Besides the wives and children, who are the true victims of high-placed leaders’ tawdry sex affairs? Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, of course! Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and indicted Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick are (or were) both Democratic superdelegates. Spitzer was in the tank for Clinton, while Kilpatrick reportedly favors Obama, even though the Obama campaign halfheartedly denies it. So what happens when reckless oversexed Democrats let their personal addictions interfere with their public lives? They make the increasingly weird superdelegate count even less predictable. Of course, none of this matters if Clinton and Obama superdelegates keep cancelling each other out by getting caught in embarrassing situations in equal numbers. [Political Punch, NPR]

America’s most fun mayor, Detroit’s Kwame Kilpatrick, continues to become a better and better role model — some say the best since Eminem. Wait, who? Oh yes, Detroit and its mayor, who recently was caught for sending sexy sex text messages with his chief of staff, for sex. And now, the Michigan attorney general’s office says it will launch a probe into claims that Kilpatrick “threw a party with strippers at the mayor’s mansion in 2002.” Lady strippers. [AP/NYT]

Kwame Kilpatrick — the mayor of America’s healthiest, most booming major city, Detroit — is in TOO much trouble. A series of hot steamy text messages between Kilpatrick and his chief of staff, Christine Beatty, more or less proves that they were fucking, like, a lot. Allegedly. Furthermore, both the mayor and Beatty had denied any sort of sexual relationship in testimony last summer during a “police whistle-blower” trial that cost the city $9 million. Now there may be all sorts of perjury charges and scrutiny and blah blah blah snooze. That’s a waste of our time; instead, let’s check out some of these sexy text messages! MORE »