Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich boycotted his impeachment trial Monday to take his case directly to the people. In nationally-broadcast interviews, Blagojevich compared himself to Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi, and complained that his trial is rigged. Whether or not he is guilty of corruption, one got the sense of a man with a grandiose sense of himself who seems to have lost his grip on reality.
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