"We had people power," Kilpatrick told supporters at a Renaissance Center ballroom. "Some of y'all just plain crazy, because you had no business standing up...we couldn't win. So some of y'all just plain crazy. And right now, the whole country that's been watching is saying you crazy like a fox."
Love that hip-hop culture; exactly what Detroit needs more of. It's time to put that earring back in, hire some more full-time police-escort posse members, 'n' whip out the city credit card for a lobster lunch!
As ever more smart, sober people leave Detroit in the nexst four years, Kwame might get an even bigger win next time... after even more shinnannigans. Crank up the hiphop, **Y'ALL**! Y'all crazy! It's a party, y'all! Oops, thay it is! Ain' no party like a Dee-troit party! Hey, gi'l! What's yo number is! Way you stay at? I'm da maya!
I have lost any last bit of sympathy for the people of the City of Detroit. At least for the ones who voted for the fat-ass. Unbelievable. I can't believe they re-elected that bafoon.
I liken it to being raped by your stepfather for four years, having the chance to throw him out of the house, but instead, inviting him to stay for another four.
They deserve to be the laughing stock of the country. Idiots.
Now he is INVINCABLE. If the Detroit voters wouldn't reject him for what he did over the last four years, what could he possibly do in the future to get them to reject him? Nothing. A net of about 40,000 more people will leave Detroit before the next mayor election (10k per year). I assume that this population is heavily skewed towards anti-Kwame voting. That leaves the next population of mayoral voters even more heavily inclined to overlook even the most blatant and repeated acts of curruption, and to excuse any policy failures as the work of unfair outsiders working against "their" mayor.
While Rome burned, Nero fiddled around, singing for his friends at a party. What has Kwame been doing as Detroit's collapse intensifies? It's all documented and well-known what he's been doing, and it appears that a strong majority of Detroit voters would rather poke subburban "racists" in the eye than to elect a serious person. But increasingly those dreadful subburbanites are blacks who have fled Detroit.
I'm hearing on the radio (sports radio even) the inevitable comparisons of the re-election of Kwame to Bush's re-election and criticism of those of us who voted for Bush who have the nerve to criticize the re-electing of Kilpatrick. I'm certainly not surprised by it.
Callers are also criticizing white, non-Detroit residents like me as being "racists" for saying things like "I can't believe they (referring to the 90% black population of Detroit I guess) re-elected Kilpatrick.
There are important differences between those of us who voted twice for Bush vs. those who voted twice for Kwame:
1. Bush double-voters thought that Bush made good choices that they could define, such as proposing and winning tax cuts, the invasions, and promising to seek a simplified tax system and privatized social security. Ask the Kwame double-voters to give you specific successes and proposals that compelled them to re-vote for him.
2. Bush double-voters do not think that he is currupt. Ask the Kwame double-voters if they have any doubt that...
- He used city credit cards and petty cash to spend tens of thousands of dollars on his lunches, etc.
- He fired two cops for investigating two charges against him or his wife.
- He inheritted an unjustifiably large 24-hour police escort detail and doubled it, even as the city had to cut police positions.
- He used city funds to lease a super-fancy Expedition for his family, and manipulated the payments so that they would fail to qualify for city council reivew.
- He used city-paid police to facilitate his late-hour philandering.
- His chief-of-staff used her position to get out of a speeding ticket.
People who call you racist for opining about elections in your region's central city are themselves racist, because they have this reaction to you *ONLY* because you are white. You are not declaring that because they are black that they should vote a certain way; but they are declaring that because you are white, you should not care about and analyze the elections that occur in the city upon which the entire region's economy and culture depends.
Kwame has proven that you can convince the current Detroit voting population to accept stealing from them (Kwame's scandals involve him stealing tax dollars, among other forms of outrage) so long as you do the following:
- Include "jiviness" in youre public persona. - Cast your political opponent as somebody that the subburbanites/white folks prefer to you.
Too bad he (or somebody) hasn't employed this to convince Detroit voters to accept things other than stealing from them, such as:
- School vouchers. - Elimination of city income tax. - Reduction of property tax to match regional average. - Rewriting the conduct codes that governs Detroit's failing public school classrooms to match that employed by Detroit's championship public school sports teams.
I believe that Detroit will "come back", and has already begun its come back. This is despite the blatantly currupt mayor, and the voting majority of idiots. Detroit's geography, the passage of time, and other factors demand that, eventually, enough productive and smart people will behave in ways that will result in a thriving, growing metropolis. Enough people have already begun behaving in such ways, as evidence by all the construction and social activity in certain areas of town. There are simply too many people with too much money in the region around Detroit for these people to let an infinite amount of time pass before some critical mass of them ignore the problems and simply push on like frontiersmen and make the best of a dreadful situation.
Although Kwame is a blatant crook and caters to (and is now beholden to) the counter-productive racist views that have hurt the city for decades (anti-white racism by blacks now dominating any lingering anti-black racism of whites), he may not actually be much different from Hendrix when it comes to assisting those who have decided on their own to be pioneers. It is very sad to me that Detroit's voters have elected a person who obviously steals from them, and abuses his power in such shockingly selfish ways, among an assorment of nakedly currupt actions that seem to be built into his DNA. It is especially sad to me that the voters endorsed this guy for the reason that they did: that doing so would constitute a poke in the eye of "white folks."
It now appears to me that the salvation of Detroit will come from the "outsiders" who are determined to push into Detroit, and establish there at least some areas of sanity in a sea of shambles and backwardedness. While these people are doing the hard and important work, Kwame will continue behaving like a crook, but presumably one who will not interfere with the productive people. Let's hope that is the case. The efforts of the productive people might eventually result cause enough smart, dignified people to become residents, and join the current minority of same, forming a new majority who will in the future elect a decent leader for Detroit.
Until such a majority forms, the current majority of Detroit voters have sent a clear message to Kwame: Party on, using our scant resources.
If there were enough smart people in Detriot, it wouldn't resemble the third world waste land that it does today. My city of Baltimore is in the same boat. Most of the smart people left a long time ago.
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"We had people power," Kilpatrick told supporters at a Renaissance Center ballroom. "Some of y'all just plain crazy, because you had no business standing up...we couldn't win. So some of y'all just plain crazy. And right now, the whole country that's been watching is saying you crazy like a fox."
Love that hip-hop culture; exactly what Detroit needs more of. It's time to put that earring back in, hire some more full-time police-escort posse members, 'n' whip out the city credit card for a lobster lunch!
As ever more smart, sober people leave Detroit in the nexst four years, Kwame might get an even bigger win next time... after even more shinnannigans. Crank up the hiphop, **Y'ALL**! Y'all crazy! It's a party, y'all! Oops, thay it is! Ain' no party like a Dee-troit party! Hey, gi'l! What's yo number is! Way you stay at? I'm da maya!
He's so ARTICULATE! He's such a good SPEAKER! He's so CHARASMATIC!
I have lost any last bit of sympathy for the people of the City of Detroit. At least for the ones who voted for the fat-ass. Unbelievable. I can't believe they re-elected that bafoon.
I liken it to being raped by your stepfather for four years, having the chance to throw him out of the house, but instead, inviting him to stay for another four.
They deserve to be the laughing stock of the country. Idiots.
Now he is INVINCABLE. If the Detroit voters wouldn't reject him for what he did over the last four years, what could he possibly do in the future to get them to reject him? Nothing. A net of about 40,000 more people will leave Detroit before the next mayor election (10k per year). I assume that this population is heavily skewed towards anti-Kwame voting. That leaves the next population of mayoral voters even more heavily inclined to overlook even the most blatant and repeated acts of curruption, and to excuse any policy failures as the work of unfair outsiders working against "their" mayor.
While Rome burned, Nero fiddled around, singing for his friends at a party. What has Kwame been doing as Detroit's collapse intensifies? It's all documented and well-known what he's been doing, and it appears that a strong majority of Detroit voters would rather poke subburban "racists" in the eye than to elect a serious person. But increasingly those dreadful subburbanites are blacks who have fled Detroit.
I'm hearing on the radio (sports radio even) the inevitable comparisons of the re-election of Kwame to Bush's re-election and criticism of those of us who voted for Bush who have the nerve to criticize the re-electing of Kilpatrick. I'm certainly not surprised by it.
Callers are also criticizing white, non-Detroit residents like me as being "racists" for saying things like "I can't believe they (referring to the 90% black population of Detroit I guess) re-elected Kilpatrick.
I'm such a bad person.
There are important differences between those of us who voted twice for Bush vs. those who voted twice for Kwame:
1. Bush double-voters thought that Bush made good choices that they could define, such as proposing and winning tax cuts, the invasions, and promising to seek a simplified tax system and privatized social security. Ask the Kwame double-voters to give you specific successes and proposals that compelled them to re-vote for him.
2. Bush double-voters do not think that he is currupt. Ask the Kwame double-voters if they have any doubt that...
- He used city credit cards and petty cash to spend tens of thousands of dollars on his lunches, etc.
- He fired two cops for investigating two charges against him or his wife.
- He inheritted an unjustifiably large 24-hour police escort detail and doubled it, even as the city had to cut police positions.
- He used city funds to lease a super-fancy Expedition for his family, and manipulated the payments so that they would fail to qualify for city council reivew.
- He used city-paid police to facilitate his late-hour philandering.
- His chief-of-staff used her position to get out of a speeding ticket.
- Etc., etc., etc.
People who call you racist for opining about elections in your region's central city are themselves racist, because they have this reaction to you *ONLY* because you are white. You are not declaring that because they are black that they should vote a certain way; but they are declaring that because you are white, you should not care about and analyze the elections that occur in the city upon which the entire region's economy and culture depends.
Kwame has proven that you can convince the current Detroit voting population to accept stealing from them (Kwame's scandals involve him stealing tax dollars, among other forms of outrage) so long as you do the following:
- Include "jiviness" in youre public persona.
- Cast your political opponent as somebody that the subburbanites/white folks prefer to you.
Too bad he (or somebody) hasn't employed this to convince Detroit voters to accept things other than stealing from them, such as:
- School vouchers.
- Elimination of city income tax.
- Reduction of property tax to match regional average.
- Rewriting the conduct codes that governs Detroit's failing public school classrooms to match that employed by Detroit's championship public school sports teams.
I believe that Detroit will "come back", and has already begun its come back. This is despite the blatantly currupt mayor, and the voting majority of idiots. Detroit's geography, the passage of time, and other factors demand that, eventually, enough productive and smart people will behave in ways that will result in a thriving, growing metropolis. Enough people have already begun behaving in such ways, as evidence by all the construction and social activity in certain areas of town. There are simply too many people with too much money in the region around Detroit for these people to let an infinite amount of time pass before some critical mass of them ignore the problems and simply push on like frontiersmen and make the best of a dreadful situation.
Although Kwame is a blatant crook and caters to (and is now beholden to) the counter-productive racist views that have hurt the city for decades (anti-white racism by blacks now dominating any lingering anti-black racism of whites), he may not actually be much different from Hendrix when it comes to assisting those who have decided on their own to be pioneers. It is very sad to me that Detroit's voters have elected a person who obviously steals from them, and abuses his power in such shockingly selfish ways, among an assorment of nakedly currupt actions that seem to be built into his DNA. It is especially sad to me that the voters endorsed this guy for the reason that they did: that doing so would constitute a poke in the eye of "white folks."
It now appears to me that the salvation of Detroit will come from the "outsiders" who are determined to push into Detroit, and establish there at least some areas of sanity in a sea of shambles and backwardedness. While these people are doing the hard and important work, Kwame will continue behaving like a crook, but presumably one who will not interfere with the productive people. Let's hope that is the case. The efforts of the productive people might eventually result cause enough smart, dignified people to become residents, and join the current minority of same, forming a new majority who will in the future elect a decent leader for Detroit.
Until such a majority forms, the current majority of Detroit voters have sent a clear message to Kwame: Party on, using our scant resources.
If there were enough smart people in Detriot, it wouldn't resemble the third world waste land that it does today. My city of Baltimore is in the same boat. Most of the smart people left a long time ago.
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