One African-American’s Tribute to Bob Johnson, “Responsibility”
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
After BET founder and billionaire Robert Johnson supposedly obliquely referred to Obama’s drug use at a Hillary rally Sunday, the Hillary camp caught some heat. Unlike the New Hampshire staffer that got fired for doing it, Johnson simply released a breathtakingly implausible statement that when he made the below quote, he was referring to Obama’s time as a labor organizer, and all was apparently forgiven.
“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.”
After BET founder and billionaire Robert Johnson supposedly obliquely referred to Obama’s drug use at a Hillary rally Sunday, the Hillary camp caught some heat. Unlike the New Hampshire staffer that got fired for doing it, Johnson simply released a breathtakingly implausible statement that when he made the below quote, he was referring to Obama’s time as a labor organizer, and all was apparently forgiven.
After BET founder and billionaire Robert Johnson supposedly obliquely referred to Obama’s drug use at a Hillary rally Sunday, the Hillary camp caught some heat. Unlike the New Hampshire staffer that got fired for doing it, Johnson simply “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.”