Can Detroit get past Kwame's legacy?

So Kwame Kilpatrick, the youngest elected mayor of a major city has finally found his sense --- or maybe he was given an offer he couldn't resist --- and has stepped down from his throne, ummm, post. Instead of serving a possibly really long sentence for a series of unfortunate choices, he is supposedly going to serve a short sentence of about 120 days in jail followed by a 5 year probation. Kwame got off _easy_. He'd better thank God, his mama and whoever else he can think of, because the sharks were circling him. He set himself up and shouldn't blame anyone else for it. Wow! He and the city had so much potential. Kilpatrick could have been good for the city and turning around such a troubled city would have been such a political coup for him.

Lord. I really pray for the city of Detroit. Detroiters cannot afford to continue to be losers. The acting mayor is going to be Kenneth Cockrel Jr. whose father was a city leader and whose (step)mother is on the city council too. Talk about nepotism. I'm getting really sick and tired of the different monarchies, lords and ladies, running the city as if it's their personal fiefdom. Let's hope this one's got more sense. I mean, there are reports that there is a federal investigation into possible corruption in the city government. Well if you're going to clean house, now is just as good a time as any.

Note to wannabe Sarah Palin

Hey Sarah! Take your own advice. Suck it up and shut up about (supposed) sexist media coverage of your nomination to be McCain's co-conspirator, I mean, vice-president. Just as you suggested that Hillary was whining about the same thing, why don't you stop bitching about it too? You're not the first woman to deal with the ole boys' club or a pregnant out-of-wedlock teenage girl. If you think that the media focus on those topics are a tragedy or an affront to you, then you definitely don't need to be anywhere near an office in the Executive branch. You and your fellow whispering campaigners had better grow that thick skin that you tell the rest of us that we should. Or your feelings are really gonna be hurt later on. Get over it and move on.

Anyway, click the link above and also check out more on this and Politico.com's advice to her and Mrs. McCain about how to be grownup politicians.