Obama on Ferraro

Lets say flip flop//
fire ferraro – well now I understand
I wasn’t there during the sermons – now I was
It is amazing how the media once again have fallen for this man’s words without critically thinking about he continually contradicts himself..
so who is the real Obama?

Jake forgive me if I am wrong but Obama fired the rev. and Samantha Powers correct?
…and he actually said Ferraros comments weren’t racist…they were just dumb…you can make dumb statements about race without being racist…
I think that is his overall point.
But everyone wants to get angry…and call each other the name that goes to the jugular.
Obama did not call Ferraro racist. That is the point… what people aren’t getting …I shouldsay …what older people aren’t getting is that there is a difference.
There is a difference between our own inherent ethnocentrism and stupidity and racism. Look at the words he chose when describing the two sides. He called Rev. Wrights comments for all intensive purposes descpicable …yet has said Ferraro and his grandmother’s comments were racial stereotypes…or just unfortunate…or inaccurate.
He was forced into that speech but when he was he was again showing …well putting his money where his mouth is… do you imagine your candidate whomever that may be being that honest.
These people who call him a liar need to take a serious look at…themselves and wonder why those words are coming out of their mouth.
Those words are as cynical and blurred as Rev. Wright’s.

It was a really good speech. It’s major contribution is to begin a conversation about race relations in America and the rest of the world.
The challenge is to keep it an honest conversation instead of an exercise in spin to deflect criticism of continuing black hate in and out of the African-American churches. If this is as Senator Obama portrays it, a common experience or style in the black church, then the black church must have an honest conversation within its own community because this style is very close to derailing the candidacy of a man it holds forth for President.
My discomfort with Obama’s speech is that in summation and analysis, the message is the same: racism is thriving and white America must get past that. And this is simply not the beginning of an honest discourse on the topic. Once again Obama tries to come across as sincere but the goal is to save his candidacy, not to change the dynamic as promised. He is more of the same even if an excellent writer and an articulate speaker. He comes close but fails to make the connection between where his campaign is failing and the failures of growth among his supporters.
Let’s see how this evolves. The good news is we are talking about it finally.

well i guess murtha did not buy obamas lies like the media did,murtha’s smart enough to see the lies obama told on friday night.then like a good snake oil salesman yesterday during his sales pitch admits to lies without batting an eye.to all obamaites wake up read the transcipts from friday about the sermons then read obamas comments about the sermons and his attendance yesterday and this person wants to be president not likely!

Ferraro’s comments were not about affirmative action. She was pointing out that he is winning because he’s getting 80-90% of the black votes plus the votes of all the rich white folk in Wright’s words that also happen to be very liberal whom Obama has convinced that voting for a black man moves them beyond race

I can’t believe he treated his Grandmother like that and where did they say his Mother died in the poorest country he lived in? I think Obama not only dislikes other races I think he is very racist I am calling for a mental evaluation he wrote a book about a man who left him when he was two.

In addressing the point about Michigan
If Hillary wants Michigan sooo bad…why doesn’t SHE say that people who voted for republicans already, should not be allowed to vote in the democratic primary?
Does that not make sens Why would Sen. Clinton not say Republicans should not vote in democratic primaries?

Geraldine is like the Clintons, you are a good black person as long as you stay in the back seats, they will fight for you because you cannot fight for yourself. Obama has transcended that barrier and has the right to discuss all the difficult and painful issues in the society and that is what he has done. He gave the opportunity to America to reflect on these issues and get together to address them. Murtha is very smart that’s why he was caught by the FBI and now has chosen for Hillary.

Equating Ferraro with Wright was a profound insult to Ferraro.
Obama has no credibility on “healing” when he consorts with those who stir hostility and resentment.
Obama will lose by an even greater margin in November than previously thought. Democrats are on a suicide mission with his nomination.

Obama is one of the biggest racial biggots of our time. He fail America, by not trying to stop the hate sermons in black churches. So he must be part of the hate america crowd. I can’t beleive is a United States Senator.

…because it’s always hypocrisy.
It’s not simply getting more information so one changes one’s mind. It’s not thinking over after one’s first heated reaction and realizing one might have acted to appease certain groups before actually coming to realize that appeasing the groups is not really the goal.
No politician in the US, black, white, or any other race, can ever change his or her mind without being called a flipflopper, a waffle, or a hypocrite.
Politicians are supposed to have one stance and never move from it, even if the facts dictate that stance is not a prudent one to take.
What silliness we force out of our politicians by getting angry at them for making informed decisions and/or changing their minds.
He is right — she’s old enough to have been youngish through the civil rights movement, so his hypothesis could be correct. But that still doesn’t mean she should’ve said what she said.

Funny thing here, Obama supporter and Obama himself are hypocrits to the fullest that they would make a used car salesman blush.
What Ferraro said is true, and i do not support Hilary at all. Also do not forget the media love affair with Obama.
So lets see now Obama called for the firing of Ferraro who made an observation, He called for the Firing of Imus who just made a joke, and he complained and disowned his grandmother who loved him because she had a personal fear, but yet keeps his mentor (oh by the way if someone is your mentor you believe in what he says 100% of the time) who spews anti-white, anti-black, antisemitism, and anti-americanism but that is ok with Obama and he is trying to lecture us!!
Fact one on why Feraro was correct , I think hilary would of attacked him more, because if anything is said about Obam Hussein, including calling him by his full name he throws out the race card.
God Help us if he wins!! For he will bring Racism to a point that has not been seen in a 100 years!!

Obama is playing games see he first sees if he can get by witrh a lie, when that does not work he tries a quarter truth and then a half and if that fails he give a speech condemning and blaming racism!!
Got to love him playing the race card, only racist play the race card by the way!!

I am afraid that DEMOCRAT will definitely lose this election in November. I am very optimistic that REPUBLICAN again rule for another 8 years in the WHITE HOUSE.
If Clinton gets the nomination, Mccain will defeat her easily. Why can’t we forget and forgive about this racial remarks and focus on real issues facing us, such as ECONOMY. A HINT TO A WISE IS QUITE SUFFICIENT .

Temperament is a key consideration in selecting a president. Take the current one as an example of how the wrong temperament can be a significant disadvantage. Keep that in mind when selecting the next one.

“All of a sudden he understands where she is coming from. How convinient.”
They wanted Ferraro’s head because they were hit by monster-gate from Ms. Power, they fought hard to balance the negative impact, so Ferraro must be called a racist. Then suddenly came the pastor-gate, which was a much big hit, now they choose unity strategy, to sound reconciliation, to reduce the impact of the pastor-gate.
It is campaign strategy anyway, but not even a proactive strategy.
Again, Mr. Obama has to rely on great words to get out of troubles. However, I guess, after NAFTA-gate, Iraq-gate, and this pastor-gate, it should have passed the point that people will be willing to elect him purely by his soaring words – this should be be particularly true in GE.

Obama said Ferraro’s comments had no place in the Democratic party. Then she went out across cable news and kept on ratcheting up the rhetoric unapologetically, even divisively claiming she was being “attacked” and “threatened” by the Obama campaign.
Obama never called her a “racist”, but that doesn’t mean he should have just accepted what she said unchallenged, especially when she kept on hammering away and even escalating the problem.
So in other words, this story has some nuances which many reporters seem unable to hold in their minds while reporting the story.
I thought reporters were supposed to have a command of the facts, not a selective, snarky insinuating use of them.
SInce this campaign began I’ve been leaning more and more toward other networks besides ABC. I miss Tedd Koppel.

Yesterday Mr. Obama in his speech first referenced but not by name Bill Clinton’s remarks in S.C. and by name in the case of Jerri Ferraro, when he was giving examples of the negative racial undertones that have in his view been a part of this campaign. Now he says that one should not consider what she said as being racist yet for several days he and his campaign did just that. In his speech he went on to denounce everyone even his white grandmother whom he said held and expressed racist views. For a week he told america that he had never heard Rev. Wright make andy comment in and out of church that would lead him to beleive that Wright held the views that he preached in his hate sermons. In his speech he now admits that he did sit in the pew and here such statements. Then he goes on to say that even though he heard inflamatory retoric from Wright in church, Wright himself did not at any time say to him in a private conversation that he held any of the views that we have all seen on tv. How stupid does he think we are? He lost his credibility when he said he did not hear them in church and now he says he did. So we are to beleive that his gradmother is a terrible racist but his friend and mentor Rev. Wright is not. It is sad to see a politician demean his own family for political convience. I thought that this speech should have been more about why and how he was affilitated with Rev. Wright for 20 yrs and denounce the words and the man but no he seemed to denounce his own grandmother and make excuses for his friend Wright. So in his latest interview he now says that does not think what Ferraro said was racist and that we should look at it from her point of view. Thus again he is willing to denounce the very behavior that he and his campaign engaged in to smear Ferraro in order to gain political advantage. It appears that Mr. Obama is willing to say anything anyone wants to hear and trash anyone he wants if it would give him some political traction. This is the new politics that he preaches and the change he says we need. Change like this america can do without.

From a campaign perspective there is no comparison between Ferraro and Wright. Whether you support HILLARY CLINTON or not Ferraro made remarks which were racially insensitive. Wright made rascist remarks. Ferraro’s remarks were a surprise to the CLINTON campaign as Ferraro did not have a history of speaking in such a manner, forcing Clinton to take action. Wright’s remarks were not a surprise to Obama, for indeed Wrigth did have such a history. The surprise for Obama was that the remarks made it into the highly visible public domain, forcing Obama to take action. There is clearly a matter of FAILURE in JUDGEMENT by OBAMA, having placed Wright into such a position on OBAMA’s campaign, knowing full well the nature of Wright. OBAMA no longer appears to be of Presidential caliber. Sorry, that’s where the cards fall.

TXcourtney: He now says that what she said is not racist. The problem is for a week he said that they were. Just like he said he had never heard Wright make andy imflamatory remark in church now he says he sat quitely in the pew and listend to them. How credible is he?

Is Ferraro and Wright a real issue of America? Ferraro and Wright resigning from campaign did not changed any thing other than cooling down the media. This is not a civil war issue. People listens to comments people feel bad and they Move On and do their day to day work. Black and White will still work togather in the companies and and eat lunch at MC D, Wendys etc., and bring pay check home for their families.
I think Obama campaigns are short of ideas and they are going after Imus now. Why is Obama doing what Mr. Sharpton and others are interested in? Are these guys pulling the rugs under him? I think Obama should stay strong on his message. Getting into petty politics like Sharpton will make him a polititians like Shartpon. No Difference there.
I think Obama should just Move On and find a good way to connect with voters.

Rev. Wright’s comments are not about race…..they are about hatred. A Senator of the United States of America financially supported this man and the spread of this hatred. Twnety years of listening to this hate and he stayed. That’s poor judgement. He stood in front of 8,000 spewing his hatred. Also, why did Senator Obama lie on Friday? How is that for the initial handling of a difficult situation for a candidate for Presidency? A lie to the american people. His initial instinct was to lie! Sitting and knowing your minister said “G** D*** America is not acceptable. Believe me, if that were said at his church he knew it. How can we ever trust him again. I do agree we need to work on race relations with everyone….but using it when it’s to your advantage is wrong!

You remember the movie through momma from the train. Yestedy Mr. Obama through his gradmother under the train. While he said that he could not denounce Rev. Wright the man he could denounce his grandmother the woman. What does this say about him as a man?

dl:
“You all are quoting PAT BUCHANAN. oy”
I know; I posted it and never thought I would have such an occasion. Read the article, dl. Buchana hits it head on! Maybe it takes a conservative Republican to candidly speak about what happened to Ferraro. The Dem party elders were silent. They were, in the words of Pat Buchanan, “Playing by Obama’s rules.”

Obama’s a hypocrite, but Ferarro’s a “realist”? We blow off and excuse the majority ( of which I am one_) when they highlight race as just poorly chosen words or worse “realism” (oh the irony). But when a black man (is this term anachronistic?) asks us to move beyond it, he’s hypocritical and politically motivated.I think those who criticize Obama’s earnest call for unity are secretly now gratified to have a caricature of retired black preacher to hold up as their scapegoat for the our collective failure to have moved further from the 1960′s when that man’s soul came of age.

“I know; I posted it and never thought I would have such an occasion.”
You support his thoughts on this one occasion? Riiight!
Pat’s insights are subjective at best and resonate from the republican stance that Democrats vote from their bleeding hearts and republicans make sound judgments. I could break his article down, but you obviously have been sold on his ideals.

More damage control from the Obama camp. I will credit him for saying her comments weren’t racist to begin with, rather calling the comments ‘patently absurd.’
The comments in this interview are more attempts to patch things up with the American people because of the Rev. Wright comments and he’s back-peddling by smoothing over the Ferraro incident so that we might more expeditiously get over his.

Will: Waiting for an answer to how we are to beleive that Rev. Wright did not say racist things to him in priviate but his gradmother did. Did he not say that he had never heard such things in church now he says he did. One can be proven but one can not. So he admits to the one that can be proven and denies the one that can not be proven. He glady tells us his gradmother prejudices but not the prejudices of his friend and mentor wright. I don’t think that was a fair thing to do to ones grandmother. Sorry if that offend you!

In terms of his speech, He said he cringed, but I’m betting he did more than that. Those remarks had to cut deep…His grandmother — his surrogate mother at that point — rejected the black man he was becoming. The anger Obama heard in Rev. Wright’s church may not have felt so alien after all.
He also said, “Given my background, my politics, and my professed values and ideals, there will no doubt be those for whom my statements of condemnation are not enough,” Obama said, adding that “never once in my conversations with [Wright] have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms.” Is that consistent with the admission that Obama knew of Wright’s outrageous comments? It seems impossible that one can coexist with the other.

Can someone provide quotes to back their repeated claims that Obama is flip-flopping?
If he has never called Ferraro a racist, how can saying she is not in any way be contradictory?
Being racist or just plain offensive, Ferraros words were way out of line and Clinton made a bad decision by not distancing herself from them right away. This played right into the hipocracy of her campaign – calling for Obama to both reject and denounce every ever so slightly offensive remark by any ever so slightly campaign-related individual while not applying the same ethical standards to her own campaign.
Be reasonable. Judge Obama on his own merits and words, not on distorted propaganda by people who dislike him. Do the same to Clinton and McCain and go make an educated decision.

Jason stated:
“Regarding Senator Ferraro, it is Obama himself who plays the race card. He all but eviscerated Ferraro for her on target remarks when in actuality she could have lifted them from the pages of his senate website.
“Obama acknowledges, with no small irony, that he benefits from his race. If he were white, he once bluntly noted, he would simply be one of nine freshmen senators, almost certainly without a multimillion-dollar book deal and a shred of celebrity. Or would he have been elected at all?”
Thanks, Jason, and you did this without referring to Pat Buchanan, Playing by Obama Rules.” LOL Kudoos

Niels wrote, “If he has never called Ferraro a racist, how can saying she is not in any way be contradictory?”
His campaign (who are paid by him) said it and said Hillary should ask her to step down, which she didn’t. Campaigns are representatives of him. Just like the looney tune that called Hillary a “monster” and who was asked to step down.
If that is not flip-flopping I don’t know what that is.

Dear Americans,
I live in a very small town in WI ( 1200 people small) and we have two African American families that live here. I am originally from a big city in Southern California so the adjustment has been interesting indeed.In my life I have seen racism from both sides of the spectrum I have grown up in an area where it didn’t matter what color you were as long as you worked hard and did your best and I now live in an area where the subject rarely comes up because well as I said there are 2 African American familys in town. I watched my grandfather , the kindest , gentlest man I know who owned a business with his best friend -a black man get Alzheimer’s and begin to speak about blacks in a way that made me cringe..until the day he died -never knowing that he had forgotten his best man..I am watching it happen to my mother now as she has gotten the disease as well. These people raised me I love them dearly do I denounce them? No..do I agree with them no…My stepfather who told me if I ever married a ( insert derogatory comment here) he would never walk me down the aisle ,and when I married my Native American husband..he wasn’t there. A neighbor comes to me and says she can’t believe her son brought the black boy home to play without asking and I think- what?How? and I don’t speak to her again…Oh this racism it brings tears to my eyes and I think this will never change- there is no hope…things will be like this forever, each generation raised by the past and their heads filled with these terrible lies and hate….
and then
my nine year old comes home
and he asks me if his buddy can come over and play
and I say sure…but I say I don’t know if I know who this friend is
and he says sure you do mom..he’s the kid with the glasses.
and the kid with the glasses comes over
and he is black
and my son didn’t notice
he didn’t care
and I think maybe there is hope , maybe there is a generation of change..maybe I am raising part of that right now
Maybe it is our responsibility to look past what we were taught and how we were raised
to put aside our own prejudices regardless of our color
and just raise better Americans…better people

He’s trying to pin his psychoanalysis of Ferraro to explain why she may have come across as racist. Are you for real Obama? Your skill at fogging the average mind with your “words” is not just slipping, it’s embarassing. Why don’t you get the psychoanalysis you need for your internal and external contradictions you feel you were raised with rather than running for President; a title which you are not suitable for.

Obama desparately trying to change the subject.
Why is it that no Media outlet is yet to call him out on the fact that, a few days ago, he categorically denied having heard Rev. Wright’s sermon of hate and then turns around in his speech admitting that he had indeed heard those sermon.
To me, that was the real news of his speech. HE LIED.

Ferarro was right. If Obama was white with such a “zero” resume’, he wouldn’t have gotten a dime in campaign money. If anyone felt that his “Race” speech would yield vindication or refute the TUCC and Wright, you are seriously off track.
It was a POLITICAL speech and nothing more. Obama could not distance himself from where the voters are in his district…or his minister! To do so would zap his chances for another term in the Senate. So he was between a rock and a hard place with the need to hold on to his voters and smooth-talk his image with the rest of us. It may have worked with the folks in Southside Chicago but not with me.
Today he speeks on his isolation philosophy to get us out of Iraq in the first thirty days of his presidency. Nice candy for the peacnicks but a disaster with international consequences. Most thinking people know that withdrawl from an unstable Iraq would result in the collapse of Israel and the middle-East, to the great advantage of Iran and an instant loss to us of essential oil supplies. Dumb theory but the propagands must sound good to a few.
Obama’s next speech will be on the US economy. Honestly, I would rather sit down for a root canal than listen to another Obama speech. He has a cookbook for our economy? In his lifetime, he has never so much as managed a hamburger shack.
Barack Obama is a rank young opportunist with the gift of practiced mastery of the language and the ability to lead people into thinking only what he wants them to think and believing in what he says they should believe … only Barack Obama! He has nothing else to offer. Keep your eyes on the swinging pendulum folks, you will never notice your pokets being picked.

Voter- While I respect your opinion I do not agree ..I believe Senator Obama opened the door for dialogue between the races that has been locked up until now. I respect the man in many ways and have been a fan of his for many years. I am not opposed to Clinton, I simply respect Obama more and consider his campaign and presidency something this country desperately needs. It may be a good thing to have had you misunderstand my choice in candidates- perhaps this can show that even two people who may not agree on each other’s opposing candidates viewpoints can find that they do agree on where America needs to go from here. Instead of the useless arguements we surely could have had now we too have opened a dialogue that is very rare on this posts.

Neils,
Here’s your proof from the senior member of his campaign. FYI, in the future you can always google it.
“Axelrod said the Clinton campaign’s response was not enough and that “she ought to be removed” from any responsibilities she has on the campaign’s finance committee or in any other way related to the campaign.”
From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/11/755677.aspx

If the only difference in Obama was that he was all white, Oprah never would have endorsed him. Can you imagine she would indorse a White JR. Senator from anywhere.

That isn’t what Ferraro was saying at all. She was just pointimg out how He has won where there are large african amer. populations, because the excited about supporting him. He is trying to twist her comments into something racial to benefit him. His campaign is the one who has used racism throughout this election, from Michelle Obama’s saying Bill Clintons fairytale remark was racist, to finding that quote of Ferraro’s in some small obscure paper and pushing it to the media.

Sara, the beauty of the human mind is that it is okay to differ. I loved the way you brought up the idea of children since we can get so many of our answers from their behaviors. Honesty most of all. I look at all these posts and see the myriad opinions all individually crafted by people who take the time to do this because they care. I do not believe in Obama and I think he has done a great disservice to the Edwards campaign. It would have been Edwards against Clinton if he had not subverted and kind of deceived people. He did not behave like a child here. He hid things that he thought would hurt him and hoped that they would not be found. Then again this is my opinion and there may be others who share it just like how I agreed with your posting although we do not share the same choice for president.

Obama’s actual quote on Friday was, “The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation.”
In his speech yesterday he said, “Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely”
As I see this, ‘technically’, he DID NOT lie, but I can very much see where the implication that he lied was there, and this would naturally bring to mind our cynicism that “slimey politicians always lie” and therefore cause people to be turned off and immediately revert to discounting him, and this is very understandable (Bill Clinton – when is “is” is? I did not have sexual relations with that woman” etc.). ‘Technically’ not lying still seems dishonest when in the bigger picture, people want the WHOLE truth, not a technicality. Add this to the fact that the soundbytes from Rev. Wright were terribly painful and inflammatory and would certainly invoke anger and a negative reaction in white Americans, especially ones who are unfamiliar with the black community, who were shocked at the vehemence of the statements, particularly when it seems to some that blacks cry “racism” so often. Whites would want the same standards applied to them too and understandably so.
But having said that, I give Senator Obama a pass on this technicality, even though it’s a slippery slope, and here’s why:
1.) Politics and what is quoted in the media is very volatile and the issue of race is a very highly charged one. Our president is going to have to navigate through these volatile waters, and bluntly speaking, we need someone who is a shrewd politician. Had Obama said ‘yes’ on Friday without the explanation given in the speech yesterday, the press would have pounced on it and had a field day which may have caused the campaign to take a huge downturn. I think he wanted time to give a concise and thoughtful response to the situation, as David Alexrod said he’s wanted to have this conversation for quite some time and the time was right now – people were listening. Did he know about the specific highly charged statements of Rev. Wright back at the beginning of his presidential campaign? Yes, and he said acknowledged that on Friday and said he’d denounced them then. But since the press wasn’t making a big deal about it back then, if he’d been the one to pull them out and bring them into the public eye, frankly that wouldn’t have been too bright. Sometimes things just have to progress naturally.
2.) I have read Obama’s books, followed him closely and read many of the statements of people I respect who support him and say that he really is who he says he is. I do not believe that he is a “hidden racist”, and after reading more articles and researching Rev. Wright, and Trinity United Church of Christ, I do not believe it is racist either, nor do I think Obama was teaching his children hatred by taking them to that church. Although I think the statements by Rev. Wright were horrible and I’m glad Obama denounced them, as the press has also brought to us, they are not uncommon in black churches at all.
I think we hold our politicians to an incredibly harsh standard and in our anger and disillusionment with our government, we have come to pounce on them for the least little thing. But for me, Obama’s humanity, wisdom and insight trumps the issue of ‘technically not lying’.

Now I know why democrats have a donkey as their mascot….because they’re always acting like an ass.
And ahmm JGM, did you see his interview? He said he wasn’t sitting in the pews when the statement was made, then he retracted it during his speech.
He is a LIAR.

Sitting in a church, and not saying anything when these statements are made but then you call yourself a UNITER says that you’re unethical.

JGM, I agree with you wholeheartedly. I wish more people were as insightful as you. …or at least as fair.

Voter- Thank you for your kind and honest posts… you seem to have a much higher faith in the mind and hearts of the average person then I do. I want to believe that people are researching outside of this forum and not just blindly repeating what someone that may have been misinformed has said.. I really do want to believe that we as a country have not been “dumbed down” so much as to let the media turn this into a reality television show.. I do..and your posts give me hope. I am a Democrat through and through and my goal in all of this is to share my opinion and my experiences so others may understand that we are fighting amongst ourselves when we should be banding together and backing whichever candidate makes it to the general election that best represents our beliefs and our hopes for the future.

Obama is friends with William Ayers, an admitted domestic terrorist with the Weather Underground, which declared war on the United States and claimed responsibility for bombing several government buildings, including the Pentagon and the State Department building, in the 1970s. In an interview with The New York Times, ironically published on the morning of September 11, 2001, Ayers was quoted as saying, “I don’t regret setting bombs; I feel we didn’t do enough.”
NOW WE SEE WHO HIS ASSOCIATIONS ARE WITH.
Now a tenured professor at the University of Chicago (only in America!), Ayers met Barack Obama in the 1990s. They have remained friends ever since.

For Will #1;
Some us liberals are just wiser.
We work for ourselves and carry smartphones.
Have a great day!
Frank

The man is a disgrace to the Democratic party. He is not fit to be senator, let alone President.

obama gives a speech in which he lectures us, as though we are high school students, on race relations. he assumes we are idiots who never realized there is a problem. of course, he has no solutions, but we’re supposed to ignore that.
and, of course, we’re also supposed to ignore the reason he had to give the speech in the first place – his 20 year relationship with his hate speech giving spiritual advisor. he wants to change the subject to race relations. distract, distract, distract. not working.

Obama has the audacity to assume Ferraro felt threatened by black people moving into her neighborhood? What??? She spent 40 years fighting for civil rights that enable him to be where he is today. He claims a white person cannot know what it is like to be black which I agree with. Conversely, he cannot know what it is like to be a white woman either. The audacity of that man thinking he can assume how she feels is astounding. She never said anything racist and Obama knows it. Heck even Pat Buchanan knows it and he is very anti-Democrat and hardly considered friendly to the Clinton campaign. His holier than thou attitude needs adjustment America… vote for Clinton.

In other words, Granny’s words gave him an uncomfortable physical response, that he did not like!!
While wright’s comments he didn’t agree with!!! No physical response.
Guess what, enough Americans had a big enough response for everyone!!
Ones who had a positive respone to Senator Obama before the wright debacle!!!
Yes, Granny was thrown from the train, under the bus etc.!!
Enough said!!!

Well I think that Obama’s reaction to Ferraro may have evolved upon reflection as other situations evolved and I would hope Ferraro could see that in his speech he was not trying to further isolate her but to actually be understanding of where she was coming from.

‘so saddened’, why do you keep posting those lies?
Obama’s father DID herd goats as a boy. He attended American universities on scholarship. Even the airfare was beyond his means, but fortunately the Kennedys had set up a fund for developing world students to be able to get to the U.S. to use their scholarships.
Barack’s grandfather was a cook for the British. Is that your idea of ‘affluent’? He wasn’t a fancy chef – he was a COOK. Ever see the photos of is wife Sarah’s hut in Kenya? Not exactly the house of an ‘affluent’ member of society, is it?
Barack was on scholarship to the school in Hawaii – and lived with his grandparents in a tiny apartment. Ever see the photos?
More to the point, WHY do you feel it so important to portray Obama as part of some wealthy ‘elite’ group? Is that one of the Rush Limbaugh dittohead talking points? Because I really don’t see its relevance, unless you’re trying to ‘prove’ that only people who come from an upper class can do well academically and professionally. Meaning those who don’t….

tom j, get your facts from someone other than the obama propaganda machine.

Ferraro should be fired from the campaign. She made disparaging remarks about Senator Obama that were loaded with subtle racism and not helpful. And so she was.
Wright should be fired from the Obama campaign. While he spoke accurately about Hillary Clinton never walked in certain shoes, he also made inflammatory remarks about white racism that are not helpful. And so he was.
Neither one should be disowned. Wright wasn’t. I assume Ferraro wasn’t either.

Look what type of crowd he’s attracting — racists (Wright, Farrakhan and the violent Black Panthers), corrupt people (Rezko), dumb people (his wife, Ted Kennedy and Kerry, who is a sore loser), etc.

Ferraro will now be scripted into that speech for generations to come. she should be mad and she should ask for her name to be retracted from the orginal pages.