According to the September 5, 2008, Christian Newswire press release:
One day after Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to two felony counts of obstructing justice by committing perjury and no-contest to one count of felonious assault for shoving a sheriff’s deputy, The Freedom’s Defense Fund (FDF) launched an ad in Macomb County, Michigan.
The ad calls into question Senator Obama’s judgment and takes issue with the praise Obama lavished on Kilpatrick at the Detroit Economic Club in May 2007. The tag at the end of the ad asks the viewers, “Do you know who Barack Obama’s friends are?”
Watch:
“For years, Kwame Kilpatrick has been considered among the most ethically challenged Mayors in America,” said Todd Zirkle, Executive Director for the Freedom’s Defense Fund. “We believe Obama’s comments praising Mr. Kilpatrick as a ‘great mayor’ and ‘a leader not just here in Detroit, not just in Michigan, but all across the country’ calls into question his judgment and is relevant to voters across Michigan and throughout America.”
About:
- RBO articles about Kwame Kilpatrick.
- Freedom’s Defense Fund at OpenSecrets.org.
Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.--Thomas Jefferson.
Obama is consistent in one thing: the type of friends he picks. Gangsters, the lot of ‘em.
barky is the worst judge of character in the world.
kwame is a thug and criminal since the day he was born and everyone knows it. just axe the FBI. and axe abouts his daddy and momma too. Kriminalz..
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Would be glad to do that, Mr. Cope, but you are not on our mail list.
4 more years!
You’re not affiliated with any political party? What a laugh! Obama’s words were several years ago and are now being broght up to slur him. Typical right-wing lies.
FYI — lifelong Dem changed registration to Independent in 2000. No party affiliation. NEVER been, NEVER will be Republican.
Sorry if that hurts your feelings.