SubscribeFerraro Defends Remarks, Quits Campaign
From ABC News and Reuters:
Clinton supporter defends Obama race remarks
By Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The only woman ever to be on a major party’s U.S. presidential ticket on Wednesday stood by her comment that Sen. Barack Obama is ahead in the Democratic race for the White House because he is black…
“My comments have been taken so out of context and have been spun by the Obama campaign as racist that it’s doing precisely what they don’t want done — it’s going to the Democratic Party and dividing us even more,” Ferraro told ABC’s “Good Morning America” in an interview.
She ignited a flap by telling a California newspaper that “if Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.”
“And if he was a woman he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept,” Ferraro said.
Ferraro told ABC she was “absolutely not” sorry for what she said.
“I believe that,” she added.
She said she had fought discrimination for 40 years.
“My concern has been over how I’ve been treated as well and hurt, absolutely hurt by how they have taken this thing and spun it to imply that in any way, any way I am racist,” she said…
On NBC’s “Today” show, Obama said: “Part of what Geraldine Ferraro is doing, and I respect the fact that she was a trailblazer, is to participate in the kind of slice and dice politics that’s about race and about gender and about this and that and that’s what Americans are tired of because they recognize that when we divide ourselves in that way, we can’t solve problems.” …
Go Geraldine, go!
Update!
Well, it looks like she is going.
From the Associated Press:
Ferraro Leaves Clinton Post
WASHINGTON (AP) — Geraldine Ferraro has stepped down from an honorary post she held in Hillary Rodahm Clinton’s presidential campaign amid a controversy regarding comments she made about Barack Obama.
Ferraro notified Clinton by letter Wednesday that she would no longer serve on Clinton’s finance committee as “Honorary New York Leadership Council Chair.” Ferraro, in a newspaper interview last week, said Obama wouldn’t be succeeding in his presidential race if he weren’t black.
Obama has called the comments “ridiculous” and his campaign aides have called on Clinton to denounce the statement.
Campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson said Ferraro left the post on her own initiative.
The Moor has done his duty. The Moor may leave. (Though “Moor” might not be the right analogy.)
But isn’t it odd how only yesterday Mrs. Ferraro was saying she had nothing to do with Hillary’s campaign, and now she is stepping down?
Apparently politics destroys the meaning of words — and just about everything else.
Related Articles:
15 Responses to “Ferraro Defends Remarks, Quits Campaign”
Leave a Reply
You must be registered and logged in to post a comment.
March 12th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
I’ve never really cared for her before, but at this point, my opinion is God bless her.
She is saying what everyone in America knows, and no political leader dares say.
March 12th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
THIS is why Rush Limbaugh want’s to keep Hillary in the nominee race! The Democrats are the only ones who can say aloud what the Republicans are thinking! The left very well cant tell the left to shut up can they?!?! ROFLMAO
March 12th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Pagar - I agree completely - she is correct and will be taken to task for it -
Lipstick - watch, if it doesn’t happen - HRC is the DNC candidate - if they go after her - He Who Cannot Be Named is the DNC candidate.
Given times (re McAmnesty apologising for everyone and their brother for using He Who Cannot Be Named’s middle name) - I expect everyone to be silenced into a PC ‘Fairness Doctrine’ silencing of the lambs. And if we let it happen - God Help America.
March 12th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
wardmama4; ….”she is correct and will be taken to task for it….”
Lipstick on a PIAPS; ….”The left very well cant tell the left to shut up can they?!?!….”
pagar; ….”God bless her. She is saying what everyone in America knows, and no political leader dares say…..”
Hey, y’all. You think she’s a mole for the RNC? Delicious!
March 12th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Hey Geraldine! Welcome to the Republican Party :)
March 12th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
“She said she had fought discrimination for 40 years.”
Doesn’t she mean PREJUDICE?
Words mean something. Thank you Bill Buckley Jr.
March 12th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
The Ebonics to standard american English translation of discrimination is prejudice. When someone speaking ebonics says that he can discern it, it means they can barely see it but can’t see it well enough to really tell what it is (as opposed to standard American english in which a discerning observer can detect fine differences in quality or detail). To discern and to discriminate have negative connotations in ebonics (as opposed to standard American English in which the ability to discern fine differences in order to discriminate in favor of the best choice or product in the category being examined is considered a good thing).
March 12th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
What Ferraro said is exactly what all rational people are thinking. If you take the time to research Obama’s meteoric rise in politics, you can only surmize that he was a creation of a number of political factions in historically corrupt Chicago.
Case in point: the first time Obama ran he had a number of opponents. So what happened to them? He sent in the troops and they questioned the signatures of the petitions for everyone of his opponents and found ways to disallow them. By the time the troops were done, all candidates were disqualified and Obama ran unoppossed. Politics, Chicago style.
When he got to the Illinois senate, the Senate majority leader assigned bills, written and fought for by other senators, to Obama. When they passed, Obama got credit for them although he has only been in the Illinois senate a short time. Politics, Chicago style.
Then came the second race for re-election; Obama had a strong opponent who had just been through a divorce. The divorce records were sealed, BY THE COURT. But lo, and behold, a Chicago paper sued to have the divorce records UNSEALED, and won. It was not complimentary to Obama’s opponent who then dropped out. Obama won re-election.
Then came the U.S. Senate race. Again, Obama’s opponent had been through a nasty divorce but the records were sealed to protect the children. Again, a Chicago paper sued for release of the records, AND WON. Obama’s opponent was slandered so badly Obama won by a landslide. Once again, politics, Chicago style.
And who was steering Obama during this time? Long time Illinois pols who were making themselves a politican who was really an empty suit being funded by Tony Rezko.
Obama is a figment of a lot of voter’s imaginations. There is nothing there. He is not made out of whole cloth, but is a creation of crooks, other black politicans and the media.
March 12th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Make no mistake about it, this business of Obama wouldn’t be a contender if he wasn’t black is a Hillary talking point. The Dems figure each democrat can say this once and then apologize without stirring up too much trouble (a Republican would be instantly crucified for even mentioning this once). Since Bill has already used up his pass the torch was passed to Geraldine. Look for the same talking point to come out of serial other mouthpieces between now and the Dimmo convention. Mark my words we are going to hear this litany over and over again.
March 13th, 2008 at 12:37 am
retire05 , was the paper that filed for the divorce information the same in both elections ? Just curious to know , and what that could possibly lead to .
March 13th, 2008 at 1:35 am
Geraldine Ferraro certainly had at least part of the reason he is doing so well. I think he comes across as intelligent and well-spoken, and he’s certainly better-looking than most political candidates (although my husband disagrees when I say he’s handsome), and the fact that he’s black has gained him the support of most American blacks. I think he’s being disingenuous when he says he doesn’t think this has helped him. Pat
Buchanan made a good point when he said Utah voted for Romney because he’s Mormon and certain states liked Huckabee where a lot of evangelicals reside. (BTW am I the only one who wishes he was running? I read his last book and agreed with most of it.)
March 13th, 2008 at 3:28 am
I don’t like Ferraro but I’ll give her credit for standing by what she said and being correct for once. She’s got bigger balls than Hillbilly and McCain both. (I know McCain used to have a set but he definitely lost them somewhere along the way).
March 13th, 2008 at 8:09 am
Ain’t debating a liberal fun?
March 13th, 2008 at 10:27 am
wirenut, I have never learned which Chicago paper sued for the release of sealed divorce documents. I will see if I can glean that information. The point is that in all three campaigns, Obama employeed dirty politics to eliminate his competition, Chicago style. As an unexperienced “community organizer” he had to have someone directing these actions. My guess that after he was elected the first time, Emil Jones was behind Obama’s rise. Jones was quoted as saying “I’m gonna make me a U.S. Senator”. and he has.
Now Obama’s financial mentor is on trial and it is leading all the way to the Illinois governor’s office. Am I to believe that Obama, with such a fast track to candidate of POTUS, was not involved in “politics as ususal” in Chicago and Illinois? Sorry, I’m not ready to buy ocean front property in Lubbock, Texas quite yet.
The problem we have with Ferraro is that the goal posts have been set. No one will be able to say anything against Obama without being labeled “racist”. The rules have been drawn; you cannot speak of his middle name, you cannot speak of his Afro-centric minister whose chuch is now under IRS investigation, you cannot speak of his connection to a Syrian crook who scammed Illinois out of millions, you cannot ask about his home purchase deal (if reporters do, Obama walks out on them), you cannot ask about his connection to his cousin, Odinga, how seems to be responsible for hundreds of Kenyan deaths since he lost the election there, you cannot ask Obama any tough questions.
I would be interested in viewing tapes of Obama a few years ago. My guess is that he has had speech coaches to make him sound more Martin Luther King, Jr. like. Every speech is “I have a dream” in method.
And where is Michelle Obama lately? Why has she dropped off the radar screen? Could it be that she is just to explosive and was rapidly becoming a liability to his campaign with her “never been proud before” comments?
March 13th, 2008 at 11:29 am
“I have never learned which Chicago paper sued for the release of sealed divorce documents.”
It was the Chicago Tribune:
Why unseal the Ryan divorce papers? - By Brendan I. Koerner - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/id/2102872