(NEW) Clinton Surrogate Makes Veiled Reference to Obama's Drug Use

[jezebel]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/01/clinton-surroga.html

Clinton Surrogate Makes Veiled Reference to Obama's Drug Use
ABC News' Eloise Harper reports: Speaking in Columbia, S.C., BET founder Bob Johnson was introducing Clinton and made a veiled swipe at Barack Obama's past drug use. The last surrogate to talk about Obama and drugs, former Clinton New Hampshire campaign co-chair Bill Shaheen, was removed from the campaign after doing so.

Here is what Johnson said today:

"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 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."

When Clinton spokesman Jay Carson was asked about Johnson's comments, he denied they referred to Obama's admitted drug use. "That's not what he was talking about," he said.

Carson speculated that Johnson may have been referring to Obama's time spent as a community organizer.

.................

yeah, I'm sure that is what he was referring to.

[chascarrillo]

1. Disgusting.

It's like they're trying to make every effort to make me sit out in November.

[thunder rising]

7. Well ... bye, cause it ain't over by a long shot

And the dirt is always centered around Hillary. It's a whole new ball game don't-cha know.

[CyberPieHole]

17. Yeah...snorting coke is such a wholesome thing to do...and will garner votes far and wide...

:eyes:

[cali]

23. yeah, fucking around on your wife serially is such a wholesome thing to do

and even if he's not fucking around now, the repukes will hit him with a new affair. Hey, there have been rumors for a couple of years.

[martymar64]

32. What about Bill and Penelope Cruz?

And Bill and Demi Moore when she was married to Bruce Willis. From what I heard, that nearly broke up there marriage. It's the 90's all over again only this time there's no jobs or health care and Hillary will have her nice little war in Iraq to manage to boot.

[Cha]

58. Surely Penelope Cruz wouldn't lower

herself to such a lech?

[DURHAM D]

35. Nice.

Did Bill or Hillary put that in their books (like Obama did) or do you just like to pass rumors and make judgments on them?

[cali]

40. They didn't have to put it in their books- though Hillard did

everyone in the freakin world knew he was a serially cheater. Gennifer Flowers ring any bells. People want to attack Obama the way that poster did, they can have this back to chew on.

[DURHAM D]

45. Cali - I'm just sayin'

This is not your usual style. You are one of the Obama supporters that posts comments that are factual, reasonable and not offensive.


Keep the faith.

[jackson_dem]

54. No one has ever accused Hillary, the candidate, of cheating

[Drunken Irishman]

2. So Mr. Carson, what WAS he talking about?

Community organizer? YEAH FUCKING RIGHT!

[Dawgs]

3. It just never ends.

Unfortunately, the only people paying attention are those that already made up their minds.

[Connie_Corleone]

4. So he won't say that Obama was being a community organizer?

Yeah, right. They really think people are stupid.

Why even go there?

[Proud2BAmurkin]

5. So he didn't repeat something Obama said in his book and you're pissed off?

:rofl:

[jenmito]

20. What did Obama say in the book that was negative that he "did in the neighborhood"?

:eyes:

[Proud2BAmurkin]

22. who said it was negative?

:shrug:

[jenmito]

26. He said he wouldn't say what Obama was busy doing in the neighborhood. Use common sense.

That's not a reference/inference to a GOOD thing.

[bluedog]

34. the book says

On Drugs: Understand why youngsters want to use drugs


Junkie. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man.

Except the highs hadn't been about me trying to prove what a down brother I was.

Not by then, anyway. I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory.

I had discovered that it didn't make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate's sparkling new van, or in the dorm room of some brother you'd met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school and now spent most of their time looking for an excuse to brawl.


You might just be bored, or alone. Everybody was welcome into the club of disaffection. And if the high didn't solve whatever it was that was getting you down, it could at least help you laugh at the world's ongoing folly and see through all the hypocrisy and bullshit and cheap moralism.


Source: Dreams from My Father, by Barack Obama, p. 87 Aug 1, 1996

http://www.issues2000.org/Archive/Dreams_From_My_Father_Barack_Obama.htm


more quotes from book at link

[CyberPieHole]

6. Obama wrote about his drug use...it's bound to come back and bite him on the ass...

...what's wrong with bringing it up? You think if Obama becomes the candidate, the repubs won't bring it up? Naivety goes hand in hand with life in a "fairy~tale".

[thunder rising]

8. Bush doped, boozed, and dodged the draft and it doesn't bother him

So take the petty concern elsewhere.

[CyberPieHole]

13. Oh, so since bush doped it makes Obama's doping OK?

Good luck with that.:hi:

[AzDar]

16. I'm not an Obama supporter, but his honesty regarding his drug use makes me respect him

all the more.
Let he (or she ) who is without sin cast the first stone.
BTW, do you really believe Bill didn't inhale? :rofl:

[CyberPieHole]

24. Well, since Bill Clinton is NOT the one who is running...I don't really care.

But if you think that repubs won't make hay of a coke~snorting democratic candidate~~~it may be you who's been inhaling.:hi:

[jenmito]

29. She's running on his presidency. n/t

[AzDar]

47. If a Dem as vulnerable on 'personal issues' as Hillary Clinton is gets the nomination

I'll probably have to start taking 'em.
Hillary can't have it both ways; appropriating Bill's time in The White House as 'political experience' for herself, while asking everyone to ignore HIS personal past.
And if you don't think the Repubes will exploit this, I think YOU picked a bad time to stop sniffing glue.:hi:

On edit: Again, People in glass White Houses....

[CyberPieHole]

60. I don't use drugs...never have never will...unlike Barack "Cocaine" Obama...

sorry If I have to rub your nose in his Coke habit *snort*snort* but Obama brought it up in his book...it's fair game...pot smoker and cocaine fiend...he says he overcame his usage...but how can we know? And did he only use or did he do other illegal things? I know that cocaine sniffing appeals to Obama's supporters...why else would they defend his habit? I think that drug addiction is something repubs will latch onto in the GE~~~and why shouldn't they? Cocaine snorting is not exactly something one wants to teach to one's kids (well, most people, YOU on the other hand probably think otherwise).:hi:

[AzDar]

63. Do your parents know you're on the computer, dear?

:hi:

[CyberPieHole]

64. ***Phrase Maker***

Did you come up with that one yourself? All by yourself? Wow! I'd get that into a "quotation" book. Post haste.:hi:

[AzDar]

68. Thanks. Feel free to poach it...kinda like Hillaroid poaching from John Edwards.

" This is personal for me..":cry:

:hi:

[gmudem]

65. What an idiotic post

Wow he did drugs when he was a kid in the 80's. *Gasp!* You really need to get off your high horse piehole. I expect Republicans to think like you do, which I guess explains why you support Hillary.

Another question, which is more morally questionable: doing coke or being on the board of Wal-Mart for 6 years and continually supporting Bush's War of choice?

[CyberPieHole]

69. Thanks for your concern, mud...

enjoy your stay here on DU.:hi:


*reaches for he iggy button*

[NYCGirl]

11. So if someone said, "If Senator Clinton's experience includes being part of her

husband's administration, why doesn't she know what he was doing in the Oval Office? I won't say anything more."

That's OK with you?

[2rth2pwr]

9. If he was speaking of his drug use, so what?

Obama is the one who brought it up. He uses it as an example of making the right choices in life and overcoming adversity.

[bunnies]

10. So istead of...

The Clintons were involved in black issues back when Obama was in High School.
its
The Clintons were involved in black issues back when Obama was busy doing drugs.

The point would have been better without the low blow.

[CyberPieHole]

15. "Low Blow"...

:spray:

[bunnies]

18. a little humor never hurts. :) nt

[CyberPieHole]

36. Very true...

:hi:

[Renew Deal]

12. Weeeeee

This shit just keeps happening. What a coincidence.

[CyberPieHole]

14. Yeah, he admited to snorting coke...who knew someone would pick up on that?

:evilgrin:

[Renew Deal]

19. No, it's the tone.

The tone of Hillary's campaign is just terrible.

[maddiejoan]

27. Yes

distorting Hillary into a racist is very noble of the Obama campaign

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/12/obama-camps-memo-on-clin_n_81205.html

[Renew Deal]

31. Hillary's campaign did what it did.

If people feel it's racist, so be it.

[maddiejoan]

33. never mind that it's filled with distortions

[Renew Deal]

37. I agree. I think what Hillary's campaign is doing is despicable.

[maddiejoan]

38. typical

[CyberPieHole]

43. Yeah...pointing out his admitted prior cocaine use is despicable...

because repubs would never bring such a thing up. You seem not to understand what "vetted" means. Obama must be vetted if he is to be the nominee. Being the nominee will not free him from legitimate charges. I didn't want a coke snorting president when bush was running and I don't want one now. I don't think that bush's coke us excuses Obama's.

[CyberPieHole]

42. Obama admitted to snorting cocaine...if people don't feel that's exemplary behavior...

...so be it. No one forced him to do it. Unless he now starts to say that the "man" made him do it. And I wouldn't put it past him to blame Bill and Hillary for putting the cocaine up his nose.

[Renew Deal]

48. huh?

Your argument makes no sense.

[CyberPieHole]

56. Why am I not surprised?

Perhaps you and Obama have been tooting from the same straw? Snort Snort.:evilgrin:

[Cha]

59. Oh look! There's hillary..the lying

pandering, smearing, jeering unconscionable warmonger, now.

[Name removed]

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[gmudem]

66. Yes it would be much better if he denied it

And then got caught lying about it later. After dealing with President I Didn't Inhale, I can respect a candidate who admits to what he did. And I doubt Queen Hillary is so innocent either seeing as how she was a college student in the late 60's.

[CyberPieHole]

39. Yet, Obama's race baiting is perfectly fine...

:eyes:

[hayu_lol]

25. Any one of the naysayers/doomsayers on this thread have any...

proof that Hillary encouraged the BET head to make that comment while introducing her? Verifiable proof?

That is not a situation where the head of a campaign can beat the offender over the head with a 2x4. Was this guy a surrogate(acting for Clinton)or not?

I see no proof that this is so, so there is little need to say more. Unfortunate that Hillary was prevented from escaping these remarks made by another...but individuals do say things that are in bad taste whether they think it through or not. Did Hillary at any time in her speech continue the theme? Don't see that she did. If you have proof that she continued those remarks then bring it in here.

This is where the dirt gets spread. This stuff is what Rovian thinking wants to get done. Divide them/Defeat them.

Some of you are too clever by half.

[jenmito]

30. Do you think he was doing that "in the neighborhood?"

[jefferson_dem]

21. More shitty gutter politics from the Clinton camp.

Color us all not surprised. Can we be done with them yet? :puke:

[hayu_lol]

28. Don't believe that the head of BET was part of Clinton's staff...

do you have verifiable proof that he was? Or is your comment taken right off the top of your head as a way of further slamming Clinton?

Sling enough garbage and you'll get called on it.

[ruggerson]

41. Bob Johnson is a racist. A racist!

Oh wait. He's black.

[MethuenProgressive]

46. Doesn't he "have some crosses to burn?" cali?

...

[babylonsister]

44. So will she fire him because she has no tolerance for anyone on

her staff spreading rumors or innuendo? Isn't that what she said on MTP today?

[Bullet1987]

49. Bob Johnson can go back to his little cabin...if you catch my drift

This coming from a Black person by the way...

[avrdream]

52. Barack's past drug use is not an innuendo or a rumor. It is a fact.

One that he and his supporters will have to face.

[babylonsister]

53. He's faced it, but the Clinton surrogates apparently have nothing else

(oh yea, he's a Muslim, too :eyes:) so they keep recycling the same old info.
That's dirty politics, and I hope it backfires on her. It'd be deserved.

[CyberPieHole]

57. Obamabots have diffifulty dealing with facts...

it's not something they have a grasp on.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

50. The same Robert Johnson who wanted to repeal the estate tax?

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/08/estate-tax-bob-johnson/

[TeamJordan23]

51. pathethic. nm

[bigdarryl]

55. Bob Johnson needs to take some of those millions of dollars he has and

invest in the black community DUMB FUCK!!!!

[loveangelc]

62. here we go again...

I saw what he said and to me it was obviously a veiled reference no matter how he tries to spin it. The Clinton's have obviously learned nothing from this. They disgust me.

[ihavenobias]

67. Apparently there is enough mud for EVERYONE to sling! n/t