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September 19, 2006 By: ArchPundit Category: 2006 Governor's Race
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Prosumer 1.4 made by Nurudin Jauhari
September 19th, 2006 at
The dynamics of this race was clear nine months ago (except to the Illinois Leader refugees at CapitolFax). Money, incumbancy and partisan lean were going to grind JBT into the ground.
September 20th, 2006 at
JBT has no chance and has had no chance since day 1. Milorod is going to win this race by at least 12, largely because Illinois Republicans like me are going to either stay home or just not vote for the governor’s race. Until the leadership of the Illinois Republican party is removed and they start runnning candidates far removed from the state-wide combine, Illinois will be the New Jersey of the Midwest and in Democratic control.
September 20th, 2006 at
Could you explain the Milorod reference? If it’s a reference to Milosevich I will delete it. I’m fine with making fun of the Governor and pretty much calling him nasty names even, but comparing him to a genocidal dictator is a bit much. If I’m wrong about the reference, just let me know.
September 20th, 2006 at
I thought the GOPers supported Milosevic. At least they did when Clinton policies resulted in Milosevic’s being driven from office.
Clinton bad, don’tcha know.
September 20th, 2006 at
It’s a reference to a Serbian (or Serbian sounding) name from which the governor’s name may or may not have been drawn, but which is not the Governor’s name. It’s been noted in the past their mother wanted to give he and his brother names that didn’t sound too ethnic to avoid being labeled “foreigners” in school.
While probably not referencing a brutal dictator, it is certainly a lame attempt to make him sound foreign.
September 20th, 2006 at
I believe his given name is Milorod Blagojevich and he later shortened it to Rod … for whatever reason.
Leave it to Buck to import a sinister, nefarious motive … as if “Blagojevich” isn’t Serbian-sounding enough. Are you really implying that Rod thought he was gonna pull one over on everyone by shortening his name to Rod but leaving the Blagojevich?
September 20th, 2006 at
From Crain’s:
The Oct. 17 Focus on Illinois? Most Influential Families incorrectly reported information about Gov. Rod Blagojevich?s name. In his childhood, he was referred to by family and friends as Milorad. But his legal name is Rod. [printed in Oct. 24 issue]
It isn’t his name. Presumably you are neither family nor friends. And wannabe Republican hacks refer to him as such on the blogs. What else is one to conclude?
September 20th, 2006 at
This site: http://www.arikah.com/encyclopedia/Rod_Blagojevich
and at least three others support the fact that his given name is Milorad.
Read the Crain’s correction carefully, Buck. “His legal name is Rod.” That means that as of 10-24-05 or 10-24-06 his legal name “is” Rod. It says nothing about what his given name is. If, as of 10-24-05 your legal name is “Buck Naked” it doesn’t mean anything as to what your given name is, but simply means that as of as late as 10-23-05 you filed a petition to have your name “legally” changed.
September 21st, 2006 at
This “how many ethnic Serbs can dance on the head of a pin” debate is tiring.
It matters not whether he was called Rod from the day he was delivered, or from October 24, 2005 (October 24, 2006, a quick look at a calendar would reveal, has yet to occur). It’s his name.
I’m sure you can FOIA it. It would probably be a productive use of your time (Lord knows this has already wasted enough of mine).
I really couldn’t give a frog’s moist ass what you call him. What you find clever about ethnicizing his name will always remain a very unimportant mystery to me.
My guess is it is in a similar fashion to some on the left calling George Allen by his middle name, Felix.
Felix, like Milorad, is a funny sounding name to many of us. So really, have a blast. But don’t go around claiming it’s his name, because whether via a simple legal distinction or otherwise, it isn’t.
And don’t feign shock when someone calls you on it. You probably aren’t an ethnic Serb. You almost certainly aren’t a friend or family member of the man. And he doesn’t go by that name, legally or familiarly. Ergo, the only reason you would refer to him thusly is to fulfill some fantasy you have that it either makes you sound clever, or him sound foreign or sinister or silly or whatever.
But hey, have a blast.
September 21st, 2006 at
And I won’t delete it–obviously even if it isn’t his name the references isn’t to Milosevic which was my primary issue–and it has been done elsewhere. I make up all sorts of funny names for him so a nickname doesn’t qualify as something I’m going to step in on .
September 21st, 2006 at
Sounds reasonable ArchP. Glad to see (Milo)Rod has detractors to an extent from both sides of the aisle.
Buck — Take a pill. I stated the fact that his given name (and apparently name he was referred to as a child) is/is likely to be Milorad. Why would I be “shocked” at being “called out” for stating facts? Why does this fact agitate you so? What is your opposition to facts?
As for my voting proclivities — if I still lived in Chicago, I’d vote early and often for Tony Peraica. He’s Croatian. So, in general, I (and my Republican buddies), no matter how the Buckster’s of the world try to spin it, don’t have a problem with ethnicity. Unless you’re going to claim we’re anti-Serb and pro-Croatian.
September 21st, 2006 at
Hardly canonical, but his Wikipedia bio has him listed as Milorad “Rod” R. Blagojevich.
September 22nd, 2006 at
Why does anyone actually cite Wikipedia or any other online wiki based user-supplied “info” website as if the material listed there is a fact?
Wikipedia is notoriously faulty.
September 24th, 2006 at
Wikipedia is notoriously faulty.
Perhaps, and if you find an error, please fix it. I find it to be a decent reference especially for technical subjects, if you understand its limitations. If you know of a better online reference where one can go and look up basically any subject under the sun, I’d love to know about it.
September 25th, 2006 at
As far as I’m aware, the reason we lefties call Allen Felix is because, quite simply, he hates being called Felix.
Very playground-ish, for certain.
I wonder what they call him at the (CC)Clan rallies?
October 20th, 2006 at
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