Blagojevich is speaking now–you can catch it on C-SPAN. He is in the middle of telling his own life story, talking about how he worked toward the governorship in order to help people just like his parents. It’s really an embarrassing spectacle.

“I didn’t go to Harvard,” he says. “I applied on a Monday, got my rejection letter back on Tuesday . . . But I became governor, and what was I going to do with that, squander it? No, I was going to try to get things done for people like my parents . . . I think about my parents a lot. I think about ordinary people like them . . .”

He is now telling the story about a Mexican-American woman living on the South Side, who wakes up every morning at 5 am to get to work by 8 am. She has to travel all the way up to O’Hare to get to work.

The story would almost be touching if not for the entire context. The governor makes it seem as though he is being persecuted for helping people like this woman.

“It ain’t about me,” Blagojevich says.

Oh, yes it is . . .