It looks to me like Rod Blagojevich is another of those people who love being in the limelight and having power. He is working extremely hard to do well personally by doing (some) good publicly.
He has already convinced himself everyone else is wrong besides himself. He also has no understanding of the concept "Over the top." In his grandiosity he thinks everyone will see him as the great man he sees himself. Altogether he is quite narcissistic and also obsessional. I'd bet that his entire political career is based on those traits. Unfortunately it has led him to completely disregard the limitations a democracy places on politicians. He knows that he is right, and that he is uniquely important, so trivialities like the law and the separation of powers does not - should not - apply to him. all he has to do is explain that to the public and he will be saved from his enemies, in this case the Illinois Legislature as a whole.
He is being opposed by US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, a man who is clearly obsessional about applying the law and rooting out wrong-doing. Those are obsessional characteristics the public approves of.
Fitzgerald and Blagojevich are the principle individual characters in this very public drama. The Illinois legislature is a problem for Blagojevich, but it is a faceless group. The drama is missing, unless you are a political junkie.
The conflict between Fitzgerald and Blagojevich could be the basis for a very good novel. Probably has been.
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