Robert Johnson, Attack Dog

Apparently former BET founder Robert Johnson relishes the role of attack dog for Sen. Hillary Clinton in beating back the challenge of Sen. Barack Obama. Mr. Johnson zealously defended Clinton's recent remarks about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Last week Sen. Clinton told Fox News: "Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It took a president to get it done." That remark was viewed by some as an attempt to diminish the achievements of Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement. Mr. Johnson argued that while Dr. King led a moral crusade, it took President Johnson to have it written into law. "That is the way the legislative process works in this nation and that takes political leadership. That's all Hillary was saying." But Johnson did not stop there, he went on to inject Obama's drug use into the campagn:

“And to me, 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 since Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood – and I won’t say what he was doing, but he said it in the book – when they have been involved.”

It is fair to say that as the Clinton campaign grows increasingly desperate, the personal attacks on Obama will intensify. Robert Johnson's entry into the fray suggests that there are others to share the heavy lifting with Bill Clinton.