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Embattled Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich explains his obsession with Rudayrd Kipling. It turns out he heard the poem "If" when he was 15 and watching football on TV.

What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis and primordial slime? Words with Wings and Magic Things, a book of illustrated poems for kids.

And sometimes if there wasn't any Irish poetry written into the speech, Biden would just toss some in from memory on the fly. "I wouldn't say that he exclusively quotes Irish poets," Cluchey said.