BET founder and Hillary Clinton supporter Bob Johnson, said Sunday he is “insulted” with the Obama campaign’s latest criticism of Clinton and appeared to take aim at the Illinois senator for his admitted drug use as a young man.
“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.
Moments later, he added: “That kind of campaign behavior does not resonate with me, for a guy who says, ‘I want to be a reasonable, likable, Sidney Poitier ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.’ And I’m thinking, I’m thinking to myself, this ain’t a movie, Sidney. This is real life.”
At a rally for 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.”
In a statement released by Obama’s campaign Sunday afternoon, former South Carolina State Rep. “I.S.” Leevy Johnson, an Obama supporter, said he was offended Clinton did not condemn Johnson’s comments.
“It’s offensive that Senator Clinton literally stood by and said nothing as another one of her campaign’s top supporters launched a personal, divisive attack on Barack Obama,” he said. “For someone who decries the politics of personal destruction, she should’ve immediately denounced these attacks on the spot.”
Clinton’s campaign says Johnson was not referring to Obama’s past drug use, but rather his career as an organizer and state legislator. Meanwhile, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, another African-American supporter of Clinton, said of the comments, “Sometimes people say things that aren’t sanctioned … I can’t speak for Bob.”
Later Sunday, Johnson maintained the comments were not in reference to Obama’s drug use: “My comments today were referring to Barack Obama’s time spent as a community organizer, and nothing else,” he said in an issued statement. “Any other suggestion is simply irresponsible and incorrect.”
In Obama’s 1995 book Dreams of My Father — a book that was little read at the time, but recently reprinted — the future presidential candidate writes he was once headed in the direction of a “junkie” and a “pothead.”
Referring to his emotional struggles as a young man, Obama writes, “Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though.”
Last month, Clinton New Hampshire co-chairman Bill Shaheen resigned his post after suggesting Republicans would likely raise the issue in a general election.
“The Republicans are not going to give up without a fight … and one of the things they’re certainly going to jump on is his drug use,” Shaheen said then. “It’ll be, ‘When was the last time? Did you ever give drugs to anyone? Did you sell them to anyone?’”
Both campaigns are locked in a heated back and forth over recent remarks from the New York Democrat and her husband that have touched off concerns among some African-American voters. Clinton has alleged Obama’s campaign is distorting the remarks — an accusation Obama has called “ludicrous.”
If I can remember…didn’t Bill Clinton do pot when he was younger…??? lmaooo..I knnnooow she ain’t talkin…
YOU ALL ARE NOT STUPID YOU ARE SO ON POINT. I AM AN OLD SCHOOLER AND YOU ALL ARE RIGHT WE VOTED FOR THE CLINTONS BASICALLY FOLLING THE CROWD THIS IS YOUR FUTURE YOU BETTER TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A CHANGE.
I AM NOT VOTING FOR THE CLINTONS AGAIN THEY ARE OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE AND I AM NOT LOOKING AT BACKTRACKING.
SHE ON THE TYRA SHOW CRYING PLEASE……MANIPULATING….I AM WITH OPRAH ON THIS………..WE DID NOT HAVE THE INTERNET BEFORE AND ABLE TO GET INFORMATION AND LIKE SOMEONE SAID THE CLINTONS KNOW THE OLDER BLACK FOLKS DON’T READ AND MANY DON’T EVEN DO THE INTERNET.
YOU YOUNG-UNS KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK YOU HAVE TAUGHT ME A LOT AND YOU HAVE MORE WISDOME THAN YOU H AVE BEEN GIVEN CREDIT FOR AND GAME KNOWS GAME…….
YOU GUYS CAN DO THIS IF YOU WNAT TO YOUNG BLACKS,WHITES, HISPANICS AND LATINOS…YOUNEED TO SHOW FOLKS SOMETING THEY CAN REALLY TALK ABOUT USA TODAY ARE ALREADY TAKING ABOUT THE YONG BLACK VOTE.
@ #56 JYGALO: “And for the last time, we are black…an African-American is a naturalized citizen from Africa!”
What an ignoramus you are. This innate lack of knowledge of self is the same reason Bob Johnson is so lost & confused. You dont rightly know who you are. YOU are an AFRICAN who was dragged over to America in chains, and where it not for MLK forcing the hand of your oppressor to pass the Civil Roights Act, you still wouldn’t have “naturalised” into an “African-American” proper. And so begrudgingly they passed that Act, that they never let you forget who you really are…that’s why they insist on calling you “African-American” and NOT simply American like they call themselves. It is a term coined out of a supremacist mind-set with the sole intent of dividing and differentiating.
Dont you get it? Talking bout “we in America are blacks NOT Africans”; so I guess those in Africa must be whites, right? GTFOH! Only one fate awaits a tree dis-associated from it’s roots – DEATH by self-consumption, for it would have lost it’s primary source of nourishment; and when you pit the mind-set of Bob Johnson against the mind-set of Al Sharpton, my point becomes quite clearly illustrated.
OBAMA 2008!
Not sure if this article has been posted.
This is great article on the hypocrisy that is Bob Johnson regarding his tactless comments on Presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama.
Davey D makes some interesting points.
Why Bob Johnson is an Asshole & a Hypocrite
by Davey D
Former BET President and founder Bob Johnson is an asshole and hypocrite. Lemme not pull punches, be politically correct, beat around the bushes or try to impress high brow readers who feel I should be less crass and gentler with my words so I can appeal to their sensibilities. It’s 2008 and unfortunately being nice and proper doesn’t quite get the message across, especially when it comes to Bob Johnson and his recent disparaging remarks about presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama.
For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, I’m referring to Johnson getting on stage to introduce Senator Hillary Clinton at a rally and expressing outrage about Obama’s past. He said; “Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood. I won’t say what he was doing, but he said it in his book.”
It was a cheap shot referencing Obama’s drug use when he was a young man. This was an activity that Obama freely admitted to in his memoirs ‘Dreams from My Father’ and on some level I can see it being fair game, but coming from a guy like Johnson, that’s like former President Bill Clinton giving marital advice to Hallie Berry’s former husband admitted sex addict Eric Benet. I heard Johnson make these remarks and I was like ‘Negroe go back into your cave, please sit down and leave the politics to someone else’.
I keep asking myself, where does Johnson get off slamming Obama about the wrongs of drug use when he piloted one of the largest media institutions [BET] that provided a worldwide platform that for the most part glorified and legitimized the lifestyles of those who not only used drugs but also sold them. In all the years we’ve known of ‘billionaire Bob Johnson we have not seen him get on any stage and diss former drug dealers like Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Rick Ross or any number of artists whose videos he would routinely play coupled with sit down interviews conducted by fawning hosts who never ever challenged these artists for resurrecting a ‘criminal’ lifestyle in both their songs and videos they supposedly left behind.
The Bob Johnson we know, has never gone out of his way to publicly smash on artists who like Mary J Blige or Fergie who admitted to using drugs in the past and have since gotten their lives together and moved onward and upward. If anything, the former head of BET could be seen publicly praising them while courting them to appear at his award shows or Spring Bling concerts.
Johnson certainly never came out swinging on admitted drug abusing artists like Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown, Flava Flav or DMX who all had reality shows either on BET or the one of the other stations within the Viacom network where he had influence as a VP.
One would think a guy of Johnson’s new found ‘high moral character’ would’ve been smashing on drug use and drug peddling a long time ago. Could you imagine what sort of shockwaves would’ve been sent around the world if Johnson even as a retired media mogul had spoke out and said; ‘No Bobby! No Whitney! We won’t give them a reality show until those two get themselves healed and free of drugs’? Can you imagine if he insisted the DMX show ‘Soul of a Man’ was centered around him getting over cocaine addiction?
Imagine the shockwaves if Johnson said; “Hell no Jigga we ain’t supporting your album ‘American Gangster’ cause you highlighting the sordid lifestyle of heroin dealers like Frank Lucas and we are against that type of behavior?”
Could you imagine if Johnson found his nuts when at the helm of BET and shut down any and all videos from artists who had ‘dirty pasts’ that they were trying to exploit?
Sadly the Bob Johnson we know, has seemingly had no problem in making billions from highlighting the drug dealing, drug using lifestyle. Adding to this disappointment is the fact that this proud African American billionaire did things like remove programming that would make us question and shun such questionable behavior. It was on Johnson’s watch that BET got rid of great award winning shows like Teen Summit.
It was on Johnson’s watch that we saw incredible commentators like Tavis Smiley and Ed Gordon disappear.
It was on Johnson’s watch we saw the BET nightly news shrink and then became a non existent. These shows were shut down in spite the objections ranging from scholars like Dr. Cornel West to the 8 major Black fraternities and sororities to more recently church groups leading the Enough is Enough campaign. It was on Johnson’s watch that many in the community were up in arms protesting BET when they had that Step-N-Fetcher like cartoon called Cita’s World. Y’all remember that one right?
As I’m penning this article, I’m vividly recalling Johnson arrogantly responding to critics on a widely televised ‘townhall’ where he was confronted for firing Tavis Smiley, Johnson said that BET stands for ‘Black Entertainment’ and he is in the business to entertain the masses and that he was not obligated to provide news programming. Who knows, maybe Johnson was trying to be ‘entertaining’ when he made is divisive remarks about Obama.
How is it that Johnson found the courage to stand up against Obama but was mealy mouthed against the artists with questionable pasts that he highlighted on his network who in turn became the face and MIS-perception of all African Americans to the rest of the world? Many of us who are not celebrities and have traveled overseas know the pain we’ve endured of having to explain to fascinated yet misguided individuals in far off lands that we are nothing like the characters and depicted in the videos shown on BET? I know I’ve had my share of conversations where I had to put things in proper context in places ranging from Barcelona to Scotland to Beirut where BET specifically was cited as the referencing point.
Instead, of being a champion for our people who could use his resources and influence to change widely held, worldwide misperceptions and stereotypes of us, he opted to become something more foul then any drug dealer. He became a propagandist of the worse kind. Instead of hustlin’ crack, Johnson hustled Black pathologies, distorted images and misinformation under the banner of Black culture which has resulted in many believing we are part and parcel to the unchallenged buffoonery he allowed highlighted.
Instead of celebrating Obama for overcoming the odds including the scorch of drugs to possibly become the next president of the United States, this ‘negroe’ Bob Johnson wants to act like a lap dog for Hillary Clinton and bash on him all while being a media drug peddler of sorts who is in a big way responsible for normalizing drug culture.
And please don’t get me wrong, I am in no way saying Obama is not above criticism. I have lots of critiques that I can launch at him. For the record, I am not the biggest Obama fan. He gives great speeches and has lots of charisma There’s no deny the energy he brings to mainstream political discussion, but from where I sit his politics don’t go quite go far enough. I want Obama to be the type of politician to have been on the ground front and center leading the masses when we went to protest in Jena. Instead all I got was a prèss release.
I want Obama to have been the politician who is bold and assertive and uncompromising to the point that he would speak out on behalf of the SF8 or the Puerto Rican activists who are being jammed up by the Feds. I want Obama to be the type of guy who is smashing hard on police brutality and this current wave of gentrification. I want Brack to have been present in New Orleans when they were demolishing all that public housing. However, when I argue with my colleagues like writers Adisa Banjoko or Eric K Arnold, our spirited debates center around Obama’s position on issues.
Even the big debate between rap stars Rhymefest (Obama supporter) and Lupe Fiasco (Hillary supporter) has centered around the politics of the candidates. Nobody is brow beating Obama for having used drugs in the past. The Obama we know and see today is clean, smart and razor sharp and we don’t see him coddling and being a big enabler to drug culture the way that billionaire Bob Johnson has been over all those years. He made his billions by pimping drug culture on his network to the fullest.
The biggest challenge that all of us as African Americans have is because Johnson had made some significant economic accomplishments he led many into believing what he was doing as the head of a multi-billion dollar conglomerate like BET was building upon past freedom struggles waged by the likes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the Black Panthers and others.
The sad irony to all this is that if King and X were still alive waging battles against oppression, they would probably be excluded from the day to day banter of BET. We barely see or hear about these past leaders on the station today. What was the last in-depth discussion you saw or heard on BET under Johnson’s reign about King beyond I have a Dream speech? What’s the last insightful story you saw on Malcolm X?
If you listened to Dr. King’s thoughts on media then you know one thing, that BET and the foolishness its put out in the name of our people would’ve been in stark opposition to where King stood in terms of using media as a tool to uplift and inform the community. Like I said Martin and Malcolm would never be on BET aside from a few documentary clips and sound bites if they were around today. If you don’t believe me and think this is far fetched lets take a short trip down memory lane.
Those of us who are old enough to recall, when BET first came out it held a lot of promise and became a source of pride. It promised to fill the void and become a much needed answer to MTV which started out refusing to air videos from Black artists. Eventually Michael Jackson, Run DMC and later Yo MTV Raps knocked down some of those doors, but BET started off promising to be our uncompromised mouthpiece.
I recall in the late 80s as the cable industry expanded, BET was not included on many of the cable systems and there were spirited campaigns to get them on. It was young 20 something year old activists who were then part of what I would call the Public Enemy/ Afrocentric generation that took to heart some of the promises made by Bob Johnson who at that time called upon people to stand up for BET and demand it be included as a cable channel. BET’s exclusion from local cable systems was seen as yet another example of how prevalent racism was in this country. Many of us were coming out of the tailspin of the crack era and as Hip Hop’s Golden Age kicked in many eagerly sought to fight the power. Getting BET on cable was one such fight.
Here in the Bay Area it was rap activists like artist Chill E.B. who worked tirelessly, organizing letter writing campaigns and call ins to get BET on cable systems outside of Oakland in neighboring cities like Concord, Fremont and other areas it was absent. I recall doing radio shows and even having someone from BET (it may have even been Johnson himself, I have to check my tape archives) come on the air to talk about the importance of all of us pulling together to help insure that BET got a fair shot. I recall giving out phone numbers to the offending cable outlets and encouraging listeners to stand up for BET. Years later many of the activists who spearheaded the fight to get BET on cable for the masses to see can’t get on BET themselves to share and inform viewers of on going struggles in our community. For example, I know Chill EB who is a war vet and has spoken out against the war and has even done songs and videos about the topic never has been invited to sit on the 106 & Park couch.
It’s ironic that Obama who at 40 something would’ve been part of that Public Enemy/ Afrocentric generation that initially rallied for causes like getting BET on cable systems now finds himself being criticized by a guy like Bob Johnson. How quickly they turn. But I guess we shouldn’t be surprised. Shiesty people rarely change their stripes.
My boy and fellow writer, Jelani Cobb raised an important question in his recent article on this topic for the Washington Post which was; ‘What were the Clintons thinking when they got Johnson to stomp for them? She might as well gotten Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch or his employee Bill O’Reilly to stomp for her. Her picking Johnson is like me running for office and getting a gestapo like guy like Rudy Giuliani to stomp on my behalf-its not a good look and brings into question Senator Clinton’s clear lapse in judgement. All she had to do was look at the number of protests launched against BET in the past few years for their degrading images of women. That should’ve been a clear enough message. In other words if Hillary thinks so little of Black people that she went and dug up a cat likes Bob Johnson then I’m gonna have to close the book on her and bounce the other way and roll with Obama, Cynthia McKinney, Jared Ball or Dennis Kucinich-anyone but her.
We have got to stop falling for this foolishness. Everytime something really great is getting ready to happen in America the powers that be always go to the race issue. It is the one thing that they know will divide everyone. It is still a sinsitive issue and they know that. And it keeps everyone off the reall issues.
Did anyone watch meet the press this past Sunday when she stated she did not realize she was voting for war. This is suppose to be a leader. A woman who did not even realize she was voting for a war. Come on people stop falling for this foolishness. I am talking about all of us as a country.
FYI TODAY ON CNN HER ON PEOPLE WERE NOT DEFENDING HER, THEY SAID SHE STARTED THE RACE THING AND SHE WAS PLAYING OLD SCHOOL DIRTY POLITICS AND THAT WE HAVE SEEN THE BEST AND WORST OF HILLARY CLINTON, THEY SAID THE CLINTONS ARE VERY DESTRUCTIVE THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE KNOW FOR. OH, CNN SAID TODAY THAT NOW SHE KNOWS SHE HAS TO PLAY NICE NOW IN ORDER TO GAIN MOMENTUM AND GET THE BLACK AND YOUNG PEOPLES VOTES AND EVEN WOMEN…PLAY NICE…. RIGHT….WE ON TO HER NOW!!!!!!!
I HEARD THE LAST STATEMENT SUNDAY, WHEN ONE OF THE COMMENTATORS SPOKE AFTER THE MEET THE PRESS INTERVIEW AND HE SAID OBAMA’S CAMP BETTER LOOK OUT BECAUSE SHE IS GOING TO TRY TO DESTROY HIM…….SHE HAS TRIED EXACTLY WHAT THEY SAID.
ANYBODY FEELING ME?
364. NoName…that was deep!
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I can tell that this move by Bob hit a “set back” nerve with you just like it did with many of us! And, you should know that many of us read every word that you wrote! The Bobs, Wards and Cosby’s are self-serving, “I got mine” people who quickly forget from whenced they came!
I hope you keep sharing your views!
366. KEEPING UP!!!!!
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I’m feeling you!!! Hillary wants to be a “Superwoman” like the song Stevie and Donny sing! She’s already saying the wrong things and hurting people! She’s divisive and sneaky like her husband, Bill! Problem is…in the end, they always get caught!
The love among black people is still strong, but there are those like Bob, Ward and Bill who are chosing to break the allience! And, they have that right! And, we’ll open our arms to them when they come running back. But, man it sure does a lot of harm!
Translations:
Hillary wants to be a superwoman
But is that really in her head
But I just want to live each day to love her
for what she is
Hillary wants to be another movie star
But is that really in her mind
And all the things she wants to be
She needs to leave behind
But, very well, I believe I know you-very well
Wish that you knew me too-very well
And I think I can deal with everything going through your head
Very well, and I think I can face-very well
Wish that you knew me too-very well
And I think I can cope with everything going through your head
Hillary wants to be a superwoman
And try to boss the bull around
But does she really think that she will get by with a dream
The woman want to be a superwoman
And I just had to say good-bye
Because I can’t spend all my hours start to cry…
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Remember that one?
Soon she’ll be singing Yesterday like the Beatles and Donny:
Yesterday, all her troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they’re here to stay
Oh, Hillary believe in yesterday.
Suddenly, she’s not half the man she used to be,
There’s a shadow hanging over me.
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.
Why she had to run I don’t know she wouldn’t say.
She said something wrong, now she longs for yesterday.
Yesterday, politicing was such an easy game to play.
Now she need a place to hide away.
Oh, Hillary believes in yesterday.
Why she had to go I don’t know she wouldn’t say.
She said something wrong, now she long for yesterday.
Yesterday, politicing was such an easy game to play.
Now she needs a place to hide away.
Oh, Hillary believes in yesterday.
@359
Yes, Laugh Out Loud, I’m angry as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore, lmao! I always enjoy how the people that accuse me of being an angry negro will be the first ones to expose themselves as true creatures of hate because the most hateful people in the world are those that love lies. Make a counter-point to my point since I’m so nonsensical. I bet that your clownish ass cannot. What difference does it make to you whether I speak about my people or not? Are you a cave-dweller or a rambunctious, loyal, well-trained circus monkey? Please edify me. Before you attack me, since you’re so “pragmatic”, please present a precedent for when the American government has assisted the negro at all, much less through the voting system. Get back to me as soon as possible. You have to either be a caucasian or a coon n***er because those are the two most patriotic creatures on the planet earth and those are also the two creatures that love lies the most. I have nothing “pragmatic” to offer about this issue because I have no hope for this society. The only people that do have hope for this society are those that love Satan. So that’s my challenge to you, lol. No more bullshit rhetoric. Give me precedent and better yet, get back to me when this shit fails. I want statistics and numbers detailing how the quality of life for the negro has systematically improved.
LOL, he’s just living with no hope for this society! lmao! Now, he’s trying to draw you into a great debate!
Bob Johnson is with the BUSH ADMINISTRATION! He’s in the same league with the types of people that are trying to keep us down! THIS IS A CONSPIRACY PEOPLE…A DAMN CONSPIRACY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1a0-qiAmGo
@JQueen
It’s possible sis, and your thought process is great. The only thing is that, from what I understand (as Dats Da Truth alluded to in comment #278), Hillary has already been anointed for the presidency. In my opinion, many people don’t grasp that the point of these elitist groups is that they do not believe that the average person deserves the right to have a say in who governs over them. The average person; in the estimation of these elitists, is too stupid to understand what’s good for them, so to placate said average person, a ruse must be designed that is intricate enough to convince that person that they have an effect on their own fate. Hence, the “electoral process” in which “candidates” parade across televisions and enact performances reminiscient of the WWF until the already known winner takes their rightful place over the populace. Based on the comments on many of these threads, the elitists are correct in their gauge of the stupidity, and outright gullibility, of the average person. Keep in mind that only certain politicians are aware of the inner workings of the system because even average politicians are too stupid to be trusted. This is why most of these presidents and dignataries must be trained at these illuministic institutions like Oxford, and at a lower level, the Ivy League schools in America to even be considered as possible caretakers for the continuation of the agendas of the “elite”.
Billary’s a damn fool if she thinks that aligning herself with this buffoon is gonna rub most Blk folks the right way. Fuck outta here.
& so what if Obama dabbled in drugs when he was a kid? So? Bill admitting to smoking weed yet he “didn’t inhale.” Bush was a cokehead alki & is a 2-term prezy. Stop the madness. Obama’s not the same person he was when he was younger. Most ppl evolve. Obama experimenting with drugs as kid doesn’t equate to the daily denigration of the Blk race via BET.
Billary better find a cure for that foot-in-the-mouth disease before her Blk supporters start an exodus.
Edwards & Obama are better candidates.
@ #29
C’mon now. If Bob was referring to Obama’s community work, why didn’t he just say “community work?” Why allude to something dirty if your words are harmless? What’s so vulgar about those words that he couldn’t just say them? It’s well-known that Obama has a political grassroots background & that’s neither vulgar nor offensive to anyone’s senses.
It’s amazing how he’s gotten some of you fooled into thinking that he wasn’t bringing up his teenage drug use.
If ya’ll wanna learn about Barack & this Billary machine, go on YouTube & search for “Bob Johnson.” Even Fox News questioned Billary’s implications of Barack selling drugs. When her stupid-ass campaign head tried to race-bait the right-wing media w/ that shit, dude “resigned.”
SHE MUST BE ANOINTED BY SATAN BECAUSE THE ANOINTING OF GOD WOULD NEVER HAVE ANYONE DOING THINGS THIS WAY IN ORDER TO GET ELECTED INTO AN OFFICE OR POSITION THAT HE ORDAINED….NEVER…………
AND SINCE YOU SO FOR HELLARY…JUST BECAUSE SHE FORGAVE BILL AND MOST OF US BALCK FOLK TOO AND HE DID NTO GET IMPEACHED DOES NOT MEAN THAT GOD HAS CHANGED HIS MIND ABOUT ADULTERY AND HOW HE EXPECTS A LEADER TO CONDUCT HIMSELF…….I AM JUST GOING TO POINT BLANK TELL YOU AND YOU CAN TAKE THIS TOO THE BANK……I DON’T KNOW WHO THE NEXT PRESISDENT WILL BE BUT I PROMISE YOU THIS ON THE AUTHORITY OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS THAT HELLARY AND BILL WILL NOT BE MOVING INTO THE WHIT E HOUSE AGAIN…..ANY DOOR THAT GOD HAS CLOSED NO MAN CAN OPEN…LET GOD BE TRUE AND EVERY MAN A LIAR…THE DEVIL IS LIAR!!!!!
THIS IS NOT ABOUT BARACK OBAMA THOUGH IT IS NO CONINCIDENCE THAT HE IS RUNNING AT SUCH A TIME AS THIS…THIS IS ABOUT THE WAY GOD ORDAINED THINGS TO BE…….GOD IS PROGRESSIVE. …..HE MAKES ALL THINGS NEW…..HE IS DOING A NEW THING.
THAT IS WHY BILL TRIED TO CONVINCE OBAMA NOT TO RUN, BUT TO WAIT BUT THANK GOD HE (OBAMA) AND HIS WIFE HAD ENOUGH SENSE TO GO TO PRAY TO GOD AND SEEK OTHER COUNSEL AND GO FORWARD IN FAITH AND NOT FEAR AND DECLARE HIS CANDIDACY…..BILL AND HELLARY WERE AFTER THE BLACK VOTE BECAUSE THEY KNEW IT WAS WHAT PUT THEM OVER BEFORE AND IF A BLACK MAN RAN THEN THEY KNEW THAT MANY IF NOT ALL BLACKS WOULD VOTE FOR HIM…THEY KNOW OUR HISTORY AND THEY KNOW HOW LONG WE AS A PEOPLE HAVE WAITED FOR THIS DAY TO COME.
YOU ALL BETTER KNOW AND RECOGNIZE THE CLINTON STRATEGY…THAT’S ALL THIS HAS BEEN TO THEM A STATEGIC PLAN TO GET BACK INTO THE WHITE HOUSE AND I AM NOT VOTING FOR THAM AGAIN EITHER!!!!! I WILL NOT HAVE MY GRANDCHILDRENS BLOOD ON MY HANDS FOR LOOKING OR GOING BACK. YOU ALL CAN DO WHAT YOU WANT BUT THE TRUTH IS A PLAIN AS THE NOSES ON YOUR FACE!!!!
I’m fairly certain that any one with enough intellectual inclination to not only be interested in this issue, but to read through this forum and also post in it – is not, has not, can not and will not be fooled by Uncle Bob’s thinly veiled rhetoric fissiparously aimed at Obama in particular, and the black populace at large.
Here’s what Bob said:
“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 – when they have been involved”
Bob, Bob, Bob, the Obama campaign did not imply that WE (black people) are stupid, YOU on the other hand have overtly, even explicitly implied that YOU are stupid. And here’s why:
1. If it is true that what you were really alluding to about Obama was his community work, then your failed attempt at inspirational oratory would have read thus: “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 COMMUNITY WORK for and on behalf of the black people…in other words, while Bill & hillary were TALKING & THINKING about it, OBAMA was actually DOING it…and umm…I just realised how much of a contradictory, confused, pointless sell-out moron I must sound like as I’m saying this…so umm…err…nope that’s it, I’ve lost my train of thought…(Maybe they’ll be too busy smoking pot to realise that I never said Obama or anyone for that matter had ever said that Billary hadn’t been involved in the first place)…so I’m just gonna go on ahead and say – when they have been involved. Yeah, that sounds like a good way to end it. Hehehe, stupid people”
2. Your alleged intelligence actually lead you to use eighteen words were only two would have sufficed. But then again I guess it’s understandable why a black billionaire sell-out would consider the words “community work” so dirty and beneath him to even mention in his speech.
In summary, Bob, you just managed to use and attempt to re-inforce a black stereotype far more viciously, invidiously, nefariously, and perhaps efficiently than any white man ever could. Shame on you. And all for what? You are already a billionaire are you not? It cant be about the money! So pure logic must conclude that you did this out of an innate hatred for your own kind (yourself included by implication). Again, shame on you! I know, love, and believe in my people enough to know that they wont listen to this guy. Success does NOT have to come at the price of YOUR SOUL.
OBAMA 2008!
Everyone guess what Hillary (I like Hellary as some have posted), is up to today. She played the role of a flight attendant at the airlines….this woman will do anything to get phones…reported on the news this morning…she has heard the word stupid from Bob Johnson so much she actually thinks we are stupid.
By the way she and Bill are as much as fault as Bob Johnson he was just the mouth piece but I guarantee you they strategized on his speech and knew what he was goiong to say, they are just as guilty. They can’t stand Barack and they really don’t give a flip about us.
@# 376 You are so right it is plain as the noses on our faca,just last night my husband said maybe God allowed us to see the Clintons at their worst because many of us needed a wake up call in regards to the Clintons it was like black folk had made them some kind of Gods.
I saw that on the news this morning too about her being a flight attendant for the day, they call it retail politics and CNN saying she is trying to rebuild her image.
You are either a real or you are not. The woman is so full of pretense and gimmicks everything is strategy she is obsesse with winning for the sake of winning. I wonder if she ever sleeps at night just stays awake thinking of ways to get votes.
I wonder what kind of conversation she, Bill and Bob Johnson have had behind closed doors about Obama, because if they been dropping dimes in the open man, i wish I was the fly on the wall.
I am so sick of this woman and Barack didn’t make me sick of her she and her husband did and they way she runs her campaign always some gimmick.
I wish the Clintons would just go away, just be gone!!!! Has anyone else ever been tired of someone, its like Enough already.
@376 and anyone else:
Yes God does make all things new, but things but must die to themselves first before they can be made new again. And that’s exactly what this world is doing, dying, in preparation for a new one. That being said, if we look around we can tell that we are living in the end times. The things that are going on now, and especially the damage that has been done under the Bush administration, are irreversible. Do you all really honestly see things getting better? Look at our dollar…it’s damn near worthless. Everybody is struggling, from the housing crisis to the closing of many small businesses. You might be doing “okay” right now, but trust, the way things are headed if you are not filthy rich you will enter into the struggle as well. Then look at the world outside of the U.S. Look at the genocides happening overseas. If we dont intervene, we have their blood on our hands, if do intervene, we taking away from our own homeland security, leaving us more vulnerable. If we support Israel we will be blessed but eventually as other nations rise against them, we will make more enemies. Damned if we do, damned if we don’t. If we read the bible, it talks about earthquakes in desolate places and wars, it’s all coming into fruition people. Personally, I knew the world was coming to an end a few weeks ago, when I saw that a black man (in America) had killed and ate another human being. Since when did we get down like that? All this time, these elections and debates have been going on and I thought something was wrong with me for not having hope for the future. But it is was it is. HIStory has already been written and there’s no changing it. All we can do is ask the True and Living God for grace and mercy while we’re here on this earth and then prepare our souls for the next life time. Bless.
Man, I did not know exactly all that was going on, a friend at work told me about this site and I been getting bits and pieces from Tom Joyners show and I have read all the comments and I have gotten a lot of information, the Clintons ain’t s_ _ _.
I registered through the Tom Joyner show. I am 20 will be 21 by the time of the election first time voting in National election and I am going to hit my friends up about this site so they can be informed and talk to their parents too I will be speaking to my grandparents, they are so afraid to change the yway they think.
Keep this up so they can find it. Thanks have a good day everyone.
Look I feel what yo are saying and I am totally ignoring this fool. It is time for something new and it is as plain as the nose on our faces….Mr.Obama did not kill any child and eat them, and should he be penalized for what another black man did….we are juding the Clintons by their own actions and their words and by your words you are condemned.
@380 Go straight to HELL and don’t collect one penny when you pass go!!!!!
Leave us alone!!!!!!!
@ 376 I feel you last night a bunch of my homeboys and myself were having a discussion and we were saying some of the same things, my Mom said some of this too she said I an’t voting for no Hillary and Bill to be no president, she said I had to get an extra job when they asses were in office.
So you on the money, it’s like people are stupid and the Clintons been banking on our stupidity.I always wondered why black folks so loyal to these crackers cause I can’r see shit they did for us?
By the way I never voted but I registered last week and I am voting for Obama with my moms and my sisters we don’t care who don’t like it.
@382 why did I deserve that comment? Wow.
@376
Have another drink, lol. When did I ever say that I was for Hillary or any of these other candidates? You read my post but you didn’t comprehend it because you’re so damn emotional you were looking for a reason to go on a religious tangent with no references for you nonsense. Any leader of America is of Satan because the fabric of America is of Satan; whether it be “Hellary” (lol), Obama, Ron Paul, or whoever. There is not one ounce of integrity in any aspect of this empire and the Most High will not build anything new here. This land, and this entire world, is under Satan’s authority by orders of the Most High until Christ comes back to destroy it and create the new earth in righteousness. Just you wanting to vote shows that you have the mark of the beast on you.
@380
You’re on point sis, as usual. This is why everything is slowly deteriorating on this planet. It is in preparation for the world to come in which order will be set and maintained.
That’s exactly why blcak folks can’t get anywhere the so call religious crowd hates everybody and no one wants to admit this is racist country and if obama was a white man no one at anytime would be having these conversations and if all the candiates were white Hellary’s ass wouldn’t have a chance because everyon in their right mind knows that this country in the state that it is not ready for a woman president and a white one at that.
But you rather put a white woman in office than vote for a black man.
My pastor prohesied she is not called of God to lead this country, he didn’t say who was but he sur esiad who wasn’t. She is decieving people and the ones who don’t want a black man in will vote for her for that reason.
That’s when i see this country will go to the dogs.
I’m not saying a woman can’t be president but now is not the time and Hellary is not the chosen one.
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This is getting ugly.I’m not voting for Obama because he is black.I’m voting because I think he can change the face of how African Americans are viewed in this country.Hillary doesn’t have experience except that her husband was caught cheating.If you call that experience than oh well.Can someone tell me the experience HIllary has?I’m still lost on that.
And wouldn’t be nice that we can kill some the stereotypes of black boys and men?Little boys would look up to an educated black man such a Obama instead of wanting to either go pro or be a rapper?Wouldn’t that be nice?It’ so hard for any man, especially blacks to support someone who wants a change.Can we rise on something?
WOW! I need to go out and get this book!
Blow? Weed? That “Brown?”
Wow!
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