Blago Othello Lear Caeser

Gee, who did he leave out? How about Hamlet. Tribune header, Blago book blames others, including Tony Rezko:

Blagojevich describes Rezko as the Cleopatra to his Marc Antony and says Rezko took him down a path of unthinkable ruin.

"Take Tony Rezko out of my life and I really believe I wouldn't be where I am right now," he writes.

and the Madigans, whose spokesman describes him as a "very troubled and confused human being". Why'd you back him then, twice. But we're not done with the cheap Shakespearian thrills:

"And while you're at it, you might as well throw in a little 'Richard the Third,' " he writes. "Because when the story of my years as governor ends, I was left with neither a kingdom nor a horse. Or for that matter, even a car."

And it's not just Shakespeare's protagonists with whom Blagojevich feels a connection. He compares himself to boxer Jake LaMotta, Theodore Roosevelt, Martha Stewart, George Bailey from "It's a Wonderful Life" and the mythical figure Icarus, whose wings melted when he soared too close to the sun.

(A trip down memory lane.) I guess I'll have to buy the book, if only to unearth a few more gubernatorial Dem gems.

More: John Kass. Blago quotes Henry V? Sun Times.

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