Just got done reading BO’s big speech on race he made earlier today, as well as some of the many blogger reax to it. As you can see from that link, there’s no shortage of opinions out there on this continually developing controversy. You can view the full 35 minute speech here:
Barack Obama’s controversial black nationalist reverend is back in the news today, thanks to some detective work from ABC News (language warning):
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:
From the Department of Self-Loathers:
