Kilpatrick says in upcoming book he 'hated on' Obama

Associated Press

Detroit — Disgraced ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick writes in his upcoming memoir that he "hated on" Barack Obama as he watched the 2008 election coverage from his jail cell.
Despite previously having developed a relationship based on "mutual respect," Kilpatrick writes he turned his "enmity toward" Obama on Election Day, when the Illinois senator and fellow Democrat became the first black man elected president.
In "Surrendered! The Rise, Fall and Revelation of Kwame Kilpatrick," the imprisoned ex-politician describes watching election coverage on a TV in his cell that night. At first, Kilpatrick felt pride at seeing a fellow African-American win the historic election, but he writes that feeling later turned to enmity.
Kilpatrick writes he "hated on" Obama "a little, asking God, 'Why? Why him and not me?'"
The Associated Press obtained an advance copy of the book. It comes out Aug. 1.