Belmont Club » A Government For Sinners: "The one is distilled by the scenes in which the young, burly mayor frankly promises the audience to lift them up. You can feel the hope; you can taste the expecation in response.
It is in his touching remarks about the sanctity of his home, the celebration of the high moral character of his father; or in his pledges of the inviolability of his marriage.
There is in those inspiring clips a glimpse of all we want him — and all we want ourselves — to be.
This stands in marked contrast to the later scenes when we watch Kilpatrick deny the tawdry crimes he was later to apologize for in the next video sequence.
It comes through in the on-camera complaints by black businessmen who heard Kwame’s supposedly noble father declare that he didn’t need them any more after taking their contributions since “now that we won we can get all the white money we want.”"
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