Kwame and Barack

Well, it seems that former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick knows nothing about his wife. That's not too surprising, seeing as he apparently was too busy with too many other women in his life to bother about the one he married.

What is truly unintelligible in the whole ordeal is why rich businessmen such as Penske and Karmanos would bother helping an arrogant jerk after he could no longer be a political influence for them or their initiatives. Helping Kwame's family appears the reason, and a noble one it is if that's the case. Yet coddling him seem somehow contrary to how an admitted felon ought to be handled.

Adding insult to injury is Mr. Kilpatrick's insistence that he knows nothing about his wife's finances, whether she has had a job in the last year, and that old claim that he could only afford six bucks a month restitution to the city. This is nothing save continued arrogance, which shows little save more of the disregard for people and institutions which landed him in this mess in the first place. He's in fact won, and he knows it. There is no real penalty; his smirks demonstrate that he knows he is in the driver's seat and doesn't care about how things look. Shame on you, sir.

Shame on our President, too, for his arrogant behavior towards Fox News. When even CNN begins to question your motives, you've done a bad thing, George. It's time for the White House to stop such banal attacks on the free media and concentrate on shoring upo its own image.