Clinton Responds (Mildly) to Ferraro Race Comments

Clinton is a lying hypocrite. Ferraro must be fired. Samantha Powers called her a “monster” for her tactics and it was the biggest deal ever. Her people call him Ken Starr, and “lucky to be black,” which could not be more untrue (even as I acknowledge male privilege) and Clinton wants to suddenly move on. What a sorry, pathetic excuse for a person let alone a candidate!

The difference is Ferraro was speaking her own mind…..not assuming to speak policy for someone else….and excuse me but where would Powers have heard the comments for repeating but in meetings with Obama…..hmmm.

Where is Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton?

This is the difference between Hillary and Obama. Hillary stands by her people and doesn’t sacrifice them for her own personal gain. I think the American people are smarter than that to recognize that everyone is entitled to their opinion but at the end of the day its what my candidate is going to do change how my government affects me that matters. Hillary doesn’t have to xerox what Obama does to his staff…she is a woman who can make up her own mind. After all xeroxing is what Obama does best….Hillary is an original!!! I find it interesting the comments were made on Friday and it has been made into a big deal today when Mississippi goes to vote. Obama pulling the race card front and center again. His campaign has always been about his race and name…way to distract everyone from your lack of experience.

Ferraro did not call Obama anything so your comparison is not legit. She stated a hard truth for people to hear and that is perception.
The truth is (as supported by the data) the race between Clinton and Obama does relate to racism and sexism. Prior to the false accusation against the Clinton camp about the race card (that Michelle played first and they ignored), the black voting bloc was about 55 Obama and 45 Clinton in the polls.
The media sexism was ignored by both camps initially and when it came to light that it has been blatant, the gender vote swung back in strength to the Clinton camp. It is sad that we still have so much racism and sexism in our country today and that women after 30 years of so-called progress still make 70 cents on the dollar as compared to men is a fact supporting the acceptance of sexism throughout our society.
It is not a far stretch in concept that it plays a role in voter choices anymore than the obvious shift of a statistical disparity of the black voting bloc from one civil rights candidate to another based on race.
We can all continue to enable the prejudice by putting our heads in the sand and joining hands to sing kumbaya or we can be pro-active and deal with it honestly. Ferraro did not attack a candidate personally as Powers did.

GOOD RESPONSE!!!! THE ISSUES ARE WHAT MATTER; WHO HAS THE EXPERIENCE IS WHAT MATTERS; WHO’S THE FIGHTER IS WHAT MATTERS…QUIT CRYING OBAMA!!!!!

I wish I had been a viewer of West Wing then I would know which way obama campaign is going. Since so far every step of the way has followed script from the tv show.

Uh Stella….HRC is NOT the “senior” senator from NY. Ever hear of Sen. Schumer?
And all you Obama revisionists — neither he nor his campaign fired Samantha Power. She resigned on her own. So why should HRC be held to a standard that BHO himself isn’t willing to follow?

The only thing she called him was “black”. Does Obama take that as an insult? She made a true statement, if a white man with as little experience as Obama tried for the presidency, he would be NADER.

To the person who said Obama people are still stinging from a’whooping’:
We won Texas!!!! and I would hardly consider Ohio a whooping. Where were you when Obama won 12 in a row?
Clinton is a hypocrite. She asks one campaign to denounce and reject, but can’t handle doing that herself.

That’s it! I think I’m over “The Hill”!

I am sorry folks where is the DNC. Why do they continuously allow the Clintons to get away with these underhanded tactics. Why are they allowing the double standard? Its ok for any of the Clintons staff and the clintons to say and do what they want. It is ok for the Clintons to be endoused by known racist.
When will the Double standards be stopped. I am so sick of Hilary Clinton and her tactics to win the White House. Ms. Clinton does not deserve to be President of the United States.

You know people call Tiger Woods a black golfer yet he is really only 1/4 black. People call Obama black and he is half black. I say it doesn’t matter. All that matters is that he is what the country needs right now. He will be able to bring us together and start fixing the mess caused by this administration over the last 7 1/2 years. Obama 2008!!!

Hillary must: Denounce Her. Decry Her.
Renounce Her. Reject Her.
But she won’t because Gerry is a Woman over 50. This is a key demographic and Hillary ain’t stupid. She does not wanna risk alienating this demographic group.
A hypocrit yes, but stupid no.

Really, she thinks we need to focus on the issues, where was that when Samantha Power was losing her job. Why did she not just accept the apology and move on. So Obama must fire Samantha for her remarks while she focuses on the issues. Well I am done, I would rather sit out the general election is Hillary is the nominee than go give her my vote.

As a black woman, I never take offense to being called a black woman. That’s absurd. However, in response to JR’s comments, what would be said of any man/woman, black/white, if they remained in the race as Hillary has. He has won more states and I think the argument stands that if the roles were reversed, if Clinton had the delegate lead, popular vote lead (admittedly, not a large margin), and Obama had next to no chance of taking over either, what would you be saying…That he’s damaging the party, it’s time to move forward, etc, etc, etc. And what facts is Ferraro basing this on? Are you telling me that states like Iowa, Wyoming, etc. like him simply because he’s black. Well, that’s a new one…

Ohama should run Gov of Ill. to fix the mess from his home town first….he wants to jump even does not know how to walk….

We all need to Thank Mrs.Ferraro for telling the truth.
Look at OJ and Rodney King! They are where they should had belong years ago.

Every imagined race talking points has been exploited by the obama campaign 100%. Why are you people falling it?

Geraldine: The Devil Making Her Spew Racist, Sexist Charges?

Ferraro remarks on Obama decried from AP reports that racial remarks made by former Democrat VP candidate Geraldine Ferraro, a Clinton fundraiser, about Senator Barack Obama have received varying degrees of criticism and/or opprobrium from other Democr…

Mark….I agree on the reinstatement of Samantha Power.

Poor Hillary. She’s playing Bop-a-Mole as all her take-no-prisoners, old-timer feminist fellows pop out with these outrageous, and now, racist statements. The problem here, as always, is that she never quite gets it right. She can never assess the situation correctly, and say the right words, or make quite the right decisions. She needs a commision to steer her in the right direction for everything large and small, and in the real world, there usually isn’t enough time for that. Obama thinks quickly, speaks and acts surely, and 85% of the time gets it just right, which is a pretty good batting average.

What I really see going on here is more of the same from team Clinton: Having a surrogate of Mrs. Clinton’s go out and say something racist and/or ethically contemptible, thus intentionally planting another “seed” of division or polarization, all the while allowing Lady Clinton to keep her grubby fingerprints off of it.
In this latest intentional case, consider: What Ferraro said — as with everything ever uttered by *any* Clinton operative — was calculated, intentional and fully vetted by headquarters first. NO Clintonite ever speaks without a vetted script.
What Ferraro said then was calculated to stoke the racial anger among less-educated, poorer, downscale white voters who “resent” affirmative action, and what they’ve long perceived as “handouts” and “giveaways” to blacks and other minorities. On behalf of Lady Clinton, Ferraro is playing to those fears, cleverly and subtly saying, “See? SEE? He’s another one of THOSE people, getting ahead merely by virtue of his skin color, while YOU fine white folk continue to suffer and struggle!”
And anyone who thinks this outburst of “soft bigotry” by Ferraro was anything less is cripplingly naive, and really should talk to that guy over there in the shadows about purchasing a large bridge in Brooklyn….

Jill
Think when someone says the only reason Hillary is getting attention is because she is a woman. …or the only reason she got away with sniffling is because she is a woman…( I do not feel that way)…
I’m a white guy. It wasn’t the reference to the him being black…she said the reason he is where he was was because he was black. Not because of a relationship… not because he was smart…not because he is a great speaker…but because he is black.
It may be one attribute that draws a distinction with him (along with being incredibly intelligent and accomplished…and makes people feel good about the company …not because he is black but because he is a great, uplifting speaker), but that one attribute is not the reason he is where he is… no one lifted him to that position…he didn’t ride the coattails of his being black… She obviously has never been in a room where he takes questions.
Tell me that isn’t insulting…

La in Indiania: Has Obama distanced himself from Ayers and the Weather Underground yet? Does he still accept campaign contributions from terrorist. Has he given them their blood money back?

After loss in primaries, I think Obama and his team are having tantrums. Instead of graciously accepting it and thanking Blacks for giving an opportunity; he and his team are creating scene. Well, what can we say when Obama has choose the way to go negative breaking his own promise.
When Hillary choked, talked about Womens beating “Boys Club”, American voters including hypocrite feminist pounched on her and started bad mouthing her. So, Hillary gets beaten up both ways.

VERY WELL SAID DL!

JR
That isn’t true… Obama alone is the best speaker and motivator I have seen in my life (and I was a public comm major). If I was blind that would still be the case.
When people credit his support to him being black…then I know they aren’t listening.
That makes me realize they don’t really even know if their candidate is the right one.

JR -
So… was JFK not a talented white man that was considered too young, too inexperienced? I do believe he was considered a candidate…oh, wait…he actually became President. No matter how you try to spin it, she was insinuated that Barack was simply riding on the coattails of being black and the voting public is caught up in being “progressive” by voting for a Black man and not because they believe he is the better candidate…

dl : Yes, he indeed is a great speaker, but being a great speaker alone does not qualify him being a president. If you look into the bills he authored and co-authored as state senator and US senator, you will find an image of irresponsible politician.

I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine Senator Obama you are no Jack Kennedy. Maybe Teddy!

Jill…not sure how I’m hiding behind my race…care to explain that one…
And I’m also not sure where I ever said that he was the Democratic Presidential nominee…but he’s definitely the front runner. If that’s the only thing that you can educate me on…then I concede that point to you…he’s definitely not the winner…yet. I honestly believe that he will be (as I’m sure that you believe that Hillary will be and I completely respect you for that).

Bruce, you are a good person even you support Senator Obama, though I and others might be trying to reveal the truth about him, we have no intention to insult him nor his supporters.

I agree race and gender SHOULD not matter but the fact is: they do based on how voters are casting their votes. But let’s compare some of the things we should be considering.
Let’s compare voting records:
Both agreed on over 90% of Senate votes.
When they differed -
Clinton voted against tax breaks for oil and nuclear energy companies while Obama voted for them.
On all other differing votes, Clinton voted fiscally conservative and Obama voted liberal.
Let’s compare plans on a broad scope:
Clinton’s plans were released first and Obama parrots them with minor changes.
Clinton shows how hers would be paid for while reducing spending while Obama says he will raise taxes.
Let’s compare resume differences without the years as First Lady:
Clinton – 16 years with a law firm, faculty, and children’s defense fund; 7 years US Senator, 29 years successful political experience against the RNC; active on 12 non-Legislative committees; active on 10 legislative committees; 14 major organizational awards from all sectors of society (ie. humanitarians, women, latin americans, philanthropists, jewish, bridge builders, veterans, educators, parents, black women, MLK Baptist convention, military, unions)
Obama – 8 years state senate; 3 years US senate; 9 years mostly uncontested political experience against the RNC; not active on any non-Legislative committees; active on 8 legislative committees; 12 awards from limited sectors of society (ie. Lawyers, NAACP, Rock the Vote (youth and musicians), Chicago politicians)
So you see, if you simply look at the facts without all the hype, and you do not even consider the years as First Lady (which are valid foreign relations experience even per the Republicans), it is clear that Senator Clinton is more qualified to be President than Obama. She is also more likely to beat McCain with her experience and the states she has won in electoral votes.

I presume that the scrivener who recorded Hillary’s remarks meant “rein in”-not reign in.Or is Hillary already contemplating another Clinton reign?

So, according to Hillary Clinton racism is not an issue that matters to the American people.
That’s quite a position, for someone who wants to be President of the United States.
No wonder that she’ll never ever get the job. The pattern in racist undertones coming from her campaign destroyed most of the goodwill she enjoyed in her own Democratic Party.
Hillary Clinton has become a national embarrasment.

The real issue in the Democratic Presidential Primary race is EXPERIENCE.
Sen. Hillary Clinton has the experience
and know-how to get the job done on issues like; economy, foreign affairs, healthcare, national security, job creation, NAFTA trade policy, & others.
Please vote smartly & vote for Hillary!

I don’t care how much experience Hillary Clinton has as the wife of a president–she has no experience in crisis management, has mismanaged her campaign from the beginning, has let loose her war dogs without considering the damage she is doing to the Democratic party, and now she shows herself to be a racist.
There is NO WAY ON EARTH this woman should be president. She should be forced out of the primaries immediately. Dean should call her and tell her she is no longer representing the Democratic party, in word or deed.
She is disgusting.

Way to take a stance Hillary….Nice strong statement that will help re-unite your party. Good deisplay of leadership!

As an African-American I can attest to the fact that politically the community tends to coalesce around a specific candidate. We voted for Bill at rates of 90% as well. This is nothing new. People are pretty much only paying attention to the concept that the black community is widely Democratic and tends to find inspiration and trust in similar people. Sadly, this method of bandwagoning hasn’t served us well with the virtually lilly white presidential offerings (not totally sold on the Clinton was savior of black America story). Therefore, Obama is just another politico inheriting the loyal support of African Americans…this is nothing new…the media’s attention (though hastily focused) is.

I am a woman in Hillary’s demographics and I can say without equivocation that I am appalled by Ferraro’s statements and Hillary’s refusal to immediately repudiate it. The democratic party has no place for this type of racial bigotry. The presidency isn’t enough of a prize to through away common decency. Hillary has lost my vote. I will never vote for her. Never.

people are so petty, the funny thing is she is right, but everyone concentrates on the race issue BS that it distorts the truth of the message.

My dad is a judge. I’ve attended hearings in his courtroom on many fascinating occasions. He’s a remarkable gifted jurist, and I’m exceptionally proud to be his son.
That said, I’m reminded that all of the considerable time I’ve spent in his courtroom, watching and admiring, *does not* in any way make *me* qualified to serve as a judge, much less as a good one.
Please consider this pointed analogy before you vote.

What.Say.Me….Not sure exactly but I assume somewhere around 50% of voting Democrats are women. I suspect only 10-15% of voting Democrats are black. So, the math is in her favor if she drives non-blacks away from Obama. I am a white middle-aged Independent. I will support any candidate who is not named Clinton. Up until this campaign I would have supported them (voted for them twice before). However, this campaign had driven to be very anti-Hillary…As you’ve noted by your post there are many, many more us than black people supporting Obama.

How come there is not outrage over Maxim Thorne,email about Hillary to a couple of listservs ??
She is an Obama backer and her email is very distasteful am yet to see the MSM say one thing about this email and what she has done, I just love all the double standards in the game.

Where the heck have you people been that you are surprised that Clinton’s campaign is a total sleaze-machine. This is what we’re up against.

Most of her experience is manufactured. She claims she had a role in Northern Ireland; she wasn’t at the table. She claims she was responsible for opening the borders in Kosovo; they were opened before she landed. She claims a harrowing landing in the Balkans proves something, but she was with her daughter and USO members–it wasn’t a political trip. She made a speech in China when she had nothing to fear–which shouldn’t count at all because, according to her, words don’t matter.
When asked what crisis management experience Hillary had, even her own staff couldn’t come up with a single example.
She has been a singularly insignificant senator.
And we have no idea what her records would show about her experience BECAUSE HILLARY WON”t LET US SEE THEM.
She has not experience as far I can see. She has chutzpah in trying to claim experience when there isn’t any.

My logic is right on…No, it is not supposed that a voter votes simply based on these demographics (and the numbers prove that with more white males voting for Barack) even though it does happen. So to make the point that race is simply the determining factor in his success is very ignorant.
I agree that there is very little difference in Barack/Hillary policy vs. that of the Dem vs. Republican party. However, with things said like the South Carolina comment and the Ferraro comment, I think it pushed more of thos black voters that were leaning toward Hillary the other way. And of course other factors…all voters got to know more about Obama. I know that there were definitely more blacks leaning toward Hillary than a mere 10% (according to the polls now. Blacks affection for Bill Clinton was very well-known and that affection, at first, translated to an affection for Hillary. As I said before, you had some blacks that support him because he’s black. But the migration of more and more blacks supporting him wasn’t simply because he was black…it was because they believed in him and at some point, maybe believed less in her.

JFK travel the world serving as his fathers representative assisting ambassador work.
He graduated cum laude from Harvard with a degree in international affairs
JFK served his country in the military
1951- 1945
congressman for 6 years
Senator for 3 years
1956 bid and lost VP nomination
13 years of service to his country.
1961-1963 US President
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I think His record was exceptional
He knew what he was talking about, knew foreigner affairs, Knew the government.
He Knew more than great speeches.
Your are kidding about comparing Obama to him right! That would impossible to even try.

Yo, Hill! In between racist surrogate eruptions and fear-mongering ads lifted from the 1984 campaign (employed back then by none other than Mondale/FERRARO!), do you think you could get around one of these days to releasing your tax returns please?
And don’t give us that “senate financial disclosure” B.S. dodge. Everyone knows they’re completely superficial and non-specific, unlike a good old 1040!

Was JFK not viewed as too young and inexperienced? The point of my argument was to refute that Ferraro was simply trying to say that a white man that is viewed the same wouldn’t be given this opportunity. You can’t seriously be trying to make that argument, right?

mona, that’s patently absurd.
It was Camp Clinton that had Ferraro go out to utter her racist comments just before Mississippi voted, not Obama.
And did it ever occur to you that Camp Clinton chose to drop its latest racist comment just before Mississippi (with its large black population, which Clinton has now correctly written off) to play on the fears of affirmative action-adverse, poor, under-educated whites in that state to counterbalance Obama’s lead with African Americans there?
Blacks are turning against the Clintons in droves because they’ve witnessed since South Carolina just how quickly the Clintons will turn on them and throw them under the bus in their unrelenting quest for power.
And they’re right.

Nosense …just go to the library…
It’ll show you a lot of the bills and the ones he authored…the ones that were passed…
the themes that arise from each candidate…
It may not show you the detail of those bills but that is the only facts we have to go on…because you sure can’t quantify Sen. Clinton more with any math.
and God knows with this whole I rish Peace Accord and her speech in China… and the reporters who traveled with her now all coming out and saying that they don’t want to be insulting and not to make it sound like “she was just having tea and cookies…but most of the time …she was having tea and cookies”…that’s a quote from one of the reporters that travelled with her .
The questions that she makes arise …make us not trust any candidate…so that is why I say to everyone go to the best database records you can…

everybody should just wait and see what will happen in six weeks why yelland have a fit now we have until june solets just wait and see.

I am deeply offended and shocked that someone with the (former) stature of Ms. Ferraro would sink to such a reprehensible depth in support of her candidate.
Has she no integrity left? Didn’t I hear some time back that she (Ferraro) was fighting some form of terminal illness (from which I wish her a full and speedy recovery)? Does she really wish for such a bald-faced, disgusting racial attack to be her legacy, even if she lives another 50 years?
Why would she agree to stoop to such vile behavior?

Obama LYING about Clinton? Get real. There is only one democratic campaign that lies, defrauds, misrepresents, pulls the truth like taffy, takes comments out of context, and while doing all that sends out character assassination squads–and she doesn’t denounce or reject or repudiate or anything else.
Hillary Clinton is an embarrassment to the American people. She needs to get out of the campaign NOW while the democrats still have a chance to win rather than remaining in and giving the campaign to the republicans.

catherine in nm, what people have you spoken to across America?

also, I wasn’t aware that comments made out of fear and ignorance should be ignored.

If women think Hillary Clinton should be president because she would be a role model, hold this information up in front of your young daughter and try to explain why it is all right for Clinton to single out race.
I think women who vote for Clinton primarily because it is time for women to get their due are doing a huge disservice to the country. It may be time for a woman as president, but not this woman. She is evil, pure and simple.
Besides, there is an excellent chance that Obama would pick a woman as VP.

Oh, Russell, Russell, Russell…where to begin…

Tika I don’t think it’s fair to say that Hillary is evil and don’t think if nominated, Obama will be selecting her as a VP.

russell– Really!!

Kitty: Cold? Yeah, many people are talking about Clinton being cold. I have one suggestion for those who think this way: Get various pictures of all three candidates, and mask out their good or bad looking face but leave their eyes there. Then have a close look at their eyes, you will find out who is really cold. It is simple and easy to do. Just do it for fun :).

Kl: Why did he not attend?

If racism is evil, and I think it is, and if Hillary Clinton doesn’t renounce it, which she hasn’t, and in facts allows this statement of one of her surrogates to stand, than she supports evil. You can go the rest of the way yourself.

tika: Are you a judge or police officer? Where? I just want to stay as far as possible from you. Just kidding. But you just posted things like you have the authority to make decisions.

Kl…isn’t Obama Bill Clinton’s age when he took the White House?

Jillian- white people vote for white people, so what’s your point? Are you angry?

HM: Since when does age equals to experience?

What a sad state state of affairs for the 1st amendment when a person cannot state their opinion without instantly being lynched as a rascist! How are Ferraro’s comments any more rascist than saying that black voters are voting for OBama because he is black?? What kind of a cocoon do you all live in?

Ferraro has come out and stated the TRUTH which many, many, many REASONABLE Americans realize! No others ( in the public eye ) were brave enough to say this. Thank you Ferraro!
Instead black super delegates and others went with OBAMA because they are afraid those of their race would shun and ridicule them.
Further more, why are blacks turning out in record numbers to vote NOW? Like DUH? people wake up!!!!
Obama has nothing going for him except COLOR.

KL – It’s a fact that not 80%+ white people voted for Hillary OK. But 80%+ black people voted for Obama. Check out the exit polls. I’m not being racist. It’s just facts. Isn’t it interesting that in almost all the states blacks are predominantly voting for Obama. We wonder why? Well, I’m sure it has to do with the color of Obama, he’s black. And that has to do with race. It’s not racism. It’s just a factual statement. People are making assessments. I guess if you’re white and make that assessment then you are called a racist. That’s just ignorant to say that. I can understand why blacks would vote for Obama – they feel impowered, the feel Obama will take care of them when he’s president, they want a leader that is black. So, don’t bring in the whole racism card when there’s nothing racist about it. Why should Clinton fire her advisor for making that statement? Does that mean Clinton is racist and evil like TIka is suggesting? Absolutely not. The facts state the truth. End of sotry.

I’m tired of how every time a white person makes a intelligent assessment about something relating to Obama’s heritage as a black man he/she is marked a racist, and all hell breaks loose. Common! Al Sharpton get’s on the news and the whole situation and blown out of proportion when really there was nothing racist or racial about it at all. Stop whining. I think this again is to just deflect from the real issues at hand. Just accept the facts of the matter and move on. Stop bashing Hillary and listen to the issues.

Hillary Clinton had no direct role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland and is a “wee bit silly” for exaggerating the part she played, according to Lord Trimble of Lisnagarvey, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former First Minister of the province.
“I don’t know there was much she did apart from accompanying Bill [Clinton] going around,” he said. Her recent statements about being deeply involved were merely “the sort of thing people put in their canvassing leaflets” during elections. “She visited when things were happening, saw what was going on, she can certainly say it was part of her experience. I don’t want to rain on the thing for her but being a cheerleader for something is slightly different from being a principal player.”
Lord Trimble shared the Nobel Peace Prize with John Hume, leader of the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party, in 1998. Conall McDevitt, an SDLP negotiator and aide to Mr Hume during the talks, said: “There would have been no contact with her either in person or on the phone. I was with Hume regularly during calls in the months leading up to the Good Friday Agreement when he was taking calls from the White House and they were invariably coming from the president.”
Steven King, a negotiator with Lord Trimble’s Ulster Unionist Party, argued that Mrs Clinton might even have helped delay the chances of peace. “She was invited along to some pre-arranged meetings but I don’t think she exactly brought anybody together that hadn’t been brought together already,” he said. Mrs Clinton was “a cheerleader for the Irish republican side of the argument”, he added.
“She really lost all credibility when on Bill Clinton’s last visit to Northern Ireland [in December 2000] when she hugged and kissed [Sinn Fein leaders] Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness.”

russell- there’s a big difference between a scheduling conflict and a refusal to speak. I can’t speak for anyone else, but if I extended an invite to any candidate and the simply could not attend I would be okay with that. If they refused, I would take a closer look at that individual.

Dave C:
I agree with you – “this woman is unbelievable”….
She is not to be believed.

kl – I just wish for once people would just look at the facts straight and make intelligent assessments on the issues before jumping to conclusions that result in slandering and bashing when it’s not necessary.
Calling Clinton evil and a racist and so on is just stupid and ignorant. And why are there some one here so adamant about Clinton firing Ferraro? Did she tell lies? Did she say something wrong? Isn’t she entitled to her opinion? I didn’t find anything racist about it. I guess for black it hits home harder than for white people – and I admit perhaps white people are not as sensitive to this. But I hear people say Oh because of this now I will never go vote if Hillary is the nominee. Huh? We are electing the president of the US. We have a job as citizens to go out and vote. The argument that some are making makes no sense.

Jillian- I don’t think that Clinton is evil or racist. I think that maybe some of the comments that are being made are by people who had or have no intention of voting for Clinton regardless of what is said by her or someone within her campaign. Yes! people should look at the issues and one of the issues that we are discussing is the statement made by someone who represents Hillary and is working within her campaign.

Kl: Now you are becoming illogical in you reasoning. If Hillary refused to speak at the NAACP convention for any reason other that death it would ruin her. The media would be obsessed with it and no excuse would satisfy you or the media. As Bob Dole says “you know it, I know it, and the american people know it.”

Jillian,
Don’t you bother to read any posts that don’t praise your candidate? Haven’t you read any of the news articles that have been posted that are objective and factual yet call into question the integrity and honesty of your candidate?
She can’t step in front of the world and claim to have vast experience–which she does–on the wing and prayer that no one really challenges her. And when you start looking for the truth, the truth is that Hillary Clinton is taking proximity for experience.
Your candidate is an empty suit, demanding credentials where none are due. And if she hyper exaggerates in areas that can be factually dismissed, what else is she lying about?
And her constant, negative, below the belt attacks on Obama, with that ongoing whine whenever he attempts to set the record straight that he isn’t living up to his promise to play fair….my goodness. What on earth does she bring to the oval office besides ego?

Russell- there is a difference between refuse and scheduling conflict. The media is controlled by no one.

Kl: Now you are starting to sound like Obama on NAFTA. I was for it before I was against it. Sounds like John Kerry is having too much infulence on Obama’s policy. That kind of logic is what lost Mr. Kerry the election.

SuzeQ -
I have a new, occasional nickname for you -
AccuzeQ…!
Look, many people have spun things the wrong way against the Clintons. I have heard many journalists, and others involved who have since realized that the Clintons weren’t being racist in S.C. – that Bill would have said “fairy tale” about Barak’s so consistently being against the war.
Two people can look at one event or issue and come out with two opposing opinions. That doesn’t mean that one opinion is right.
When I see a quote – I look at the whole context.
There are always those who believe spin one way or another.
That sounds like another Barack supporter spin-session to me.

To the contrary, Miss Kitty -
There are people who know the Clintons and like them, and know that these things aren’t true.
There are two sides to every story.
Sound familiar?
(By the way – the ‘fairy tale’ was about consistencies in the continued Iraq War voting record.)

I don’t plan to listen to Clinton insiders who have a vested interest in getting her elected. I want independent reports from outside the campaign.
If Clinton exaggerates, why wouldn’t her staff? As she said once upon a time, let’s get real here!
People who deny the truth when it presented are in denial. Support your candidate all the way, but there is no way, based on published accounts from independent sources (not party insiders, close personal friends, and polical supporters) that she has, at minimium, exaggerated her experience.

Pretty had to quantify character and vision on a spreadsheet.
Far as I’m concerned we know what the “35 years of experience” will get us from “Day One”.
I’ve had enough – time to move on.

On that…I agree with you. I’m laughing…and going to walk my dog.

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 reudiate Mrs. Ferraro’s commence but also distance herself from Mrs. Ferraro completely?
Perhaps.

Enough already! Obama seems to cry racist everytime he wants to get out of a tight situation. Like now – he has to prove that he will follow through on Iraq after Power said that he wouldnt; he has to prove that he means well with the NAFTA issue; plus the Rezko trial and Nadhmi Auchi issue is unfolding.
He is using racism to divert people’s attention from his lies on NAFTA, Iraq, Rezko.
Sadly, Democrats accomodate him every time… no exceptions. And then those he maligns get stuck with a charge that is false but takes time to defend.
Enough!
If Obama keeps this up, half the Democratic Party will be accused as “racists” before the primary ends. See here:
Obama used “racism” when people raised his cocaine use. Obama raised “racism” if we say his middle name. Now he says its racism if we mention that “90% of the black votes – the same race as him? Is Obama going to control our words, our thoughts and our actions by threatening “racism” on the whole country?
Ridiculous.

Tim Wise writes:
But one thing we can almost guarantee is not among the reasons why a black voter might say race matters to their vote, and then vote for the black candidate, is deep-seated anti-white bias. After all, black folks have been voting for white people for years… So it’s not like black folks refuse to vote for white people. Indeed, the kind of black person whose anti-white biases were that deeply rooted, would probably be the kind of person for whom Obama would be unacceptable too (given his biracial ancestry, generally moderate positions, and fairly bland approach to addressing racial concerns), and who wouldn’t vote for him, in spite of a shared skin color. In other words, we can rest assured that when blacks vote for Obama, after saying that race mattered to their vote, they were casting a ballot for the black man, not against the white woman per se.
On the other hand, for a white voter to say race matters to their vote, and then to vote for the white candidate and against the person of color, is almost by definition about something else. It certainly can’t be due to excitement at the prospect of electing the first white President, or breaking with tradition, since we’ve had forty-three white guys in a row. And it’s not likely to be about the desire to vote for someone who can relate to their “struggles” as white people. After all, although there are millions of white people in the U.S. who are struggling to make ends meet, none of them are in that position because of their race, but rather in spite of it. So the “white struggle” as such simply doesn’t exist. The class struggle is real–and if a white, working-class candidate stood a chance of winning the Presidency lots of white working class folks would turn out for him or her because of that shared experience, and understandably so–but it is simply silly to think that whites would vote for Hillary Clinton, after saying race mattered to their vote, because they think she will be more understanding about their plight as white people.
What this leaves us is the very real likelihood that when whites say race mattered to their vote, and they voted for the white candidate over the candidate of color, the vote so cast was largely an anti-black vote.

I guess it is time to bring RACE up, because obvious the revote discussion, super delegate discussion and the discussion around future elections all are buried on top of RACE. Let the puss come, so the wounds can heal.

Well I am sick of these old Women offering up years of service as some pass for saying such pathetic and hurt full things, and then as Ferraro did today playing the role of I am so hurt wake up you should be sorry. If in fact your years of service were truly for the cause….shame on you for your comments…you should just go away your days of having valid dialog are long past its just sad. The Clinton’s are pathetic, they Hillary does not congratulate Obama publicly for his wins….such losers. They act like they can play by a totally different set of rules which they use to try and minimize his status in the party sad group of people….please just go away and stop trying to stop a great moment in American history that will not include you. Please America wake-up…. do you really want this dysfunctional family embarrassing us again, Hillary has already been called out about her exaggerated claims of diplomacy overseas……she is called a cheerleader at best her experience is like Bills faithfulness…it does not exist..