Rod Blagojevich Interview: “I’m Blacker than Barack Obama”

Yes, ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says he's "blacker than Barack Obama".  He said it on the Esquire magazine for its February issue. He was as if saying that he is better than Obama, and that what Obama had gone through as a black man, good or bad, he experienced it all.  And that he knows what black people are feeling and have gone through, and he understands it all.  So he could mean, he is a person worthy to be applauded for that.  Perhaps he was trying to sell himself by saying those things: 

"I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up."

I mean what was his point?  I could say he was trying to build himself up.  For we know Obama is a popular president, by saying his blacker, then he was as if saying he is more than Obama.