I was a Kwame fan.  A few years back, Kwame was breathing new life into downtown Detroit.  I felt safe visiting Detroit again, to walk down Woodward at night, to visit the Eastern Market, to enjoy Greektown.  Kwame was actually a decent mayor.  He got caught up in the ego trap that haunts politicians, the temptation to feel one deserves personal indulgances above the common man and the use of position to cover them up.  

Kilpatrick  and Obama were both rising young politicians from large Great Lakes cities supporting each other politically on a level likely overstated by you and understated by Eric.  But Obama has no blame for Kwame's fall from grace.  And to attempt to create a connection, to make Kwame's problems rub off on Obama is either deliberate partisan overreach or deliberate race-baiting.  And I've read enough of you to believe you would not in deliberate race-baiting.