Obama followed the unwritten rules: he spent years in Chicago as a "community organizer" and represented various "community activists" from Chicago's South Side as an attorney.
In theory, that kind of stuff is supposed to give him all sorts of bona fides for "keeping it real" and "giving back to the community" and living the ethic of "power to the people."
Yet one of the flagship advocates of such an ethic, the founder of BET, whose station hammers home the ideal of "realness" daily - has jettisoned him.
Bill Clinton went to Yale Law, worked for the McGovern campaign, then worked as a law professor and then was Arkansas AG and subsequently governor.
Hillary Clinton went to Yale Law, worked for the McGovern campaign, then worked as a law professor before joining a white shoe law firm.
For Johnson to say that the Clintons have been "deeply and emotionally involved in black issues" since before Barack Obama was a college undergrad is patently ridiculous on its face.
And to add in that Obama experimented with drugs as an undergrad is highly hypocritical: are we to believe that the Clintons and Johnson himself, all of whom were undergraduates in the late 1960s, didn't experiment with drugs?
1980
Bill Clinton loses re-election as governor. He will win two years later. Larry Nichols will tell the George Putman Show in 1998 that he had met with Clinton and Jackson Stephen's brother Witt and that Witt had told Clinton that the Stephens were ready to back him for another run at the governorship but that he had to "dry out on the white stuff."
There are reports that following his loss, Clinton ended up in the hospital for a drug overdose. Journalist R. Emmett Tyrrell later asked emergency room workers at the University of Arkansas Medical Center if they could confirm the incident. He didn't get a flat ''no'' from the hospital staff. One nurse said, ''I can't talk about that.'' Another said she feared for her life if she spoke of the matter. Newsmax will report: "Dr. Sam Houston, a respected Little Rock physician and once a doctor for Hillary's cantankerous father, Hugh Rodham, says it is well known in Little Rock medical circles that Clinton was brought to a Little Rock hospital for emergency treatment for an apparent cocaine overdose. According to Houston, who told us he spoke to someone intimately familiar with the details of what happened that night, Clinton arrived at the hospital with the aid of a state trooper. Hillary Clinton had been notified by phone and had instructed the hospital staff that Clinton's personal physician would be arriving soon. When Mrs. Clinton arrived, she told both of the resident physicians on duty that night that they would never practice medicine in the United States if word leaked out about Clinton's drug problem. Reportedly, she pinned one of the doctors up against the wall, both hands pressed against his shoulders, as she gave her dire warning."