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Monday, January 14, 2008
If at first you don't succeed, get another surrogate to do it again
The Clinton campaign has been reeling from counterattacks from the Obama campaign for Hillary appearing to give more credit to LBJ than to MLK for the passage of the Civil Rights Act and for other criticisms they've had of Barack Obama, including their refusal to talk about his past drug use. So, what should they do before Obama convinces black votes that Hillary's campaign is using racist coded messages? Send out a prominent black supporter to make these accusations for them. This time it was Bob Johnson, the founder of BET.BET founder and prominent Hillary Clinton supporter Bob Johnson said Sunday he is 'insulted' with the Obama campaign's latest criticisms of Clinton, and appeared to take aim at the Illinois senator for his admitted drug use as a young man.Later, the Clinton campaign tried to reel this back in by saying that he was talking about Obama's community activism. Yeah, right. That's the part of Barack Obama's record that Johnson didn't want to talk about. Sure.
"As an African American, I'm frankly insulted that the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Bill and Hillary Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood that I won't say what he was doing but he said it in his book," Johnson said while campaigning with Clinton in Columbia South Carolina.
And Hillary was right there when Johnson made his crack. She missed a perfect opportunity to play the good cop and disavow Johnson's veiled crack at Obama's admitted drug use. Or was she just happy to have a famous black man make her campaign's argument for her?
I guess that the Obama campaign will have more to add to that memo that they're circulating of all the supposedly racially-tinged remarks coming out of the Clinton campaign.
Although I'm enjoying the schadenfreude of seeing Democrats, particularly the Clintons, getting caught up in the same sorts of phony accusations of racism that the Republicans catch all the time, it's almost getting to the point that you can start to wonder if there is indeed an effort to try to split the black vote in South Carolina in the Democratic primary there while still reeling in most of the white vote there.Labels: Hillary Clinton
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The Clinton campaign has been reeling from counterattacks from the Obama campaign for Hillary appearing to give more credit to LBJ than to MLK for the passage of the Civil Rights Act and for other criticisms they've had of Barack Obama, including their refusal to talk about his past drug use. So, what should they do before Obama convinces black votes that Hillary's campaign is using racist coded messages? Send out a prominent black supporter to make these accusations for them. This time it was Bob Johnson, the founder of BET.
And Hillary was right there when Johnson made his crack. She missed a perfect opportunity to play the good cop and disavow Johnson's veiled crack at Obama's admitted drug use. Or was she just happy to have a famous black man make her campaign's argument for her?
I guess that the Obama campaign will have more to add to that memo that they're circulating of all the supposedly racially-tinged remarks coming out of the Clinton campaign.
Although I'm enjoying the schadenfreude of seeing Democrats, particularly the Clintons, getting caught up in the same sorts of phony accusations of racism that the Republicans catch all the time, it's almost getting to the point that you can start to wonder if there is indeed an effort to try to split the black vote in South Carolina in the Democratic primary there while still reeling in most of the white vote there.
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The Clinton campaign has been reeling from counterattacks from the Obama campaign for Hillary appearing to give more credit to LBJ than to MLK for the passage of the Civil Rights Act and for other criticisms they've had of Barack Obama, including their refusal to talk about his past drug use. So, what should they do before Obama convinces black votes that Hillary's campaign is using racist coded messages? Send out a prominent black supporter to make these accusations for them. This time it was Bob Johnson, the founder of BET.
BET founder and prominent Hillary Clinton supporter Bob Johnson said Sunday he is 'insulted' with the Obama campaign's latest criticisms of Clinton, and appeared to take aim at the Illinois senator for his admitted drug use as a young man.Later, the Clinton campaign tried to reel this back in by saying that he was talking about Obama's community activism. Yeah, right. That's the part of Barack Obama's record that Johnson didn't want to talk about. Sure.
"As an African American, I'm frankly insulted that the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Bill and Hillary Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood that I won't say what he was doing but he said it in his book," Johnson said while campaigning with Clinton in Columbia South Carolina.
And Hillary was right there when Johnson made his crack. She missed a perfect opportunity to play the good cop and disavow Johnson's veiled crack at Obama's admitted drug use. Or was she just happy to have a famous black man make her campaign's argument for her?
I guess that the Obama campaign will have more to add to that memo that they're circulating of all the supposedly racially-tinged remarks coming out of the Clinton campaign.
Although I'm enjoying the schadenfreude of seeing Democrats, particularly the Clintons, getting caught up in the same sorts of phony accusations of racism that the Republicans catch all the time, it's almost getting to the point that you can start to wonder if there is indeed an effort to try to split the black vote in South Carolina in the Democratic primary there while still reeling in most of the white vote there.
Labels: Hillary Clinton
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