OBAMA'S TOO YOUNG, AND YOUNG'S TOO QUOTABLE

Civil rights leader and former Carter Administration U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young says 46-year-old Barack Obama is too young to be president and lacks the network of political allies that can provide important support for a national leader. “I want Barack Obama to be president,” Young said, pausing for effect, “in 2016.”
“It’s not a matter of being inexperienced. It’s a matter of being young,” said Young, who is 75. “There’s a certain level of maturity ... you’ve got to learn to take a certain amount of(expletive).”
Young made the comments at an appearance on "Newsmakers Live," an urban media forum that interviews prominent Atlanta personalities. The comments were reported by the Associated Press based on excerpts of an undated interview that were posted on Newsmakers Journal, the Newsmakers' web site. Young added that Obama needs a political network to bolster him in office. He noted Hillary Clinton had a well-established network of allies, including her husband, to provide political protection. “There are more black people that Bill and Hillary lean on,” Young said. “You cannot be president alone. ...

To put a brother in there by himself is to set him up for crucifixion.

His time will come and the world will be ready for a visionary leadership.”

Young also quipped that “Bill is every bit as black as Barack.”
“He’s probably gone with more black women than Barack,”

Young said of former President Clinton, drawing laughs from a live television audience.

Young quickly followed the comment with the disclaimer, “I’m clowning.”