It was just politics as usual, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Thursday of the corruption allegations that seem all but certain to upend his political career. Blagojevich took a defiant stand before the Illinois Senate, telling members that the four tapes that contain his most controversial statements are “conversations relating to the things all of us in politics do in order to run campaigns and try to win elections.”

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