In the 1999 Chicago Mayoral lamb to the slaughter, Bobby Rush was spinning his wheels against Richard Daley. So his last chance was a huge snowstorm that shut down the city. Betting that Jane Byrne rode poor snow removal to the Mayor’s office, Rush figured he could do the same and set-up a press conference showing unremoved snow. Of course, this battle was about as lopsided as the US-Iraq war and he doubled his mitake by allowing his back to be up against the road. The entire time he was giving his press conference, City of Chicago snow plows made that the clearest damn spot of street in the city. All the while Rush had to try and keep his dignity.
I believe Saeed al-Sahhaf knows how Bobby Rush felt.