Outrage: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick throws reporter’s mike across the room

Beause he’s above the law, dammit, and despite his call for civility, he doesn’t have to practice what he preaches!

Watch the video here.

This is the same Kwame Kilpatrick who verbally sparred a bit with Dem presidential hopeful Barack Obama recently, which went a little something like this:

But a recent phone call between presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was, shall we say, a little prickly.

Word is it went like this: In advance of his speech today to a sold-out Detroit Economic Club, Obama calls Kilpatrick to touch base, ask for his support, get to know him a little.

Kilpatrick, not yet committed to any presidential candidate, challenges the senator with a pinch of bluster about the nature of Obama’s broad, cross-racial campaign. He asks Obama whether he’d be comfortable standing in public next to a 6-foot-4 black guy from Detroit.

Obama, no shrinking violet, then fires back, saying he thinks he could handle it just fine — as long as Kilpatrick loses the earring.

Ouch.

I wonder if the Senator will continue seek out Mayor Kwame’s support, considering his latest outburst. But knowing Kilpatrick’s history of corruption in Detroit – corruption he doesn’t want to answer for, obviously – it’s a wonder why Senator Obama would want his endorsement in the first place.

Well, ok. I’m not really wondering.

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