Zeb,
You are right, Obama never said the word 'stupid', he just implied it. He also implied no washington insiders, but hey, you read it as you want to. He's your candidate.
As for making things up, I don't need too, reality is a lot more funny.
I know all the cabinet positions are not filled, but he did the most important first, and they are all dems and Clintonites.
LinkThe sharpest exchange at the AFL-CIO forum in Chicago came as Obama defended his stand on threatening a military strike against terror targets in Pakistan with or without the permission of that nation's government.
"I find it amusing that those who voted to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield and not the wrong battlefield in the war against terrorism," declared Obama, alluding to Clinton's vote authorizing force against Iraq.
Clinton, who has called Obama naive, suggested making the threat aloud could destabilize Pakistan and raise the risk of an Islamic fundamentalist takeover in that country, which has a nuclear arsenal.
Link Clinton went on to say comments from Obama's campaign in the aftermath of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination were "a lot worse" than what Johnson said.
Obama's campaign implied that some of Hillary Clinton's foreign policy decisions helped exacerbate problems in Pakistan.
The ex-president called the attack "appalling" and said his wife did not try to turn it into a larger issue, but instead "said 'I disagree' and moved on."
Hillary Clinton did respond then, saying she regretted that Obama's campaign "would be politicizing this tragedy, and especially at a time when we do need to figure out a way forward."
Johnson, a Hillary Clinton supporter, made his remarks Sunday at Columbia College in South Carolina, a state with a large share of African-American voters that holds its Democratic primary on January 26.
Hillary Clinton also has accused Obama's campaign of distorting recent remarks by her and her husband that have touched off concerns among some African-American voters.
Johnson said he has held fund-raisers for Obama but was unhappy with criticisms of the former first lady by Obama's campaign.
"As an African-American, I'm frankly insulted that the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Bill and Hillary Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood that -- I won't say what he was doing, but he said it in his book," Johnson said while campaigning at the largely black Northminster Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina.
In Obama's recently reprinted 1995 book, "Dreams from My Father," the future presidential candidate writes he was once headed in the direction of a "junkie" and a "pothead."
LinkObama picking Washington insiders for cabinet despite promising change
Thursday 20th November, 04:46 PM JST
WASHINGTON —
President-elect Barack Obama promised the voters change but has started his cabinet selection process by naming several Washington insiders to top posts.
Obama is enlisting former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle as his health secretary. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a well-known Washington personality, seemed more likely than ever to be his secretary of state. Clinton is deciding whether to take that post as America’s top diplomat or stay in the Senate, her associates said Wednesday
Obama is ready to announce that his attorney general will be Eric Holder, the Justice Department’s No. 2 when Clinton’s husband was president. Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s chief of staff, is another veteran of the Clinton White House.
Holder, 57, would be the first black person to serve as the country’s top legal official.