....this is a man with class....best governor in usa

[12GaugeLosAngeles]

Fire that dog. We got lots of candidates that are ready to work hard for that seat. not these power hungry people who even after a scandal won't resign... PROOF of guilt. Even if a man was innocent and his reputation was tainted, he would step down do to mere pride and sense of closure. But a guilty man with a guilty mind, would deny it, and fight on in an arrogant manner. You can read this guys face, and the tapes SHOULD BE PUBLICLY RELEASED!!!

[ricochetVendetta]

sounds like clinton except this is more serious

[Mobius01010]

The evidence is overwhelming... wiretapped recordings, sworn FBI testimony, etc. Besides, his political career depends solely on public opinion, and with current reports, his career is over. Goodbye, Mr. Blagojevich, may you be the first of many.

[Namari12]

"I have the personal knowledge that I have not done anything wrong."

That's like.. the most disingenuous attempt at self-defense I've ever heard.

[12GaugeLosAngeles]

I picked up on that too! Ha ha ha, FIRED!!!

[alex3914]

No he's just sayin it like that for legal reasons....see in America buddy..haha u cann get out of anything...hahaahahahahaha srsly who doesn't agree? haha?