Very playground-ish, for certain.

I wonder what they call him at the (CC)Clan rallies?

Wikipedia is notoriously faulty.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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?

While probably not referencing a brutal dictator, it is certainly a lame attempt to make him sound foreign.

Clinton bad, don’tcha know.