"Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!"
Posted on 09/06/2008 2:56:09 PM PDT by kcvl
A Washington political group alleges in a new TV commercial that U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama has ties to disgraced Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
The Freedom's Defense Fund advertisement shows footage of the Democratic senator from Illinois praising Kilpatrick at a May 2007 event, the Detroit Free Press reported Saturday.
The advertisement pairs Obama's verbal praise for Kilpatrick with a copy of the mayor's police mug shot, taken before he pleaded guilty to two obstruction of justice charges.
(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
Spread the news...this is great.
Thanks!
It’s about time this came out. Here in SoCal, Kevin James played this audio clip on his radio show last night. It was AMAZING! Obama was over-the-top praising Kwame, still another loser/criminal who’s in bed with Obama.
Hope Hannity, Levin, Rush, etc., spread the work.
That is a fantastic ad!
Whoops! There goes another one under Obama’s bus. It must be getting crowded under there.
I saw this ad and, while the “guilt by association” message is clear, I’d like to know if Obama did business with this guy or something. Personally, I think the Obama-Ayers ads were a lot more effective because they really had the Obama camp squealing. More ads tying him to Rezko would probably be better, IMO.
LOL, as opposed to Obama's fiends of "hope and change."
If some mayor that GWB loved was in big-time trouble we would be running around saying that Bush had nothing to do with his troubles.
There are far bigger fish to fry with Obama (that's not racist, is it?)
Hit ‘em and hit ‘em hard!
Thanks for posting the link.
DNC pledges to remove RICO tool from police.
It’s just that EVERY association that BHO has is bad.
The Free Press, citing unidentified people in the two men's camps, reported Monday that Obama and Kilpatrick had a prickly phone conversation in advance of Obama ‘s speech to the Detroit Economic Club.
On Monday, both men said there was only some good-natured banter between them.
During that call, Kilpatrick supposedly asked whether Obama would be comfortable standing in public next to a 6-foot-4 black guy from Detroit.
Obama reportedly said he could handle it, but the mayor needed to lose the earring - a reference to the diamond stud Kilpatrick once wore.
Kilpatrick , introducing Obama to the luncheon crowd, said the two go back to when Obama first ran for the Illinois Senate and Kilpatrick helped his campaign.
“The relationship is one that I believe continues to be positive, strong,” Kilpatrick said.
Kilpatrick has not endorsed a presidential candidate yet, but was effusive in praising Obama .
Obama returned the warm words, saying Kilpatrick is doing an “outstanding job.”
The Obama/Wright/Kilpatrick Collision
Two percent. That’s the percent of voters outside the “Motor City” that have a favorable impression of embattled Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. You don’t have to be a pollster to understand how strongly disliked Kilpatrick is throughout Michigan.
Sit in any restaurant or bar, and all you hear is people talking about Kilpatrick’s troubles. Indicted in March on eight felony counts for committing perjury during a whistleblower trial that eventually cost the city about $9 million, the Mayor spent one night in jail on August 7th for violating his bond and then was arraigned the next day for a new crime. In the latest charges, Kilpatrick is accused of assaulting two sheriff’s deputies as they were trying to serve one of his close friends with a subpoena.
And, what does this have to do with Barack Obama? Although Kilpatrick has distanced himself from Obama and Obama has distanced himself from Kilpatrick, they are both inextricably linked to Rev. Jeremiah Wright. And, that is Obama’s problem.
Not only does Obama have to overcome Wright’s fiery rhetoric, he has to overcome the Kilpatrick connection, too. Kilpatrick’s tremendous unpopularity has fueled latent and sometime blatant racism among Michigan voters, the last thing Obama needs in a key state less than three months before the election.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/michigan_the_obamawrightkilpat.html
“Obama’s Michigan spokesman, has dismissed the ad as “the same old desperate, cynical Washington-style political attacks.”
I wonder if Custer had similar thoughts and ramblings....”the same old desperate... attacks.”
Truth be known, I have far more respect for General Custer. ;>)
Detroit Saved! Mayor Resigns, Joins Obama Advisor Team!
The Spoof (satire), UK
I have yet to see or hear of an Obama friend or aquantance that isn’t a skell, racist, terrorist or criminal.
Aside from the fact he has no experience what so ever, he has friends that are enemies of America. It amazes me that he is this close to the presidency of the most powerful nation on earth, he MUST BE DEFEATED!
I think its another example of Obama’s poor judgement.
Along with his position on the surge, that makes two examples of poor judgement this week.
There's a couple of versions on youtube - it comes from Obama praising Kwame at the Detroit Economic Club.
Granholm said if she had removed Kilpatrick, he would not have been able to return to public office for three years. His plea deal forbids him to run again for five years.
“Ultimately, he will be able to come back and run,” she said. “I think he made it clear last night — the mayor did — that he’ll be back.”
Michigan blues:
Republicans long ago pegged Michigan, with its troubled economy and embattled Gov. Jennifer Granholm, as a big (17 electoral votes) Democratic state they could grab this November. The guilty plea and resignation of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick can only increase their prospects. Not only will the GOP remind Michigan voters about Obama’s once-close ties to Kilpatrick, political turmoil in Detroit may damage Democratic turnout there.
I should have added that the commercial would be a tad better if they mentioned that his mother is a sitting U.S. Congresswoman in the same area.
But that would be dirty pool, you can’t blame the mother for what adult children do. It’s not like Kwame is 17 years old and pregnant...
As a talk-show host on public radio and television, Smiley said he does not make endorsements. But he admitted a preference for Obama.
“I want to see him cross the finish line first,” Smiley said. “If the brother wins, I’m going to be on the front end of the electric slide in Washington, celebrating the victory with everybody else.”
(Tavis) Smiley cautioned against “right wing” commentators and the “mainstream media” turning an Obama success against black people.
“It’s just a matter of time before they turn to us and say, ‘Y’all Negroes need to stop whining,’ “ Smiley said. “ ‘You don’t need this and you don’t need that, because a black man is president.”
“All of our skin-folk are not our kinfolk,” he said.
As an example, he talked about former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who resigned and pleaded guilty Thursday to lying under oath in a sex scandal. Smiley said Kilpatrick had lost the “honor” of being held accountable.
Tavis Smiley hosts a half-hour nightly talk show on PBS, Tavis Smiley
The Tavis Smiley Show : NPR
Tavis Smiley’s Dismissal By BET Outrages Blacks Across The Nation ... April 16, 2001
I'll bet the ears are taking too much blood from his brain.
Kwame Kilpatrick Is Not Every Black Man
By Rhonda Swan | Friday, September 5, 2008, 02:02 PM
Friends Like These How the Detroit mayor’s fall hurts Obama.
In it, writer Keith Naughton lays out how Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s fall from grace could hurt Barack Obama’s campaign because Obama has called Kilpatrick a friend.
My favorite quote from Naughton’s story?
“This Kwame Kilpatrick mess has splattered over onto the Obama campaign at the worst possible time,” says veteran Detroit political consultant Sam Riddle. “Kilpatrick’s brand of leadership has fed into the worst stereotypes that white voters have about black leaders.”
I’m not sure what stereotypes Mr. Riddle is referring to, but why do all black “leaders” and/or politicians have to be judge by the actions of one?
n his plush office at Fellowship Chapel in Detroit, the Rev. Wendell Anthony sometimes pinches himself.
It's a giddiness not often associated with a man linked over the years to civil rights marches, boycotts and protests. But Anthony's 2-year-old, $16-million west-side building is a long way from the one-room church he attended as a boy.
He has taken an equally long personal journey from the kid who thought the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was passe to the man who has held the Detroit Branch's reins for 15 years.
At 57, he leads what is arguably the most active branch in the nation. The chapter counts 40,000 members and raises more money during its annual Freedom Fund dinner - between $1.2 million and $1.6 million - than any other in the country, said Professor Ronald Walters, director of the African American Leadership Institute at the University of Maryland, which provides research and training for African-American leaders.
As 8,000 NAACP members gather in Detroit this week for their national convention, Walters and others say they should be looking at Anthony and the Detroit Branch as the model for what the organization could be nationally.
“He really should be president” of the national, said the Rev. James Holley, pastor of Historic Little Rock Baptist Church in Detroit, who lost a hotly contested race for the Detroit Branch presidency to Anthony in 1994. “At least he can raise the money.”
Anthony has no intention of giving up his local post soon. He'll run next year to retain the unpaid position -”if I'm living and breathing,” he said. “I ain't scared. I ain't tired. And I'm coming right back at it.”
Anthony is known as a firebrand preacher with growing political and economic clout. His Fannie Lou Hamer political action committee is credited with helping Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick seal his bid for re-election in 2005. Anthony “galvanized the religious community to get out the vote,” said Sam Riddle, a political consultant who worked on Kilpatrick ‘s campaign.
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http://johnibiii.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/barack-and-hillary-forced-to-withstand-pastor-husband/
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., right, the former pastor of Democratic ...
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., right, the former pastor of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., laughs with Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, left, at the Detroit NAACP’s 53rd annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner in Detroit, Sunday, April 27, 2008. Second right is the Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit Branch of the NAACP. Kilpatrick has been charged with eight felonies including perjury, obstruction of justice and misconduct in office. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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March 24, 2008
Only a few short days ago, on March 21, 2008, RezkoWatch updated an article about the April 3, 2004, reception dinner held at the Four Seasons hotel in Chicago in honor of Iraqi-British billionaire businessman Nadhmi Auchi. The function, arranged by indicted political fixer Antoin “Tony” Rezko, who, at the time, was in hopes of attracting Auchi to invest in a 62-acre Chicago development, was hosted by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.
It is unknown whether Kilpatrick was present at the Chicago event. However, according to Nadhmi Auchi’s General Mediterranean Holding website, the above photograph was taken at a reception for Nadhmi Auchi (left rear) that was hosted by Kwame Kilpatrick (right rear).
I think this commercial would be even better if it linked him to more of “Barry’s friends network”
Ayers, Rezco, and Wright.
That’s just nuts...
This will interest you devolve, especially the pictures below.
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Thanks potlach
Got ‘em
Will see what can be done with them
Slideshow material.....
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