President Barack Obama is "getting bad advice from ... clowns" on Afghanistan and "sucking up to the wrong people" on health care, U.S. Rep. John Conyers told a Detroit radio audience Saturday, according to show host the Rev. Horace Sheffield.
Conyers, a Detroit Democrat, made the comments during a discussion about the effects of the recession on urban poor people, Sheffield said.
The congressman expressed frustration that health care legislation pending in Washington, D.C., is too solicitous of insurance companies and special interests, Sheffield said.
"He wasn't angry. He was just deeply concerned that some of the issues being focused on don't address the human reality," said Sheffield, who hosts the program "On The Line" on WGPR-FM (107.5).
According to a news release from Sheffield, Conyers said: "President Obama is sucking up to the wrong people and insurance companies as Obama pushed a weak health care package."
On Iraq and Afghanistan, Sheffield quoted Conyers as saying: "President Obama is getting bad advice from those clowns in the White House. We should be ending those wars now. America should be providing food instead of bombs from drones that kill innocent civilians." A transcript of the show was not available.
Conyers, an early supporter of Obama's presidential bid in 2007, could not be reached for comment Saturday.
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