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Hillary Clinton Sends Out Her Boy To Shuffle For VP Spot
June 4th, 2008
Bob Johnson just won’t go away. He’s engaging in race politics on behalf of Miss Hillary again.
Hillary has dispatched her top Negro to try and lean on the Congressional Black Caucus to support her in getting the Vice President position on Barack Obama’s ticket. Is it really a good ideal to use someone who’s said some of the most insulting things (next to Hillary herself) about Obama to try and be an immisary.
We documented his previous cooning for his Misses in The Bob Johnson Attack Is Back: Now Teaming Up With Geraldine Ferraro
The following is text to his steppin’ and fetchin’ it letter, according to PRNewswire:
June 3, 2008
The Honorable James Clyburn
U. S. House of Representatives
H-329, The Capitol
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Jim:
Now that you have endorsed Senator Obama as the Presidential Nominee of the Democratic Party; I, as a long-time supporter of Senator Clinton and of the Democratic Party, urge you to do everything possible to unify this party to win the Presidential election in November. For me and millions of other Democrats, I believe that the most important step that you can take now is to encourage the Congressional Black Caucus to urge Senator Obama to select Senator Hillary Clinton as his Vice Presidential running mate.
As a businessman I understand the vitally important role that a Democratic President can play in establishing programs and policies throughout the government that stimulate and support economic opportunities for African Americans. As African Americans we agree that the stakes in this election are far too high to take any chances that this party will not be unified from the top to the bottom in our effort to gain control of The White House.
You know as well as I the deep affection that millions of African Americans hold for both Senator Clinton and President Clinton. You also know that Hillary Clinton has been a long-term advocate for racial and gender equality, from her early days as a lawyer with the Children Defense Fund to her prominent leadership roles on these issues as First Lady and as Senator from New York. But most important, we need to have the certainty of winning; and, I believe, without question, that Barack Obama as President and Hillary Clinton as Vice President bring that certainty to the ticket.
Jim, as the highest ranking African American in Congress, I encourage you to follow your commitment to build a unified party by helping to make this a historic election of Senators Obama and Clinton who both have demonstrated that they have the courage and the ability to inspire and lead this nation to greatness today and for years in the future.
Warm regards,
Bob Johnson
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Why the hell is everyone trying to dictate who Obama is going to select for VP - doesn’t the winner get to make that call? They couldn’t even allow him to bask in his victory before “demanding” that he do this and that. I for one hope he does not cave and ask that heffa to be VP - she needs to be McCain’s VP since she thinks so much of his ability to govern. He has demonstrated nothing but class and she has simply shown her ass.
Aj, because they think he’s a “boy” and an “inadequate Black male” as I pointed out in this post; so he can’t make his own decision. They think they have to, or can dictate to him.
As gracious and as nice as Obama is in public, he’s not half the punk they think he is, and he has pride just like any self-respecting man, and this shit ain’t gonna work; I don’t believe anyway.
Bob Johnson is a true coon !
No Doubt!
bob johnson seriously makes my head spin… lol @ “affection” … what is this lassie reruns? and seriously what ‘affection’ do the clintons still have? has he not seen the breakdown of the votes recently?
Sarina, Bob Johnson is living in his own world, and is one who is given to great hyperbola.
The guy makes me want to throw up. I already despised him for what he did with BET and his complete two faced-ness in saying in the early days that Black folks needed to support BET because it was for us; and then when he got paid saying that he’s just a business man and it’s just a business. But now I really can’t stand him.
He’s one of the most self-serving, duplicitous characters you will ever find.