I see the dust-up over Geraldine Ferraro’s controversial remarks about Obama and race continues today, with Ben Smith at The Politico quoting comments she made during Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential run that sound just like what she said yesterday. Ferraro is not backing down from what she said and suggested in a follow-up interview with the Torrance Daily Breeze that the criticism of her remarks about BO is happening because she’s white.
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:
Though they’ve thrown charges of “inexperience” back and forth at each other off and on during the course of their respective campaigns over the last year or so, this week the Obama and Clinton campaigns have launched an all out assault on each other’s claims of “foreign policy experience,” mostly with Team Clinton trying to defend their assertions about the Senator’s time as First Lady and the traveling she did to foreign countries, and accusing the Obama campaign of waging a “fundamentally misleading attack” on the junior Senator from New York regarding her foreign policy experience assertions.
The debate over what to do about the Florida and Michigan delegates continued to rage on over the weekend with the the talking head shows weighing in with their .02. I think Hillary is actually gaining some momentum with her case for either seating the delegates as they stand now from the original primary votes, or holding a new vote to determine how many delegates each candidate will get. Obama is reluctant, I think, because he stands ahead at this point in the delegate count, and perhaps feels that he wouldn’t win in FL and MI.
I have had the honor of being invited to join the stellar cast of writers at PajamasMedia.com. My first column is now posted and it addresses some myths about Barack Obama. Here’s an excerpt:
This is is priceless (emphasis added):
