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14.01.2008
Clinton's Race Huckster

 

Yesterday, billionaire businessman and Clinton surrogate Robert Johnson raised the issue of Barack Obama's past drug use. Johnson is a real piece of work. In 2001, when he was falsely insisting that Social Security and the Estate Tax transferred money from African-Americans to whites, I profiled him for TNR. Suffice it to say that, on the list of morally questionable things Johnson has done, his latest comments rank very low.

--Jonathan Chait

Posted: Monday, January 14, 2008 12:02 PM with 3 comment(s)

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drdannyu said:

This is nothing.  I heard that once, his ex-wife was mean to Jason Zengerle.

January 14, 2008 12:36 PM

teplukhin2you said:

Yes, Johnson's pretty scummy. No, this isn't out of bounds. Obama needs to learn how to deal with this sh*t NOW, before the Republican slime machine kicks in during the general. If Obama can't handle a high hard one now, from his own side, he'll be as hopeless as Dukakis was when the GOP starts throwing beanballs.

January 14, 2008 12:45 PM

blackton said:

drdannyu, actually she rescued his ass at that recital by turning that page for him thereby saving him from the real lifelong trauma. Jason is just too much of a pissant to realize that.

January 14, 2008 2:12 PM