This is much of today's Democratic Party, not to mention the bigoted rednecks, and they're all headed to the White House upon a possible Obama win on November 4th. Other than that, Antoin Rezko, Bill Ayers and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and the spiritural guidance of Reverend ' God Damn America ' Jeremiah Wright ought to rate up there - at least in surreptitious subterranean sleaze - with Kilpatrick's one-party urban Democratic machine corruption and criminal prosecution.

Of course, Obama's smarter, more attractive, and he's hasn't been caught in flagrant extramarital affairs ( or drug-induced homesexual romps with two-bit political groupies ). Kilpatrick's headed for jail, sure, but besides Obama's interracial background, they're both dishonest big-city Democratic Party politicians who took advantage of insider connections and hardball mob-methods to climb the rungs of power. I mean, think about it: What's the difference between Kwame Kilpatrick and Barack Obama? I swear, one has to be a contortionist to make sense of Democratic Party racial politics.

Just contemplate the loaded racism in that passage: Essentially, folks see Kwame Kilpatrick as a big, black threatening ' nigga ' (used here non-pejoratively, in the hip-hop sense, but perhaps differently by the working-class whites identified in the Politico). Donald Douglas exposes the hypocritical attitude of the Democrat party for all to see:

Grim dawn the attendant choices