Prisoner of pride

Politics: Rod Blagojevich looks badly beaten, but is he yet broken? | Jamie Dean

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Charles Colson says he knows how disgraced Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich feels. Two days after federal officials arrested Blagojevich for what U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald called "a corruption crime spree," Colson reflected on his own corruption-related fall during the Watergate scandal nearly 35 years ago.

Colson, a former aide to President Nixon who later founded the Christian ministry Prison Fellowship, spent seven months in prison, and he credits that experience with saving his life. If a jury eventually convicts Blagojevich and sends him to jail, Colson hopes he'll find something similar: "He's going to have to reach rock bottom—just as I did—before he will be able to escape his own prison of pride, self-delusion, and self-righteousness," Colson wrote in a column for CNN.

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