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Old 04-15-2008, 06:23 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Bob Johnson"Ferraro was right"

http://campaigntracker.blogspot.com/...ama.html#links
Not like I care what he says.He fired up the local sportsradio nutjobs with the second article about how the city of charlotte hasn't done as much for him as he's done for it...Like Drafting Adam Morrison and Sean May was a great civic boon *******.
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Democratic Sen. Barack Obama wouldn't be leading his party's presidential field if he were a white freshman senator, Charlotte Bobcats owner Bob Johnson said Monday.

Johnson's comments, in interviews with the Observer, echoed those former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro made in March.

"If
Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position," she said, just before the resulting firestorm forced her to step down as an adviser to Obama rival Hillary Clinton.

"What I believe Geraldine Ferraro meant (is) if you take a freshman senator from Illinois called 'Jerry Smith' and he says I'm going to run for president, would he start off with 90 percent of the black vote? And the answer is, probably not.

"Would he also start out with the excitement of starting out as something completely different? Probably not. He would just be a freshmen senator ...

"Geraldine Ferraro said it right. The problem is Geraldine Ferraro is white. This campaign has such a hair trigger on anything racial. It is almost impossible for anybody to say anything."

You'll notice that some of the comments were "deleted by the blog administrator" I always look at the comments in Charlotte.com's bobcats stories to see what sort of racist cretinese they allow.
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http://www.charlotte.com/bobcats/story/581387.html

You have to wonder how much sympathy a billionaire gets when he goes into a room full of millionaire corporate types and starts crying about how they haven't done enough for him.I'd laugh right in his face if it were me.Like I said before the local sportsradio audience was hardly amused by this.
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Charlotte's business community has fallen short in its support of the Charlotte Bobcats, majority owner Bob Johnson said Monday, leading him to ask executives across the region to pony up more money for tickets, suites and sponsorships.
"I am absolutely concerned," Johnson told the Observer in an interview. "I am doing everything I can to make this team work, including writing a lot of checks."
Some Charlotte business and government leaders, however, say a losing team is a tough draw, that the Bobcats face more competition for entertainment spending than the city's previous NBA team and that Johnson hasn't been highly visible as an owner.
Saying he has lost "significant money" since team's inception in 2003, Johnson has spent several days in Charlotte this month, using that time to personally appeal to the heads of major companies ranging from Wachovia to Harris Teeter.
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