Clinton Adds “Reject” to her Statement on Ferraro Comments

As far as we know, she was not “tossed.” She resigned and Senator Obama accepted. That’s what we’ve been exposed to anyhow in the media. IF there is some other evidence that Senator Obama forced her out, please let us know.

“In Our Lifetime” cover of Ebony. game, set, and match Ferraro.

Obama better hope he wins Pa. because if they revote it’ll be tied

Obama said he did not believe the Clinton campaign was behind the photo of him in African garb, but he held it up in Mississippi as proof of how low she would sink. Clearly this was an attempt to rally black voters who make up 70 % of the registered Dems in Mississippi but the media has ignored this in favor of Ferraro’s comments. If Hillary had tried to rally white voters with a similar trick she would be history. Obama decries the race card but pulls it out as needed. Again, he will say or do whatever he needs to get elected. His brand of politics is as old as Machiavelli.

I am a republican and I am voting for Obama. If Obama choose Clinton as his VP then Obama loose my vote. I am all for CHANGE.

Hey, “An Adult American Female”, you left out “Influence Peddler”, in Obama’s vitae, ala Rezko. That, my friend, is factually based. BTW, writing a book isn’t a basis to run for President. Influence peddling is a basis to not be supported. I hope you and others consider withdrawing your support for him for that basis.

Hey WestCoastMessenger – they are both authors, both have 3 books published… perhaps his angry statement about her donating 5 mill to her campaign was really about jealousy, he said “I dont have 5 million to donate to my campaign!” I had to laugh at that one. I am an author of a highly technical book regarding international market forecasts but that does not make me qualified to run for President. LOL

Ferraro was simply saying what Gloria Steinham wrote in the NY Times Op-Ed in Jan.: that if a woman had the same limited national and international experience Obama had when he started his campaign with only 2 1/2 years in the US Senate, that woman (no matter how inspirational a speaker) would have been laughed at if she had the audacity to run for president. Obama’s gender and, yes, his heritage gave him an edge.

Watch for the next major reversal from the Obama camp. After railing against the undemocratic nature of the superdelegates and saying that the Dem nominee should be the one who gets the most votes, the Obama camp will fight against having real primaries in Florida and Michigan that would allow those voters to have their voices heard.

Just one question…..”Who is Barack Obama?”
Anyone care to answer? “Life history experts only….need apply”.

In light of the comments today, the exit polls are telling:
Mississippi = 48% white, 50% black
White men Clinton 68% Obama 30%
White women Clinton 71% Obama 23%
Black men Clinton 6% Obama 94%
Black women Clinton 10% Obama 90%
BTW There was absolutely no difference in voters with or without college degrees for all you condescending Obamites.
The most important things to note here are: a disproportionate amount of black voters support Obama; the white males are swinging to Clinton even more than before; Mississippi is a republican stronghold for electoral votes so the win in the primaries is irrelevant in November against McCain.
Racism is clearly affecting the voters and we can see the source is not in the white vote.

Welcome to the blogosphere pam porter. Yes the moderators delete things based on the Terms of Service. They often make judgement calls or are directed to do so. Dont take it personally.
On another note, funny how many of the obamites prefer to call people names instead of debate the issues or even state what their candidate’s qualifications or stands on the issues are.

Ok SadStateofAffairs – Since it would be useless to post the lifetime of achievements of either candidate, let’s compare the record of major awards that might be even slightly related to ethnic groups:
Clinton -
-Humanitarian Award, Elie Wiesel Foundation
-Women Who Make A Difference Lifetime Achievement Award, Family Circle
-President’s Award, League of United Latin American Citizens
-International Women’s Philanthropy Award, Lion of Judah Conference of Combined Jewish Philanthropies
-Distinguished Bridge Builder Award, Leon H. Sullivan Foundation
-Recognition, Military Order of the Purple Heart
-Distinguished Service Award, National Association of Elementary School Principals
-Bully Pulpit Award, National Council for Adoption
-Black Women of Courage Award, National Federation of Black Women Business Owners
-Martin Luther King Jr. Award, Progressive National Baptist Convention
- Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service
-Woman of Steel – Role Model of the Year, United Steel Workers of America
-Arkansas Woman of the Year-1983
-Arkansas Mother of the Year-1984
Obama -
Best Spoken Word Album, Grammy Award, 2006;
Chairman’s Award, National Association for the Advancement Colored People, 2005;
100 most influential people in the world, Time Magazine, 2005;
10 people who will change the world, New Statesman, 2005;
Harold Blake Walker Award, Christopher House, 2005;
Rock the Nation Award, Rock the Vote, 2005;
Outstanding Legislator Award, Campaign for Better Health Care and Illinois Primary Health Care Association, 1998;
Best Freshman Legislator Award, Independent Voters of Illinois, 1997;
Monarch Award for Outstanding Public Service, 1994;
40 Under 40” Award, Crain’s Chicago Business, 1993

The math tonight doesn’t look good for Hillary.
Obama: 1402 pledged delegates
Clinton: 1240 pledged delegates
Obama: 1608 total delegates
Clinton: 1478 total delegates
(CNN estimates)

Geraldine Feraro remains one of the chairs on the National Clinton Finance Committee
She and her remarks are a surrogate for the continued race baiting of the Clinton campaign

I voted for Mondale-Ferraro in 1984 more for her than for him. Now I can’t believe the strident words coming out of her mouth. Shame.

SJ and DC Voter
losing Mississippi by 20% points is a good showing?
When Sen Clinton, Pres Clinton and Chelsea actively campaigned in the State?
When Sen Clinton was the keynote speaker at last Sat night Jeff Jackson dinner in Mississippi?
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When you look at the results by county tomorrow you will see why the white vote was so skewed toward Sen Clinton
The same phenonomon we saw in Texas and Ohio – RUSH republicans voting for Hillary
Sen Clinton carried by huge margins the two most republicans counties in Mississippi today where there were significant amounts of Republicans crossing over to vote in the Democratic primary – and 90% white areas –
Open your eyes people
Don’t vote for Obama if you don’t want to — but please see what is happening
As long as you are okay with Pres McCain — keep it up — because that is what this is about

Alison at the moment Obama only has about 120,000 votes more that McCain, and McCain is not even in this race, so its not fair to say Republican were crossing the line to vote for Clinton.
When you check the map you will see it’s only one precinct that Obama had a mass turnout for him.

“That is what I call winning BIG.”
Yeah, another big win in a red state!
Go Obama!

I wondering when the Hillary supporters are gonna say …. oh no Barack beat us big time with the white vote …in Wisconsin, Washington, Maine, Nebraska, North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Kansas, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska etc…..
I’m wondering if thee syncophants are gonna tire out on pulling this nonsense.
PS
Mara yeah shoulda been Maria.

The Ferraro story will recede. More importantly,today in Mississipi the voters voted along race lines. This is horrible news for Obama. He can win southern states like Mississippi (where AA voters were 50 percent of the dem primary electorate) by relying on a massive, 90 percent + sweep in the african american votes because african americans make up a large percentage of the vote in the democratic primary electorate. African americans make up a much smaller percentage of the general electorate.(Less than 20 percent). Obama may manage to get the democratic nomination without resolving his his problems with white, latino and blue collar voters, but he won’t win the presidency with his coalition.He should be very concerned about his reliance on AA votes to win in the south. If that is his strategy, he will not win in the south, He has to get white, latino and blue collar voters. How is he going to do that?

When you have an area like Jackson Mississippi where its 90% AA and over 35,000 come out to vote for Obama, how can anyone say he is winning the white vote.
That is the only precinct that he has had the mass showing, and that is where he made his push, but if you guys feel that is all it will take to win an election against Mc Cain there is not much I can say but some of you really better start to do the math.

Why is everyone so upset, put out, disturbed by talking about the “elephant in the room.” BHO is(half)black and 90% of the black electorate vote for him…not white, or asian, or hispanic…that is a reality, that is what is happening, and that is worthy of discussion. What is more racist, talking about the breakdown of votes of the electorate, or a bloc of voters that favor a candidate with a ratio of 90% to 10%?

Pam they wont discuss that because they want to believe that Obama can win this on his own with only the AA vote.
In the meantime they slam every Clinton supporter and act as if out votes don’t matter, they don’t need Hillary, The also feel once she is out Obama will go with either Kerry or maybe Edwards and they are home free on to the WH.
Maybe when Nov comes they will wake up and get it so until then let them dream and hope they love it like that

@WayneP | Mar 12, 2008 12:24:53 AM:
What are the specifics that show Hillary is *personally* making race the issue in this election? She has already rejected Ferraro’s comments, she already said in the debate that the *photo* did not come from her campaign and she apologized for her husband’s remarks in South Carolina if folks construed them as racism.
Senator Obama during the debate said “Well, first of all, I take Senator Clinton at her word that she knew nothing about the photo. So I think that’s something that we can set aside.” But yesterday pulls the race/victim card and reminds the voters of Mississippi of the picture and blamed it on the Clinton campaign.
It seems to me that Senator Obama is the one making this election about race.

CG – you are repeating yourself (you cant count states twice) LOL
But to humor you and because I know you hate facts, let me pull some numbers out of the spreadsheet I am keeping with the election data. For Obama, here are the state types and percentage of actual voter turnouts from SOS websites:
Red: Nebraska 1%
Red: Wyoming 2%
Red: Idaho 2%
Red: Kansas 2%
Red: Alaska 5% (302 voters)
Red: North Dakota 6%
Red: Louisiana 19%
Red: Utah 24%
Red: South Carolina 30%
Red: Alabama 32%
Red: Georgia 33%
Blue: Hawaii 3%
Blue: Maine 5%
Blue: Minnesota 7%
Blue: Delaware 24%
Blue: Maryland 27%
Blue: District of Columbia 29%
Blue: Vermont 39% (Indie state)
Blue: Washington 42%
Swing(Red 2004): Colorado 6%
Swing(Red 2004): Iowa 16%
Swing(Red 2004): Virginia 27%
Swing(Red 2004): Missouri 33%
Swing(Blue 2004): Connecticut 20%
Swing(Blue 2004): Illinois 33%
Swing(Blue 2004): Wisconsin 37%
The states you mentioned not only had low voter turnout (meaning the number of white Obama voters were small compared to the national election) but they are states that are going to give electors to McCain no matter who the dem nominee is. The numbers also show the states with large black voting bloc are mostly Republican strongholds as well.

I think it would be interesting to see just what the current polling indicates in states that have already voted to see if “buyer’s remorse” is happening. This would be a good indicator for the SDs since some idiot at the DNC decided to have a primary campaign that seems never ending because they tried to control which states vote first. LOL

DCVoter,
Good analysis. OBAMA ticks back up on top in the popular vote today, based on another racially polarized contest, but come Pennsyslvania CLINTON will begin to leave him in the dust. Florida re-vote will knock him out. I think your analysis clearly shows why she is a better candidate, irrefutably.

SJ
you almost make it sound as if Obama invented the caucuses, LOL, well he didn’t . In the GE Obama will win ‘blue states’ just as easily as Clinton would win them, for they’re both strong Democratic candidates. But he’ll be a lot more competitive than her in some ‘red’ and swing states, since he has been the one attracting most of the independent voters so far. All the polls show he’s more favorable than Clinton, and he leads Clinton in the national electability polls. What more do you want?
The whole argument that Obama can’t win the big blue states is too silly for words. He may not win them from Hillary, but every good Dem candidate will win them from McCain, certainly if you take turnouts into account – and Obama so far is the turnouts king of the race. But he will, other than Al Gore, also be able to win the necessary smaller states; necessary for a Dem victory over the GOP in the GE.
At least, that’s how I see it; Hillary voters will disagree. In the end it is all about beating the GOP, isn’t it? If Hillary WOULD get the nomination, in a fair manner, I will vote her and hope Obama will run one more time. But I’m pretty sure he’s gonna make it this year already.

Mark – both campaigns have surrogates and spouses that have said things that could be construed as racist but let’s look at the actions of the candidates:
Clinton apologized for Bill’s remarks.
Obama did not apologize for Michelle’s remarks.
Clinton apologized for surrogates.
Obama did not apologize for surrogates.
Clinton did not play the race card with the photo and Obama agreed yet Obama played it for this contest in MS.
White voters consistently swing back and forth between the candidates with no statistical disparity.
Black voters overwhelmingly vote for Obama and Obama’s surrogate organizations are pressuring black SDs but not pressuring white ones (of which there are more).
Seems pretty clear where the source of the racism is and it is not Senator Clinton.

“Mat Math”,
This maybe where the mathematicians have to stand down and the artists step up. Obama needs to build his portfolio first, 2016 against any ‘R or 2012 against an impaired McCain would be an election he stands to win. Not so today. He lacks the political maturity to beat McCain today. You can rest assured the right wing has already fully infiltrated the Obama campaign, with his droves of unvetted newbies (he himself calls them Obamacans, he’s bought that line, hook, line, and sinker. They will begin to go south on him big time come November and he will be crushed. He needs to learn to smell out the bad guys. Sorry to have to break this news to you dude. It’s Hillary’s turn now, Obama next. I’ll support him in eight years, once he has grown.

Not lost on Obama dupporters but we don’t use fantasy math…remember we are the educated people that are voting :)
It really is simple. Unless Hillary can win all remaining states by at least a 60/40 then she will not go into the convention with more elected delegates and Obama has added 7 Supers since the Texas/Ohio votes while Hillary has added none.
Those are the facts using simple math…..but it that’s too difficult for you then perhaps you need to visit one of the many sites that offer the same simple math and you might better understand it.

Obama has more years in ELECTED office than Clinton…so the experience card is really lacking in this argument…..

“Sam”,
Executive managers make calibrated decisions. They don’t go around firing people on a reactive basis, only on a measured basis. Remember that as you get promoted up the ladder.
You are factually incorrect – Obama never fired his foreign policy advisor, she resigned first.

Wrong. He ask for her resignation.

Disgusted : that is a fact that most Obama supporters do not want to face, the damage is done already too many HRC supporter are not stating openly on every blog that they will not vote for Obama if he gets the nomination, some say they will write in her name or not vote at all.
They were talking that way on and off but after Obama made is VP remarks that chatter has grown, plus the FL voters don’t like what is going on in there state to them they voted already a mail in for them is as if they are being robbed of their vote.
This thing is a total mess with no end in sight, they may as well both call it a day and welcome McCain.

IF the Democratic election depended on popular vote then I would agree but if your playing by the rules that the Democratic party has laid down? Then it goes with the delegates. As far as Hillary getting the popular vote and Obama getting more delegates? Don’t see it happening nor do any of the pundits I keep hearing. She would have to, again, win all remaining states by a 60/40 measure and as ALL states have shown, she goes in with usually a double digit lead and after he campaigns, her lead falls. Those are just the facts.

As for those childish enough to vote for McCain if their candidate does not win? I would feel inclined to ask of your parents were breeding for stupid? In the end it is the party that must survive or our way of life suffers and anyone who dosen’t get that? Has no business voting.

ROTFLMAO Wait a minute LOL Texas is not relevent but those voters in FL and MI can’t be disenfranchised LOLOLOL you people and your “opinions” amaze me with your childish behaviour.

You bet it could happen but again I am going by the comments from many of the delegates theirselves who have stated that they will vote the way their states have voted and since Obama has won many many more states than Clinton then that would also swing in his favor. Could they vote for Hillary regardless? Sure they could and if they did? I would support her.

Sorry Sam, but we do have the right to vote. I have always been all about the party, but I have never seen the hate and immaturity in a primary as there is this year. And, I do not trust BHO. Too many questions for me…After 8 years of Bush, I can probably survive with McCain to keep from listening to BHO.

Without sounding too educated, I am a mathematician and at this point in the election, it has nothing to do with math. It has to do with an established process that has primaries, caucuses, pledged delegates and unpledged delegates. There is no simple math to work out here. The PROCESS is going to play out where the delegates (pledged and unpledged) can vote as they please at the democratic national convention. Using independent judgment, party elders are going to put the person who has the best chance of procuring the White House this Fall.
There are folks here who want to make it out to be a numbers game in hopes of confusing us “less educated” types, but the reality is this is going to play out in the existing process and some folks aren’t going to be happy. Don’t lecture us on the simple math line–do some research about how a candidate gets the nomination in reality. You can kick and scream all you want and claim that the candidate with the most pledged delegates should be the “winner,” but it doesn’t work that way.

“Sam”,
Obama has continued to try to harvest Supers contrary to the way their state has voted. He obviously hasn’t closed the deal on the idea that someone has to vote in accordance with their state outcome. If so, he could stop all efforts at harvesting additional contrarian votes. Would you say that’s an indicator that he is worried about the idea that people may vote contrary to their state?

Many mathematicians out there would disagree with you though you are welcome to your opinion. It is all about the math and the delegates and the preception of what the majority of the American public wants….at this point? The majority has voted for Obama.

ROTFLMAO Caucus delegates count just like any other and if you really feel that they will go against their party then good luck with that thought process…..but don’t bet your house on it.

Gotta comment on this idiotic comment that a caucus is “a non-Democratic process”…used by the Democratic party though? LOL You mean that Clinton did not do her homework and Obama used it beat her in the delegate race so NOW its a a non-Democratic process to her followers…Again fantasy.

Off to bed with visions of another Obama win dancing in my head!

BTW,
No one from the Obama campaign has ever made contact with her to seal the relationship. Clinton campaign has been all over me. Let’s see who turns in the homework in the end, the rabbit or the turtle? You may see your face in the rear-view mirror as the Clinton train passes you by.

Thanks, SJ, exactly where I was going…The truely divisive/mean-spirited comments this primary are from the BHO supporters trashing HRC. After such a venomous barrage of hate how can those supporters think we will run to their camp eager to join hands now, for the common good?

DCVoter,
As usual you nailed it. I noticed a huge shift in the MSM this past week when Newsweek informed the world that the race between Obama and Clinton was now a statistical dead heat. This seems to have more import on the press than any voting outcomes. Public sentiment, come the convention, will win the day. If HRC is ahead in the national polls even 5 points, and holds the popular vote, those Supers will move with her. I’m fairly certain that the Pennsylvania-Florida combo will deliver the knockout punch.

I checked RCP numbers against the actual numbers from the individual SOS’s… they are not in agreement. From what I understand, all the voter tallies are not complete yet is the only explanation. I have seen some of the MSM sites use percentages to “extrapolate” voter turnouts to caucus contests and make errors. My guess is that accounts for the disparity in some of the MSM sites and also that some of them use the MI and FL numbers differently. The national popular vote appears too close to call for either candidate but the state popular votes are clearly defined.

Again with the math thing? The only math you need to worry about is how many superdelegates will be pledging their support for Senator Clinton which will tally up to at least 2,025. If you don’t like the rules, then you shouldn’t play.

Hillary is an angry cheater and lier. She will makes us loose the election against McCain. She rather have her way than the country’s. It is disgusting and sad.

“LOM”,
Yeah, you’re still right on that point. It’s easy to get sucked into arguments about the math. Given the increase in crumble rate coming out of the inside of the OBAMA campaign this week, with increasing friendly fire casualties, this thing may be a wrap sooner than we all think. HILLARY’s handling her cases with finesse.

alma makes my case very clear….there is no way the HRC supporters will feel a need to back BHO after those sorts of tirades.

DCV, I was referring to Sam’s post. Sorry. Trust me, I have about three monster, ahem, large spreadsheets I’ve been tracking. I love doing math and analysis, but I wouldn’t want to lead anyone on that I’m educated and a Clinton supporter.
My opposition to the math assignment posed by the Obama supporters is that are blatantly disregarding a long-established process and the person who has the most pledged delegates doesn’t automatically win (unless it exceeds the 2,024 threshold). This election is going to rely on the traditional role of superdelegates and so there are some folks here who need to lay off the math lessons.

Hey “Catiger”,
Got your claws out. Let me ask, did you ever hear of a thing called a politician? They re-position their interests ALL THE TIME. It’s all about making the sweetest deal possible at the end of the day. Why do you think the masses of them are still silent?

I swear is it that some of these Obama supporters just don’t know how this thing works, over and over they are told that supers do not have to stay with any candidate and that is the reason they are given that post.
They can all sit and look at different out come in this race and decide what or who they feel will give them a win, this is not a game people the DNC wants the WH they are not going to put anyone that they feel cant deliver this to them, and to put it simpler they are not going to run the risk of having Clinton supporters turn on them.
Do you guys honestly feel they don’t know this party needs some major damage control, you feel they are not aware of what is going on, geez grow up this thing is bigger then some silly math count or who is winning a few silly states that does not matter in the long run.

I’m not delusional. Clearly, neither candidate has 2,025 yet else this race would be over. Again, the process is such that pledged delegates and unpledged delegates are calculated in the total. She may currently be behind in the pledged delegate count, but it is possible for her to still win once the pledged delegates are tallied. So, to reiterate this again, it’s less about math and more about following the process in place for nominating a candidate.
And thanks for the personal insult–it makes your arguments that much more compelling and you definitely come across as having far superior intelligence.

WestCoastMessenger: thank you for addressing my concerns rather than making a personal attack. You’re a textbook representative of the Clinton campaign.
Hillary Clinton doesn’t care about the American people — she cares only about Hillary Clinton. The Republicans have this thing locked up thanks to her new strategy of negative campaigning. The moral of the story for our kids: if you can’t win on the substantive issues (as we saw before the negative campaign began), you should resort to name-calling, fear-mongering, and making up completely absurd claims to win at any cost. The only “win” here is for the Republicans. Thanks Hillary for another 4 years of Bush in the White House!

ok LOM no worries… but I do think people who are educated about the political processes (like these primaries and caucuses) do play a role in discussing and sharing how the numbers work. It is not enough to grow the electorate without educating them on how to: actively participate, find sources of information, and understand what the sources are telling them.
I spoke to many new voters in TX (not young ones) that I personally have lobbied to participate in the process for the first time in their lives. I didnt just try to sell them on my choice. I encouraged them to participate online and learn. They felt comfort in learning, participating, and asking questions anonymously. Now my phone rings like crazy because they are so excited they want to discuss politics. You never know who you might be helping online… the end result just might be a more united country.

Actually, half the voters participating in the democratic primaries want Obama to get the nom and the other half wants Clinton to get the nom. I dont think many of them care about what Rush Limbaugh wants. LOL
But you bring out an interesting point. “Voters participating in the democratic primaries” includes Indies and Reps. However, 9% of Reps have been voting for Obama and no one really knows about the indies. What we do know is the core majority of the dem party loyal voters support Clinton and that only the fringe liberal dem loyalists support Obama. Some of us, like myself, are simply anti-Republican this year and want to see the most electable candidate get the nom to have the greatest chance to beat McCain. IMHO, detailed analyses show Clinton is the most electable and the polls are now starting to support that as voters are shifting in public opinion. Rush Limbaugh is over-inflating his importance if he thinks he is personally affecting the election on a national level.

After seeing the video of Sally Kern’s seriously anti-gay hate speech, I wonder of McCain will reject her words and if the RNC will tell her to be quiet until after the election at least. LOL She was so out there on the tip of the right wing it was sickening.

I am convinced more than ever that Hillary Clinton is going to DESTROY the Democratic party.
She is set to destroy Obama to get the nomination which in the end she will be destroying herself.
This continued race card playing has totally turned off the African-American vote for Hillary as well as many others.
Shame on you Hillary!

Wake up!
Please investigate:
Rezko
Farrakhan
Muslim father
Canadian ties
Where did his name come from. Kansas mother?
It is really scary.

Obama rejects Farrakhna but still attends the church that supports him.

People are talking about Florida. Have we forgotten Elian Gonzales who’s mum died in the sea in trying to give him the opportunity to live the american dream. Do we remeber who has brought Elian back to Cuba under guns and security guards at 2:00 am. Obama has the moral responsibility to help people to remember that Elian’s misfortune is part of the 35 years of Hillary’s experience. Florida for Obama 08

Why does the media let themselves get played in this way? Don’t they know that, while it may not always work (South Carolina) nothing coming out of the Clinton campaign isn’t scripted. You would think that a seasoned reporter would have had the forsight to treat this statment for what it was, a ruse by the Clintons to infuse race into the race while having plausible deniability. I’m not saying that it’s not a story, but if you make a note of it but don’t report it. How many other reporters would she have made the same racist comments to. If the Clintons want to run a racist campaign don’t allow these marginalized players to do so. If ignored would gerry had stepped up the racist campaign? ..and if she did, couldn’t they then just report it for what it is, a Clinton campaign strategy.

Hillaby ‘wants this campaign to be about the issues’?
Racism isn’t an issue?

Please read Obama’s secrets in tis week’s Enquirer. The Republican chairman is quoted. The picture of Obama’s dress came out in the Enquirer.
Obama blamed Hillary. According to Rezkowatch this is only the beginning. The London Times have been doing article after article on Obama’s connection to Rezko, Mahdi-Auchi, & Alsamarre. The Rezko trial is starting with local corruption and it is going international.

Well no that we have a 6 Week Break….
Show US the Money – Hillary Tax forms – April 15th…

So everyone now thinks Geraldine Ferraro was just MERELY stating the obvious….and how innocent this all must seem.
She made the very SAME comment regarding Obama, that she made back in 1984 about Jesse Jackson….someone please tell me, what is her INTENT by making this statement?
We’re here in 2008, 24 years later, and she is making the EXACT same statement with a different candidate who just also happens to be black??? Why? And then we’re not supposed to glean any hint of racism from the outdated statement? We’re supposed to be stupid and not understand code words or phrases or sentences?!
C’mon Geraldine, you can do better than that!

For all you Clinton supporters who think she will beat McCain….57% of voter 1992 and 51% in 1996 simply could not vote for Bill. The only reason he was elected in the first place was because Perot siphoned votes from Bush. Do you really think folks are now more willing to vote Hillary? Do not equate anti-Bush with pro-Hillary or even pro-Democrat. Hillary will drive liberal Republicans and Independents like myself away..

Larry, I agree with you.

Bottom line is Obama was successful in distracting voters from NAFTA gate and his campaign teams disasters and 3 AM ads.
Now, we know the Obama’s strategy by looking at following pattern:
Remember the controversy created during SC by Sharpton and the folks about “Fairy Tale”. In Mississippi, he tried very hard to introduce the photo controversy, digging up last year’s Clintons remark but got an opportunity when Ferraro made the comment( which I think was fair comment).
Now, we understand that he is no different from his peer politician even if Obama, his campaign and biased analysts says he is different.

I think America is Afraid for Race.
Scared
That in itself says a lot.
There fore American Needs to Wake up.
Mr Obama becomes presidency, Any while American out there, will be called racist, and can be arrested and jailed
for making any kind of comment That can be twisted, misconstrued and directed as racist.
Are you Prepared for that, Because It is going to Be extremely High in this presidency.
Just Disagreeing with him, even if you have the facts, will be taken as you are doing so because he is black.
I put obama in the same category as mr bush, are far as ability to be a president.
Mr Obama has used himself as being black to get votes. Mr Obama has campaign at many churches, using his religion to get votes. More than his abilities, and his record.
He has proven he and black people will, make racist a major part of government, life, and making policies, and that it will be used against anyone when needed to discredit anyone, or get their way.
So in trying to be honest and fair and prove you believe in civil rights you have voted for him. Be Prepared for what is to come.
You are entrusting your country and your future in these hands. Fully aware of all the lies he has been catch in.
This is extremely important, nothing to be taken lightly, and nor for a cause.

she rejects her statement. but does she reject her support? like she forced obama to reject the support of his surrogates! if she does? will she return her funds that she contributed to the campaign?

I should also say that the guys at the Daily Show again took in lots of the statistics and came up with similar numbers and a map to mine.

DC Voter your comparisons between resumes (not sure which article you that comment was on)…is funny…
First of all I agree she has more years than he does… because …well she has more years.
But it is more important what they did with those years.(remember this is the guy that left being the President of the Harvard Law Review – if you don’t know – that means he could have written his ticket anywhere – but went back to help factoy workers in Chicago and focus on being a Civil Rights lawyer…oh and teach constitutional law.)
If you measure them proportionally Sen. Obama kicks butt… there is no way of denying that (but I am sure people will…it’s all about spin).
Yes she was a lawyer for 16 years much longer than he… and I encourage everyone to look at those 16 years as a lawyer.
…Hillary has a longer resume because she has a longer life. and John McCain has an even longer life…
The differences in experience and how you weight their differing types, between Sen Clinton’s and Sen Obama’s experience, when you put it up against John McCain is not big enough to use that as the reason to pick the candidate. This is a bad trap to fall into.
Whomever you think has the most quality and choice experience … it is miniscule when you put it next to John McCain’s very long resume.
This is not some political spin I am trying here…
Look…
By setting up this argument to have in the primary (and Hillary has to do that she loses on the other arguments) you are setting up the argument for the general election…
I believe she loses even this one but more importantly…
The argument in the fall has to be on judgement and fixing the main problem in Washington which IS (in my opinion and I think most everyone would agree) the use of fear and log jamming in congress to put us in the situation we are in…
If it is on who will protect us, who has the most experience, and not on judgement …and the race was between John McCain and Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama…who do you think the American people are going to pick?
Get on the judgement issue and stop feeding into the argument they want to have. …and get away from the fear card…Republicans win that too.

Why does the electorate think it is racist to mention the elephant in the room? BHO is black(half) and 90% of the black voters are voting for him…never happened prior for any group or politician. So, one would think it bears discussion. It is not happening with the white, asian or hispanic voters, or the male and female groups. Have to wonder why.

This whole Ferraro gambit is obviously deliberate on the part of the Clintons. It does what they’ve been trying to do since Iowa: Marginalize Obama as the “Jesse Jackson” candidate. Unfortunately for the Clintons, they’ve done it too late, and Obama will win the nomination.
Unfortunately for the Democrats, the Clintons have damaged Obama through the hateful “Obama’s just where he is because he’s black” and the ridiculous “McCain passes the commander-in-chief threshold and Obama doesn’t” arguments.
It should be clear to all by now that the Clintons’ only remaining objective is to destroy Obama so they can run in 2012. They will not catch him in the popular vote – even if Michigan and Florida were to be counted – and they won’t catch him in the number of pledged delegates either. The only way they can win is to somehow manage to convince enough superdelegates to overturn the will of the party, which is a dubious proposition at best.
The only chance of salvaging the general election is for party elders – Gore, Pelosi, Edwards – to come forward and note what everyone is slowly beginning to realize, that the Clintons lost and every day they stay in the contest further reduces Obama’s chances in November. The Clintons will not quit on their own volition.

Her statements are the statements of uncensored ravings of a bigot – or yet another example of the Clinton campaign playing the race card and then saying “who, me”? Comments like Ms. Ferraro’s play into the fears and resentments of some lower-income white voters – the same voters who just so happen to be Sen. Clinton’s strongest voting bloc.

I don’t see why people found Ferraro’s comments so objectionable. the point is that Obama’s gotten outsize attention ever since he became the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review. That led to a book contract. How many white law review editors have gotten book contracts while still in Law school for a memoir. And, in 2004 had he been a white STATE Senator, he wouldn’t have been selected for the keynote address at the Democratic Convention. So, her comments ar reasonable and unlike Obama’s people, she didn’t resort to name calling.
Another thing, has anyone ever read the stories printed at the time of Obama’s election to the Law Review (early 90′s and available on the web)? He gave his father a promotion to “Finance Minister” of Kenya (he was a bureaucrat) and called his mother an anthropologist (instead of a ditzy woman who abandoned her family to pursue relationships with men. What kind of character/insecurity does it reveal for an adult – surrounded at the time by wealth and prestige to try to invent a “persona” rather than be authentic. He has a big problem with authenticity.

Back in January when Senator Kennedy endorsed Seator Obama, he said “Through Barack, I believe we will move beyond the politics of fear and personal destruction and unite our country with the politics of common purpose.”
That was before the Clintons introduced the politics of fear and personal destruction into the race……but whatdaya know. Did he predict the future, or is it that he just knows Barack’s political opponent all too well?

S.Valenti…not that I know a lot about Obama’s time back in college… but I do know that he is credited for bringing in new writers to the review…bringing in women who had not been heard from in those circles from other parts of the country.
It is even referred to in several publications as “the Obama Effect”
so I don’t know about a couple of sentences he wrote about boasting of his parents in college…who knows you might be right but I do know …his skills when he ran the review were considered extraordinary for any President/Editor. He changed the circle of communication going on in the law articles… and maybe THAT is why he got to right the book …and his cool background.

Once again, the Democrats will self destruct. I can see McCain winning and you know, we deserve everything we get or don’t get. Hillary has worked very hard to get where she has gotten, unfortunately she is too much of a politician and for a woman that is unforgivable. Obama is very charismatic and very well organized, otherwise he would not be where he is now, but it’s hard to project whether voting for him will be a good idea or it will be another ineffectual leader such as GWB for whom people voted because he was very nice and just like one of us. I, for one, being a Florida voter disenfranchised from the primary by the Democratic will not vote for either one of these two losers who will lose us the opportunity to get the White House. It will be almost a relief to leave the cleanup to another Republic – one for whom I will not vote either.