BET Television founder and owner of the Charlotte Bobcats Bob Johnson said that Barack Obama would not be leading his party 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.”
These comments are similar to those made by Garaldine Ferraro who was forced to resign from the Clinton campaign for her statement.
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.”
“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 Obama spokesman Dan Leistikow. “The American people are tired of this and are ready to turn the page on these kind of attack politics.”
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