Obama,Blago flip sides of Bizarro plotline

BY Carol Marin Chicago Sun-Times

Sen Kennedy,Gov. Hot Rod Blagojevich,and Barack Obama

Sen Kennedy,Gov. "Hot Rod"Blagojevich,and Barack Obama

Barack Obama jogged only slightly ahead of Rod Blagojevich across the news landscape of the past month,the glistening horizon of a new Camelot ahead,perhaps,but the jagged outline of the clouted city not far behind.

Obama and Blago are more than the yin and yang of Illinois politics. They represent,a la Jerry Seinfeld,the ultimate Bizarro plotline.

Bizarro is the alter ego of Superman,a concept the Seinfeld crew borrowed from DC Comics and incorporated into a 1996 episode. If you never saw it,it goes like this:For every apathetic Jerry,nudgy George and raucous Kramer there is,in the Bizarro world,the polar opposite:an empathetic Jerry,an urbane George and a genteel Kramer.


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