Kwame Kilpatrick

[LuckyTheDog]

His "apology" tonight shows...

[spoony]

1. When they said he'd be doing it from his church

I was expecting him to speak from the pulpit or something, pull a Swagart. But it looked like some back room, so I don't get why it had to be done there. Just for emotional appeal? In any case it was tactless. But, that isn't exactly surprising. Neither, if I may digress, was the RW Detroit News' reaction this morning, painting it in the best light imaginable and editoralising that it was a "good first step." My arse!

[sandyj999]

2. Kwame is a player.

He seems to think he entitled to use the finances of Detroit as his pocket money. This has been going on since he took office and people just keep re-electing him. So in a way they deserve him.

[LuckyTheDog]

3. They were duped

Kilpatrick won reelection because:

1) he convinced a lot of people (including deep-pocketed board members of Detroit Renaissance) that he had changed and

2) because Freeman Hendrix ran a bad campaign and never "made the sale" to the voters or to the business community.

[GigiMommy]

4. There's so much more to this story...

I don't think we even know the HALF of it.