# Go, Blago, go! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 19, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974 "2008-12-19T20:55:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/61 "2008-12-21T19:29:32Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > He’ll resign slightly ahead of the descent of the headsman’s axe. Then he’ll be all apologetic. We might even get to see a press conference involving him, his wife, and, probably, his preacher. > [@Kyla](#): > > Blagojevich is Serbian Orthodox, so I don’t think he has a preacher. (I think the term would be pope.) The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church is called the Patriarch in English. And he has a Bishop- Hristifor, of the Midwestern America Metropolitanate (super-diocese.) Anyway, I think having your wife on stage is optional when you aren’t facing a sex scandal. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/62 "2008-12-22T18:28:52Z")
> [@Pochacco](#): > > Did you hear the whole press conference? He quoted Kipling at one point! “If.” Bah. A more apposite quotation would have been from Kipling’s [“Hymn of Breaking Strain.”](http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_strain.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/63 "2008-12-22T18:47:59Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > He’ll resign slightly ahead of the descent of the headsman’s axe. Then he’ll be all apologetic. We might even get to see a press conference involving him, his wife, and, probably, his preacher. > > -Joe Do the current rules require the wife to show up for non-sexual offenses? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/64 "2008-12-22T20:30:54Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > He’ll resign slightly ahead of the descent of the headsman’s axe. Then he’ll be all apologetic. More likely he’ll be about as “apologetic” as O.J. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/65 "2008-12-22T20:36:49Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > More likely he’ll be about as “apologetic” as O.J. I know this can’t happen (different jurisdictions and all), but wouldn’t it be SO COOL if they wound up as cellmates? They’d wear themselves out with posturing contests. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/66 "2008-12-22T20:39:31Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > More likely he’ll be about as “apologetic” as O.J. He’ll start searching golf courses for an appointee? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/67 "2008-12-22T20:51:58Z")
It’d be funnier if he burst onto the Senate floor with a gun and a couple of henchmen. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/68 "2008-12-22T23:16:16Z")
Ooh, **this** is interesting . . . [Blagojevich just pardoned 22 people.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-blago-pardons-20dec20,0,5753513.story) (Just to show he is still governor, I guess . . . nobody can fault him for **this** exercise of power . . . and maybe to plant the “pardon” meme in a few minds . . .😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/69 "2008-12-22T23:39:46Z")
> [@Cosmic Relief](#): > > I’m banking on a stint in rehab for a coke problem. There’s just no way anybody could have this much self-centered gall without being a cokehead. > > One other possibility is that Blag knows something we don’t… like maybe he’s got a blackmail line on someone powerful enough to make this go away (Obama, for instance). It’s highly dubious, but then again it beggars belief that someone would bluff so mightily while holding no cards whatsoever. I think the same thing about Drew Peterson. He KNOWS something more than he’s letting on or perhaps will ever let on. I mean, he could be that big of an asshole, but something tells me there’s more to it. ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/70 "2008-12-23T00:01:01Z")
[This is all I can think of when I look at him](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/annewaldron/Blago.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/71 "2008-12-23T01:07:14Z")
> [@xanthous](#): > > [This is all I can think of when I look at him](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/annewaldron/Blago.jpg) Oh. good grief, now every time I see a photo of the man I’ll think of that. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/72 "2008-12-23T01:16:43Z")
Y’know, there was a time when this problem would be neatly resolved to a shallow grave on a farm somewhere. What the hell happened to you, Illinois? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/73 "2008-12-23T03:00:36Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Y’know, there was a time when this problem would be neatly resolved to a shallow grave on a farm somewhere. > What the hell happened to you, Illinois? Um…all the farmland north of I-80 is now underneath banks and strip malls? I got nothin’. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/74 "2008-12-23T03:03:26Z")
Who’s got the extra money for bullets these days? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/75 "2008-12-23T06:19:28Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > Who’s got the extra money for bullets these days? Hey, a sturdy shovel’s good for more than just digging holes, ya know. ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/76 "2008-12-23T06:40:32Z")
I think his face is really ugly, but his hair is alright. Not great, but alright. Valete, Vox Imperatoris ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/77 "2008-12-23T07:01:16Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Ooh, **this** is interesting . . . [Blagojevich just pardoned 22 people.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-blago-pardons-20dec20,0,5753513.story) (Just to show he is still governor, I guess . . . nobody can fault him for **this** exercise of power . . . and maybe to plant the “pardon” meme in a few minds . . .😉 ) > [@chicagotribune.com](#): > > Marcus Lyons was so bitter after leaving prison in 1991 that he tried to nail himself to a wooden cross outside the DuPage County Courthouse. 😕 How the hell do you nail _yourself_ to a cross? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/78 "2008-12-23T07:11:12Z")
An ingenious Doper once treated us to a splendid description of Batman doing this once, in a competition against Superman. I think they were both drunk, or something. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/79 "2008-12-23T11:53:59Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Y’know, there was a time when this problem would be neatly resolved to a shallow grave on a farm somewhere. > What the hell happened to you, Illinois? Union rules. You can’t just have _any_ guys digging shallow graves, plus there’s issues of transporting the bodies. The Teamsters need their piece of the action, and it turns out they are real Chatty Cathies when the Feds come around. ---
**Author:** ![BlueOhio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@BlueOhio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueOhio)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/80 "2008-12-23T14:30:12Z")
Does anyone else see Martin Sheen’s character from “The Dead Zone” when Blago speaks? I think it’s the hair. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974.md?page=5)