Clinton-backer Ferraro: Obama Where He Is Because He’s Black

Who cares if he’s black. Pathetic. Hillary had every possible advantage going in to this thing. Name recognition, campaing funds, her ‘exeprience’ as the first lady. Who cares!!!! She couldn’t beat him stop making excuses for Hillary.

OH MY GOD! WHY DON’T WE ASK THIS QUESTION.
IF HILLARY CLINTON WASN’T THE FORMER FIRST LADY, SHE’D NEVER HAVE BEEN A SENATOR LET ALONE A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT.
ANY DISPUTE?

If she isn’t denounced and removed from any role in the campaign, then Hillary is a racist, too. This is far worse than the silly “Monster” comment that was only a burst of emotion and didn’t have any racism or sexism in it.

Marie, this is just like that Hispanic woman in Texas talking about how Obama’s problem was that he was a black man. As a Hispanic, I was ashamed and outraged by such a comment. Hillary did NOT reject or denounce that woman. I doubt she’ll do that to Geraldine.

Subtract the racist african american vote..
So African American’s are racist because they don’t vote for Hillary? I guess the rest of Obama supporters are just plain old sexists then? African american’s make up what 12-13 percent of the total population but he leads by over 100 delegates? Your ignorance is in it’s full glory today. No excuses.

Reject and denounce, immediately!
HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!

Ok – how racist is THAT comment by Ferraro?
It must be part of the kitchen sink strategy.
I’m frankly tired of the very hostile Hillary one moment, then the next moment it’s poor defenseless Hillary.
I doubt any man or woman of any color could go forward with Hillary’s history of dodging and deception.

p.s. I’m a white middle-aged professional woman. I denounce and reject Ferraro’s comment.
It’s disgusting.

I had thought, and have said on these forums, that if Ferraro had ever run for president I would certain have supported her over Clinton, whom I dislike intensely.
This comment from Ferraro just shows me how wrong I was.
I’ll stick with Obama.

I think you all missed what she was saying. She was saying that the little bit of national exposure he has had, if he were white, people would not be head over heels like they are now. It wouldn’t be a history making event.

Well said, Anne.
I too am “a woman of Ms. Ferraro’s and Senator Clinton’s generation — and I also have worked in a male-dominated, testosterone-driven profession…”
I only have this to say of that kind of feminism: it’s not. It’s reverse sexism. And stinks as much as sexism did, frankly.

Oh, of course! If Barack Obama was a white male, he surely would not be where he is right now.
He’d be the nominee already.

82 year old Ms Callejo in Mexico states an historical fact- Hispanics were hurt by the AA community- they were not helped- Hillary Clinton was in south Texas 35 years ago registering Hispanics to vote- Ms Callejo was swiftboated- She didn’t denigate AA’s. Billy Shaheen in NH stated a fact. The Republicans would use the self admitted cocaine use by Barack Obama against him. Somehow Obama’s campaign convinced us it was a racist slur-another case of swiftboating. Gloria Steinam said the same thing Ferraro said in an op-ed in the NY Times- If Obama were a woman (Ferraro added white male) with the small amount of experience that he has -there is no way Oprah, Spike Lee, Donna Brazille, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson et al would be supporting him and that the press would have made him the American Idol. At the 2004 Dem convention when he made such a splash-he talked only about his Kenyan father who left him when he was 2-not one word about the white mother who raised him. His campaign has been filled with unnoticed race baiting- See Race Man by Professor Sean Wilentz from Princeton: TNR
If Axelrod hadn’t done the same thing to the people of MA with Deval Patrick we would not have a model but we dol. AA candidate, good story, grand aspirations, good talker, just words speeches, change, community organizer running as an outsider. Guess what happens when reality hits the dream- It does not endure. We have had over a year of strife, rookie mistakes and inaction There is a good reason that even with Kennedy, Kerry and the governor -Obama lost by 15%- Can’t fool us twice.

If B.O. were a white man with his flimsy resume, we wouldn’t even be running for POTUS. This guy was created out of thin air. Think about it!

Fred, many things could be attributed to Mrs. Clinton’s personally and professionally but WEAK is certainly not one of them. It stands to reason that as each contest grew closer the polls would narrow. B.O. IS an exciting candidate and has run an impressive campaign but continually proves he is unable to provide the knock out punch. I would begin to prepare to let go of the idea of B.O. now. After Pennsylvania speaks, your candidate will no doubt be relegated to 2nd tier and lose this primary.

Obviously alot of you don’t comprehend what you read. What she said was not racist.
“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. 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.”
What she is saying is that with the little bit of national exposure he has had if he were a white man or a woman of any color people would not have fallen for him like they have. People would not find the above unique and new.
That is not racist.

So J, if Hillary were only Hillary Rodham, she’d be where she is today? Be honest now.

The way she has fought and worked hard throughout her life probably right where she is now, but without some of the baggage of Bill’s indiscrections.

In the company where I work, there are very, very, very few black woman, two tops that has managerial positions. However, there are many white woman who hold these positions.
Trust, it is the black factor, not the sex factor.
Trust!

Not only are her comments racist, they are also sexist. There is no room in this campaign for this blantant attempt to tie success for Senator Obama to his race. Senator Obama has a platform of Hope and Change. Something many americans hunger for and cannot get from either major candidate. I just hope that Senator Clinton will publicly admonish Ms. Ferraro for these blatantly inflamatory remarks and if she does not it is safe to assume that she directly endorses this perspective. How about you folks in the media asking Senator Clinton if this is her official position?

Racist? No, that be would many of today’s primary voters. Who are voting for BHO based on his skin color. and all you Hillary haters should be ashamed of yourselves. Ferraro was picked as VP becuase she is a woman. She admits that and has earned the right to speak the truth about Obama.

Geraldine went down ‘cos of her Mafia connections.
Hillery will go down ‘cos of her Bill connections.

It’s not racist if its the truth.

How dare she make such a statement. If Hillary Clinton were not married to Bill Clinton… where would she be? White women always like to try and have it both ways! Geraldine Ferraro brought nothing to the Democratic Ticket when she ran except all of that empty white feminist rhetoric. When was the last time that you even saw a (white) woman trying to run for president? Shirley Chisolm ( a black woman) at least made an effort… She should have been put on that ticket long before Geraldine’s name even came up! Where have all of the white women been all of these years? Black men (Jessie/Al/ Alan Keyes) at least tried to make some kind of run. Heck they even had gays making an appearance… But where were the white women during all of those years? Do white women truly believe that they are just ENTITLED to get on somebody’s ticket because they are white women? Geraldine should go back into the hole that she has been in all these past years!

The most arrogant, but hilarious comment yet! HRC is NOT qualified, and is in this position because of Bill’s position, and she is a female. Ferraro was not qualified to be a small town mayor. What hypocrites … but that is what we have come to expect from the Clinton campaign…every day.But what a great week….the HRC campaign looking like jack-asses;tricks backfiring; a WY win; and another MS win today.Bye, bye Hil….you are a joke.

The most arrogant, but hilarious comment yet! HRC is NOT qualified, and is in this position because of Bill’s position, and she is a female. Ferraro was not qualified to be a small town mayor. What hypocrites … but that is what we have come to expect from the Clinton campaign…every day.But what a great week….the HRC campaign looking like jack-asses;tricks backfiring; a WY win; and another MS win today.Bye, bye Hil….you are a joke.

Get a life: She is suggesting that by looking at his record he wouldn’t even be considered as a candidate. Read the article in the times from Sunday and it clearly articulates his lack of accomplishments. And it also describes his go along to get along mentality.

She’s absolutely right. And if he were a woman she’d just be laughed at.
Not even JFK would have attempted a presidential run after one year inthe senate. he was a senator for 14 years and a war hero, and had grown up in the parliaments of europe.
No he’s where he is because black people are voting for him because he’s black and the press are going easy on hiim for fear of being accuse dof racism.
Sexism aok though.
She is 100% right!

“There is no room in this campaign for this blantant attempt to tie success for Senator Obama to his race. Senator Obama has a platform of Hope and Change”
sounds like someone oD’ed on Kool-Aid this morning.

Surprisingly enough, she speaks the truth.
I’m not a fan of Geraldine Ferraro, but I actually agree with her on this one.

That is funny…so let’s turn the table a bit. If Clinton was a man, she wouldn’t be in this position. Or better yet, if Clinton didn’t married a former president, she wouldn’t be here as well. The fact of the matter is she is playing on prejudicial lines, either of race or sex. The point is to find a better president, who cares about the gender or the color of one’s skin. I find that analogy by Ms. Ferraro disgusting and ignorant. It seems that Clinton likes to play on racial lines, with Bill’s comment during his South Carolina trip, leaking of the Obama’s photo (that played on religious prejudice), and with this idiotic comment. As an Independent, if she steals the nomination from Obama, I will probably vote for Nadar. The DNC is a joke for letting her continue.

She’s absolutely right, dont back down. its about time someone said it.

People, we are electing a president not a televangelist. Talk about buyers remorse. Its like a bunch of kids playing adult games. Someone always gets hurt. To all the neophytes caught up in the concept of B.O.–this is NOT American Idol. Mrs. Ferraro’s comments reflect nothing more than a sociological dynamic at play. She is not the first or the last observer that will state this opinion.

She has been saying things like this all along — I’ve heard her on various podcasts, etc. She’s acting like a rabid dog. Somebody needs to sideline her. Enough from this person.

Why is it OK to make slurrs against a women but we cannot metion the truth and say the word B word about Obama.
I think the media needs to back up and take a look at their reporting. If its sex or black thats all they report. What about the health problems, boys killed in Iraq do not get front page cover. Every time you turn in the TV it is the same old stuff.I’m tired of watchingEWH

I think your article touches on something true and real, being an Obama supporter myself I do recognize he may not be where he is without his physical characteristics… however the build-up to speculation about what he will or will not do is the problem with all of these psycho-analysis blogs. Maybe he does have the touch to bring us together, maybe he does have the ability to break partisan ways. I will tell you this, he has the best chance of the three… and taking the chance on voting for that hope is still better than what we had the past 7 years, so why not?!

I hear what folks are saying that Mrs. Ferraro is only suggesting Obama is where he is because as the first serious black candidate running for President he is not only a political wunderkind but also somewhat of an anomaly. BUT, how does she then explain out he has produced the most effective and organized campaign in our lifetimes? Ignoring that, is the unfortunate and maybe racist (considering her earlier comments) part.
Lest we forget, Hillary was up 30-40 points over Obama a few months before Iowa. Obama has trailed in every state where folks new who he was but hadn’t heard his platform. It is STATISTICALLY PROVEN that Obama gains huge ground in every state he campaigns in. This disproves all of Ferraro’s unfortunate suggestions. She may not be racist but she DEFINITELY is not too bright.

What? Where is hillary denouncing and rejecting this?
The clintons get all worked out because someone uses the word “pimping” and someone else describes her as a monster, but they don’t denounce this bigot and they don’t have comments when their supporter the ex prosecutor engages in illegal activities? Wow. What lame bunch of rats.

Geraldine Ferraro gets my vote to be a taxi cab driver. She is supposed to be a politician. She is supposed to have a clue. This spells big trouble for Hillary Clinton. If Clinton does not apologize for this, Bill will have to move out of Harlem. Stupid is as stupid does.

I can’t let this go ,so now all the bk people got to where they r because there r bk.I would rather have a bk man in office then a DIRTY one woman.>>>If Obama said this abot ms cry baby all he– would break loose.Tis is something for a person to say esp. one that is supposed to b educated..

When I saw this article my first thought was HRC can no longer accuse the media of giving Obama a ‘free ride’. I expected to see posts supporting Ferraro’s ridiculous comment and obvious insult to Obama. Looks like the HRC supporters don’t want to touch this one, realizing that HRC should denounce and reject these statements by Ferraro just as Obama had to reject the ‘witch’ statement about her. The big question is will she??????

She is so right on this one. He has materialized out of nowhere. There were so many talented, experienced men running for the Democratic nomination and we end up with a 48 year old product of the Chicago machine. How did this happen?
It happened because the media likes a story and especially likes a fresh story. It also likes to seem sophisticated, open-minded, etc. so unfettered bias and support from the media, although further damaging their reputation for honesty, enhances their own shallow, parochial view of themselves.

I like Obama – not because he is black.
But it is OBVIOUS that many people like the idea of him being President because he is black. She is speaking the truth. And the negative comments show that people can not handle the truth.

I am so tired of people saying that Hillary Clinton has so much experience and Obama doesn’t. Clinton’s 35 years experience is no better than Obama’s 20 years experience. At least Obama has 11 years of actual legislative experience. Clinton only has 8. And on another note…do people realize that one of our greatest Presidents, Abraham Lincoln, was a first term national legislator (after 8 years as an Illinois Senator)when he was elected President. Of course, Lincoln followed one of our worst Presidents, James Buchanan, who had the most “experience” of any elected Presidents. History says Hillary’s argument holds no water.

And where would GW Bush and Jeb Bush be if their father wasn’t the President, and yadda, yadda, yadda.
The thing that distinguishes Hillary from BHO is that she has made her life’s work the causes that benefit the less fortunate. Compare that to BHO who could write his resume on a sheet of toilet paper.
The most attractive part of her candidacy is the fact that she is the one who the Republican right wing nuts hate the most, and I love it.
GO HRC

Wow, another racist attack by the Clinton camp! This is amazing, he won in all white states people! He won Maine and Nebraska! Stop the race baiting. NO MORE CLINTONS!
OBAMA 08 for a better future!

What Geraldine Ferrario Is saying Is true, I work with some black ladie’s and they tell me they are voting for Obama because he Is a black man, and they are saying I’ts about time a black man got It for President. never mind If he Is qualified or not. and I am just saying what they have told me.

Fire this woman, HRC people! Disgusting and classless. This is the kind of horrible person you want representing you? I’m sick of the viciousness of the Hillary campaign — the ugliness, the pettiness, the slime. Enough, enough, enough. Wise up, people. These folks are immoral. If she’s the nominee, I’m voting for McCain — as will many, many others I know.

I find Geraldine’s comments amusing. Would she have been picked as Mondale’s running mate if she weren’t a woman? Would her son have faced harsher punishment for drug dealing and using drugs if his mom weren’t connected? Would her husband face greater scrutiny in his real estate dealings if he weren’t married to her?
Geraldine’s complaints are spurious and silly, just like her

Yeah, yeah — If Obama was white, he would have long been declared the winner.
If Obama was white, Florida and Michigan will not be getting re-votes after both candidates signed pledges.
If Obama were white, experience will not be a topic of major discussion considering Bush has 8 more years of experience as CIC, but with a 29% approval ratings.
yeah, yeah, yeah….

Wow – The Obama camp attack machine is going after Ferraro. If what she said was not true would there be such an attack on her? I do not think so. The problem is the Obama camp want to play both sides fo the race card and make people think it’s all about “change”.

Geraldine, do you really believe that Hillary would be where she is right now if she had been a white male? Do you really think all these 50+ women would have voted for her? Of course not! And of course a lobbyist like Ferraro does not favour an end of parisanship. How would lobbyists make their money if we all got along?

She’s absolutely right. Of course, she violated a basic rule of the politically correct era created and enforced by people like–well, people like Geraldine Ferraro; namely, that one must never say anything critical of a black person or suggest that being black could ever be anything other than a burden in our institutionally and covertly racist society (for confirmation see the sermons of one Rev. Jeremiah Wright).

Former Congresswoman Ferraro is correct. There is NO WAY any white man who had only served in the US Senate for 2 years would be encouraged to run for president, and the entire third year of Obama’s US Senate career has been spent campaigning. His career in the Illinois state senate was lackluster, with more non-votes on issues than with purposeful decisions made.
In addition, his “Monday morning quarterbacking” over Iraq IS a FAIRY TALE. It is VERY EASY to say that “I was against it from the beginning” because he believes this is what Americans want to hear. What if the war had gone smoothly, and we were done with it? Would he be saying he would’ve voted for it? This is a JOKE. The vote to go to war was taken in 2003, based on CIA evidence. No one knew at the time it was bogus. Obama didn’t show up in the US Senate until January 2005!!! The phrase hindsight is 20/20 does mean something, after all. Plus, Obama is no “uniter.” He has never crossed the aisle to work with a compromising majority on major Senate legislation. He stayed in the Democratic minority.
Talk is cheap and that is all he has done and it is all that he is–talk.
Senator Clinton has been disrespected. She has over 30 years of public service to this nation in many areas and at many levels. This campaign should be over ideas and positions and she has earned the right to have hers heard. All the media focuses on is how people “feel” about Obama.
And in case anyone thinks I am a Hillary supporter, I am not. I am voting for John McCain. In my opinion, Hillary is a socialist–high taxes with government solutions. However, she has earned the right to campaign and have the nomination through all her hard work. Obama has not–he has been able to use WHAT he is–a black man–to get where he is right now.
Admit the truth–any white man, let alone white woman, with Obama’s experience would have been laughed out of the race a year ago–treated by the media like Rep. Paul and former Sen. Gravel. That is a fact. Obama and his wife bemoan white America, and how they are “not proud” of it, yet they have used every ounce of historical “guilt” and affirmative action to go where they have been and to try to get where they want to be. They are hypocrites–they criticize the very system they have exploited.

Always the establishment looking for other ways to justify why they’re losers.
It’s taking a Man of Color to bring this country together. Unfortunately, white men have failed America. The evidence is clear.
And stop being so racist and only voting for your past presidents because they were white. (SMILE) Sounds stupid huh? This is about the issues and not about the color of someone’s skin. It just so happens that people of color prefer a straight up approach to life instead of a doublespeak way of going through life.

If Obama were Caucasian he would be Dennis Kucinich but without the administrative experience as a lousy mayor

If you’re reading this, Ms. Ferraro: What on earth qualified Hillary Clinton to even run- much less win- a seat in the U.S. Senate from a state she hadn’t lived in? Oh yes… she was a cuckholded wife of a philanderer president. Some qualifications!
The punchline of this ridiculous tale? She wasn’t even cuckholded… she knew about Monica long before the public. The Clinton’s machine dissing of Obama, as if he were a child, a know-nothing,
a neophyte who could take the #2 spot and learn at Hillary’s feet, speaks volumes about them.
I meant the Clintons. Not Hillary’s feet. Ugh.

If Hillary hadn’t married Bill, no one, and I mean no one, would’ve ever heard of Hillary Rodham.

TAX RETURNS Hillery! TAX RETURNS! Let us see where all this money comes from! China? Saudi Arabia? TAX RETURNS are the real issue, not race baiting?
GO OBAMA 08 for a better future!

Folks, Ferraro has stated the nasty undertones that have been just under the service of this campaign ever since Bill attacked Obama in New Hampshire. That is, the message the Clintons have been promoting all along is Obama is “unqualified”, the media is scared to go after him because he is black, and his supporters only support him because he is black. Dangerous, dangerous territory for Democrats to go. My hope is that an Obama “supporter” would also state the obvious. Hillary Clinton is
only has the support she has because she is a woman, was married to an ex-President, and her supporters have nostalgia for the Clinton years. She is no more qualified to be president than Obama.

ferraro is out of line by making these statements about race and sex,but it deserves a few comments. Whites are where they are b\c of their race and that is how it has always been in america. White people are the majority so I understand that all presidents and most senators and congressman are white. Its sad that ferraro would try to belittle people who vote for barrack rather they be black,white or whomever. There is a sense of entitlement hillary feels and simply all americans feel so ferraro comments do not amaze me at all.

I agree with Ms. Ferraro in that our country has always been steeped in partisanship. Why anyone would want a country without partisanship puzzles me. It shows a lack of forethought. A purely “vanilla” nation wherein all opinions are accepted, or no opinions are allowed, would spell disaster. Differences of opinion are actually the catalyst for progress. These varying positions force us to think things through and, hopefully, minimize the extent and severity of unintended consequences. Those who view partisanship in a bad light are likely those who are often crippled by the ridiculous and ever-increasing levels of political correctness and this is the primary cause of the dangerous character-softening taking place here in the USA.

What is truly sad about most of the comments here is the buying into the concept that “one drop of black blood” still labels one as black. Its undisguised racism that nearly everyone takes for granted. What a sad pathetic country we live in.

Geraldine Ferraro is a racist.

Hillary Clinton is going to win this thing she just about has it tied up and when they revote in Fl. and MI. that will help even more and now tha we Know Obama does not want to be VP maybe we can get Edwards.Or even Ed Rendell

Can a brother get a break? Hillary’s there because Bill was. Sure my Brother is catching a break because of his skin color. So what? If he’s smart enough to convince the majority of people that he’s black, and not half black, half white and make it work, he can run this country with ease. You people will believe anything.

I have a dream… That one day, political candidates will be judged not by the content of their characters, but by the color of their skin.
This also explains why Eliot Spitzer has not resigned his gubernatorial position. He’s a racist bigot who can’t stand the thought of his ‘colored’ Lt. Gov. as New York’s chief executive.

Yes. I was an Obama Precinct Captain in Central Texas. If it were not for African-American voters and there amazing support, he would not have done near as well in the caucuses. Oh, and by the way Obama won the most delegates in Texas, he won Texas. Hillary declared victory after only 2/3rd of the game had been played. But the African-Americans make up a relatively small portion of the population. This is over simplification and a method of scapegoating. Just face it Hillary, you can not match Obama’s message, presentation, and character. This was supposed to be your time but again life has shown it’s self to not be fair.

Anyone think Hillary would be where she is if she wasn’t married to Bill? I don’t care about race, ethnicity, sex, etc., when voting for president. I care about the candidates’ past actions, stated policies, plans for the future, etc. For those reasons, I won’t vote for Hillary or Obama and will barely be able to vote for McCain.

Hillary wouldn’t be a candidate if her husband had not had sexual relations with that woman: Ms. Lewinski.

Folks, THIS IS THE TRUTH! Its affirmative action in the highest sense. But it’s allright, because he’s not all white.

Geraldine, you racist ignorant pig… You got where you are because you were intelligent, competent and likable… Not because you were a women… So you now turn on another minority… What’s the problem… bad loser? You must apologize and admit you were on drugs or something when you made this most remarkable and racist remark… Pig. D.

Pat, was Hillary LUCKY or SMART?

The Clintons are so calculated. Some people consider PA two cities on each sides surrounded by rural Alabama…Hillary has to believe this is true…her father is from here. Plus it’s no coincidence that Gov. Rendell has already threw that out there….so this comment from Geraldine was calculated too…to stir up racial sentiment in PA and hopefully Mississippi too. Why do you think it took so long to respond? They hoped it made some noise yesterday but with Spitzers scandal it fell on deaf ears. That’s why they only said that they “disagree” yesterday. They will wait until it builds up enough coverage and then of course she will step down…that’s already planned…unless it is not covered in the media seriously. The point still remains…it is no more than race baiting….she already LOST the black vote what do she have to lose (Mark Penn’s mind)..However…this may be a miscalcuation…it depends on if White America will recognize this ploy and reject it. Hillary Clinton is hoping we wont…

CZ, Maybe you need to read the biography of Abraham Lincoln a man of just words…Sadly, he would never be elected today because his words would be discarded as empty talk and determined to be “unqualified” because he lacked experience.

Republicans, traditional family values? Larry Craig? Foley? Vitter? Ted Haggert? Oh Man, I cannot wait for November!

What is it about the democrat party’s fixation about skin color???

If Obama was white, he’d be trading pork futures on the Chicago Merc, or peddling life insurance. If he was lucky.
And white OR black, if the Republicans hadn’t nominated a Republican playboy from Goldman Sachs with the sexual propriety and discretion of a Clinton or a Spitzer for the open Senate seat from Illinois, Bobambi wouldn’t even have reached Washington.

Both Hillary and Obama got where they are by being Female and Black. Two incompetent People who get the Novelty Vote. Woe is Us if either of them get elected. Jimmy Carter all over again.

end partisanship? these young people really have no clue — there is no partisanship in N. Korea, China, and likely in Russia, Venezuela. should we head to this direction? what a beautiful dream!

She’s right. Finally someone calling it like it is. He offers nothing but smoke and mirrors, has no experience leading anything, yet he is the golden child.

Sure… partisanship is here to stay, as it has to be. There are different points of view. What doesn’t have to stay is the notion that you must be mean spirited and abusive about it. It is unfortunate that the way political disagreement has developed in America has become so disrespectful in the last few decades. We are in this together, and it is possible to coexist without being as destructive as has been the case. While there might be a bit of perverse pleasure at seeing “our side” stick it to the other side… it is much better for the country to disagree and push for your own agenda from a position of strength in a way that you can hold your head high afterward. That is the message…. not the end of partisanship… just about what partisanship means.

Finally, the Clinton’s and their Race Baiting comes back at them ten-fold.

Richard Z….what qualified Condelezza Rice to run the Defense department or State Department? Running Stanford University? I have been totally un-impressed with her work in the Bush administration. You can have ideological discussions on who is better at governing, Democrats or Republicans. But when Republicans bring up Condelezza Rice as presidential material or VP material you lose me completely.

Like it or not folks, Ferraro is right! And, like it or not folks, given the two choices the Democrats have, Obama will be the easiset to defeat. Why? Because he’s black! The Republicans will pick up those Democrats that are against a black candidate and that’s a vast majority, regardless of how you or I feel personally. If Hillary get the nomination McCain will gather all the Democrats that would have voted for Obama plus all the Democrats who don’t want a woman for Commander in Chief. It’s not more complicated than that.America is a racist nation and always has been The Media now have just about an equal number of blacks as whites on TV, but blacks only represent 12% of the population. It’s all a joke.

How does Ferraro get away with her racist remarks. If I were to say publicly that a competitor for a job promotion got it because he or she was black, I’d be railroaded into oblivion. What she is saying is sanitized intellectually but no less racist than what Imus said.

Interesting that alot of Democrats on the board are accusing Hillary and her supporters of acting like Republicans. When they are acting like they always have. It’s just once they started acting this way against fellow Democrats the truth is seen.
Democrats always act this way, they’ve just claimed in was a Republican tactic.

Geraldine Ferraro is just a bitter loser, again, or still. She represents the same old crooked politics as Hillary. Time is fast passing them by. I hope they both keep talkin’ all the way to Denver.

She is a racist? When 42% of the democratic support in Mississippi who for this man say that the number one reason for their support is that he is black then you are supported by racist. When all you speak of is change and the only thing that you have offered in details as real change is the color of your skin and your wife is alway talking about it, then you have to wonder who is racist.

“any white man, let alone white woman, with Obama’s experience would have been laughed out of the race a year ago–treated by the media like Rep. Paul and former Sen. Gravel.”
Hmm. Like John Edwards in 2004?
There are some seriously deluded folks in this country. There has never been a black man with this much of a chance to win the nomintion. Never. But somehow his race benefits him. Do people really believe he has had an easier time getting to where he is in life as a bi-racial man raised by a single mother in modest circumstances (at best)? That white men have it rougher?

“If this is racism can someone tell me anyone else who hadn’t even served a full term in the NATIONAL Senate, and was actually considered truly Presidential material?
No, you can’t.”
Yes I can! John Edwards. He was only in the Senate for a couple of months before he started raising money to run.

This is sort of beyond comprehension. You know you’ve fallen down the rabbit hole when someone is actually saying that a Black candidate named Barack Hussein Obama is ‘lucky’ and is only where he is as a result of his race. I was inspired once by Geraldine Ferraro. Today, I am somewhat disgusted, and very disappointed. Obama should ask that Hillary denounce these offensive remarks, made by one of her chief campaign figures.
And while it may be true that two party politics is partisan by its very definition, there is a difference between partisan politics and extreme partisan rancor and ideology, the rule of majority + 1, which is what we have increasingly moved towards. So to say that politics today resembles politics for the past 200 years is so stupid it makes her look like an idiot – or just a shameless shill.

I’m a white male and I’m voting for a white male!

Obama is all of what he is Duh! How does this flaky Ferraro woman think Hillary Clinton got where she is? If she hadn’t been married to Bill she wouldn’t be where she is either. She has never held executive office. She has been a senator for one and a half terms. She got there because of her marriage. The “experience” she likes to talk about is First Lady experience. My hubsand is an economist. He discusses economic issues with me all the time. Does that qualify me to run for president of the economist’s society? I’d be escorted out of the room to an asylum.

Of course Senator HRC owes a debt of gratitude to Gerry F for teaching her the benefits of strategic crying to feminize a slumping candidacy by pretending to be a hurting blonde overwhelmed by a mean black man. Gerry secretly envies Hillary’s chutzpa in siccing Bill on Obama to risk his “black president credentials” by ignoring shrewd Obama mau-mauing and racial solidarity crap to demand alleigance of negroes to the power of the Clinton poltical agenda for liberal race-voting blacks hopelesslt tied to the socialistic programs offered by the DNC and the Democratic-controlled congress.
Will there be a post-clinton era for American negroes and Blacks seeking financial and economic parity instead of government programs which transfer wealth to solve social and economic problems like health care? Are black eternally overwhelmed by the futility of dreaming about a “real black President” as if that will solve their problems?
Obama has made his mark in history: he opens the door with his submission to the Democratic Reality of the supremacy of the Clintons, the door will lead to freedom from politics and escape from the marital honeymoon suite by African-American fully-healed and aware of their adult options to vote for John McCain, a liberal Republican maverick very unlike George W. Bush. Blacks for McCain Movement will arrive after the knifing at the Democratic Convention in Denver 2008. When the smoke from the riots subsides, African-Americans will finally realize that their freedon lies off the plantation and into a two-Party system empowering the black vote they will go : never again to be a slavish plantation vote taken for granted as Dems like Bill and Hillary crush their obama dreams and start the fast break to the White House with the “I Beat Bob Dole -War-Hero Playbook from 2006.” Give Bush credit if he is wise enough to order Condoleeza Rice to man the number two position on the ticket to swing the door open for an era of empowered and respected black voters. Once and froever free from the Democratic “taken for granted-Plantation” indeed, Free at Last!
Ralph W. Conner

“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.” That much is self-evident. He would be treated like Dan Quayle if he were White.

All this talk about people being racist because they are voting for Obama….
how disingenuous people! Were black people racist when they voted overwhelmingly for Al Gore in 2000? Or how about when they voted overwhelmingly for Kerry in 2004?
It wasn’t an issue then, and shouldn’t be an issue now. And I believe most of the posters on this board are correct…would hillary even be in this race if she wasn’t married to bill??
There is no 35 yrs of experience. That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.
It is truly sad because neither of them will win. Obama’s supporters will not vote for her, and hillary’s supporters will not vote for him. So who wins?
Not only that, but the poor folks in MI and FL….who are they blaming for the current issue??? Obama….they blame Obama. Why? because they can, and its easy. It will be his fault and hillary will win the nomination, and then she will lose to McCain.
Wake up people, this isn’t rocket science!

Dear “Irish” – isn’t the very essence of racism founded in the practice of blaming an entire ethnic group for the sins of a few???
>>because the last time I checked it was the white man that was racist. When you have a history that includes enslaving people <<

FERRARO FLAT OUT STATES THE ONLY REASON OBAMA IS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IS BECAUSE HE IS BLACK. CLEARLY A RACIST STATEMENT.
WILL THE MEDIA AND CLINTON’S CAMPAIGN HOLD HER ACCOUNTABLE??

Something that we should all remember is that Hillary started out with a national poll showing that 42% of us felt negatively about her. That is a number that the delegates must be looking at before giving her a free ride.
Before she can do ANYTHING she must overcome these negative numbers. Obama had much, much smaller negatives.
Also never forget that it will not be Dems or Reps that elect the president. Independents are always the deciding factor!

This is ridiculous. Although I don’t agree with Obama politically, but his oratory skills are unmatched. I remember watching him during the 2004 DNC convention, and thinking to myself that this man will run for president soon, and his campaign will be formidable. He does have some advantage with the black community, but his Reagan like communication skills, combined with an opponent with a near 50% “I will never vote for her” baggage is what has propelled him to the eventual democratic nomination. Unfortunately, unlike Reagan, it’s only words.

Didnt Hillary get where she is because of experience by her marriage. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

I still say put their resumes on a table without photos and then see who is really qualified to be at the helm of this country….bye Obama

Josh, Read the biography of Abraham Lincoln. Read the biography of Teddy Roosevelt. Read the biography of John F. Kennedy. None of these people had much experience. It is a false argument to make. It is not who has experience but who will be an effective leader. Hillary supporters need to keep in mind this….They were elected in 1992 and set out to rehaul Health Care. That failed which led to losing Congress in 1994. If I remember correctly Democrats also lost congressional seats in 1996 and 1998. They were also a direct cause of Al Gore’s loss in the 2000 election which begat GWB. That is the issue I have with the Clintons….they are part of the problem..

Liberals continue to make race and sex the issue. Republicans simply vote for the best and most qualified person. It is the Liberal mentality of entitlement that blurs their vision. Republicans believe in individual inner strength is what makes this country great.

Everyone is missing the point here. Yes, HRC is where she is because of her philandering husband, but Ferraro is RIGHT about Obama!! Wake up people!

When the President vetoes a bill barring torture, when fidelity means nothing, when the EPA doesn’t perform, when civil liberties are ignored, the candidate least touched by these stigma looks very good indeed. The threshold has been crossed and I support the candidate who best represents the values that made America great no matter if he were bright pink and covered in purple fur.

I am a member of a younger generation and I am sick of the racial and gender politics.. It’s time to get rid of these dinosaurs.. You know what some conservatives are right. It is the old school Democrats and Republicans who are hung up on race. Thank God my generation sees beyond these foolish social constructs.

Posted by: sj7465
Do you honestly believe Baracks voters don’t know what he is, especially African Americans? Are you that nieve?

Well said John.

This is just what the Clinton wanted!! To give a forum for this race baiting poison…….GOOD JOB GERALDINE!!

SJ…Any Democrat get 92% of the black vote. Black Americans will not reach their full political potential if they keep squandering their votes on a party that has taken them for granted since the days of FDR.

And Clinton wouldn’t be where she was if it weren’t for her gender. It’s pretty evident that she’s been angling for women’s votes on the basis of being a woman and many are voting for her because she’s a woman.

The Obama campaign relies solely upon the competions inability to critique his positions and associations on the grounds doing so is somehow racist. This is the same tactic the clinton campaign was hoping to employ against the republicans except based on her gender. Oh the irony when shallow candidates and startegies collide.

The Obama campaign relies solely upon the competions inability to critique his positions and associations on the grounds doing so is somehow racist. This is the same tactic the clinton campaign was hoping to employ against the republicans except based on her gender. Oh the irony when shallow candidates and startegies collide.

Coming from an African-American there is some truth to what Geraldine Ferraro has stated. I’m an Black man supporting Hillary Clinton and I’ve endured more reverse racism from the black community since acknowledging it than I could’ve ever imagined.
I have this question for any of Obama’s supporters who’d cared to answer??????
“If Barack Obama were an all white candidate running against Hillary Clinton, would he be receiving this much attention from the media and citizens?”

And if Hillary wasn’t Mrs. Bill, she’d be just another shrill feminist trying to get noticed. What credentials does she have except that she endured her husband’s indiscretions, completely bungled (or abused) every responsibility she never earned, and then was rewarded for keeping her mouth shut (and her papers hidden) by being coronated as a Senator representing a state she never even lived in.

CZ – Right on – you said it so well – hope you are writing letters to the editors all over the contry.
MJ – Resume? He has an okay resume, for a first term congressman – but not for President. (Not that Ms. Clinton’s is anything all that extraordinary – but it is much better than Obama’s) Goodness, there must be literally thousands of Americans whose resumes are as good – or better than his, wondering why they weren’t the ones running if the standards of expectaion were that low.
As far as resume’s go, McCain FAR SURPASSES either of them in service and experience!
And for anyone who wants to talk about prejudice – there are prejudicial attitudes against all three:
Obama – for his race
Clinton – for her gender
McCain – for his age
(and, when he was running – Huckaby – for his religion)
Its everywhere! And like it ir not, it exists in all of us in one form or another.
What Ferraro was trying to say, is that Mr. Obama has been given a FREE PASS and more FREE MEDIA by the American media, than any of the other candidates because of his race. They are afraid of being accused of racism. I do not agree with most of Clinton’s politics, but I do really feel she has been treated unfairly, while Obama has been treated like a rock star. Maybe its the Oprah factor. I don’t know – I see no real substance in him.

A vote for HRC because she is a woman is a SEXIST ACT. A vote for BHO because he is black is a RACIST ACT.
THINK ABOUT IT!

So if Hillary was not Bill’s wife where would she be in all this. Nowhere!

If it were not for Hill’s gender she would not be where she is at. Obama and Ms Clinton are both empty bottles.

Divisive, divisive, divisive.
How immature and intentionally inflammatory.
When are politicians going to stop using race to divide the American people against each other? It seems to me that the only people perpetuating the concept of racism anymore are political groups who become wealthy and prominent from its existence.

You all are so very sad. I think we have three great candidates. The reason I am drawn to Barack Obama is because I do see a bright future with him and I truly believe he will look out for the best interest of “all” Americans.
For those of you who have been so negative, be careful what you say and how you treat others — what goes around comes around.

And where would MRS CLINTON be without her perverted husband, the former president? And were it not for Monica Lewinsky she wouldn’t be a US Senator let alone a presidential candidate. Whats her resume in foreign affairs, national security? Face it, her role in the White House was that of a traditional first lady…she did not have national security clearance, did not negotiate with heads of state, and did not “sit in” on meetings..

Of course this election is going to turn into a race issue. Do people not believe that blacks are voting for Obama because he is black? DUH! Republicans aren’t ignorant. There are vastly more whites that vote than blacks. That is why they want Obama to win the Democratic primary. Do the math! What is sad is that in this great country, all we can come up with for President are Hillary, Obama, and John. We are screwed.

The fact that Geraldine Ferraro is a close personal friend and high ranking advisor to Hillary Clinton speaks volumes.
I am continually amazed by the level of ignorance displayed by the Clintons and members of their campaign. Clinton’s spokesman Howard Wolfson said “We disagree with her”.
Senator Clinton to date has not fired Ferraro. This is just another example of why people question her judgment,integrity and trust.
The sense of entitlement to the nomination by the Clintons is absolutely unbelievable. Hillary Clinton should bow out of the race and stop endorsing McCain.
Nor has Hillary Clinton spoke out against her friend,supporter, and super delegate Governor Elliot Spitzer “Client #9″ and called for his resignation for dealing with prostitutes.

“John F. Kennedy was a senator from 1952-1960, when he won the presidental election.”
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Quit trying to compare Obama to Lincoln and JFK there is no comparison. Not only was Lincoln from another time, Lincoln spent 4 terms in the Illinois House of Rep, had his own legal practice and spent one term in the US House of Reps, plus he was the leader of the Whig Party in Ill. Kennedy, besides his distinguished career in the Navy where he earned a Purple Heart, he was in the US House of Reps for 6 years, in the US Senate for 8 years and had a Pulitzer Prize.

OH PLEASE!!!!! This woman is so full of herself, its NASTY!!! She FAILS o mention the fact that Clinton would be OUT of the race by now if She was NOT a Woman. Considering the fact that women make up he majority (56%) of the democratic party, I’d say that her gender has carried her a long way in this race. Then, when you add the fact that she has constantly been playing THE SYMPATHY CARD and expects the rules to somehow NOT apply to her, you get a pretty good idea where her success comes from, barring the fact that her last name is Clinton.

“uhhh…any comparison between Abraham
Lincoln and Obama is a joke….
The two highest ranking black, male or female, appointees ever appointed by in a president are Condi Rice and C. Powell
they were appointed by a republican.”
John at 10:01:20 am Great post!
Of course, Obama is the affirmative action candidate. There is so much hatred of Hillary from both sides and the white libs are loaded with guilt and anxious to show they are not racists. In reality, a conservative would vote for someone of any color or gender if they had the right conservative philosophy and approach. Take JC Watts or Alan Keyes or Walter Williams or Condi Rice etc…

I’m surprised we’re even having this discussion. Unless you’re very old or very stupid, mere skin color is not an issue anymore.
Here in DC they had a similar discussion about Fenty when he was running for mayor. Was he “black enough” to be mayor of a majority-black city? They weren’t talking about his skin tone. They were talking about his life experiences and the way he presented himself.
Like it or not, Obama and his wife are able to appeal to a broad sector of Americans in a way that someone like Jesse Jackson or Marion Barry never could. If either of those men, or anyone with a similar background, demeanor, or values, tried to run for president, they would never get past the primaries.
It’s not about color – it’s about culture.

If Hillary wasn’t a married to an ex-president, she would not be in this position.

Yesterday, look how Obama is playing the race card in Mississippi; he is stilling the black voters that they should be very upset with Hillary for showing the picture on him in the muslin outfit. Why did he bring up this topic in Mississippi? Remember, he complains so much when it was released to the public several weeks ago. He is playing the race card to get the black voters work-up.

Wonder why a racist such as Ferrano would bring about so many Republican posts in here??
Hmmmm….

Last week, on a Lehrer News Hour segment, Ms Ferrero stated incorrectly that back in January, she had wanted to campaign on behalf of Hillary Clinton in Florida, before the primary there.
Clinton, Ferraro stated emphatically, told her that she must not do that, because no one in the Clinton campaign was going near Florida before the election, since they would not break DNC rules.
It sounded good, except for the fact that Hillary herself (and Bill, too) attended several “fundraising events” in Florida in the last weeks leading up to the primary which she somehow distinguished from campaigning.
Simply put, Ferraro has joined the bandwagon: she is disseminating a series of blatant untruths about Senator Obama in order to demolish his campaign.

I love it. Keep chewing each other up.

So, where would HRC be if it were not for the fact that her husband just happened to be a President (or ex-President ?
It’s like a pot(us) calling the kettle black !

Sole me get this straight, Blacks can be equal with whites in his country…. Just not President? The idea is simply unAmerican… Now I get it….

Let’s not forget that Obama campaigned in Florida by airing television ads. This he excused by saying we paid for a package deal and that they couldn’t exclude Florida from the list. So don’t be pretentious and exclaim that he’s above the fray. He campaigned period and that was against the rules.

We I no idea what the real issue with Obama and Rezeko is but am willing to bet as soon as he gets the nomination we will surly find out.
All that money that has gone unaccounted for, his influence on name picking for state boards, he wife sudden double increase in salary, his ties to all these odd people, the fund raiser that no one seems to know how much money was involved.
It will all come out and anyone of us that want to pretend that is will not has to be rather dumb indeed, the GOP is just sitting and waiting and watching the games between Obama and Hillary.
All you Obama supporters better be very sure that Obama is lily white as he is pretending to be, or it will all come crashing down faster than you can unfold your ballot to vote.

It seems to me that the press has given Hillary a free pass for the seven years she has been a Senator (plus the sympathy “due” a wronged wife for the last 2 or 3 years her hubby was in the White House). In comparison to that, her current treatment by the press may seem rough, but in actuality, she is STILL not getting a “rough ride”.
In the interests of full disclosure, I happen to believe that Hillary is the most dishonest, unscrupulous, insincere politician on the national stage, so my viewpoints may be considered by most to be 100% accurate.

To 08-Independant, you are so out of touch with voters, and so is the auhor of tha article you posted. The VOTERS DO NOT CARE how much time Obama has spent in Washington. Race is not an issue here. Before the Iowas Caucuses, all of the democratic candidates made their case, and the voters liked Obama better. END OF STORY.

I don’t care if Obama is black, white or orange. I am against him because he is a inexperienced arrogant liberal.

It is exactly what they said about Clarence Thomas, isn’t it? Except Judge Thomas had a lot more experience. I think it is true though it is too bad Geraldine’s grammar is not correct. Dems get hoisted on their own petard.

Senator Obama has mentioned his mother on several occasions–especially when talking about his Healthcare plan. Also, when he campaigned in Kansas (His Mother’s home state). He talks about her moreso than his Father. Its obvious that you are getting your material from the anti-Obama rhetoric machine instead of listening to what he says or doing a little research.

Actually, Ferraro makes two very good points. The first is Obama has gotten a complete pass from the media… at least up until the last few weeks. He speaks in platitudes about hope and change but the man has said nothing. She is also right about the partisanship point and that is exactly why Obama’s message is pointless. It doesn’t matter who wins the White House. The problems in our country aren’t at the White House, THEY ARE IN CONGRESS! Until Congress is fixed, term limits instituted and the people of this country take power back from the morons we foolishly elected, the president is irrelevent. You could put Charles Manson in the White House and it wouldn’t mean jack.
I could care less about Obama’s skin color or Hillary’s sex. I completely disagree with both of their agenda’s. Socialism is a terrible idea, wealth redistribution goes against everything this country was founded on. Having said that, McCain attacked the American people for not agreeing with his amnesty deal with the fat, drunken, sot Kennedy so he doesn’t deserve the job either.
Once again, We, the people, are left with a lessor of two evils in the general election. Neither of those evils (regardless of the liberal candidate) deserve the presidency but we are going to be stuck with one of them.
irishspacemonk – your post couldn’t be more pointless or wrong if you tried. There are racists, of all races/creeds in this country, just like in nearly every other country on the planet, but the vast majority of the population is not racist.

Here’s former DEMOCRATIC Senator Bill Bradley talking to the UK Times about the Clinton Campaign:
“The bigger the lie, the better the chance they think they’ve got. That’s been their whole approach,” he said. “She’s going to lose a whole generation of people who got involved in politics believing it could be something different.”
It’s not a advertisement for American politics, is it? And who is to blame?

I am a 38 year old Bi- racial male… White people said I was black when I was born , no choice back then! Black people accepted me as black. And never ever ever has being Bi racial, or black been a benifit to me as far as getting ahead. With my kinky hair and thick lips come all the negative stereotypes that are associated with a black male. For a white woman to say that a black man is where he is because he is black shows she knows nothing of what it means to be black. Good and bad! If you look at black society, you would see that it was the black woman that broke through the color barrier first in the american work place. Black men are still treated with suspicion. No matter how successful!! Does sexism exist? absolutly! I this a sexist issue with hillary? nope! People just hate her! not for much she did, but for everything Bill did! Let Obama stand on his own merit and stop trying to make an affermitive action case out of this!!!

Imagine a Republican saying this – torch and pitchfork stocks would be going through the roof!

If the mayority of the people in this Blog are Democrats is diabolical insane to castigate themselves belonging to a Party that looks base on their opinions that is discriminating against Blacks Women and Old people like Mc Cain.You have two solutions form a new Party or this time, at list vote for Mc Cain.

I thought Ms. Ferraro was a big supporter of affirmative action. Apparently……NOT!

I AGREE WITH EVERY SINGLE WORD GERALDINE FERRARO SAID!!!! PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS ALL ALONG–IF OBAMA WERE A WOMAN WITH HIS/HER MEAGER RESUME, HE/SHE WOULD BE NOWHERE NEAR THE PRESIDENCY!!! CAN YOU IMAGINE A WOMAN IN THE SENATE ONE YEAR STARTING TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT??? SOUNDS HYSTERICAL – BUT THAT IS JUST WHAT OBAMA DID!!! I READ AN ARTICLE FROM PEOPLE WHO KNOW HIM IN THE SENATE AND THEY SAID AS MUCH AS HE WAS THERE JUST TO GET TO THE HIGHEST OFFICE; AND GOD KNOWS HE WASTED NO TIME!!!
HILLARY HAS BEEN TREATED TERRIBLY BY THE MEDIA WHO HAS BEEN TOTALLY SEXIST, AT THE SAME TIME THEY’VE BEEN FALLING ALL OVER OBAMA!!
IF OBAMA GETS THE NOMINATION, IT WILL BE THE BIGGEST TRAVESTY FOR THIS COUNTRY SINCE BUSH STOLE THE ELECTION IN 2000!!! NOW OBAMA WILL STEAL THE ELECTION FROM HILLARY – WHO IS THE QUALIFIED, EXPERIENCE CANDIDATE!!! OBAMA HAS NO EXPERIENCE!!!

I have always liked and admired Geraldine Ferrarro.
I applaud her statement that Barack Obama is where he is because he is black. She is also right the media has been vicious toward Hillary Clinton and very pro-Obama in its reporting. Her statement is the plain, unvarnished truth, and I know the Obamaniacs will howl, accuse, and attack her for it.
They are among the most vicious fans/partisans I have seen in politics.
Thank You for telling the truth, Mrs. Ferraro.

Just to let you know I am a republican from South Carolina(a white reprublican) and I can say it without hesitation. I have NEVER voted Democrate and never will. Ok so a Republican has said it. Even thought most of you will still assume im a democrate. Watch and see who will be the first to call me a liar.

I think people are missing the point of Ferraro’s comments. She’s stating that if Obama was a white man, he would have been vetted more at this point in the process. Truth be told, Obama is very green when it comes to politics, yet the media has mostly been fawning over him like he was a rock star.
Questioning and probing is part of the media’s job when it comes to those who seek political office. Obama has been treated with kid gloves by the press. Their objectivity has been called into question but those calls were ignored until SNL got in on the act. I feel the media has been reluctant scrutinize Obama for fear of being labeled racists and other derogatory terms. Plus a touch of dislike for Hilary Clinton has to be part of this.
Don’t get me wrong, Clinton is nearly as green as Obama. Her political career is the direct result of her husband’s name, not her own strengths.
Oh..and before I get the ‘racist’ label myself, I never stated where I stand politically. And, I’m black myself. I guess I could be called “Uncle Tom,” but only by the ignorant. He was the hero of the book.

I take back my previous statements saying I’d rather vote for Ferraro over Clinton. I don’t want either of them.
What the hell! Is it *okay* to demean black people because they aren’t as important as the “Sisterhood’s” needs? Is the entire DNC packed with racists?? And it looks like they are all Clinton supporters. It’s humiliating to me as a younger white woman, that instead of sticking together, they’ll divide instead.
We have got to to get a third party in this country. Seriously. Man has this election opened my eyes to how racist the Democrats are.

Ferraro is an idiot and the Clintons are all liars. Black or white, it is all pink on the inside.
Hillary is where she is only because she was married to Bill, and Barak is where he is because most of us can’t stand either Bill or Hillary.

Hillary wouldn’t be where she is if she wasn’t a woman.
Where is here foreign policy experience?
Accompanying your husband abroad doesn’t cut it.

Video clips don’t lie so when you see interviews of AA voters on tv being asked the question who they support, the majority of them say Clinton was a good President, the Clinton’s were good to us through their years but…
So what is the but for, they are openly saying the befitted under a Clinton presidency, but as they have OBama a AA running now, a unknown with no track record they are willing to take a chance on him, not even caring if he can deliver to them or not.
To me that shows one thing they are supporting him because of his race and nothing more.

With Obama’s success we know Affirmative Action has succeeded to equalize society. Time to end it.

The racist part is that we are calling a man who is 1/2 white “black.”
Obama’s mother was white.
His father was Kenyan.
He was raised by white grandparents.
Barack is not the legacy of slavery.
Why do people insist on calling him black?

There are tons of black people who would make fine presidents (Condi Rice). In addition, there are even some democrats I’d vote for (David Boren, current president of OU, for example).
Barak is a junior senator – not even the most qualified democrat. Thus, it is clearly his race that is giving him the edge.

If Hillary were not Bill’s enabling wife, she would not be in this position. And if she was a man (of any color) she would not be in this position. She happens to be very lucky to be attached to who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.

Challenge: Read Obama’s books.
Read Hillary’s books.
Look at the words, not skin color or
gender.
Make an intelligent decision.
I did.

LOL, the truth hurts!

I say that Obama / Geraldine ticket would get the job done!
hehehe!

ferraro’s comments are precisely the reason we need to elect Obama – to cleanse ourselves of divisive politics, especially those that try to divide us on the basis of ethnicity. just like ferraro, I’m an old white lady, but I don’t care what race (or gender or religion, for that matter) my candidate is. ferraro puts a nasty crack in the rock core principles of the democratic party. to paraphrase ferraro’s divisive candidate: shame on you, geraldine ferraro.

Barack Obama is half-white. Why do people always forget this?

Ms. Ferraro is correct that if Obama was white, he would be just another nice white boy. On the other hand, if Hillary was not Bill Clinton’s wife, she would be just another female lawyer in a pant suit with an inclination to get nasty. She has ridden Bill’s coat tails her whole adult life. She has no independent accomplishmnet or experience to justify her position as a Presidential candidate.
I live in Spokane Washington, my mayor, my police chief, my US Rep, both my US Senators and my Governor are all women who made it without their husband’s coat tails, unlike Hillary. Ferraro’s claim that a woman is at a disadvantage just because of her gender is still true, but just barely in general, and not at all in Hillary’s case.

Why are people screaming sexist of Hillary losing? Don’t they realize people just can’t stand her???

Why is it that the people on this board NOT SEEING the real issue here? Clinton would NOT STILL BE IN THE RACE if she was a MAN. Women have carried her far in this election and have come out in droves to vote for her. SHE constantly pander to their sympathies to get votes. I find it distasteful and disturbing.

Ferraro ought to point that political acumen at Hillary. She would not be where she is if she weren’t Bill’s wife. Every candidate is a product of his or her background. No one would care about Ferraro if she wasn’t a woman either.

Congress has a pathetic approval rating right now…like maybe 12% compared to an also dismal rating for President Bush which is in the low 30′s. And yet we, the voters, are insanely going to pick a winner (for President) from of a bunch of losers (the Senate). We somehow need to put term limits on all politicians which will take the white, black, brown, blue, green, yellow, etc., out of politics and give us choices of folks who believe more in “we” and “I”.

“Yikes?”
In Jack Nicholson’s Hillary commercial, he should have added “You can’t handle the truth!”
People have been so sideswiped by Bush’s Administration they are completely dulled down and blinded by reality. Everyone’s got post traumatic stress disorder. They’re voting blindly. Reacting.
Obama HAS had an easy ride. Clinton is hugely impressive given the fight she’s led. All Obama has to do is look pretty for the cameras and steal the United Farm Workers motto from 1972 and he’s golden.

If Colin Powell annouced today….people wouldn’t be able to remember Obama’s name tomorrow !!!
Colin Powell is a “PROVEN” leader as well as a “PROVEN” COMMANDER IN CHIEF !!!

Wow, Ms. Ferraro, shame on you for playing the race card! I bet if Obama was a white guy with the same message he would be a shoe in. The issue is that, here is a black man running for president and playing by the rules and you, Hillary, and the other racists’ folks can’t take it.

Um, so Hillary and her surrogates can scream sexism and that is OK, but Obama’s campaign can’t even hint that there is racism going on in this campaign.
Puhleeze. And somebody please remind Ferraro that Hillary is “lucky” (though I wouldn’t want to be so “lucky”) that she is even in the running… because she is Bill’s wife!

Both the Obama and Clinton supporters here are correct. Neither would be where they are without a certain physical status.
Fortunately, you can vote for an accomplished leader with a long record in the Senate – John McCain.

When will the libs ever learn to engage their brain before running their mouths?
Here’s a poem for you, libs.
A wise old owl sat on an oak.
The more he saw the less he spoke.
The less he spoke, the more he heard.
Why can’ you all be like that wise old bird.
Keep doing what you’re doing, libs. I love watching the party self-destruct.

This whole thing cracks me up.
What I love the most is how, instead of saying how what she said isn’t true, Obama supporters try to project the same comment on Clinton.
Not that I don’t agree that the same issue applies to her, but the issue is that it applies either of them. I think this just goes to show how weak the party is to have two potential candidates that have really no business running.
And I totally agree with the person that mentioned that if we said we were voting for McCain because he was a white male we would be crucified. I love how we let idiots set all these boundries on what is taboo and demand apologies everytime an honest comment is made.

If I say my top six reasons for choosing Obama were:
1) He is a voice of change in a time when it’s needed.
2) His ethics reform bill helps me believe he would at least be honest with me even if I don’t like what he has to say.
3) Being a community organizer for very little money says a lot to me about his character and his passion.
4) He’s intelligent, charismatic, and shows a ton of leadership skills and judgement.
5) His campaign – the largest organization he’s ever run – has been almost flawless.
6) His ideas for new policies (healthcare, immigration, job creation), although I don’t 100% agree with all of them, seem well thought out and reasonable.
Now, if I say, I also happen to be black – many of you ignore all of my points above and say I only like him because he’s black. You guys that do that have no idea how much that insults my intelligence!! BTW, I am college educated and make over $50,000 a year.

What Ferraro, Hillary and her gang fail to grasp is that the nation is hungry to be lead, not pushed. Deep in her heart Hillary knows only power based change. Hillary presents herself at the best manager running for President, but, displays that she is unable to manage her own political campaign. Hillary boasts of her Whitehouse experience, what has she learned? This is her third Presidential campaign and she’s making more mistakes that a wet behind the ears newcommer. Perhaps it is that Obama has a secret skill that has evaded Hillary throughout her adult life… listening. The famous “We are going to keep talking” comment was pure campaign baloney. Even the so-called debates had scripted questions from a carefully screened audience.
As a Republican I would prefer to face Hillary in the fall for Obama understands the difference between leadership and management.

KnightCaptain, you are kidding right? If it hadn’t been for the Republicans, the 1964 Civil Rights Act would never have passed. It is worth noting that between 1933 and 1964 there were 26 major civil rights votes. Majority of Democrats OPPOSED these 80% of the time. Majority of the Republicans voted FOR these votes over 96% of the time.
The “hero” Democrats have done very little for African-Americans! The proof is in the results! Why are so many African-Americans still struggling? Why is the dropout rate so high? Why is the unemployment rate of African-Americans so high? Why are 70% of African-American children born out of wedlock? Why is the incarceration rate of African-American male adults so much higher than other races? Why is HIV-AIDS spreading faster now within the African-American community than other races? The “hero” Democrats have done such a fantastic job! If a CEO of any company had that kind of record he would have been fired.
The Democrats don’t want to solve the problems. Instead they want to be able to always use the issues to keep getting re-elected. They know that African-Americans vote FOR THEIR RHETORIC, instead of holding THEM accountable for their LACK OF RESULTS.

Gene: You will not here one person attack you because you are voting for McCain because you are a white man and he is a white man…or regardless if you were a woman or a black man. That is your vote and you should use it the way you feel…No one should be single out for that. Blacks are also allowed to use their votes the way they choose too. Hillary Supporters cannot stand the fact that one, she is losing and they need someone to blame. So they figure it is because of black people. I honest feel she would be struggling regardless if she was running against a white man right now as well. I just think there are allot of emotional women out that feel it is her turn and she must have it…she deserves it. A woman needs to get it…

Hillary’s only qualification is that if she’s elected, Bill gets a third term. If she had divorced Bill and married someone else, she wouldn’t stand a chance.
Obama’s only qualification is that voting for him provides guilty white liberals a means to achieve a cathartic assuaging of their guilt; they will finally get to prove to themselves that they’re not racists.

Democrats profess to want a color-blind society with equality between men and women… But if you look at the voting so far, blacks overwhelmingly are voting for Obama (because he’s black), and women are overwhelmingly voting for Clinton (because she’s a woman). Objectively, neither candidate has a shred of qualification to hold the office they seek… Clinton was married to an impeached President; Obama is purely a creature of the Party – there is utterly no substance, no coherence, just the bumper sticker phrase “CHANGE” which I have seen parroted time and time again by the mindless sheeple who like to think of themselves as “progressive.” Anyone who would vote for either of these two buffoons is too stupid to have the right to vote.

If it’s ok to vote for Obama because he’s black, is it ok to vote against him for the same reason?
If it’s ok to vote for Hillary because she’s a woman, is it ok to vote against her for the same reason?
Please give at least ten seconds of thought before answering.

To Doug et al…
It’s hilarious to read the comments. Really, Obama inept? And we haven’t had an inept president for the last 8 years??! I mean really, how much “experience” did Dubya have?
The only reason, Hillary is remotely viable right now is because America is nostalgic for Bill’s presidency. WAKE UP folks, we’re not getting Bill we’re getting his wife, who DOESN’T have experience running the free world. Her experience as a WIFE is not grounds for her to lead.
I mean think about, Is Miranda Gates experienced enough to run Bill’s empire simply because she’s his wife? I don’t think so.
To my knowledge, Obama hasn’t been playing a “race card” – the media, and his bi-polar opponent has.
I long for the day when we really look at candidates for their character & intellect. NOT race or gender.
Bottom line, Ferraro’s comments were unacceptable.

However you want to look at it, Ferraro is just plain wrong.
She was selected as vice president in 1984 because she was a woman. She only had 6 years of experience as a U.S. representative.
Hillary is in her current position because she is Bill Clinton’s wife. She couldn’t have been able to run for the new york senate seat without Bill’s connections. She only has 7 years of experience as a elected official.
Obama spent 8 years in Illinois senate, then 3 years in U.S. senate. His 11 years of experience is more than that of Ferraro and Hillary.
Ferraro’s comment is racist and mean-spirited. She should blame Hillary for squandering her decisive advantage at the start of the election. Obama has ran a better campaign and should be commended instead of the insults and racial innuendos being lobbed at him.
Ferraro’s comment is a case of the kettle calling the pot black. Since her token VP selection she has had no meaningful political accomplishment (lost 3 senatorial races).

To make the statement Obama is as far as he is because he is black, is the biggest lie the Clinton campaign has fostered yet. Noted black candidates Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, ran and did not get off first base. In Wyoming where the black population is very small Obama won 61 % of the vote. The blacks are supporting this candidate because he is stable, down to earth, intelligent, dynamic, and charismatic. Those are the reasons people from every ethnic group are supporting Obama.

This seems like a very strange comment for a liberal Democrat to be making. Surely she’s not complaining about the mainstream media giving preferential treatment to a minority! But oh wait… it’s not the right minority. Or they’re favoring one minority over another minority, that’s it. I love the ironies that abound in this year’s Democratic race. I can’t believe anyone wants to vote for these fools.

wow, Mr. genius Knight Captain, I must have offended you badly. I must admit, I your humble idiot voter is seeking knowledge about your benevolent leader. This is what I know about his mother: A white woman from Kansas who met his father in college in Hawaii. Married him and he left when Barack was small. She later married an Indonesian named Lolo Soetoro and followed him to Indonesia and lived there for several years. This is what I know about his mother. Never saw his picture with his mother, but seen his pictures with a bunch of his half brothers and sisters in Kenya. Has seen his Kenyan grandma picture too. I have read about his support for his cousin Odinga too. Like you said I must have read all these in anti Obama source. Beyond these, I only know Obama was a local politician in Illinois and two years ago got elected as US Senator, Have never sponsored an important bill and considered to be the most liberal senator in the senate (more liberal than Ted Kennedy and John Kerry). One of his big fund raiser Tony Rezko is about to go on trial for bribery and how much his link to this man, who knows? Like I said, Mr. genius Knight Captain, these all I know about your leader. I do not hear much main stream media talked about his white heritage. If you know more beyond what I have written, please educate me further.
ps: you exhibited the behavior of a cult follower. Remember what happened to Jim Jones and David Koresh followers? They all perished.

Hooyah! Finally a surrogate who is not afraid to speak the truth. We are human and our actions and behaviors are influenced by our prejudices IF we do not face them and speak openly about them.
As an example: Obama supports claim Edwards has the same platform. Edwards has the experience and connections Obama lacks. Edwards has more of a proven track records and working relationships required to get things done than Obama. So why would people vote for Obama over Edwards? The black voting bloc and the liberal money behind Obama are the reason.
Edwards is too white and too southern for the liberal left wing and the black voting bloc. Prejudice comes in all forms and even the experts and the data support the assertion that we as a country are more sexist than we are racist. We should not be mum on these issues – we should work to combat it openly.
There is no doubt that the democratic primaries and caucuses have been tainted by racism and sexism just as the media coverage has. Prejudice is born of ignorance – only through educating each other will it die.

Maybe time for people to re-read some Wittgenstein about the “alien will”. The world is as it is and individual actors are not going to be able to impose their will on it, however benevolent that will might be. It would be more than enough if he conformed to some image of Kant’s “Categorical Imperative” by simply choosing not to exemplify that partisanship, although he will certainly have to contribute to it in some way to get anything done. A leader who seeks to end partisanship is a leader who intends to sit at his desk most of the day waiting for phone-calls to be returned.

smack talk from Ferraro who’s still bitter from losing 24 years ago. Hillary wouldn’t be where she is if she hadn’t ridden Bill’s coattails for 30 years. No one would take her any more seriously than they would Laura Bush or Nancy Reagan running for President, both of whom were married to a governor and First Lady. Come on people, wake up. She’s on a ego trip and has no business in the race except for Bill and the Dem establishment pushing for a return to power.

I’m a white man who’ll be writing in Ambassador Alan Keyes for President. And his skin is much darker than B. Hussein Obama’s…
I feel so racist right now.

If you can’t run a campaign properly or watch your money evaporate before a Tuesday primary or didn’t have the political machine ready for teh long haul then maybe you aren’t ready to become president. When you whine because everyone attacks you and blame it on being a women then maybe you aren’t ready for president.
Lets face it, while I don’t like Obama’s policy he is charismatic. The same can not be said for Hillary Clinton. Her failure and loss is her’s alone. She was the front runner and blew it. She said slighted Mississipi because she assumed the race would finished by now. Her husband was a political liability because of his temper (much worse than John McCain’s). Her campaign will be a textbook example of what not to do.
Obama is where he is because of who he is not what he is.

Obama sounds good, but he really doesn’t say all that much. He is a bit of a demagogue. That is the last thing we need.

I’m thinking Clinton wouldn’t be in this position without her beloved husband.

HER COMMENTS DO NOT STAND UP TO THE SCRUTINY OF SOUND LOGIC.
ANY THINKING DESK EDITOR SHOULD HAVE PLACED THIS STORY IN FILE 13

Another enlightened Hillary voter. She is where she is entirely because she was married to a great politician. She is only a senator because of this, and only has the infrastructure and support she has because of this. There is not one accomplishment that she has achieved independant of this.
To say Barack is only where he is because he is black, is silly. Of course he is! He also is only where he is today because he is a great politician, an inspirational figure, and a genuine person. All 3 things cannot be said for Hillary…
And if we really want to complain about this, how about Bush who is part of a lineage of aristocrats, including a former president.
It’s the typical logic free, racist, biased, and genuinely hurtful to the party comments that are typical of the Hillary-elite.
The media is unfair to Hillary, even though they are still treating her candidacy like it still exists, and not pointing out that the only possible way she can win at this point is to lie, cheat, and steal the nomination from the elected candidate and destroy her own party…

Ferraro is an ‘old school’ Democrat just like the Clintons: entitled to make any racial, ethnic or personal attack against anyone who dares not acknowledge their supreme right to rulership. They are Terminators, remorseless career and reputation destroyers devoid of the simple attributes of guilt and shame. I’ll bet when Hillary, Geraldine and Bill are on the phone the n-word flies with abandon. THEY are the vast right-wing conspiracy!

I would like to address the comment as to why Obama is leading Hillary in African American votes. Americans have forgotten in the beginning of this race, how much African Americans supported the Clintons. We loved the Clintons, but then the Clintons showed their “true colors” with their remarks about King/Johnson, a fairy-tale, and now even against Mississippi. Senator Obama is not offending African Americans or any other Americans. That is a big DIFFERENCE. Hillary and Bill need to stop throwing stones at their supporters.

Would Hillary be where she is without all those women voting for her in New Hampshire? I’m sick of feminists who think that minorities have it so easy and women have it so hard. As a female minority, I take major umbrage with it. Sexism and racism still both exist in different ways (apples and oranges) and the success of these candidates has to do with everything they have to offer – experience, policies, leadership skills, personality, height! It can never just come down to race or gender. Way to belittle all of us.

I’m an African-American and I’m supporting Hillary Clinton. I can’t begin to tell you the reverse racism I’ve received from other African Americans since I began supporting my candidate. I’ve been asked how can I vote for Hillary when I’m black. I was told I ought to be ashamed of myself by not voting for Barack. The majority of African Americans I know are voting for Barack Obama simply because he’s black, not that he has the experience or the qualifications to hold the office…..It’s really sad.

Notwithstanding all the other reasons I have little respect for Hillary as a leader, I find it hard to have respect for anyone that uses their first name on all of their signage and promotional materials.
Hillary for President?!!…Texans for Hillary?!!
You would think she is running for student body president.
Would a male candidate get away with:
John for President…
Barack for Commander in Chief…
Mitt for President?
I want a leader I can trust, not a prom queen trying to win a popularity contest.
Then again, the Hillary campaign is resorting to grade school tactics when it comes to trying to get an edge over Barack Obama.
I have great respect for anyone who earns it, be they women, African American, Latino, white, etc…
Key word is EARN.

My only bias is on position. I believe that the feminist are the most sexist people in the country. I believe that activist blacks are the most racist people in the country. I am a conservative. I would vote for Condi but not Hillary. I would vote for JC Watts but not Obama. I would vote for Colin Powell, but not Obama. I don’t care about color or gender. I do care if the person wants to have big socialized government. I won’t vote for socialists, white, black, man or woman. I believe in self responsibility and equal opportunity, not shared responsibility and equal outcomes. I believe if you aren’t willing to work for it, you shouldn’t get it.

It’s a dumb thing to say. No one is lucky how they were born. It just is. No luck involved. He could not have been a woman or a white man for he would then not be the person we see before us today.

If the proof that men are sexist and blacks are racist is that they vote for Obama over HRC, then by the same logic, then all these white women voting for Hillary are both sexist and racist!!!
Whoa!!!!

I too am shocked at the way black vote turned out. Ferraro was absolutely right, a two term state senator and a two year veteran of US senate some how can bring change sounds rather dubious. Also white liberal guilt and GW major screw ups has more to do with Obama’s ascendency than anything else.
At the point in time Obama is the wrong candidate for the country. In fact, cold feet will push many to vote for McCain, if Obama were the nominee.
Elot Spitzer was Harvard Law Review editor too; look where it got him.

because a black man could not possibly be talented, intelligent and dedicated enough to successfully run for the office.

I love people who toss out such blanket statements and actually believe they are intelligent ones. I would beg to differ that most racists are conservative. That is another misconception embraced by the majority. Just look at Geraldine’s comments, they are racist. People get so high a mighty they forget to judge themselves first. Any decision, positive or negative that is based on race is racism. Therefore, majorities of whites and blacks etc are racist to some degree. We need to live in a world where race really does not matter. Voting for or against anyone based on race and not the issues is narrow minded and ultimately foolish.

Maybe Ms Ferraro could tell us where in the political heirarchy Hillary Rodham would find herself today if it wasn’t because she is married to Bill Jefferson Clinton. Hillary Rodham is where she is today because she carries the Clinton name.

Thank you Geraldine Ferraro!
Finally, it’s been said. I was wondering when it would happen. It’s time to stop dancing around it and finally have a frank national discussion regarding race. Ferraro brings up a good point… and there are others, though.
1. Why is this man so hypersensitive over his middle name and a photo op of him wearing funny garb? Why not just say that’s my middle name… “when in Rome”… instead of accusing the Clinton Camp of derogatory tactics?
2. If he is so “comfortable in his own skin” as I have heard people say like Daschle and Mahr, why do I not hear that from African Americans… Jessie Jackson is not the only one that questions his blackness.
3. Is he more qualified because he is black?
These and many more should be addressed… if he is to be our first Black President… then let him be on par with our first black Supreme Court Justice (Thurgood Marshall); the man who broke baseball’s color line (Jackie Robinson); and the pantheon of Blacks/Afrincan-Americans who have added to American discourse on race and society: Angelou, Douglas, Rice, Powell, Woods, King, Parks, Ali, and on and on…
Let’s have a grand discussion… and yes, let’s throw in sex and gender too. Let’s hash this all out so that when we vote for our President, the Leader of Our Country, it is because he or she is the best person for the job and not elected out of a sense of guilt or shame!
2.

Hillary is going to play “chicken” with the DNC and she will not flinch. Does Obama have the stomach to do the same?
Hillary figures if she tears down Obama enough the Supers will have no choice but to put her on the top of the ticket.
Obama inspires while Clinton mires. I hope Barry runs for gov of Illinois before accepting a VP spot on the ticket.

The Real Question is:
Will Hillary reject and Renounce Geraldine?
Will she denounce and decry Gerry?
And as said below if a Republican said this type of thing you’d have a FIRESTORM.

it’s the media, stupid. Just google “Obama Clinton media bias”

Obama: Is hope for millions of people in America. Hope that they have never seen before. Hope for change.
Obama, is half white, raised by white parents & grand parents, raised in white america.
My dad is white so I know that some old school blacks would say he’s not black. I knew 3 black people growing up and they are far different than blacks that I ran while visiting cities in the 48 states.
Fact is this black and white, women or man thing doesn’t matter. He sounds good and everyone is tired of hearing the same old thing year after year.
I talked to people nothing has changed in poor black neighborhoods and poor white neighborhoods in 30 years. Bush, Clinton, Bush did not do anything for jobs in South East USA, Bush Alaska, Idaho, NJ, Long Island and etc…. What did they really do NOT a thing has changed for struggling people. OBAMA speeches sounds good people love that I love that! I am pro johnny mac myself but I would rather listen to OBAMA than hear Clinton or John speak.

Everyone shut up! Hillary is OWED the presidency because she put up with Bill for all these years. Plain and simple. We need a European socialist in the White House so we can be more like France! USA as we knew it is over! Just accept it. 8 more years of Bill and Hillary yea!!!!As a country ..it’s what we deserve.

Ms. Ferraro seems to forget that she was picked up as the VP running mate for Mondale ONLY because she was a WOMAN. She had no experience whatsoever. The Dems picked her up because they thought it would bring out the mommies to vote. NOTE: Mondale only took one state in that election — Minnesota (his home state).

Now its time for Hillary to distance herself from these ignorant and ill-advised comments. Both Hillary and Geraldine wouldn’t be where they are if it wasn’t for the political status of they’re husbands. Grumpy old women nagging. That’s all this is.
Hillary? Do the right thing and fire Geraldine from your campaign just as Mr. Obama did when Samantha Powers lost her cool although we all know that Hillary truly is a monster.

GERALDINE FERRARO’S COMMENTS WERE RIDULOUS. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME SOMEONE GOT SO FAR BECAUSE OF BEING BLACK. **WHEN DID WE NOT POLARIZE OUR VOTES AROUND WHITES WHEN MOST ELECTIONS ONLY CARRY THOSES CHOICES. EVEN WHEN ELECTIONS CARRY BLACK CANDIDATES THEY DO NOT NORMALLY GET THE MAJORITY BLACK VOTE. BLACKS DO NOT STICK TOGETHER BECAUSE OF THEIR BLACKNESS. THAT IS ONE OF THE ONGOING PROBLEMS OF OUR COMMUNITIES UNLIKE OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS. HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THE CRAB MENTALITY? THE PREVIOUS BLACK CANDIDATES NEVER GOT OFF THE GROUND IN THE PRESIDENTIAL RACES. TO SAY OBAMA IS HERE BECAUSE OF THE BLACKS SUPPORT OTHER BLACKS IS NOT TRUE, HOWEVER BLACKS, WHITES, SOME HISPANICS, ASIANS, INDIANS, ARE SUPPORTING OBAMA

Regardless of color, Obama is one hell of a candidate. Deal with it. Ferraro should resign. She and Hillary are not doing the party any service bad mouthing a fellow dem. These tactics will potentially backfire and the end result will be a McCain presidency. That’s fine if you want to continue down the same path.

“As a black woman I find Obama offensive. He is so busy catering to the black voters as if he is only going to be their president. He is ashamed of his mother, the one who raised him, because he wants to identify with the Kenyan man who left HIM and his wife. Does anyone see the logic in that? He is not a man, but a coward.”
First of all, if anyone believes this Delores character is a black woman, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. Secondly, where’s your evidence that Obama caters to a black audience? The overwhelming wins in Iowa, Wisconsin, and several other states that have a small black minority? Maybe the sea of white faces in the crowds at his rallies? Yeah, that proves it, I guess.
And finally, where do you come off with this ridiculous notion of his being ashamed of his mother? For someone ashamed of his mother, he sure talks about her a lot (his stump speech never fails to mention his mother was white).
Shame on you, “Delores.”
I won’t even touch on that other poster’s “Obama’s Mama on welfare” rant, except to say you’re doing Clinton no favors.

I don’t care what you think about him being black, I just hope you liberal weiners screw it up for each other.

Vote for change. what change? What record? Lot of words without substance. What has this Obama done? what change and how does he get there?.He brings absolutely NOTHING to the table. Wake Up People…….

I can’t say that I ever thought much of Ferraro…but she is right. If Obama was white, he would just be another smooth talking white guy. Black America would be supporting Hillary, and This dude would have pretty much lost most if not all the primaries (since he would not own the black vote.) Thems the facts folks.

Gerry and the Mondales . . . where have you been?
We need another sexist racist comment like yours to keep race baiting alive and well in the ole US of the Affended.
Don’t anyone believe Obama thinks he is white. The hate filled rhetoric that has been espoused from his minister’s altar have been nothing short of anti white and anti America. Do a google search and listen for your self. The half white don’t like my type and he is a leftist. Makes Ms. Rotten smell almost tolerable. Not quite though!
Gerry, can you imagine if, say, Newt had made that comment . . . holy cow! Sharpton, Jesse and the rest of the black kkk would have a coronary.
Folks, wake up, he real racists, haters and stiflers of achievement today are in the Democratic party. The enemy within . . . . !

affirmative action at work.

OOOH, Im on the internet, posting my ideas, as if ANYONE REALLY CARES. BLAH BLAH BLAH, yak, yak, yak, yadda yadda yadda. Im important, people listen to what I write and I have enemies who call me names. But in my pompous self agrandizing way, I am now the spokesperson for all people either liberal or conservative. POLITICS IS SOOOO BOOORRRRINNNG!!

Senator Clinton has not accomplished the things she has because of Bill Clinton but in spite of Bill Clinton. Personally, I would have divorced him long ago, but just as his sexual escapades had no bearing on his ability to be one of the greatest Presidents in history, neither does her decision to remaind married to him have any bearing on her abilities as Senator or to be President.

I heard Barack Obama is going to change the name of the White House to just “House.”

If it wasn’t for playing the race card, Her Royal Clinton’s campaign would have folded long ago. Every ploy the Clintonistas use is merely their way of whispering, “Beware. He’s black.”

What’s the matter, Geraldine? Why can’t you get past the color of his skin? Is it that offensive to you? Sorry you lost your bid back in the 80′s, but racism isn’t as rampant as it was back then. So you can take you and your dinosaur ramblings back to wherever it is that you came from. It’s time for the Old Guard to step down, and you and Hillary are both part of the Old Guard.

Geraldine just wants to cash in on a nice sinecure in the Clinton II Whitehouse. No doubt she has purchased a mansion for one of her grandchildren.

Gerladine is Governor Rendel in drag.

She should know.Why does she think she was on the ticket? Also, Whaaaa! about the press coverage. Perhaps she could switch parties for a minute and see what bias is all about.

Would we have ever heard of Hillary had she not married President Clinton? She might be running for Town Council somewhere, but that’s about all!

Hillary or Barak? It doesnt matter. Both are liberals who, if elected, will increase your taxes, increase the size of government, turn to socialism, squash free enterprise, reduce individual rights, promote ‘victimization’, promote class envy and class warfare, promote isolationism versus globalization, and continue to deny domestic oil drilling, nuclear power and hydroelectric power plants… among other things. SOCIALISM DOES NOT WORK! Hillary says she will take ‘BIG OIL’ profits from them because they are too large…if this were to happen, why would ANY business STAY in business?? THEY WOULDN’T! There is no incentive to work hard and make money, if you’re just going to have to give it to the government. But of course, Hillary and Barak know better than we do what to do with our money – we are too stupid and helpless to think for ourselves. Both of them needs to take an Economics 101 class…God help us if either of them are elected president!

Again, Geraldine Ferraro reminds the US why she isn’t taken seriously.

Eric, it does surprise me that you are receiving reverse racism in spite of supporting a Liberal Democrat. Usually Republican African-Americans are the target of the reverse racism. That is why so few Republican African-Americans run for public office — it’s certainly not for a lack of potential candidates.
KnightCaptain, I was not offended. I just wanted to point out the misconception that has dogged the Republican Party for decades. It is frustrating to see the Democrats reap rewards in spite of their lack of results. Yet, Republican accomplishments are totally dismissed. I hope Sen. McCain selects Dr. Condoleezza Rice to be his running mate. But the real battle will be to convince Dr. Rice to accept the nomination. Eric thinks he is receiving reverse racism, the Liberals will come after Dr. Rice with everything they have. Ironically, they will get away with it. But the Republicans will be called racists for any comment directed at Sen. Obama should he receive the nomination.

THANK YOU GERALDINE!
Thanks for displaying the callous disregard of the fact that Hillary is really desperate. Thank you for exposing the ignorance of the Hillary campaign and the “throwing the kitchen sink” to get what you want. You’re really a great truth saber in exposing one of many deficiencies not only in Hillary’s campaign, but in your insecurity in being truthful. Do you remember when you were on the ticket and had no experience? Do you remember when Mondale picked you just to capture the “woman” vote? Do you remember being used as a pawn for no real gain? I know, it hurts, and both you and Hillary are tired of being used by the Man.
I got two tickets to Girls Night Out with an All African American revue to get your insecurities reduced to a minimum. How bout it?

I am a non-black minority, a Dean democrat in 2004 against the war, and a professional woman who holds managerial positions throughout my career. I can tell you the media does not dare to take racism blame because of the loud voice Al Sharpton and other African American pundits (the media do not want any critics or embarrassment what so ever). I have experienced often sexism, reverse discrimination and discrimination at Corp America. I agree with Ms. Ferraro completely and hold nothing against Obama, but thinks he is too green and I have seen enough his type at Corp America. Dream needs to be realized with thought plan and long mundane process with all kinds of obstacles or risk factors. He is not ready but with HOPE!!!
I respect several African American leaders: Colin Powell, Condie Rice, Bill Cosby, Oprah and Jessy Jackson. They earned their respects, but Obama pursuaded his circle with inspiring words from youth and with clever mentor/mentee sincerity from Old Boy club of Ted Kennedy, John Kerry and Tom Daschle.

Wait a sec…wait a sec…
Am I reading this right that the Clinton campaign just succeeded in a form of race baiting, and they are not being called on it?
Let’s put this in perspective – what would the “debate” be if one of McCain’s friends or advisors made the same statement about Obama?
Apparently only Democrats have “free” speech.
Unbelievable. Mark my words – watch how the “debate” changes once it is a Rep vs Dem contest.

Why didn’t Alan Keys, Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton get as far as Barack- They are all black? Ferrerro and the rest of the white feminist are really showing their true feelings against Black people. Her logic is full of crap. John Edwards (white man), an equally qualified candidate for president was unfortunately rejected by the democratic voters. Was he rejected because he was white or because he was a MALE? Or was he rejected because democratic voters thought he represented the past and they wanted someone fresh and new. I am so sick and tired of these so called liberal white women feminist complaining about sexism and biased against Clinton when they have expressed twice the sexism, bias, and racism against Barack Obama because he is BLACK! Not because he is a man, but because he is BLACK period. The problem with Hillary is Hillary. People don’t like her, not because she is a woman, but because they just don’t like this particular human being who just happen to be a woman. You white feminist just backed the wrong woman.
BTW, Ferrerro you and Mondale were a joke when you ran and got the crap beat out of you from an old white man named Ronald Reagan. Folks just didn’t LIKE or want you or Mondale-a white male and a white woman. White folks rejected YOU! Was it because Mondale was a man or because you were a woman or was it because they just didn’t accept the message you and Mondale had presented to the American people. Barack is accepted not because he is a Man or Black, but because he represent something new and exciting to the Ameican People, PERIOD. And he is extending his arms to all people even tightwad racist socialist feminist like you!

The Democrats are going to be in for a rude awakening this November. First of all, neither Hillary or Barack are qualified to be President.
Secondly, the blacks are only voting for Barack because he is black. If he loses the nomination, the blacks will either stay at home in protest or possibly vote for McCain in protest.
Moreover, the women are only voting for Hillary because she is a woman. She has virtually no experience except for riding on the coat tails of her husband. If Hillary loses the nomination, women will vote for McCain. I am sure of this because so many have told me so.
As usual, the Democrats are standing in a circle shooting each other. They have blown a perfect opportunity to take back the White House.

DOES MSSSS. FERRARO ET. AL. REALLY BELIEVE THAT?? IS SHE SPEAKING FOR THE ENTIRE CLINTON CAMPAIGN? CAN ANYONE IMAGINE IF A REPUBLICAN SAID ANYTHIHG SIMILIAR TO HER STATEMENT?
GERALDINE, PLEASE, FOR THE RECORD TELL US HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT CONDI RICE, OR PERHAPS GEN. POWELL,..HOW ABOUT MRS.OBAMA??SAME WAY?? JUSTICE C. THOMAS(NO NOT THOAMAS WE ALREADY KNOW YOUR ‘TRUE’ ANSWER.
SO YOU SUPPORT LAWS THAT ALLOW FOR SET ASIDES BASED ON COLOR..AND THEN YOU CLUB THEM OVER THE HEAD WHEN THEY SUCCEED???TRUE DEMOCRAT PARTY HYPOCRACY…KEEP TALKING GERRY,KEEP TALKING.

Awwwwww Lou! Are you a grumpy ole white man afraid of truth? Need more lies, more war? How about $5 dollar a gallon gas? Let’s get your job outsourced so you can go cut a few yards to make ends meet. Oh, still not enough? How about a vote for Mr. Obama then??? You know what they say………
Once you go bi-racial, errr, raaa, black, you never go back.

I think Hillary has a broader support than Obama.
She appeals to every voting demographics including the African Americans.
Obama’s base of support is limited to African Americans and the young voters (high school seniors and college kids).
If Obama becomes the nominee, the chance of loosing the presidency to the Republicans is very high. One possibility is the Latino voters (15% of the U.S population) prefer to vote for McCain than Obama because of several reasons.
First, McCain has introduced the Immigration Reform Bill to the Senate though it did not pass. That is why the Latino community looks favorably to McCain. Secondly, people try to minimize the differences between the African American community and the Latino Community. The reality is different (on the grounds of urban areas in LA, New York, Miami, etc.). Because of these confrontations the majority of them prefer to vote for John McCain than to Obama.
If Democrats want to win the White House, their best bet is to nominate Hillary Clinton not Barrack Obama. Hillary Clinton not only has the experience to become the U.S. President, she can also stand toe –to- toe with the Republican nominee, John McCain and she can bring all the democrats together.
Hillary ’08!

Please vote for Obama – America’s first affirmative action president

“It’s been a very sexist media. Some just don’t like her.”
Why is it that if the media doesn’t like Hillary, then they’re sexist. First of all, I disagree that the media doesn’t like Hillary, but that’s not really my point.
I don’t like Hillary, but I’m not sexist. I love my wife, daughter and mom, have many female friends and co-workers.
I don’t like Obama, but I have several African-American family members who I love, and African-American friends.
Just because those individuals may not be liked by certain people doesn’t make those people sexist or racist.

I have often said Oprah would not have endorsed Obama – if he had every credential he has now – but the color of his skin was white. Sorry, but it’s true. Ask yourself this – if Obama’s name were Steve and he was a white man but had the exact same experience that Obama has – would he receive the support he is getting? Makes you think.

Is this country suffering from a lack of intellectual judgment? Moral responsibilty? The ability to lead?
The very thing wrong with the Clinton campaign will tbe the very thing wrong with this country. Put that in the think tank!

Let’s go with this idea that Obama has ‘no’ experience. So what. Maybe some of us are sick and tired of all these ‘very’ experienced candidates and their corrupt ways. Maybe we are sick of people thinking that we are all stupid and do not see the reall way Washington operates (favors for favors). Why should I care that Clinton ran into NY (a state I love and grew up in) and some how mesmerized people to be voted in as Senator. Help me out here- how as her election into NY Senator any different. It’s nice to sit around and bash, after all it is easy to do. The hard thing is to look deep and find what matters. NEITHER CANDIDATE HAS EFFECTIVELY PRODUCED ANYTHING AS A SENATOR THAT REALLY HELPED US. So they both start at ground zero (no pun intented). Geraldine made a good pt, Obama would not be in this position if he were white. I agree – he would have been the chosen candidate by all of his current critics. Many of you do not want to support him because he is black. Fact is, many of our former presidents had rather shallow resumes – but they made it- but then they were white. Had Obama not been in the campaing it would have been Kerry and all of you (except the feminist) would be for him. Women who vote for Clinto because she is a woman are falling into the trap; and the same goes for blacks who vote for Obama because he is black. There is a reason why most politicans are former lawyers. They are a heck of a lot smarter that most of us and are better at manipulating and twisting things. Keep in mind both Candidates are lawyers. You know all those lawyers jokes everyone is fond of repeating. For me, the bottom line is, Clinton is no better than Obama and for decades we have been voting for the lesser of the two evils. Why be different now. Obama seems a lot less evil than Clinton aka Cruella de Vil. Besides everyone who says Obama has no experience and Clinton has more – I wonder how do you really know. You only spue what you have heard and read – but you reall do not know the depths of their experiences. Stop being so gullable. I respect anyone who says Clinton because the positions she holds are similar to theirs and they believe in her type of politics – rather than Obama has no experience. That is a cop out answer and has no substance. Get real! Vote on the issue not on the person! Had we done that 8 years ago – we would not be here today.

How true her statement is. Senator Obama is nothing more than a slick talker with very little substance. And if he were white, he would be just another Chris Dodd or Joe Biden. Hopefully it isn’t too late for the electorate to see thru his double talk of no solutions.

To think that this is the state of affairs in twenty-first century America. When schools teach American history, how will this time as a nation will we be viewed. I was taught that “we the people”, an “in God we trust”, not what party I may support. As we close in on electing our next president, I think the biggest problem they my face may be “explaining the divide that remains in America”. For some reason one can’t be proud to be an American, unless at the same time, you’re proud to be a white American. The world community is watching as we watch this example of democracy unfold. The bandages will hurt as they are ripped from the injury we have substained in our fight to live up to the founding fathers dream. As a people we have to understand, that live is short, and you can hide from the truth or face it head on. I support OBama simply because he is the only candidate that seems to ask the question,” how do we see ourselves as a nation in the 21st century. Don’t kid yourself, Senator OBama has said this will be a tough race, but at the same time take a good look at the leaders that you’ve known in your lifetime. Some of the statements made concerning OBama are coming from the people that we democrat have admired, and it’s really bad that the true meaning of their vision come out late in there life. Man does not live by bread alone, don’t try to minimize the vision of a person that will enrich the democratic party, and lay the cornerstone for a nation trying so hard to remove the slither from its eye. Everything that America stand for and try’s to represent is on display, and the world is watching. See you in Denver.

The Clintons are being so incredibly racist. Saying she would allow Obama to be her Vice-President is disgusting. It sounds like she giving him permission to ride in the back of the bus. Now sending out others to be racists.
Clinton only beats Obama after she’s done the “poor me” routine. Then she comes out bashing him. Is she bipolar? How can Democratics allow such racism in their presidental candidate?

Wow! I can’t believe what I am reading!!!! Has anyone considered that Hillary would not be where she was without the Clinton political machine put in place by Bill? Do you think any woman could have waltzed into a NY state senatorship without holding an office before and less than 7 years later announce she will be the next president, regardless of her qualifications???? She’s had 5 years less in office than Obama. As for Obama getting where he is because of his skin color, dream on. He’s captured our imagination with his intelligence, eloquence and demeanor, and he’s the best we’ve seen since the Kennedy era, and he is the only candidate who has the potential to raise up our nation in a spiritual way.

Add Ferraro to the list of Democratic politicians who have burned their credibility in this campaign, now that their true colors can be seen by all.
The Dems are thisclose to losing a generation of voters, including this black male. If Hillary is nominated, there officially won’t be any difference between the two parties, and no amount of convincing will prove otherwise. At this point, it’s chips all in for me. If I were McCain right now, I’d be measuring drapes.

Way to go, Geraldine. Nice comment. For those of you too young to remember, while running with Walter Mondale she promised she and her husband would release their tax returns, then tried to backtrack from the statement. It eventually came out that her husband was a tax cheat. All the while her son was being arrested at Middlebury College for selling coke.
Nice family.
Pillars of the community.
Clinton supporters.

That is a funny comment considering nobody would have heard of Hillary if she hadn’t been married to a president.

Lets see…..we have the most revered national politician by africans americans (Clintons) vs. Obama. Obama 90% to Clinton 10%. That must just be a coincidence! Im not saying he is not qualified, but must we all just live in denial?

Of course she’s completely correct. The man has a weak political record. He started running for pres the second he got into the US senate. He’s a good speaker – but why else would he be in this position if not for the color of his skin?

Of course she’s completely correct. The man has a weak political record. He started running for pres the second he got into the US senate. He’s a good speaker – but why else would he be in this position if not for the color of his skin?

We need leaders who are culturally competent. Clearly Ms. Ferraro and Candidate Clinton are not.
This does not reflect well on either of these two women, and is the sort of tactic that is repugnant no matter who engages in it.
I am voting for Barack Obama because he is the candidate whose BEHAVIOR demonstrates respect for voters and the cultural competance to lead our nation, both within our borders, and among other nations in the world.
Hillary Clinton will not be getting my vote under any circumstances, now or in the future, nor will any candidate who is enabling this kind of thinking and behavior. This isn’t the “kitchen sink” it’s the residue in the cesspool and these two need better filters.

I am continually amazed at how stupid Hillary thinks we are by trying to convince us of such riduculous concepts. I hope Obama continues to make this evident. His surrogates need to use stronger language than “monster”!!!

I agree with Ferraro…but I also say if it weren’t for Hillary’s association with Bill Clinton…she’d just be another nutty liberal…NOT a presidential candidate.
They’re both very boring and their feel good garbage is for the weak minded misfits that watch too much disney.

By the same token, it can be said that Geraldine would never have been on the ticket with Fritz Mondale if she wasn’t female. They were supposed to be the first liberal “dream team.”
Lost in a landslide…

It’s….if Obama “were” a white man, not “was” a white man. Where did she go to school? Must have flunked English 101. And she wanted to be V.P. of the United States?

I completely disagree with Ferraro’s politics, but I think she makes a good point here, and it has nothing to do with racism. Obama’s popularity is, at least to a degree, being driven by his racial/ethnic makeup, although his public speaking skills are a big part of this as well (to his credit). Obama is not offering anything different than other Democrat candidates have offered. He’s a far left-wing politician who will not hesistate to turn the U.S. into a feckless socialistic country like France. The media has helped make Obama successful, because they love liberal minorities (although they despise conservative minorities). Finally, for those who stated that if Obama were white he would already be declared the nominee, that is pure bunk. Obama has a slight lead over Hillary with a lot of time left. Plus, Hillary was the presumptive nominee all along. Nobody is going to eliminate her very quickly. This has nothing to do with race and everything to do with politics.

Ferraro is right when she says “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.”, because any white man that is a member of a white-only, Euro-Centric church would not have made it out of the gate – and rightfully so. Why then are we then considering a black man who has pledged his allegiance to a black-only Afro-centric church and befriended a socialist minister with friendly ties to the likes of Farrakhan??

Hillary Clinton wouldn’t be in the position she is now, IF she hadn’t been lucky enough to marry William Jefferson Clinton. Hillary, wouldn’t be in this position now, if Bill Clinton didn’t abuse his power of the presidency to grant pardons for votes in Hillary’s senate run. Hillary Clinton wouldn’t be in this position had Bill ended up divorcing her for one of his little chickadees. So Hillary should be thanking the GODS that Gennifer Flowers, or one of Bills other bimbo’s didn’t steal him away. Can you imagine…Gennifer Flowers really has about that same experience as Hillary Clinton does. After all she put in 12 yrs into a relationship with Bill also!

EILEEN… Thank you! I should also like to add…from the exit polls…that Sen Obama is consistently bringing in the most votes from those with a college education compared to the Hillary camp where her largest segment of voter’s do not have any college. Yes, white educated men and women are voting for Sen Obama too! YES WE CAN!

When the gates of the Clinton plantation were opened, their subjects fled like a swarm of bees.

Oh, and I also completely agree that, if Ferraro were a Republican she’d be toast right now. Republicans are NEVER allowed to speak their minds when it comes to race, gender, ethnicity–not if they want to keep their jobs or achieve political success. The media in this country will not allow it. Conservatives have been asked to step aside for saying far less controversial things than Ferraro did, and my bet is she won’t suffer for it much at all.

This is a very dissapointing slip of the tongue from a pioneering woman in politics. I’m sure that given the chance, she’ll explain or repudiate these comments.

So, is the Clinton’s team latest strategy to accuse White America of reverse, reverse discrimination in yet another TRANSPARENT ATTEMPT TO MARGINALIZE OBAMA AS THE BLACK CANDIDATE.
To all you voters who have no formal education beyond High School. Is it alright with you that Clinton and her people assume you are dumb just because you are not formally educated? Do you really think this blue blood woman relates to you. Please, Barack was raised by a grandfather and single mom who were you. Clinton was raised a blue blood republican who thought it was romantic to rebel against her parents 1950′s Ike traditions by running off with Bill (a boy of questionable background)and extolling McGovern to the consternation of her parents and plusher of a girl whose ego always demanded too much attention.

Oratory skills my foot.Obama is not that great of a speaker unless of course you count his ability to rehash the same old tired speech that he has mastered and repeats at every stop.
If you listen carefully the fool speaks about three words,four at the most and pauses to search his empty brain for three or four more words.The ineptness of his approach in speaking has apparently rubbed off on his wife as she displays the same broken thought process.Just telling it like it is.
The media and others who praise his approach use it as a way to say something good about him when in fact it is the only good thing they can find to say about him.
You can always tell when obama is about to say something that he has not previously rehashed over and over again.As he always uses the word UNDERSTAND prior to saying anything that has not been rehearsed and rehashed.
How is that a man who claims to have chosen to help the unfortunate people in Chicago by not taking a high paying job can now afford a $1.6 million dollar dream home on the low pay of a state senators income and now that of a U.S. Senator???
The math does not add up no matter how you try and figure it.The guy has been caught with his hand in the cookie jar and is obviously complicit to some degree with Rezko in obtaining his dream home.
Geraldine is correct in her observation.

I think this political correctness has gone too far. Geraldine Ferraro’s statement is correct. All you have to do is look at the exit polls of the primary states. If blacks had not voted overwhelmingly for Obama he would have only won Illinois, Vermont, Wisconsin, New Mexico and Virginia. Stating a verifiable fact is not racism.

I’ve got news for you. The Clintons are not just now showing their true colors. They are doing exactly the same thing to Obama that they’ve been doing to anyone who ever got in their way. The difference is that now you are paying attention, and not looking down your noses at their victims. They are nasty vicious people who will stop at nothing to get what they want–always have been and always will be. They have an incredible sense of entitlement, and for once the majority of people are seeing them for what they really are. You still wouldn’t be paying attention, however, if their victim was a Republican or a conservative instead of Obama. Although I disagree with almost everything Obama says, I have the greatest respect for him because he refuses to roll in the gutter with the Clintons and their ilk.

First of all, the argument that partisanship will never die misses the point. Barack isn’t claiming he will end partisanship–he’s claiming he’ll end the stalemate of partisanship. He thinks he can convince enough Republicans and Democrats to join forces to enact real and lasting change. For anyone who thinks that’s impossible, see what Reagan did 30 years ago with a Democratic congress.
Second of all, the claim that the media has been unfair to Clinton is bogus. Clinton was the undisputed front-runner for TWO YEARS–and very often referred to as the “inevitable” nominee (talk about “fairy tale”!!). Given her nearly nil chances at an honest victory now, the press continues to position her as a viable candidate. The fact is, the press is always a bit biased in one way or another. But the argument that there’s an institutional bias against Hillary, permanently? Please.
You can’t pretend to be a fearless leader and play the victim all in the same breath. I like Hillary–she had my vote for quite a while–but it’s over for her.
Democrats! It’s time to gather ’round our nominee! Barack Obama ’08!!!

That might have been one of the most ignorant remarks ever. If whites had not voted for Hilary then she would not be in this position. Get over it.

Why is it that when someone is half black and half something else,they’re considered and consider themselves as black? Why is this,if the color of your skin or racial background isn’t important?

To say that “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. 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.” is NOT a verifiable fact.
It’s true that blacks have voted for Obama, women have voted for Clinton, and that some white and latino people probably didn’t vote for Obama because he was black.
There are a lot of competing things going on… but don’t forget the most important one… that Obama has a compelling message that speaks to what a large part of the population is concerned about. Any interpretation of events that pretends that last important fact doesn’t exist (such as the Ferraro statement) misses the point.

This is one of the most disgusting claims I have ever read in my life. The day it is beneficial to be a black man in America is the day I die. and for the poster who said that the exit poll data from wisconsin, vermont… shows that he is winning because he resonates with black people should also see that he resonates with young people, meaning that he benefits unfairly from being younger than clinton, which is another crazy claim. also, the media is taking it as easy as they can on clinton. here is why.
1. If obama had lost 14 of the last 17, everyone would tell him to drop out.
2. if clinton had an insurmountable lead, everyone would tell him to drop out.
3. every major poll shows obama beating mccain, but mccain beating clinton… thats because clinton will never have a chance with independents
4. the billing of super tuesday as do or die was all her strategy… remember how she said that would be when the nominee was decided.
her divisive and at times downright disgusting brand of politics NEEDS to end for the good of this country. i want obama picking up the phone at 3 am, not clinton and her lack of experience.

I’m so enjoying this primary season. As somebody who believes that the Democrat party is the most dysfunctional party in the history of American politics. Anyway, I love how the tables have turned. Remember when the Democrats just loved black people. They wanted to take care of them and protect them from the evil racist America. Well, I am loving the fact that now that an intelligent black man is challenging the white establishment within the party, everyone is freaking out. Just goes to show that Democrats do love black people – When they’re in their place at the back of the bus.
Go Obama!!!!!!!

She’s right about what she’s saying. The funny thing is that if someone other than a democratic socialist like her said this (such as a republican – who are also mostly socialists) that person would have a lynch mob at his/her DC office door. The only thing Obama is good for is getting rid of the Clintons once and for all and I hope they don’t steal the nomination from him. Either way we’re going to get one of three scumbags as our next president, I would just prefer it not be Mrs. Clinton.

Gary,
Have you ever thought that MAYBE blacks are voting for Obama because they LIKE the fact that he’s not mean and nasty like Hillary NOT because he’s half black? Your statement is an assumption that all blacks are racist. I agree with most of the posts, that this little episode has brought out the TRUE racists in America, OLD WHITE DEMOCRATS!
People are sick of the Clinton’s attack machine. Hillary coined the phrase “scorched earth policy” which is what she will do to anyone that gets in her way. The American public is sick and tired of it. They want someone who can get along and work WITH others not constantly AGAINST others. No more “Us and Them”!

Tom,
Not only did Romney (White man from Eurocentrc Church) make it out the door; he made it to the edge of the throne and is a shoe in.
Yes, blame it on Affirmative Action. The escape hatch of every inadequate, underperforming white person. No Negro could possibly beat me if only he went toe to toe with me no matter what his qualifications and no matter how many I lacked.
If Barack Obama was a white man it is true he would not be in this position.
He would be the Nominee because he would have won New Hampshire and the sucessful race baiting that the Clinton’s used their to incite the “Affirmative Action it to blame for all my woes” Whites would have never come out to vote against him.
THAT’S RIGHT..FERRARO AND CLINTON AND ALL OF YOU HERE ARE FINDING AND PROMOTING THE REASON WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE AGAINST OBAMA BECAUSE HE IS A WHITE MAN.
AND THE CONSERVATIVES SAY ALL KINDS OF CRAP AND I LISTEN TO IT ALL THE TIME BECAUSE I WANT TO KNOW WHAT MY ENEMY IS THINKING. THEY ARE THE PEOPLE WHO WON ME OVER TO THE “RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS” CAMP. I BELIEVE IT IS TOO DANGEROUS FOR ANY BLACK, MEXICAN, ASIAN OR OTHER MINORITY TO RUN AROUND THIS COUNTRY UNARMED BECAUSE IT IS FAR TOO MANY WHITES LIKE FERRARRO AND THE OTHERS HERE WHO SUPPORT HER WORDS AS WELL AS THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN CONSERVATIVE TALK RADIO’S AGENDA AND DEPENDING ON A POLICE FORCE THAT MAKES UP A GOOD PERCENTAGE OF THIS DANGEROUS GROUP FOR PROTECTION IS …WELL….STUPID!

It’s definitely a mindset issue. If Obama doesn’t get the Dem nom, I’ll write his name in for the general election.

it’s true people…B.O. happens to be nothing more than a fad at best…

Karen and Jay,
Why is it so hard for you to believe that he may have gotten preferential treatment from the press because they LIKE him? they like his MESSAGE? For you to assume it’s because he’s black shows YOUR racism. Geez, the guy has a message that resonates with people. Why is that so hard to understand? Is it because YOU like the nasty, scummy fighting?

Great Orator ? That’s it ? So were Democratic presidential candidates William Jennings Bryant and Adlai Stevenson. By the way, both from Illinois, and both much more accomplished than BHO. Both lost.
If we wanted a great orator, then Joe Biden should have gotten the nod. I heard him speak to the 1984 NJ Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, and I haven’t heard a more inspiring speech since. At least we would have someone with experience and savvy.
If the candidate has to be black, then why not draft Julian Bond. He’s a much better speaker, and much more accomplished.
If our candidate has to be a rock star, then why not draft P.Diddy?
Geraldine Ferraro is on the mark. I don’t see it as a racial slur, but rather a dose of truth.
If this guy was white and with a name like Smith, the Hollywood image makers wouldn’t give him the time of day if they had a watch in every pocket.
If the strategy is to run against both Clinton’s, (to wit recent Monica comments,) then I would ask they question, who has done more for the well being of our minorities here and around the world, than the Clinton’s When was the last time BHO raised billions for fighting disease in Africa or millions to help storm ravaged victims in New Orleans.
Somewhere,(probably under a rock), Karl Rove is smiling from ear to ear. We Democrats are about to do it again.

Hillary wouldn’t be where she is right now if her last name wasn’t “Clinton”. Why else do you think she put up with Bill’s infidelity other than to advance her political career?
In all fairness, Geraldine is right though. If Obama was white, he wouldn’t be where he is right now b/c the race would be over and he’d have already won.

I am a Republican but after Huck was defeated I just can not vote for McCain. Or rather McPain.
So I look on the democratic ticket, and I can’t vote for Hillary either, I really dislike her personality.
Obama however, I like his personality, don’t like all his views but I don’t think that will effect me that much because I don’t think he or any other president will actually be able to change things that much. So I’m voting for Obama at this time.

Hillary would not be in this position if she hadn’t been married to a former white male president.
ferraro? can’t we get some comments from someone relevant in the past 20 years.
Ferraro’d never have been chosen if SHE were a man either… she was an Affirmative Action nominee…
and her husband was a crook… this time i mean Ferraro again.

After all that has happened over a 3 month period, it’s clear that Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been the most disastrous. From changing themes 5 or six times to resignations of high level staff members to lack or organization and money to now resorting to third party comments because she can’t do it herself. It all comes back to her everytime, although she pretends to distance herself from them.
She’s an incompetent manager.
She lies
She cheats
She cries
She’s behind
She can’t overcome the delgate lead
The DNC knows she’s not electable
It’s over
She will fail in her bid to become the first female president.
Check back in 8 years. At 70, she might have the experience needed to be honest with the American people.

If ANY democrat can read Michael’s post and NOT vote for Obama, they are crazy! THe Republicans and the Independents will vote for Obama over McCain. IF Hillary is the nominee, the claws will come out of GOP’ers and Indies like you have never seen, and she will lose. Periood. End of discussion. Why are you so stubborn that you can’t see it?

It may be true that Obama would not be where he is today if he wasn’t an eloquent black man, but doesn’t that door swing both ways. For all the Feminist BS that seems to swim around Hillary isn’t she just riding her husbands coattails. She rode them into the senate against laughable opposition in a state she didn’t live in. Do you honestly believe that if she wasn’t a woman, and wasn’t a former first lady with name recognition that anyone without severer head trauma would even consider the junior senator from New York as a possible presidential candidate?

“The fact of the matter is, if he gets elected, then every person who voted for him needs to be held accountable for putting him in office when he really starts screwing things up – and he will, if he gets in the WH.”
Yeah, he might send us to an unnecessary war without reading the intelligence estimate. Oh, wait…

Hello everyone,
I am so happy that Obama will win so I can watch the US fall from grace! anyone who votes for Obama is assured a Mcain win! and that means bankrupt country, endless wars, who know we might become the next third world. You see there is no way! no how! Obama can compete against Mcain, he has years of experience, Obama may have the elegance and words but no experience! all those of you who are in buisness would you hire an inexpereinced apprentice or someone who has years experience. Logical to hire the experienced no matter how we look at it words or elegance is not going to get the job done. The media has not begun to hunt Mr.Obama, the last they did he got frazzled. At least Hillary would go toe to toe both have experienced and it would be a great match. You can’t put a light weight fighter with a heavy weight fighter. you gotta put two equal fighters! no matter what happens US is going down, Moveover US the next superpower is about to show it’s ugly head.

There wouldn’t be a democrat in the race if we had a respectable media base that repoeted without bios

Go Geraldine Ferraro!!! You are the Woman!! Thank you for having the courage to stand up to the racist pandering and ugly sexism that has been going on throughout this primary! The Press has been falling all over themselves to avoid any of the tough issues surrounding the Obama campaign! Thank you for having the backbone to bring to light the most obvious issues … not even a white guy could pull off being a “play it safe” state senator for 7 out of 9 years, and play a “minor role” as a US Senator for two years in which one of those two years spent running for President!) and become President of the U.S. … and regarding Obama’s oratory skills — we haven’t forgotten about his preaching — we are all sick of the TELEVANGELIST!! Get off the campaign trail and go find a church!

Let’s face it…there is NO ONE on EITHER side of the Aisle who has what this country needs. Hillary Can’t Do It, even though she is a woman. Obama Can’t Do It, even though he is black. McCain Can’t Do It, even though he is old and a vet.
We need to start OVER again…and that means the people need to finally take back what those in Washington have stolen from us: our liberty, our money and our rights.
A $3 Trillion Budget? Does that make ANYONE out there sick? Does it make anyone out there terribly afraid of the future of this great nation?
No control over our borders? No control over who enters this nation and uses the very services we pay pay for? does that not ANGER anyone? No one but U.S. Citizens should have their education, health care, food, rent or anything else subsidized by me or any other citizen with our hard earned tax dollars.
Tax Breaks for the Middle Class? Sorry to burst the bubble here, but I am middle class and I barely pay anything. I have always been refunded the vast majority of what was withheld. The people who make the money, invest the money, start businesses need the break. One of those people pays my salary! He loses his so-called “break” and I may lose my job…get real people and start focusing on the heart of the matter: this nation spends too much on all the things that do nothing to advance our standard of living, our place in the world and any sense of personal responsibility. Obama, Clinton and McCain will simply continue this charade until we are broke and 3rd world.

Glass house. If Hillary hadn’t been married to the president she definitely wouldn’t be there. Being a president’s wife is way more effective for helping yourself out than being black.
Being black hurts your chances significantly. Otherwise black men would be over-represented in Congress, which definitely is not true.

The Democrats are airing there dirty laundry in this election. Their party is essence a coalition of single issue “victim” groups based on race, gender, sex, and evironment woven together by an underlying Socialist ideology. The Obama-Rodham Clinton is just a clash between two of the groups that are “entitled” to the nomination based on past collective greivances.
On another note, I am sick of the ridiculous demands for apologies. Both campaigns have made statements in the past and those statments should be measured by the voters. As a voter, I don’t want the PC police telling me what to think, and “forcing” the violators to “submit” for their sins. At least Geraldin Ferraro is honest.

A number of writers have said that Obama is the “affirmative action candidate”.
How can that be? The voters who have given him a lead in the popular vote, delegates, and states won have absolutely no obligation to exercise affirmative action.
He’s getting the votes because he is the better politician and has the better message. He is saying what people want to hear and, from his past and current behavior has convinced people he can be trusted.
btw…. which population would you rather have “on your side”…. women at more than 55% of the democratic party…. or blacks at something considerably less?
This idea that Mr. Obama gets an “unfair advantage” by being black is no more true than the idea that Mrs. Clinton gets an “unfair advantage” by being a woman. He is a first rate thinker and politician who happens to be black. Are blacks a strong part of his constituency? Yes. Can they elect him as the nominee? No. Women theoretically could elect Mrs. Clinton to be the nominee. The effect Geraldine Ferraro identifies is actually much in favor of her candidate… not to mention the effect of having the popular former president as a full supporter even to the point of the implication that a vote for her is effectively a vote for a third term in some people’s minds. Given these effects, what Obama has accomplished is very impressive.
Go Obama. The country needs fresh thinking and strong visionary leadership.

Obama is all about change. What change? How will he do it? Isn’t this what all Presidential Candidates are about? What newness would BHO bring to the table? IMHO all BHO brings is the talk of Hope, but to be honest, with a Congress as misguided as we now see all anybody can Hope for from BHO is just a new face only with color. As MLK said “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
It’s evident we’re not there yet.

We should hope Obama gets elected, if he does, There can be no more excuses of the MAN holding down the black man. Racism in our country as we know it will no longer have anything to stand on. You can’t have the President of the United States be black and say we are a racist country. The excuse will be gone.
By the way, the most powerful person in entertainment is a black woman. hmmm!!

The illogical and inconsistent statements Clinton supporters make to discredit Obama is mind boggling. A few weeks ago (2/12/08 Ed Rendell, PA’s governor and Clinton supporter), said that Obama is probably unelectable in PA because of his race; other Clinton supporters have brought up Obama’s race as a negative. Now they are saying he wouldn’t have gotten the votes he has and be where he is because of his race? Get it straight guys; you are beginning to sound like the Bush administration spokesmen in its run up to war, i.e., say anything to get what you want, damned the inconsistencies. My, my, Dr. King would have been so proud of your race baiting. So what if it were true? Instead of citing this as just one of those sad facts of life, you should be speaking out against it in righteous indignation. Is this how the last 150 years of blood, sweat and tears of the civil rights movement to end, with the party carrying that mantle to not nominate a black man because of the fear that a bunch of bigoted rednecks will not vote for him? John Brown went to the gallows because he rolled the dice against insurmountable odds; he swung, but his soul kept marching on.

Oratory skills my foot.Obama is not that great of a speaker unless of course you count his ability to rehash the same old tired speech that he has mastered and repeats at every stop.
If you listen carefully the fool speaks about three words,four at the most and pauses to search his empty brain for three or four more words.The ineptness of his approach in speaking has apparently rubbed off on his wife as she displays the same broken thought process.Just telling it like it is.
The media and others who praise his approach use it as a way to say something good about him when in fact it is the only good thing they can find to say about him.
You can always tell when obama is about to say something that he has not previously rehashed over and over again.As he always uses the word UNDERSTAND prior to saying anything that has not been rehearsed and rehashed.
How is that a man who claims to have chosen to help the unfortunate people in Chicago by not taking a high paying job can now afford a $1.6 million dollar dream home on the low pay of a state senators income and now that of a U.S. Senator???
The math does not add up no matter how you try and figure it.The guy has been caught with his hand in the cookie jar and is obviously complicit to some degree with Rezko in obtaining his dream home.
Geraldine is correct in her observation.

I really hope that Clinton steals the Democrat nomination. I can’t wait to see the stupified faces of all the new, young and independent voters when they realize thier voice does not matter to the Democrat political machine.
Then McCain can tell these poor lost sheep that he will listen and care for them. Ha, ha, ha, ha …. it’s all so predictable. I love the Clintons and thier unmasking and destruction of the Democratic party.

OMG: Can it be true? Finally, all you Dems out there are really showing your true light. You ARE RACISTS and always have been. It’s so clear now. Hahahaha. What a bunch of Hypocrites. The Democrats are racists.

Gary:
“Hillarious [sic.] you idiots voted Jed Clampet Bush into the white house…Talk about no experience look at what the republicans brought to the table for the last 8 years.”
It seems to me that George Bush has performed his most solemn duty with great success: he has prevented dozens of terrorist attacks on American soil after 9/11. And, as we all know, the planning, training and test-runs were all conducted right under the nose of the Clinton administration.
So you may find it “hillarious,” but at least we finally have a President who takes threats to our country seriously, which Democrats obviously do not, if they are even thinking about voting for either of their two top clown candidates.

CGP
I’ts possible that he did steal the speech, however, the deliver left an auditorium in silence,tears,followed by a loud standing ovation. You had to be there to understand.

Look at me an Obama supporter and tell me if Obama’s movement is real?
I’m a white, Rush Limbaugh listening to, life-long pro-life Republican who has never voted for a Democrat.
HELLO ESTABLISHMENT???!!! People are fed up with you corporate politicians on both sides that couldn’t give a damn about the middle class much less the underclass.
Sue us for wanting to believe just one more time, that we may have a true change agent, that is not as rotten to the core as old worn-out corporate politicians like the Clintons. At least McCain is honorable, but he’s still part of the problem. Obama gives us Hope. And we will win, because I believe that Hope and Love will cast off Fear and Hatred.
Grow up! America is ready. And Obama is going to be the next President of the United States. If Hillary is successful in stealing it from Obama, it will create a revolution even bigger.
Sincerely,
Nathan
Columbus, Ohio

Why doesn’t Hillary and her ilk get lost?? Hillary cannot win at this point as it’s mathematically impossible and she knows it.
You lost Hillary so step aside so the party can unite and plan strategy to defeat McCain.
So what if you win PA, Obama wins N. Carolina and you gain nothing.
Hillary – Your end has come, the public rebukes you so scram!!
Chevy

McCain..may God be with us all…will win the election. The open primaries have the republicans voting him in so that the they will have an easier win!

Danny,
You’re nuts. If a continent is Racist, surly it’s Europe. France and Germany especially, but Spain and the Basques, England and the East Indians, all over eastern Europe. Who has been elected prime Minister or President in Europe that was a person of Color? We’ve got someone with a real chance in only 230 years or so. How many centuries have you had a chance to do it. Take a hike with your we’re worse than you because we’re not.

Talk about hypocrisy! Geraldine Ferraro was an undistinguished House member with a crooked husband in 1984. Is there any doubt that if Geraldine Ferraro had been Gerald Ferraro she never would have been put on the Democratic ticket? THE ONLY REASON PEOPLE HAVE EVEN HEARD OF FERRARO IS BECAUSE OF HER GENDER!!!!!

ALLEN , Sorry they got to you and you now live every day of your life in fear of basic criminals . You have more to fear from illegal immigrants than you do from anyone else .If you give up liberty for security then you deserve neither . As for Geraldine , she is still on the feminist movement and we knew the big guns would show up near closing time to bad mouth . IMO I woud have voted for Mickey Mouse rather than McCain , Clinton or Obama , but I know where McCain is headed (UGH) I know where Clinton is coming from ( UGH UGH ) and since Mickey is not on the ballot that only leaves one , Obama . You dolts should have gotten on the Paul bandwagon , now suffer .

Good Lord…this woman is a racist. She could have been the Veep. Disgraceful

Aren’t you forgetting the states Obama won in which there were so few African-Americans that they all could have carpooled to the polls?
I’m a white, middle-aged baby boomer and I’m voting for Obama. Maybe then, the Clinton’s and their nasty polictics will disappear from the public arena. I’m sick of it.

I actually am surprised when a Democrat tells the truth.

You know, if everyone would stop freaking out for ONE SECOND they’d realize that it’s true. She’s 100% right. The only reason she’s known as well as she is, is because she was the first female vice presidential candidate. No one in this chat room, including me, remembers more about her than that. And the only reason Barack has been as stratespheric is because he’s a succesful black man. But he’s not a presidential-qualified successful person and that’s what will lead to Hillary getting the nomination. Everyone stop saying: “stop it, yuck, you’re mean Geraldine” and ask yourself if it could be true for a moment. He wouldn’t be where he is right now if he were white. End of story.

And what’s also true is: if Hillary WERE A BLACK WOMAN, she wouldn’t be in the position she is in either. She is not the first woman to seek national office.

I don’t see a “black man” when I look at Obama.
I see someone, like me, who grew up poor. Who didn’t have a dad around, who’s mother may not have been totally capable of raising kids on her own, who had to go out on their own to get where they are. Who had to be on public assistance at times when he was little.
All these things happened to me too – doesn’t matter that I’m a white female, and he’s a black male. I see myself. So when he’s up there making speeches, we don’t think of ‘words’, we just imagine what’s it would be like to have a government that doesn’t screw around for 8 years at a time!
That’s the difference between my generation and Ferraro/Clinton’s generation. We see people, they see demographics. We look to the future, they live in the past. Clear them out of the Party, if it wants to survive.

IS OBAMA ASHAMED THAT HE IS BLACK? I DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT THE BIG DEAL IS,UNLESS HE REALLY IS ASHAMED.

“I am a 53 year old, white woman, highly educated, with a mind of my own. ”
Sorry Kasha F. But, you do fall in Obama’s demographics. He gets the “highly educated” vote.

“Chevy: it is also a mathematical impossibility that obama can win….”
This is exactly my point. The Hillary ilk machine have lost as it’s mathemattically impossible for those markists to surpass Obama’s lead yet they refuse to step aside and think they will win by fiat. These ilk don’t believe in a representative govenment.
Unfortuneately for them we live in a democracy supported bt a representative government.
Had to laugh when Obama make light of him being her VP. He reminded her who was winning and who was losing.
True, Obama lacks experience but what’s more startling is the country prefers him over her and that really speaks to what a terrible candidate Hillary is.
Karl Rove was right. He stated long before this started Hillary would be rebuked by America because she’s a flawed candidate.
Rove was so right!!
Chevy

Danny James, if you never heard criticisms of Bush’s experience you weren’t listening very hard. They were all over the place, but people voted for him because he was “the guy they wanted to have a beer with”, instead of voting for the intelligent, experienced Al Gore. Barack Obama is the same as W except liberal. Just as inexperienced, just as wrong for the presidency.

Can someone please tell me what Obama is about? I know – Hope and Change. But can someone please tell me what he is going to do. How is he going to accomplish what it is he is going to do?
If you’re looking for a revolution, look for Ron Paul (he’s technically Republican but he might as well be a Libertarian) or Ralph Nader. A third party. Sorry but supporting a major party candidate is by no means a revolution.

And Geraldine Ferraro wouldn’t have been selected as the Vice Presidential candidate in 1984 if she hadn’t been a woman?
Moreover, the press has been pretty sofy on Hillary Clinton. We haven’t heard one word about Whitewater, Travelgate, the Rose Law Firm Records, the ’93-94 Health Care Task Force, Monica, Gennifer, Kathleen, or any other bimbo eruptions. And if you think the Republicans aren’t going to mention this in the fall, you’re naive.

Rich Hall, So the delivery is the most important thing? If you were there and were so moved by that speech, only to find out it was plagerised, didn’t you feel a little duped? Geez, are you that shallow? That’s the problem with radical liberals – EMOTION RULES THE DAY – forget logic, forget morality – it just FELT good – that’s all that matters. kum ba yah

Obama is a liar. He claims to want unity but voted AGAINST making English the official language of the United States of America. He said that we should have 2 classes of citizens in the US – when talking about ILLEGAL ALIENS!!! They aren’t citizens in the first place! He’s a nightmare and he will make our country weaker and worse off.

Of course Ferraro is correct. What white man so lacking a record in congress could run for president. People are being fooled by a black man whose claim to fame is he can conjugate verbs. Of course she should have also said without Bill fooling around with every skirt Hillary would never have become a senator and wouldn’t be running for president either.

GOD BLESS AMERICA ON THIS ONE.+
Not a bad statement.

Maybe Miss Queen Geraldine should ask herself “If Hillary were a (MAN) would she be in this situation?” Hell no! The bottom line is, the only reason why Obama, Hillary and McCain even have a shot in hell to win the White House is because of George Bush, and he has lowered the bar so low that anyone running for president now will look good. If it wasn’t for George Bush than the only other thing McCain, Hillary and Obama could get elected to other than being corrupt politicians is an insurance salesman, real estate agent or used car salesman, same mentality.

well if obama was white he wouldn’t be pulling in 90% of the black vote. which is whats putting him over the edge.

Obama’s lucky he is who he is? Is this old hag serious or comatose? The “monster” is lucky she is who she is. Cheez, I hate using the word “is” so many times in one sentence because it is what it is and it is a woman who is losing. Geraldine, you your son and your husband are lucky you are who you are or two out of three would be in the slammer. Lucky!

Ferraro was a joke when she was on the ticket for VP and she is a joke now.

Hey Doug! Why is it that you expect whites to vote for non-white candidates, and if they don’t they’re racist – while blacks and other non-whites who vote ONLY for their own, whether in the US, Europe or their own lands are not racist? Typical brainwashed PC junk.

It’s sad, when a well-respected liberal makes such an obnoxious, racist remark. It reminds us that racism pervades our culture.

“Everytime he complains about Hillary, he has the same shame in his background.”
Really? He has viewed hundreds of fbi files of political enemies? Been involved in the campaign fraud resulting in millions of dollars of funds from defrauded investors? Hundreds of thousands from a dry cleaner? Pardon for money scandal involving his brother? Cattle futures scheme? His right hand woman removed files from a dead cohort’s office during an investigation? Is know running his campaign? Rose law firm billing issues and schemes? His right hand man smuggled classified documents out of the national archives and destroyed them only to be arrested and convicted of a felony and then hired by his campaign as an adviser?
Say what you will about Obama. Socialist? YES. Inexperienced and unqualified to be President of the United States? Without doubt. But Hillary, who is also a socialist who lacks qualifications to be President, has something Obama does not. A track record of attacking and destroying enemies, lying, obstructing justice, slash and burn politics, and doing whatever it takes to obtain more power. She is more of the same divisive red state vs. blue state slash and burn politics.

I for one cannot believe it has taken this long for someone to brooch this subject.I as a non american having spoken tomany other non americans came to the same thought long ago.
Mr.obama has really said less of anything signifigant in all his rhetoric than Mr Edwards did in one week.
Where is Mr. Edwards??
Mr. obama has lots of charisma, but so did Pierre Eliot Trudeau [former Canadian P.M] and Adolph Hitler, LOTS of charisma but no substance.
Using the race card against anything factual or negative may play well @ home
but I doubt anywhere else
Remember the Clinton Years ,High dollar value, low unemployment, Americans
traveling abroad did not need to put
Canadian flags on their luggage or backpacks. Yep those Clintons were sure awful.

Hillary continues to let surrogates spout racist comments while she stays clean as a whistle. Typical.

Geraldine Farrero is neither racist nor stupid. Voters who feel this way aren’t either. I am a liberal who wants someone who has worked! for a while at their respective job before getting a promotion. I am not voting on ideology which, to my regret, many others liberals are doing. It is this spoiled mentality characteristic of American behavior that one should get anything they want at any time they want it. Obama hasn’t earned presidental qualifications
but that doesn’t matter to selfish, self serving, fanatic brats with Degrees who think progress means voting for a Black Man. We all need to gow up in this country- All of us, and soon.

Barack Obama might be where he is simply because he is the right person at the right time, who is able to restore our vision of ourselves as Americans. Ronald Reagan had that rather rare quality. His candidacy is certainly helped by the fact that Hillary Clinton is carrying none of the experience she claims, but is lugging around a lot of baggage created by herself and her husband, the former president. Political pundits have for months analyzed why Clinton is having so much trouble uniting the Democratic base behind her. Could it be simply because she is who she is, and there’s nothing sexist about it? I think voters are indeed ready for a female president. Unfortunately, it is unlikely Clinton would be able to beat John McCain in November, while Obama stands a good chance at bringing home the prize.

I though it to be impossible for enlightened liberals to see anything in terms of color.

this statement may not be racist, but it is extremely condescending and belittling to what Obama has accomplished. When she ran as VP she definitely was selected only because she was a woman…so if anything…she’s probably jealous. Obama has run a masterful campaign and reguardless of what you think about his politics we should be proud as americans for that. But for her to say he is only where he is because he is Black is just sad. If the republicans were smart they would pounce on this so if Obama doesn’t get the nomination people may look to the republicans. Obama is a true american success story…leave it to the liberals to stomp on it.

In the first 5 months since Obama anounced his candidacy, 95% of the stories in the media mentioned the color of his skin. Why is that? What percentage of artivles mentioned the color of Hillary’s skin? McCain’s skin? Anyone else’s skin? ZERO
Obama is the Affirmative Action candidate, and he is where he is solely because of the color of his skin.
Only fools would argue otherwise.

whine…whine…whine…
That is all I ever hear out of any Obama or Hilary supporters! ‘Oh…she said that…how hurtful’… GIMME A BREAK! It is OKAY for someone to say what Geraldine said…why? BECAUSE THIS IS THE USA!!! It is called freedom of speech you yardbirds! AND…Obama is running for POTUS, so he best have some thick skin when it comes to these things…
I am so tired of hearing “how disgusting”…and…”I denounce that”…just grow some more layers of skin…on your backbones preferably.

Clinton “has all the solutions”.
Obama gives people hope.
Clinton “is ready on day one”.
Obama give people hope.
Clinton “has thity-five years of experience”‘
Obama gives people hope.
Clinton HAS ALL THE ANSWERS and is ready to RULE on day one.
Obama is ready to LISTEN to the people.

This is great! Denver ’08 is going to make Chicago ’68 look like an old ladies’ tea party.
I just hope that John McCain has the courage to choose Condi Rice as his running mate.

America is asleep. Of course Ms. Ferraro is correct! Obama has got zero qualifications to be president! He talks about hope & change ? Hope FOR what and change TO what ? ” Hope And Change ” is nothing more than a bad MTV slogan. And who says this guy is charismatic ??? Compared to what or whom ??? He is way too liberal, way to leftist. He is so liberal he is the type of person Arnold would call a Girly Man.
Besides, I know many ” Union ” people who would never in a million years vote for either Hillary or Obama. A Clinton- Obama/Obama-Clinton ticket is a sure loser. Don’t believe those polls out there either. They are ask in such a way as to favor either Clinton or Obama against McCain. America, do your homework !!!

If Hillary Clinton was a white man she wouldn’t be in this position either. A marginally successful, white, male, liberal senator that had utterly failed at the largest government task undertaken would have resigned the contest with Joe Biden and Chris Dodd. If Hillary was a white, male senator she couldn’t play the victim card over an unfaithful spouse or survive the campaign finance feau paux that have continued in your campaign. Name the last white male senator whose spouse recieved a $10,000,000 advance for her memoirs or received $10,000,000 making speeches all over the world to help finance their campaign.
Geraldine, you are selling yourself short sweetie, you earned your place on the ticket honey, you didn’t marry into it!!!!

If Obama was white, this would have been over a whole ago, with him the winner. What a nut job for Ferrarro saying he’s lucky to be where he is due to “who he is”. Is that Black? “Sexist media, some just don’t like her”? Hey, her is a tip, when you run for President, don’t try and manipulate, influence, screw the media, maybe, just maybe they will treat you like crap, and then you seem like you are a baby whining about it. Good plan Hillary camp. I have had enough of that couple. Done like toast. Obama no matter how inexpreienced he is he will be 10 times the Pres that this idiot Bush has been.

Heidi, you are naive, as you say. Obama has a record as far to the left as you can get. There will be no uniting America, but more dividing. Unless you call uniting Americans into a huge tax increase good. In the 2 years he has been in Congress, he has not voted once with anyone who is remotely moderate, much less conservative. If you support a woman’s right to murder her baby and the government’s right to take your money and give it to someone who doesn’t work, then go ahead and vote for him.

The last thing I want is a president who will get things done. The only things they accomplish is wasting more money and turning this country into more of a police state. What we need is some good old fashioned deadlock between congress and the executive so that they quit spending us into bankruptcy.

If it weren’t for the “black” vote in 1991 Bill and Hillary Clinton wouldn’t be where they are today.
If it weren’t for his white mother and grandparents who stuck by him, Barack Obama wouldn’t be where he is today.
If it weren’t for the contributions of all races, America wouldn’t be what it is today.

We are facing a national nightmare,if Al Sharpton and his mail order reverend
certificate in hand ,is indeed our next vice president,God help us as we slip into a civil war !!!!!!!

Clarence,
Obama is not now in the same position as John Edwards- Obama is likely to win the primary. Your vitriolic reaction proves my point that the mere mention of race has become so taboo that the health and vitality of public discourse has suffered.

After reading countless comments here, it looks as if our country is in serious trouble. We need to choose a leader who knows how to lead, who is moral, who is above enticing people with the empty rhetoric of “change” and “hope”–empty that is of any operational definition. And we need to look beyond such craziness as skin pigment in selecting a U.S. President. May God have mercy on our country this election year. The Democratic candidates have exposed their rival’s many flaws. That leaves McCain standing (Ron Paul did not have the support of large numbers of people). I hope McCain will bring what this country needs. Kyrie Eleison. LORD, have mercy upon these United States.

Its quite notable that all of these democratic big-wigs who are alleged champions of racial equality are ever so subtly rearing their racist heads.
If the Clinton mafia steals the nomination, an entire generation of idealistic young white voters will be completely disillusioned with the democratic party and a huge plurality of African Americans will feel disenfranchised because a former First Lady, who made a mess of her Health Care legislation in 1993 and who carpet – bagged her way to the Senate and has served 6.5 years “pork barreling” is deemed by the White big wigs to be the “Great Veteran of National crisis.”

When Ferraro ran for VP she was very sensitive about being singled out for scrutiny because of her Italian ancestry, especially when it came to an investigation of her campaign finances.
Funny, Hillary still hasn’t released her financial statement has she?
Is it because he is black that Mr. Obama has no trouble raising millions over the internet and can be transparent about his finances?
No, it is because he is a true leader.
Is it because there is indeed a latent racism in the Clinton campaign that Mrs. Clinton cannot only officially disavow and repudiate Mrs. Ferraro’s comments but also distance herself from Mrs. Ferraro completely?
Perhaps.

I have been for Barack Obama only since January when I began to compare what he is offering compared to what Clinton is offering. I started to see the same old divisive rhetoric and a real inability to connect with people except when she was feeling sorry for herself (crying at the diner because it’s just so tough).
What I see in Obama that I really like is his consistent behavior (no one’s perfect) and his slowness to anger. He doesn’t react–he thinks about consequences before he opens his mouth. I see self-centeredness in Clinton’s campaign and a willingness to sacrifice the national good for her own aggrandizement.
That Geraldine Ferraro (who I once admired) would make such statements–not just a slip but a complete line of reasoning by her–is almost inexcusable for a person of her standing and supposed understanding of how her statements will be taken. I say “almost inexcusable” because I’d like to see her apologize.

Wow! Being a black man is a plus now? I didn’t get the memo.

rationalpsychic, I agree with you. That is precisely why there so many folks always are looking for 3rd party candidates. I suspect if Blomberg decided to run he would probably do at least as well as Perot did in 1992. Heck, if Perot can garner 18% of the vote any reasonable 3rd party candidate could do much better. I think the majority of Americans are tired of the Democrats vs. Republicans nasty campaigns. And Hillary\Bill vs. Republicans would be the epitome of nasty campaigns demonstrated by her tactics recently. It will turn people completely off.

Ms. Ferraroh, What was the purpose of your remarks? What good do you think would come from them? You were oki-doked into the mud slinging the Clintons promised. If you are mad you should take your anger out on the Hilary because she is using you to help salvage her faltering presidential campaign. Your comment on race and gender are in bad taste and is helping destroy the unity of the Democratic Party. If you are a true Democrat, then you should apologize to those you offended, and help stop the party implosion, which you have precipitated, much to Senator McCain’s pleasure

Has BHO ever even mentioned his white roots…you know, his entire youth when his white mother raised him?

There is no way I think the majority of black voters know what Obama’s plateform is.

My favorite Ferraro comment; “This has made me more commited to raising money (for Hillary). Yeah! I know what you mean sister!

Barack Obama has dedicated his life to public service as a community organizer, civil rights attorney, and leader in the Illinois state Senate. Obama now continues his fight for working families following his recent election to the United States Senate.
Sworn into office January 4, 2005, Senator Obama serves on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which oversees our nation’s health care, schools, employment, and retirement programs. He is a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, which plays a vital role in shaping American policy around the world, including our policy in Iraq. And Senator Obama serves on the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, which is focused on providing our brave veterans with the care and services they deserve. In 2005 and 2006, he served on the Environment and Public Works Committee, which safeguards our environment and provides funding for our highways.
During his eight years in the Illinois state Senate, Obama worked with both Democrats and Republicans to help working families get ahead by creating programs like the state Earned Income Tax Credit, which in three years provided over $100 million in tax cuts to families across the state. Obama also pushed through an expansion of early childhood education, and after a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama enlisted the support of law enforcement officials to draft legislation requiring the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.
so 8 years in Illinois Senate and just about 5 years in US Senate.In 1991, Obama graduated from Harvard Law School where he was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review.
yeah, he’s totally not qualified to be President. Just like Kennedy wasn’t qualified when he won or Abe Lincoln.
Ferraro wants gender to trump race in the hierarchy of oppression, well I have one better for her I’m black AND female so take that!Or did she forget that not all blacks are male and not all females are white?

and H. Clinton…help me understand her 35 yrs. of experience oh wiat she gts credit for the debate team in college, sitting on her momma’s lap at a civil rights meeting…wait no…they were repubs…first lady of Arkansas working on numerous initiatives, first lady of US and her failed Healthcare plan, 6 years in US Senate
that about sums it up

I subscribe to the Daily Breeze and read her entire interview — what she said is true. Liberals give blacks a pass because they are afraid of being called racists, yet when blacks or other minorities say the same thing about whites, nothing is said. Ferraro is a liberal who has the guts to speak the truth, just as Bill Cosby is a black with the guts to speak the truth — and both get slammed for it.

Geraldine Ferraro’s comments were uncalled for regardless if it’s true or not. Sen. Obama has gotten this far due to his accomplishments,hard work, helpers, etc. Why would you make a racial based comment when your complaining of sexism toward H Clinton? A perfeshional being televised knows that there are just some things you shouldn’t say out loud.

Ferraro is just another goon for The Clinton Campaign. They are trying to pull out reverse psychology here on the media too in yet another attempt to play the refs. Ferraro is hurt and appalled?…by comments that SHE made!!! The Obama Camp are trying to distract voters from issues with the race card?…SHE brought up the issue of race. You can’t say “play fair and focus on the issues” in front of the camera, but take a cheap shot aimed at race as soon as the camera is off. We saw Samsntha Power resign for a comment much less offensive than this, yet Clinton simply “disagrees” with Ferraro’s comments; much like an unknown “staffer” circulated a photo of Obama in African garb to try and convince voters he is Muslim, which according to the Clinton Camp is a bad thing; and, much like The Republican John McCain would make a better president than Obama.
What more does Clinton need to do to fall out of grace with Democrats and be portrayed in a more negative light? People keep waiting for Obama to slip up, yet it is the Clinton Camp that has slipped up 3 times now with the photo, the McCain comment, and now Ferraro. She is dividing the Democratic Party in order to convince people that she should be given an election that she has clearly lost.
This is hurting the Democratic Party and she needs to be stopped before she destroys it for her own benefit. Blacks make up a large portion of the party, and she is refusing to disown a comment that claims that it’s easier to run for president being black than it is being white. How does she say now that Obama should be her VP when she has associated herself a comment that suggest that Obama’s only qualifications are his speeches and his race? How does she win black votes now if she was to steal the nomination? How does she get anybody to endorse her with her message of racial division?
She is killing the Democratic Party by using the very thing that the party is against, racism. She needs to be stopped here, and the only thing that can stop her before she destroys the party is an endorsement from major party leaders in an attempt to re-unify the party. Al Gore, John Edwards, and Bill Richardson need to come out and endorse Obama and reject these comments and reject the tactics taken up by the Clinton Campaign or this party will be destroyed.

Ferraro’s comment was not a racist one; it was an objective one. The fact is that a significant portion of Obama’s support is derived from his message of “hope,” which is inextricably tied to his own ability to have pulled himself up by the bootstraps in spite of his race. Obama is receiving an overwhelming amount of the black popular vote; I do not believe for one moment that 90% of black Americans in Mississippi firmly believe that Barack Obama is the best candidate regardless of race. They believe he is the best candidate, at least in significant part, specifically because of his race.
I do not want to discredit Obama’s accomplishments. As a social worker, I firmly support his work as a community organizer and have a great deal of respect for that. However, being a community organizer and working in public defense does not mean that Obama is ready to lead our country in the White House, nor does it provide a better resume than his competitor’s.
Senator Clinton has significantly more experience than Obama, and she has a history of fighting for the constituents of the Democratic party. I think this campaign just goes to show that sexism is as strong as ever in our country, and unfortunately the policy of affirmative action is playing out in the unfair way its opponents proclaim that it does. Obama is receiving a hand-up over Hillary Clinton, in spite of clear evidence that she is significantly more qualified to lead our country.

This just goes to show we are not ready to really discuss race in this country. JFK is a silly comparison, he was rich and groomed in politics by a political family. Sexism is the real issue in this campaign. Maureen Dowd’s op-ed piece in the NY Times about Clinton’s “emotionalism” was perhaps the most sexist article ever published outside of fringe far-right publications. If a man had written that article it would never have been published. Ferraro was wrong, the country is not ready for this level of discussion, she should have known that as a white person she could not say what she said without being swiftboated.

Obama for Vice President in 2008!