A supporter of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently suggested that Barack Obama's admitted youth drug use could be a liability if he came up against a Republican opponent in the general election, but it seems like only Clinton backers are making Obama's past use of marijuana and cocaine an issue so far.

CNN reported Jan. 14 that Black Entertainment Television (BET) founder Bob Johnson, a Clinton supporter, apparently alluded to Obama's past admission of drug use when he reacted to a spat between the Obama and Clinton camps over remarks about the civil-rights movement.

"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, 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... When they have been involved, to say that these two people would denigrate the accomplishment of civil rights marchers, men and women who were hosed, beaten and bled, and some died... To say and to expect us now all of a sudden to say we are attacking a black man," said Johnson.

Johnson made the remarks at a campaign appearance of behalf of Clinton. He later issued a statement saying his remarks referred "to Barack Obama's time spent as a community organizer, and nothing else. Any other suggestion is simply irresponsible and incorrect."

An Obama supporter, former South Carolina state Rep. "I.S." Leevy Johnson, called on Clinton to personally repudiate Johnson's "personal, divisive attack on Barack Obama."