MAGIC JOHNSON: I support Hillary Clinton, Democratic ticket could be 'Dream Team'

MAGIC JOHNSON: I support Hillary Clinton, Democratic ticket could be 'Dream Team': "MAGIC JOHNSON: I support Hillary Clinton, Democratic ticket could be 'Dream Team'" February 17, 2008 FREE PRESS STAFF REPORTS NBA legend and TNT analyst Magic Johnson was interviewed by CNN's Wolf Blitzer this weekend. BLITZER: You just heard former NBA star and Obama supporter Charles Barkley. Let's get to my conversation with Magic Johnson, a strong supporter of Hillary Clinton. BLITZER: Magic Johnson, thanks very much for joining us.JOHNSON: My pleasure, Wolf.BLITZER: Now, let's talk about politics a little bit. You're on the line for Hillary Clinton. What do you think? Not looking so great necessarily, at least right now.JOHNSON: Exactly. But I think that, you know, the thing that I love the most is that the party is united, and we've got a lot of young people out here voting now for the Democratic Party. Yes, she's lost, what, eight in a row, I think, primaries, but I feel really good. I still feel that she's the best candidate. BLITZER: Why do you? Because, you know, a lot of African Americans are really excited. He's getting 70, 80, 85 percent of the vote right now in some of these more recent primaries among African Americans. Tell us why you think she would be a better president. JOHNSON: Well, I still go back to the experience and the expertise, and also her foreign relationships, things that she's been doing for a long, long time, battling the health-care issue. Everybody wants health care for everybody, but you have been in that fight to understand what has been the pitfalls, why everybody doesn't have health care. So it's those type of things that I still think she still has the edge on Obama. But, at the same time, he's done a wonderful job of rallying new voters over to the Democratic Party, that being young people. First of all, he's energized that young voter as well as he's brought some independents over.