Obama, Clinton, Edwards. Which candidate is most like Martin Luther King? Which one has John F. Kennedy's Values? Which one is like Moses and will lead Democrats to the promise land? African American families are dividing and picking sides in this election and these are the similarties candidates are using about themselves to get the Almighty Black vote".All I know, is that considering the age of each candidate, the amount of previous partying and drug use by each of them in their past, is probably immeasurable and up till now has only been whispered in dark small places. Well, that is all about to change, and it figures that a Black man is going to be the first to point a finger and talk about "somebodies" drug use. But it is not just any black man, it is the God Father of All Black publishing and media himself, Robert Johnson (black billionaire, BET founder, Johnson Publishing) who is sticking by his gal Hillary Clinton and calling that druggie Barack Obama out on the carpet. In fact he says ...
Obama's campaign has acted dishonestly and has distorted Clinton's remarks about Martin Luther King Jr.
Johnson also seemed to hint at Obama's acknowledged youthful drug use, an issue that led another Clinton campaign official to resign. Johnson later denied that was the case.
Clinton was quoted just before the New Hampshire primary as saying King's dream of racial equality was realized only when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Some black leaders have criticized that remark as suggesting Johnson deserved more credit than the slain civil rights leader for the passage and enactment of major civil rights legislation.
While introducing Clinton at Columbia College on Sunday, Johnson criticized Obama's camp. "That kind of campaign behavior would not be reasonable with me for a guy who says 'I want to be a reasonable, likable, Sidney Poitier,'" said Johnson, owner of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats. He commented after Clinton said in a televised interview Sunday that she hoped the campaign would not be about race.
Johnson also said Obama's own record should give voters pause. "To me, as an African American, I am frankly insulted 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 — when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood; I won't say what he was doing, but he said it in his book ... (For More of Bob's berating of Obama check out the rest of AP writer PHILIP ELLIOTT's article )
