BET Founder Slams Obama: "Doing Something In The Neighborhood"

TMP Election Central reports:

There's clearly no love lost between Clinton supporters and Obama supporters. During a campaign stop today alongside Hillary, Black Entertainment Television founder Bob Johnson said he was "insulted" by Obama's rhetoric with black voters — and referred to something from Obama's past, which many have interpreted to be about Obama's drug use as a teenager.

"And to me, as an African-American," Johnson said, "I am frankly insulted that 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 since Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood –­ and I won’t say what he was doing, but he said it in the book –­ when they have been involved."

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The Obama campaign hit back in a statement from a former South Carolina state Rep. "I.S." Leevy Johnson. "It’s offensive that Senator Clinton literally stood by and said nothing as another one of her campaign’s top supporters launched a personal, divisive attack on Barack Obama," he said. "For someone who decries the politics of personal destruction, she should’ve immediately denounced these attacks on the spot."

For his part, Johnson insisted he was not referring to Obama's youthful drug use. "My comments today were referring to Barack Obama's time spent as a community organizer, and nothing else," Johnson said in a issued statement. "Any other suggestion is simply irresponsible and incorrect.

One wonders what a "community organizer" in Chicago really does.I'll bet it has something to do with contacting politicians to get money out of taxpayers.