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Clinton: You're hiring president

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:02:46 -0400

Hillary Clinton told voters to look at the presidency as a job vacancy.

The Democratic presidential candidate said in Charlotte Monday that the campaign was essentially a hiring decision where experience matters.

"Think about it as if you're hiring a surgeon to perform an operation on a loved one," she told more than 4,000 supporters at Time Warner Cable Arena. "Hire somebody who is prepared on Day 1."

Johnson backs Ferraro

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:48:01 -0400

Obama did not 'start off' with black vote

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:39:13 -0400

A quick fact-check on Bob Johnson's remarks about Barack Obama.

The Democratic presidential candidate did not "start off with 90 percent" of the black vote. In fact, he was initially behind rival Hillary Clinton among that bloc.

Bob Johnson: Ferraro was right

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:35:24 -0400

Bob Johnson says Geraldine Ferraro was right.

The owner of the Charlotte Bobcats and founder of Black Entertainment Television, told the Charlotte Observer Monday that Barack Obama would not be leading the presidential primary if he weren't black.