Hillary Clinton
Jan. 13, 2008
"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."
—Billionaire and BET founder Bob Johnson, defending Clinton's remarks about Martin Luther King Jr. while, some argue, alluding to Obama's 1995 memoir Dreams of My Father, in which he reveals trying marijuana and cocaine in college. Johnson later insisted he was referring to Obama's community organizing and formally apologized to the campaign
— M.J. Stephey