Strange choice of words from a mayor of a city that just went through the trauma of the Marathon bombers... Of course he is backing off now that he has been called out on it. At least he gave our lame-duck mayor a chance for a last hurrah defense of the D.

The remark was made in the New York Times magazine last week.

What would you do in Detroit?
I’d blow up the place and start all over. No, seriously, when it takes a police officer 90 minutes to answer a call, there’s something wrong with the system. Forty percent of the streetlights are out, most of the buildings are boarded up. Why? Inaction, that’s the problem — leadership.
Article on the flap here.