The governor's dream
The elected leader of Illinois state government bared some of his soul to reporters in Chicago while announcing Monday that he and the governor of Wisconsin want residents of their states to be able to buy drugs from Canada, though the federal government doesn't officially allow it.
While the tape recorders were on, Gov. ROD BLAGOJEVICH wondered aloud what SIGMUND FREUD might say about a dream he recently had.
"I'm with the security detail," Blagojevich began. "This is shortly after what happened in Springfield happened," he said, apparently referring to the fatal shooting of a Statehouse guard.
"And in the dream we're in Rogers Park," he said, referring to a neighborhood on Chicago's north side.
In the dream, he ordered his car stopped because he wants to get out because the buildings looked like good investments, he recalled.
"A crowd gathers because the governor is there. People came up and started talking to me, and there was a young man who was very threatening. And a friend of mine who I've known since I was a child happened to be with me. And he comes up to me and says: 'The security detail is concerned about your security. We've got to get back in the car. We've got to get going.'
"I'm finishing up a conversation. As I'm doing that, a taxicab pulls up, stops and out of the car comes BARACK OBAMA. This is my dream. I can't leave now. I say hello to Barack. We exchange pleasantries. I commend him on his Spartan campaign and frugalness for taking a cab.
"The friend comes up again and says: 'The security detail wants you to leave. It's really getting bad here.' I said 'OK.'
"I'm about to say goodbye to Barack (when) I see the cab has a flat tire and Barack is going to go help fix the flat tire for the taxicab. And I said to my guy, (I) can't leave now. If Barack's fixing that flat tire, I've got to help, too.'
"So as Barack and I are fixing that taxicab and the security detail is getting more and more nervous about security, the taxicab driver gets out of the taxicab, and it was ALAN KEYES."
Like Blagojevich, I'm not sure what Freud would say.
Maybe the governor just doesn't like all the attention the U.S. Senate candidate from Maryland is getting, so he decided to out-Keyes Keyes. And while he could learn from this dream, I doubt the governor will trade state planes for taxicabs any time soon.
Bernard Schoenburg is political columnist for The State Journal-Register. He can be reached at 788-1540 or [email protected].
