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Gerry Ferraro throws Clinton campaign in hot water over ‘controversial’ remark about race
1984 Democrat Vice Presidential candidate and current Clinton campaign finance committee member Geraldine Ferraro has given the Clinton campaign a headache it didn’t need going into today’s MS primary with remarks she made to the Torrance Daily Breeze which suggested that BO wouldn’t be where he is today in the Dem race for the nomination if he weren’t black:
“I think what America feels about a woman becoming president takes a very secondary place to Obama’s campaign – to a kind of campaign that it would be hard for anyone to run against,” she said. “For one thing, you have the press, which has been uniquely hard on her. It’s been a very sexist media. Some just don’t like her. The others have gotten caught up in the Obama campaign.
“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position,” she continued. “And if he was a woman (of any color) 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 does not buy the notion of Obama as the great reconciler.
I’ll ignore her comments on “sexism” as I think the bigger issue at hand is what she said about race.
Naturally, her remarks set off a flurry of back and forth between the warring Obama and Clinton factions, with Team Obama demanding an outright repudiation of the comments, as well as suggesting that Clinton sever her ties with Ferraro. Both Clinton and her campaign spokesmen have said they don’t agree with the remarks, and suggested that both campaigns should stay focused on the “issues.”
This is very convenient timing for Barack Obama, whose campaign first utilized the race card a couple of weeks before the South Carolina Dem primary, where they knew black voters would turn out in significant numbers. Ferraro’s comments just give him an excuse to play it again directly, in addition to the one he already played yesterday, which I noted in an earlier post today.
The BO campaign doesn’t mind playing the race card one bit, doesn’t mind pandering to black audiences in order to secure their votes, doesn’t mind “borrowing” some quotes from a fellow black politician nor a popular black actor’s line from the movie Malcolm X, doesn’t mind making campaign stops with mega-supporter Oprah Winfrey in front of primarily black crowds, stands silent when the head of his own party plays disgraceful race-baiting games when talking about the Republcian candidates, but when someone – an outspoken Democrat – suggests that a major part of his appeal is because he is black, well then that is unacceptable.
Obama spokesman Bill Burton earlier today accused the Clinton campaign of engaging in double standards by refusing to dump Ferraro from her campaign, after last week calling for (and getting) the resignation of (now-former) Obama foreign policy advisor Samantha Power for calling Clinton a “monster” in an inteview with a Scottish newspaper. I’d say there’s a mountain of evidence which suggests that the Obama campaign is engaging in a far worse double standard when it comes to issues related to race, a despicable double standard they’ll continue to get away with.
Update: A reader emails to remind me that Ferraro made similar comments last month on John Gibson’s radio show. Click here to listen.
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The media has given BO a pass. Even SNL has caught on. Maybe it is because the liberals in the MSM don’t want to appear “racist” by “attacking the black guy”. They know the Hildabeast can take a punch, so they piled on. Ferraro points this out this idea as a possible reason and gets slammed with what? “How dare you attack the black guy”
Come on, think about it. what white guy with as little experience as BO would even raise a nickle on the campaign trail?
My what a tangled web we weave – when first we practice to be PC!
So let me get this straight…
The party of “THE WOMAN!!!!” is attacking a woman for “attacking the black guy”. So does that mean the Dems are now the party of the black guy first and second that “women” are now supposed to ride in the back of the bus?
Of course, Hillary gets points when she plays the “victim”. So then does that mean its the Dems and not the Rep who have a problem with a strong woman?
I looked into Geraldine Ferraro’s record at the time she got the VP nod in 1984…she was relatively unaccomplished and one can argue the only reason she was on the ticket was because she was a good attack dog and she lacked a penis, so for her as a “token woman” to say Obama is a “token black man” is hypocritical beyond words…as she is the prototype.
As I’ve shown before, even when you adjust for population, and compare white women to black (of any gender) there have been far more white females as Governors and Senators than any black person. It is not even close. Blacks are 12% of the population and white women are 33% according to http://www.census.gov. That means, if everything was equal there should be no more than 2.75X the rate of white women in those offices than blacks. A moron can find out in 5 minutes the number is way over double that.
There have been 3 black governors (one not elected) since Reconstruction and 2 black Senators (one a woman before Obama) that is it.
Now go check wiki and see how many white women have been in these positions…way more than 3X the black rate.
Historically it has been far easier for any white woman to get elected to higher office than any black (man or woman). How many white (men and women) have benefited from whites bloc voting against them? Quite a few.
So being black historically has not helped anyone in a state wide election and definitely not a national election…she is a racist scum bag and a hypocrite.
So does that mean the Dems are now the party on the black guy first and second that “women” are now supposed to ride in the back of the bus?
In the Battle of the Victocrats, my money is now riding on the Messiah taking down Hilly the Hun. A bit of the Hun’s political karma – not to mention a lot of her tactics – seems to have rubbed off on Young Grasshopper. And the “civil rights” lobby has shown itself to be far meaner and dirtier than the “feminist” lobby (and that is saying a lot!).
Hilly the Hun vs. the Messiah. Sounds like a WWF cage match. But it is actually the future of American politics. God help us.
The Hillary campaign misses no chance to jump on anything and play it to the hilt, and cry foul at any suggestion that she or any women has been slighted. Bill Clinton opened the door to the race issue, and it is still a very deep and sensitive issue, without question. Obama has taken the high road more times than Hillary, the fact is that Hillary is losing, and she will tear the country apart to get the nomination. I wish I could say this is as sad as it can get, but Hillary Clinton, in her blind ambition to win, and without regard or respect for any sense of fairness, consistency, or honor, and in spite of any real and lasting damage she is inflicting on the Democratic party has condoned some major damage to our Country itself. And now the senseless, hurtful, damaging and polarizing turn in her campaign toward our fellow Americans whose skin color is dark, playing on the deep seated fears of those who do or don’t know any better, this will be a turning point that America will have to make a choice: do we condone this conduct by Clinton and her campaign and continue to vote for her, or do we stop rewarding this behavior by not voting for her? If she is rewarded for this, we will surely see more of it, and I, for one, can’t stomach much more of this type of hateful devicive politics, she is starting to make George Bush look good, this is a very sad day for our country, I hope the message comes thru that most of this great country of America does not think this way, God help us all.
Huh???? How is Hitlery making George Bush look good?? – Lorica
“she is a racist scum bag and a hypocrite.”
She can’t be both. If she is a hypocrite. {i.e. getting something unearned and attacking BO for the same thing) then she is telling the truth, not being racist. The only way she can be a hypocrit is if BO is also getting something for nothing. So her freebie is OK and his isn’t. That’s hypocracy. If she gets a freebie and he isn’t then is racism (maybe)
And you can call me a racist all you want but Obama IS an empty suit, getting a free pass from the media. How many SNL skits do we have to endure before people get the message?