Obama camp: Detroit mayor would be a 'distraction'

AP ^ | 08/14/2008 | ED WHITE

[Panzerlied]

DETROIT (AP) — Barack Obama doesn't want Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his legal troubles to be a distraction at the upcoming Democratic National Convention, and he got his wish Thursday when a judge ordered the city executive to stay home.

A Michigan spokesman for Obama, Brent Colburn, said in an e-mail Thursday that the focus of the convention in Denver this month should be on Obama and not on what Colburn called "the troubles of one individual," a reference to Kilpatrick and the two criminal cases he's facing.

Kilpatrick, who would have gone to the convention as a superdelegate, faces eight felony charges in a perjury case and two felony charges in an assault case.

[taildragger]

VVV,

No a second judge over-rooled the 1st and put the GPS Ankelet back on.

I say it again...

Rush needs an "Operation Chaos Phase III, Keep Kawame Alive!" :-)...

[maggief]

[chaos_5]

Kwame Kilpatrick

Hey, Patrick is a "white" name....

[HighlyOpinionated]

You can't make these things up! It is all about Mr Barry Soetoro-Obama and No Body Else Better Try To Move That Spotlight Off'n Him! Barry Soetoro-Obama has to be the center of the DNC Universe or he'll . . . he'll . . . he'll . . . melt . . . down.