And The Hits Just Keep On Coming: Obama/Kilpatrick Ad
By NancyA on September 17, 2008 at 9:25 PM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Democratic National Convention, Obama
Freedom’s Defense Fund put together a new ad highlighting the ties between Obama and Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick who, according to Salon,pleaded guilty to two felony counts of obstruction of justice on September 4, 2008. Kilpatrick will forfeit his office and serve 120 days in jail, ending a scandal that began when the Detroit Free Press published raunchy text messages between Kilpatrick and his ex-chief of staff.
Those messages proved that, in spite of Kilpatrick’s testimony during a civil lawsuit, the pair had, in fact, been knocking boots.
Watch the video ad, it is devastating!
Salon had this to say about Obama and his praise of Kilpatrick:
Last year, before addressing the Detroit Economic Club, Obama praised Kilpatrick as “a great mayor.” This year, he told the mayor to stay away from the Democratic National Convention. On Wednesday, as Kilpatrick apparently balked at accepting a plea deal, Obama issued a public statement asking him to resign.
Obama told Kilpatrick to stay home and not attend the Democratic National Convention. A few weeks later, Obama issued a public statement asking Kilpatrick to accept the plea deal. Why did Obama, who so highly praised Kilpatrick, not do this privately? Why did he feel it necessary to be so overt about it? Interesting. And yet another Obama “friend” is thrown “under the bus”.
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