Friends Like These
Friends Like TheseBy Keith Naughton
How the Detroit mayor's fall hurts Obama.
Long before sex, lies and texting caused Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to plead guilty to two felonies and resign on Thursday, he and Barack Obama shared a warm man-hug before a huge Motown crowd.
It came 16 months ago, as Obama was launching his campaign for president with a scalding speech to the Detroit Economic Club upbraiding Detroit's automakers for not building more fuel-efficient cars. But while that speech gave Obama green street-cred, his praise of Kilpatrick as a "great mayor" who will do "astounding things for many years to come" backfired.
As Kilpatrick now heads to jail for four months, for obstruction of justice, two attack ads have already appeared on the Web replaying Obama's Kwame moment. One, produced by the conservative Freedom's Defense Fund and soon going into heavy rotation on Detroit TV stations, shows Kilpatrick's mug shot, as the 10 felonies he faced scroll down the screen while Obama says, "I'm grateful to call him a friend."
The ad ends ominously with the line: "You should know who Obama's friends are."
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I think that Obama has had too many "man-hugs" with too many of the wrong people! Are there any shysters in America that Obama doesn"t know? Are there any that he doesn't call his friends?
I have no clue, Chomp, but I sure don't like the ones that have surfaced!
tmw
What a sleazy low-life Obama is. How could the Democratic Party have been so remiss in nominating this scum to run as their Presidential candidate? It boggles the mind. Aren't there any decent people in their party?
Not at the upper levels...they have become corrupted. Power for power's sake, and "me" over country and decency.
The virtues are lost to so many of them, they rejected them for the here and now.
tmw
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