If You're Accused Of Corruption...

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has just given a news conference protesting his innocence over claims that he tried to sell President Elect Obama's senate seat. In his speech, he quoted Rudyard Kipling's poem If. Here's my version.

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are accusing you of corruption,
If you can trust yourself when you are the one of the most unpopular
governors in Illinois history
If you can wait and not be tired of waiting to appear in court
If you can dream – and in those dreams believe you are innocent
If you can think – but forget what you have actually done
If you can meet with triumph and disaster,
But not know the difference.
If you can believe that having your voice on tape is not irrefutable evidence
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more – you must be really dumb.