Obama Won’t Call For Disgraced Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s Resignation
Since beginning his campaign Obama has told us that he’s the “hope” candidate. The “change” candidate. The “new politics” candidate.
Kwame Kilpatrick, on the other hand, is very much the sort of corrupt and power-drunk politician we Americans have come to know and love since the beginning of our Republic. From his firing of police officers who investigated his wild stripper parties (not to mention the murder of strippers who talked to said officers) at the Mayor’s mansion to riding around the city on Harley Davidsons taken from the police motorcycle pool to the firing of more police officers who exposed an affair Kilpatrick was having with a member of his staff (the officers were awarded $6.5 million in damages in a court ruling Kilpatrick described as being the result of “suburban white jurors”) Kwame Kilpatrick is the caricature of a corrupt politician we all carry around in our heads.
So given all that, you’d think that Obama the “change” candidate would be more than willing to condemn the actions of Kwame the “politics as usual” candidate.
You’d think anyway.
It would seem that loyalty to fellow Democrats is more important to Obama than ethical political leadership.
