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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6599
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 11:17 am: | 
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Somebody get a rope!
Where is a lynch mob when you need one?
PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS
Johnson cites race in Obama's surge
Bobcats owner, who supports Clinton, says Ferraro said it right
JIM MORRILL
jmorrill@charlotteobserver.com
DAVIE HINSHAW / Staff Photographer4/14/08 - Charlotte Bobcats owner Bob Johnson talks with Observer reporters.
Horrors, not an elitist!
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Gun rights, gun deaths divide Pa. voters
Obama's response may hurt him
Wading back into the Democratic presidential race, billionaire businessman Bob Johnson said Monday that Sen. Barack Obama would not be his party's leading candidate if he were white.
Johnson's comments to the Observer echoed those of former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro. She stepped down as an adviser to Sen. Hillary Clinton last month after saying Obama wouldn't be where he is if he were white.
"What I believe Geraldine Ferraro meant is that if you take a freshman senator from Illinois called `Jerry Smith' and he says I'm going to run for president, would he start off with 90 percent of the black vote?" Johnson said. "And the answer is, probably not... ."
"Geraldine Ferraro said it right. The problem is, Geraldine Ferraro is white. This campaign has such a hair-trigger on anything racial ... it is almost impossible for anybody to say anything."
Johnson, who made a fortune after founding Black Entertainment Television and now owns the Charlotte Bobcats, is a longtime friend of Clinton and her husband, the former president.
It was during a January appearance for the New York senator in Columbia that he first stepped into controversy, referring to Obama and "what he was doing in the neighborhood."
Many took that as a reference to Obama's acknowledged drug use in his youth. But in a statement, Johnson said he'd been "referring to Barack Obama's time spent as a community organizer and nothing else. Any other suggestion is simply irresponsible and incorrect."
On Monday, Johnson alluded to the incident.
"I make a joke about Obama doing drugs (and it's) `Oh my God, a black man tearing down another black man'," Johnson said.
The Obama campaign dismissed Johnson's comments.
"This is just one in a long line of absurd comments by Bob Johnson and other Clinton supporters who will say or do anything to get the nomination," said spokesman Dan Leistikow. "The American people are tired of this and are ready to turn the page on these kind of attack politics."
Johnson disputed the notion that Obama has built a broad coalition. Most of his support, he said, comes from African Americans and white liberals but not white, working-class Democrats.
"I don't think he has that common -- what I call `I-want-to-go-out-and-have-a-drink-with-you -- touch," Johnson said.
An Observer/WCNC Poll this month found Obama and Clinton splitting the votes of white North Carolinians who say they'll vote in the May 6 primary. Obama led 59 percent to 7 percent among African Americans.
Johnson said Obama is likely to win the nomination and has had the support of "the liberal media."
"They sort of dislike Hillary for her vote on the war. They don't want to see Bill and Hillary in power again," he said. "So Obama comes in and runs a smart campaign. But that's not the Second Coming, in my opinion, of John F. Kennedy, FDR or the world's greatest leaders."
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12088
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 01:27 pm: |
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Yeah, lynch Bob Johnson for exercising his right to express an opinion that is contrary to that of poor ol flannel-mouth chrishayden who thinks he's the only one who can badmouth candidates. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6605
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 01:37 pm: |
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You're coming around, Cynique.
Can I interest you in one of them "I LUV CHRISHAYDEN" t-shirts?
I got them long kinds all them guys in the hood are wearing. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12091
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 02:04 pm: |
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You really think that learning to stomach you should be what I should aspire to, don't you, chrishayden? Get real, you obnoxious bag of wind.  |
Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 6997
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 02:17 pm: |
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Why is he getting so much media? |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12094
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You and chrishayden claim to be so savvy but you can't you figure out that what Robert Johnson says is "news" because he is a prominent black person who dismisses Obama. Where this presidential race is concerned, billionaire Johnson is the anti-thesis of Oprah.  |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6608
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 02:59 pm: |
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Bob Johnson is the anti thesis of Homo Sapiens.
I bet he got tossed out of the herd for taking too many banana breaks and that's why he's bitter |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12096
Registered: 01-2004
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Yeah, I'm sure Robert Johnson is crying all the way to the bank, as he kicks you to the curb. |
Nels
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Username: Nels
Post Number: 1126
Registered: 07-2005
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Robert Johnson is another one of those "Kneegrows" who will become irrelevant if Obama becomes president. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12102
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 10:22 pm: |
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All blacks folks will become irrelevant if Obama becomes president. He can't afford to make them significant. |
Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 1201
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 09:20 am: |
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We already know what type of animal Bob Johnson is... Yet another good reason to vote for Obama.
Maybe if I had a billion dollars and called the Clintons my "friends" I would feel differently, but I seriously doubt it. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6620
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 02:21 pm: |
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Maybe they can trump up a case on him and send him to prison. |
Nels
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Post Number: 1127
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 10:32 pm: |
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Good one Troy. |
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