Getting Dirty in South Carolina?
January 13th, 2008 at 05:29pm Mark Noonan
You can either fling mud, or just allude to the mud and hope that it just keeps stuck in everyone’s mind:
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Robert L. Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television, who is campaigning today in South Carolina with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, just made a suggestion that raised the specter of Barack Obama’s past drug use. He also compared Mr. Obama to Sidney Poitier, the black actor, in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.”
At a rally here for Mrs. Clinton at Columbia College, Mr. Johnson was defending recent comments that Mrs. Clinton made regarding Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She did not mean to take any credit away from him, Mr. Johnson said, when she said that it took President Johnson to sign the civil rights legislation he fought for.
Dr. King had led a “moral crusade,” Mr. Johnson said, but such crusades have to be “written into law.”
“That is the way the legislative process works in this nation and that takes political leadership,” he said. “That’s all Hillary was saying.”
He then added: “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.”
Clever, huh? Keeps the drug use in the public mind, while Hillary can straight-faced say she’s not getting into that anymore…
UPDATE: Getting dirty in Nevada, too? Over at Battle Born Politics, we detail efforts of Clintonistas to suppress Obama’s likely voter turnout.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Democrats
7 Comments
1. LiberalMind | January 13th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Wow, they must begetting advice from Karl Rove on this…..
…and maybe money from Tom Delay.
2. sleepygene | January 13th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
This is so disappointing but not surprising. The Clintons only care about retaining power not empowering the country.
3. Mark Noonan | January 13th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Gene,
It is a little sad, isn’t it? I mean, Hillary can make a case for herself as the better Democrat (not that I think any of them are fit to be President, of course), but I guess she just wants to ensure she wins.
4. Presidential election 200&hellip | January 13th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
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5. plainjane | January 13th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
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6. Joe | January 13th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Hillary can make a case for herself as the better Democrat…
Nah… if she did that what would Blogs for Victo(r)y ever talk about?
7. FmrMarine | January 15th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
libmindLESS;
Amazing you throw up the EEEEvvvvviiiillll Rove,
while ignoring, sid (vicious) rosenthall, james carvel , sandy burglar, janet reno, and the rest of the klinton henchmen, to many to mention here.
As far as earbamas drug use, ill bet ole b!@w job willy’s nose could, (as his own brother said) “vacuum” up more cocaine than 5 obamas.
Both of the democrat leaders are marxist empty suits, lusting for power.