Archive for June 4th, 2008
BET Founder Bob Johnson Strikes Again!
On CNN’s “American Morning” early Wednesday, BET founder Bob Johnson announced the launching of his campaign to push Senator Hillary Clinton as the prime and only candidate to share the Democratic ticket as VP with Barack Obama.
In a letter to the Congressional Black Caucus, Bob Johnson wrote:
“You know as well as I the deep affection that millions of African Americans hold for both Senator Clinton and President Clinton…but most important, we need to have the certainty of winning.”
Saying that he “is not pressuring” Senator Obama or the Congressional Black Caucus, Bob Johnson admits that the adding of Senator Hillary Clinton to the Democratic ticket as VP should be done if only to unify the Democratic party.
Barack Obama Makes U.S. History!!
On Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama made American history by becoming the first African American to presumptively win the Democratic nomination with an astonishing 2,156 total delegate and super delegate votes to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s 1,923. The total needed votes for the Democratic nomination is 2,118.
In his victory speech last night, Barack Obama graciously side-stepped his own history making accomplishment and zeroed in on the historical campaign of Senator Clinton by saying that “she has made history not just because she’s a woman who has done what no woman has done before, but because she’s a leader who inspires millions of Americans with her strength, her courage and her commitment to the causes that brought us here.”
Furthering speculation that Obama could possibly be considering Clinton for VP, a spokesman for the Obama campaign acknowledged that the two spoke early Wednesday for a few minutes by phone.
Tracey Ricks Foster
