In the preliminary elections held on Saturday in North Carolina 55% of the votes were given to the US Democrat Presidential Candidate elected a Congressman from Illinois Barrack Obama thus giving him victory in that State. According to the opinion of the US media the victory of Obama was mainly promoted by the head of the state campaign Richard Ara Harputlyan, an Armenian descent. According to the Radio Liberty the mentioned Armenian Democrat politician, 58,, who has been the leader of the democrat’s campaign in North Carolina, a few days prior to the voting gave an interview to the MSNNC TV. He blamed the other leading democrat leader Hillary Clinton’s team of using unfair methods of campaign against Obama. Harputlyan insisted that the supporters of Clinton during their debates and meetings with voters first of all bring up the racism issue, by trying to convince the American voters that the African-American candidate has almost no chance to have victory in the race. “Clinton should tell his teammates not to avert to the issue of racism anymore,” said Harputlyan. By making his main target Bill Clinton, who had been recently actively involved in his wife’s campaign, Richard Harputlyan has compared the latter to the Republican politician of the 80s Lee Atwater. Advisor to the presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush Atwater was famous with his great skills of black PR. In his dialog with journalists Bill Clinton spoke about the statement of Harputlyan. He said, “You asking me that Harputlyan blames me of resembling Atwater. However all my life I tried to struggle against these people. Harputlyan is struggling against me. That’s why he draws comparisons with journalists and is sure that you will elucidate those. For you this is another pre-election campaign or scandal, shame on you!”
