At least I know one thing, Mr. Johnson...

[Colobo]

Barack Obama has been honest about his past and about who he is... I'm confident there will be no lies or scandals about his personal conduct as president.

I trust him because of his openness.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

1. One of the few politicians I've seen where future scandal never crosses my mind

He just comes off as a solid person

[Colobo]

2. There will be problems, like in every administration

but I see Obama as a Jimmy Carter-esque person, someone with enough character to respect the office, someone with no personal involvement in wrongdoing during his administration.

[Barack_America]

7. That *might* be why even many Republicans like him.

He's somebody that they actually wouldn't mind knowing. Well, at least in a "imaginary hip black friend" way. ;)

[dkf]

3. Yes! I like how grounded he is.

That is why I really like Michelle. She is so good for him.

[Bicoastal]

4. Well, even *I* would have to say "Never say never"...

...but his life is an open book. Two, actually.

People say "He hasn't been vetted like the Clintons yet!!" Not true--the GOP have had him on watch for months. And if the best they can come up with is the Madrassa thing (not true) and a few drug experiments as a young man (admitted by BO years ago), he's in good shape.

[Colobo]

5. Good post.

[Cha]

6. Very astute, Katz..

Reminds me how I never gave that a thought about Obama.

I've never liked robert johnson from when I first heard about him in 2001 when he fired Tavis Smiley and silenced his voice on BET. johnson was for bushit and now he's for hillary.

As The Progressive noted:

In his 1999 book, Color Bars: Television's Diversity Dilemma, former BET executive Tom Jacobs scolds Johnson for building and maintaining his empire on the electronic equivalent of junk mail. From sexually explicit music videos, featuring epic levels of misogyny and violence, to near endless comedy showcases and celebrity infotainment, BET has never lived up to the promise that people believed was inherent in its charter--a network where blacks could see reflections of themselves in mirrors not controlled by whites.

"Bob Johnson has made it abundantly clear that he feels no responsibility to use his business as a vehicle for-delivering positive messages or socially responsible programming to Black America," Jacobs writes.

Johnson apparently also feels no responsibility to the people who work for him, as witnessed in his insistence on not paying equitable wages to comedians who whooped it up on one of the networks staples, Comic View. These brothers and sisters were making $150 per appearance, while BET was making millions in ad revenue. This should have caused a ruckus among black leaders and the masses, yet there wasn't a peep. If this had been a white-owned network, there would have been a boycott.

So hold back your tears: BET was involved in the production and consumption of useless things.

So it's no wonder that Hillary Clinton, who has mastered the Rovian method of using one's proxies to attack one's opponents (Bill Clinton comes to mind) all the while claiming the high road and delivering rhetoric that is transparently bullshit, has enlisted Robert Johnson's help.

Clinton should have distanced herself from Johnson. But she didn't.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1/13/174744/766/37/436258

That robert johnson is a swarmy one.

[Colobo]

8. Uncle Bob has a glass ceiling over his cabin...