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NYT John Harwood Refers To Obama As ‘The Black Guy’

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Betsy Rothstein Gossip blogger
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It appears that NYT and CNBC’s John Harwood has no shame when it comes to the lengths he will go to kiss up to Hillary Clinton‘s 2016 presidential campaign.

If that’s not embarrassing enough, in a new WikiLeaks dump of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta‘s emails, Harwood refers to President Obama as “the black guy.”

In an email to Podesta in June of 2105 that included former Obama aides David Axelrod, David Plouffe and Clinton’s chief strategist  Joel Benenson, Harwood wrote:

Subject line: Perhaps I am missing something….

“…but it seems to me the idea in this story that Bill Clinton ran broad centrist ’50-state’ campaign and Obama ran narrow ‘liberal’ campaign is ridiculous on its face: http://nyti.ms/1AVmBTS Yes, Bill Clinton of Arkansas won some Southern states and Colorado and Montana with help from Ross Perot on way to 370 EVs in 1992. But was his campaign really more expansive than that of the black guy who won VA and NC and IN, 50%+ of popular vote (twice) and 365 EVs in 2008?”

The Mirror sought comment from Harwood on his choice of phrase.

Perhaps Harwood is missing something.

Try a name for POTUS instead of “the black guy.”

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