Its no secret that the Clintons have been kind to the moguls of the telecommunications industry in the 90's, to put it EXTREMELY mildly. The 1996 Telecommunications Act was a warm election year embrace for the top magnates of the media world, and the FCC has been in a long slide ever since.
That's not kid ourselves, this was quid pro quo. What he was doing is not in question, and why he was doing it was very clear. His job was to take the luster off of Obama's candidacy and drag it through the mud of racial politics in order to scare black voters from making their own choice and to get white voters to start rolling their eyes at the Jesse Jackson 2.0 candidacy.
As CEO of BET Entertainment, Robert Johnson has been served very well by the Clinton dynasty and I am sure that the Clintons have spoken with the media giant about what regulatory wonders await him if he would be willing to act as the bloody gloves to keep their hands clean.
Once MAY have been an aberration, but when you get two major campaign figures to go before the media and start winking about how awful it was that Obama took drugs (as a kid before he cleaned himself up, a model of hope for confused kids across the country), you can bet that the campaign masters sat around a long table and thought hard about how best to do the job and who should be the surrogate.
While I primarily oppose Clinton because of her need for militarism to act "tough," this is a fairly sickening display of the worst kind of politics. The kind that makes people want to do their own thing and forget about the government cesspool. Unfortunately, liberalism requires a healthy, positive relationship between citizens and their government, so this doubly hurts all liberal candidates in the long run.
Clinton wants to make her bid an historic one - about herself as a woman, rather than bringing citizens into vigorous activity like Obama's call to service. But she clearly has no interest in changing the history of cynical politicians and the you-scratch-my-back politics with the elite and their ever-ready lobbyists waiting for election day returns.