According to Ferraro, She Said the Line About Obama 3 Times at Least
We have the Daily Breeze article
We have the John Gibson show
And we have her saying on Fox News that she said it during a talk–the talk described in the Daily Breeze is scheduled for this upcoming Sunday. She claims she said it at a paid speech after a question. The great part of this is that everyone else thought she was responding to Daily Breeze article–she thinks she’s responding to a statement at a speech not related to the Daily Breeze article.
So she has said that Obama is in his position only because he is black on a fairly regular basis.
March 12th, 2008 at
I’m sure him being black was first and foremost on the minds of all the people not voting for the candidate who first and foremost is a woman.
What sort of bizarrely twisted logic is she using? (Don’t answer….)
March 12th, 2008 at
In one of the more pathetic ironies of campaign ’08, Clinton backer and 1984 vice presidential contender Geraldine Ferraro in essence branded Barack Obama’s an affirmative action candidacy. Reprising her 1988 statement that “if Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn’t be in the race,” Ferraro claimed, “if Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.” Democrats could be forgiven for expecting more from Ferraro, especially given the National Organization for Women’s essential role in securing Mondale’s VP slot for a woman.
For the history, see:
“Ferraro ’84 Flashback: NOW Pressure Secured Mondale VP Slot.”
March 12th, 2008 at
She’s doing this in an attempt to gain votes in Pennsylvania from uneducated white people. It’s cynical, political, and profoundly racist. It also makes clear that Hillary Clinton, who hasn’t denounced it, is undeserving of public office. I will never vote for a Republican for any office, but I will never vote for Sen. Clinton, either.
March 12th, 2008 at
I think the ironic humor here is the disservice that Ferraro does for all women.
In trying to race-bait Senator Obama and scare up the uneducated vote, she (quite openly and proudly no less) characterizes herself as an affirmative-action token.
I guess she is trying to say, “If I know I was just a token, then obviously any other minority member who earned his way to the top must be a token too.”
As senseless as that is, it is the closest to sensible interpretation of anything Ferraro has babbled this week.
March 13th, 2008 at
Thanks for overlooking mountains of evidence. Obama has played the race and youth cards nonstop in this primary, repeatedly implying that Bill Clinton is a racist and talking about a ‘new generation of leaders’. Such rhetoric, along with the percentages of black people and young people voting for him, says it all.
We Hillary supporters constantly try to talk about issues and achievment, and we’re met with vicious smears in return. The very notion that the Clintons are racist, after all they have done on behalf of minorities, is the most disgusting smear of all. But you probably haven’t noticed that either.