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To: Road Walker who wrote (366848)	1/14/2008 3:55:55 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1576163

Hint, hint Bob Johnson, a supporter of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter and the nation's first black billionaire, yesterday seemed to hint at Sen. Barack Obama's youthful drug use. Mr. Johnson, founder of the BET cable-TV network, made the remarks while introducing Mrs. Clinton at a campaign event in Columbia, S.C. He later denied that he was talking about Mr. Obama's early drug use — a subject that recently led another Clinton campaign aide to resign, the Associated Press reports. "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," Mr. Johnson said. Mr. Obama wrote about his teenage drug use — marijuana, alcohol and sometimes cocaine — in his memoir, "Dreams From My Father." Mr. Johnson later said his comments referred to Mr. Obama's work as a community organizer in Chicago "and nothing else." "Any other suggestion is simply irresponsible and incorrect," he said.

To: Road Walker who wrote (366848)	1/14/2008 5:43:35 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576163

As Bill Clinton phoned Al Sharpton to explain why he has described Hussein Obama’s opposition to the Iraq War as a “fairy tale“... his wife’s presidential campaign moved quickly to capitalize on his remarks. Sen. Clinton will reportedly hold a news conference next week to decry the lack of African-American characters in fairy tales... and note that her husband was... .....“doing what he could to advance Civil Rights in this arena.”..... “Each night, as American children go to bed,” Sen. Clinton will reportedly say, ...“they hear fantastic tales from which blacks are almost entirely absent. African-American children are made to feel that there’s no place for them in imaginary society. While caucasian children live in blissful ignorance, in a fantasy world that’s lilly, or should I say snow, white.”... Sen. Clinton will promise that, when elected president... ...She will issue an executive order directing the National Endowment for the Arts to fund composition of fairy tales in which the percentage of “good” African-American characters matches the percentage of blacks in the general population..... She will then order the Department of Education.... To mandate the use of such “civil righteous fairy tales” in elementary public school curricula.