SC Leader Slams Clinton For Not Condemning Surrogate’s - "should’ve immediately denounced remarks"

[jefferson_dem]

SC Leader Slams Clinton For Not Condemning Surrogate’s Remarks



SC Leader Calls Clinton’s Failure to Condemn Her Supporter’s Personal Attack “Offensive”

COLUMBIA — Former State Representative “I.S.” Leevy Johnson of Columbia, one of the first three African-Americans elected to the South Carolina General Assembly after Reconstruction, today said it was “offensive” for Senator Clinton to stand silently while one of her surrogates launched a divisive and personal attack against Senator Obama:

“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,” said Johnson. “For someone who decries the politics of personal destruction, she should’ve immediately denounced these attacks on the spot.”

As he was introducing Senator Clinton at a town hall meeting at Columbia College this afternoon, BET founder Bob Johnson said: “As an African American, 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 when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood that I won’t say what he was doing that he said it in his book,” he said.

Last month, Billy Shaheen, the co-chair of Clinton’s New Hampshire campaign, was asked to step down from the campaign for suggesting that Senator Obama’s drug use as a teenager would be used against him in the campaign.

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January 13, 2008

http://thepage.time.com/sc-leader-slams-clinton-for-not-condemning-surrogates-remarks/

[Fredda Weinberg]

1. Talk about a glass jaw n/t

[jefferson_dem]

2. What are you talking about?

Are you suggesting the Rep. “I.S.” Leevy Johnson, one of the first post-reconstruction African-Americans elected in SC, is not "tough" because he criticizes her slimy shenanigans?

[Fredda Weinberg]

3. First of all, it wasn't her ... second, the complaint is about something

another African American said and finally, it's about what wasn't said ... the insinuation was enough.

Why not wait for an attack on Obama before hollering?

[Bullet1987]

4. If Clinton thinks she'll come out of this unscathed...she'll be in for a rude

awakening when Obama smashes her in SC! The last poll had him up close to 50%...I wouldn't be surprised if he surpassed that at the end of the day.

[TeamJordan23]

5. Why would they denounce something they probably wrote for him to say.

Typical tactics out of the Clinton playbook.