I find it amazing that a man who as made billions in the media world is not more media savvy. So, I wonder if what he said was out of ignorance, arrogance or a combination of the two. However, once again, the Clinton camp is finding themselves having to clean up a mess made by one of their surrogates.
At a Hillary Clinton rally in South Carolina, Johnson made what is his now-infamous statement on Barack Obama:
“And to me, as an African-American, I am frankly insulted that the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues since Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood – and I won’t say what he was doing, but he said it in the book – when they have been involved.”
Critics say that Johnson, like other Clinton surrogates, are trying to slam Obama on his admitted drug use as a youth and are trying to turn his teenage indiscretions into a campaign issue. Johnson, and now the Clintons, are in clean-up mode and are saying that Bob Johnson was only referring to Obama’s years as a community organizer.
However, I heard and saw things for myself and it seemed pretty clear that Johnson’s comment was meant as a slam on Obama and, unless Johnson holds some deep-seated animosity towards community organizers, he was referencing Obama’s use of drugs as a teen.
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo hits the nail on the head when he states the following:
We seem to be at the point where there are now two credible possibilities. One is that the Clinton campaign is intentionally pursuing a strategy of using surrogates to hit Obama with racially-charged language or with charges that while not directly tied to race nonetheless play to stereotypes about black men. The other possibility is that the Clinton campaign is extraordinarily unlucky and continually finds its surrogates stumbling on to racially-charged or denigrating language when discussing Obama.
I’ve included the video below so you can judge for yourself.
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They are trying to separate Obama from the black votes by using our own black people (Rangel,Johnson, Sharpton and almost all the black politial pundits). It is pathetic that supposedly intelligent black people are allowing themselves to be used as pawns to undermine one of their own. This divide and conquer has worked with great efficiency going all the way back to slavery when the “house negros” would inevitable betray the freedom seekers becaue they wanted to keep and solidify their pathetic positions. The same is happening here now.. the new breed of “house negroes” are doing the same.
It’s a shame in this day and age that black people are so willing to tear down another black person for their white benefactors. Divide and rule is alive and well.
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