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Ferraro steps down from Clinton campaign
cnn.com — "I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself and you can continue to speak for yourself about what is at stake in this campaign," Ferraro wrote in a letter to Clinton.
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- skinkaid, on 03/13/2008, -10/+125"I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can spew racist drivel on my own and you can continue to approve it from afar."
- lgm1213, on 03/13/2008, -28/+2you must be a white guy to have said that
- RepubOperative, on 03/13/2008, -1/+1You just insulted 90% of the readers on Digg.
- f3l1x, on 03/13/2008, -14/+12I just cant wait for the day when we are all brown or grow a brain large enough to get past this *****.
That said, truth != racism. Doing anything for someone because of their ethnic background is racism. Affirmative action is racism.
Maybe I'm missing something so please tell me one thing this woman has said that is not true. The sad fact remains that people WILL discriminate... whether for the good of the minority or the bad. It's a fact that Obama will get votes because he is black... "Just Because". Just like McCain will get votes for being white... and Hillary because shes Bill's wife... I mean a woman. Look at Mississippi... All this crap extreme liberals throw around is getting us into an over tolerant situation. Its the same reason we wouldn't DARE have a white history month... because thats just racist... just as racist as black history month but not bad because it benefits a minority. (oddly enough all the minority groups together are the majority)
Obama has not ONCE pulled the race card, but there are people out there voting for him just to prove a point and get the first black president in office, even if they disagree with his agenda... and thats just sad.
(caveat: there are probably more people voting against him --- racist bastards -- just because he is black... the man has it hard but in this new world of young voters getting involved, i think these kids will vote against their parents or do the "taboo" thing and "rebel", or just to be a part of something big... change, hope, etc... its an excellent campaign. I just HOPE he CHANGES the value of our dollar with sound monetary solutions.)
</racist or not racist rant, i cant tell>- kingmanic, on 03/13/2008, -4/+6Her idea is that Obama wouldn't be in his position (front runner for democrat nomination) if he wasn't ethnic. Your response is more in line with "It's a factor, but it's more negative then positive". So while the statement is true, if he was a white guy he would already be the democratic nominee. Racism is a factor because people consider him a black guy first (as opposed to a white guy first, as he's both) Pro or con it's a factor but her spin on it was disgusting. That he is only here because of that and not because he's also a valid candidate. Clinton is only there because of nepotism just like GeeDubya. Both of them wouldn't be where they were if they were men. Clinton as a man wouldn't be a plausible candidate because apparently America wouldn't be ready for a gay president and obama would be the democratic candidate by now.
- Lukesed, on 03/13/2008, -0/+3"Clinton as a man wouldn't be a plausible candidate because apparently America wouldn't be ready for a gay president..."
Wait, what?- kingmanic, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1He'd be married to Bill.
- Lukesed, on 03/13/2008, -0/+3"Clinton as a man wouldn't be a plausible candidate because apparently America wouldn't be ready for a gay president..."
- kingmanic, on 03/13/2008, -4/+6Her idea is that Obama wouldn't be in his position (front runner for democrat nomination) if he wasn't ethnic. Your response is more in line with "It's a factor, but it's more negative then positive". So while the statement is true, if he was a white guy he would already be the democratic nominee. Racism is a factor because people consider him a black guy first (as opposed to a white guy first, as he's both) Pro or con it's a factor but her spin on it was disgusting. That he is only here because of that and not because he's also a valid candidate. Clinton is only there because of nepotism just like GeeDubya. Both of them wouldn't be where they were if they were men. Clinton as a man wouldn't be a plausible candidate because apparently America wouldn't be ready for a gay president and obama would be the democratic candidate by now.
- InfamousAtheist, on 03/13/2008, -5/+11I am absolutely blown away that ANYONE would bring race into the discussion. It's ***** wrong, and every public official who even hints that they're racist gets justifiably crucified in the media. Comment like Ferraro's can and do end political careers.
I guess I should not continue to be amazed by these people's stupidity, but for some reason I am. I guess I like to think that elected officials and their associates are above this sort of thing. It's a real shame that they aren't particularly for a female democrat who once ran for VP - she of all people should understand how harmful racist and sexist attitudes are to all of us, no matter what color or gender we are.
Disgraceful - Clinton should be held accountable... the skeptic in me tells me this was planned, just like her campaign darkening Obama's skin. Hillary gets to take the high road but in truth she's eager to use the underlying racism in America to her advantage.- littlequeenie, on 03/13/2008, -2/+3Unfortunately I agree. If this were the only instance, I'd try to give them the benefit of the doubt. But there has been a pattern and it is disgraceful. I VOTED for this woman back in 1984 - I just can't believe she can say something like this. And I do not believe that HRC has been forceful in denouncing these comments. I just feel that she will do anything to get this presidency and right now it appears that the race card is the way to go.
Unfortunately Ferraro resigned from the campaign (strange - at first didn't she say she didn't work for the campaign???) so she can continue to spew this hateful message and blame Obama campaign for playing the race card. Which she continues to do.
- littlequeenie, on 03/13/2008, -2/+3Unfortunately I agree. If this were the only instance, I'd try to give them the benefit of the doubt. But there has been a pattern and it is disgraceful. I VOTED for this woman back in 1984 - I just can't believe she can say something like this. And I do not believe that HRC has been forceful in denouncing these comments. I just feel that she will do anything to get this presidency and right now it appears that the race card is the way to go.
- lgm1213, on 03/13/2008, -28/+2you must be a white guy to have said that
- bitfreak, on 03/13/2008, -7/+73Good, she is an embarrassment to the Democratic party.
- ToMZiLLA, on 03/13/2008, -7/+3embarrassment to people. you are being divisive
- Blitzwing84, on 03/13/2008, -2/+6She = Ferraro or Hillary?
- bigturns, on 03/13/2008, -2/+5both.
- PolishLogic, on 03/13/2008, -2/+1Just her?
- ceruleanocte, on 03/13/2008, -2/+1Something about rats on a ship comes to mind....
- zephyr42, on 03/13/2008, -3/+2She and her candidate are an embarrassment to mankind....
Oh and she claims obama is running a race charged campaign when she and her candidate are running a sexist charged campaign. kettle and pot anyone? - itstodd, on 03/16/2008, -0/+0the democrats are an embarrasment to the democrat party. and its so fun to watch
- jphillips59, on 03/13/2008, -5/+64Sad that Hillary didn't show real leadership and can her racist @$$
- InfamousAtheist, on 03/13/2008, -2/+6Hillary couldn't passively approve of her comments if she went and did that, could she?
- fani, on 03/13/2008, -0/+2That bitch uses her being woman to get women votes and thats ok ? What about her crying incident moving the women and getting her votes ?
I've never heard Obama say he's a black candidate, he's always said he's the "right" candidate.
I can't imagine how the Clintons can fool so many people all over the US.
Shame on you Hillary Clinton ! Shame on you !
- voxlisa999, on 03/13/2008, -6/+65Ferraro is merely carrying out the Clinton strategy- paint him as the Black Candidate. Bill had to stop it after S.C. so they got Ferraro to do it. Trust me, Billary is behind this and they are loving it. All this talk just paints Barack as the Black Candidate.
- bigturns, on 03/13/2008, -1/+7bingo - Ferraro, for those of you who have yet to watch Keith's Special Comment on Hillary Clinton, used the same line when Jessie Jackson was running for office. Ferraro is a racist.
- deanlowe, on 03/13/2008, -0/+6Barack Obama is Black?
- ronaldinho, on 03/13/2008, -0/+3You know, there is some truth to what Ferraro is saying. Some voters DO vote for Obama PRECISELY because he is black. Now while they are supporting Obama, they are not supporting him for the right reasons. As an Asian I have every reason to vote for a non-white person for president, but I'm pro-Obama because of his policies as well as his poise. You don't see Obama out of control the way Hillary has been, and if there is a real monster, it's McCain, who looks like he's threatening to start WWIII the first minute he becomes president. I think many voters DO see that Obama is the best candidate out there.
On a sidenote, I'm sure that a lot of women are voting for Hillary simply because she has a slit between her legs. You don't see Obama using that against her.
- DurtyJ, on 03/13/2008, -3/+62"Ferraro stirred controversy with her recent remarks that Obama's campaign was successful because he was black."
"She also said Clinton had been the victim of a "sexist media."
Oh, ok. So Obama is only successful because he's black, but she has not benefited once in her campaign from being a woman.
I see what you did there.- sendakseuss, on 03/13/2008, -1/+4She admits to enjoying success because of being a woman in order to try to justify her accusation. Which is pretty pathetic because she is essentially saying, "If it weren't for the fact that I am a woman, I would have no value." To her I say, "it's not because you're a woman, it's because your a racist ass that you have no value in modern society."
- warsd4, on 03/13/2008, -3/+3Didn't see that coming....
- tpawloski, on 03/13/2008, -6/+4I am glad to see her go.
- lhbaker, on 03/13/2008, -0/+25Didn't anybody on the Clinton Campaign watch 24? The Allstate guy made a GREAT president!
- dariendynamite, on 03/13/2008, -0/+8Dennis Haysbert was awesome as President Palmer
- mrgreenjeans9, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1didn't fare so well as a wheel-man in HEAT though
- Rizmaster, on 03/13/2008, -1/+1And I don't think a man with a pagan god expecting blood sacrifices can be our president, this is a christian nation and Jobu has no place here.
- mrgreenjeans9, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1didn't fare so well as a wheel-man in HEAT though
- PolishLogic, on 03/13/2008, -0/+5Yes but when Morgan Freeman was the president, we were hit by an asteriod.
- jordanmerle, on 03/13/2008, -0/+5Remember when we almost had a woman president but Harrison Ford was able to stop the terrorists before it became a reality.
- sigmaman2, on 03/13/2008, -1/+1I wonder, if they had cast Joan Allen as President Palmer, would Hillary be winning now?
Is that what Geraldine was oh so clumsily trying to say? Obama looks more like the President Palmer?- fani, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1Watch the Contender - Joan Allen I believe was great in that movie. .... She was considered for Vice-Presidency...
( I wouldn't give Hillary even that btw )
- fani, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1Watch the Contender - Joan Allen I believe was great in that movie. .... She was considered for Vice-Presidency...
- slapout, on 03/13/2008, -1/+1Yes, but what about all the bad stuff he did as a government agent in "Now and Again"
- cquinnd, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1I thought he was the lead scientist in "Now and Again", but the project he was on was so secret that the government forced him into the position as handler as well as doctor. He had to be the Oscar Goldman and Dr. Rudy Wells of the series. Too bad they cancelled the show just as it was getting interesting.
- KennMac, on 03/13/2008, -0/+2Listen, he was Pedro Cerrano in Major League way before he was the Alstate guy or the president in 24. Pedro Cerrano was way more epic than Palmer or the Alstate guy.
- ronaldinho, on 03/13/2008, -0/+2Are you serious!? Damn I didn't know.....that guy was smooth in those commercials. Cerrano was the ***** in the Major League movie (along with the Japanese dude who pretended he had big balls)
- dariendynamite, on 03/13/2008, -0/+8Dennis Haysbert was awesome as President Palmer
- goodfella, on 03/13/2008, -3/+52Lets hope that Clinton herself steps down from the campaign.
- zephyr42, on 03/13/2008, -1/+3She would regain a fair amount of respect in my mind if she did.
- Katy7540, on 03/13/2008, -5/+35Doesnt anyone see the pattern? Clinton surrogates make racist remarks, then the media carries ad nauseum, the surrogate and media work is done on behalf of Clinton, then the surrogates apologize or just disappear from the media scene. This was a deliberate Clinton tactic. Hillary and Bill are the most dishonorable leaders in our history.
- cesman, on 03/13/2008, -0/+3While I don't care for Billary, I don't think you can call them the most dishonorable. No leader has dishonored the USA as much as the "Honorable" Mr. Bush.
- SoxSweepAgain, on 03/13/2008, -0/+4Bush is FARRRRRRRR worse.
- tzisc, on 03/13/2008, -4/+8if anything, this kind of comment just garners up sympathy for obama. it doesn't definitely doesn't lose any voters for him; closed-minded racists have already lined up behind clinton, and open-minded ones have already consciously overcome their pointless bias to support the best candidate.
- oceanrain, on 03/13/2008, -5/+10Do we really need this witch in the White House? Look at the ghastly coven she surrounds herself with. These old hags are scary. A permanent Halloween at the White House. Blech!
- kingmanic, on 03/13/2008, -1/+2Sexism is just as attractive as racism.
- trillions, on 03/13/2008, -5/+23Hillary's losing because she's white. Obama is black because he is winning.
- czeman, on 03/13/2008, -8/+2Did you mean "winning because he is black?" Either way, that was one of the stupidest comments I have ever read.
- anatraj, on 03/13/2008, -1/+3You're an idiot.
- RLCrisp, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1Thanks for the laugh, you fail at understanding.
- BeatPunchbeef, on 03/13/2008, -1/+4Brilliant
*golf clap* - OUberLord, on 03/13/2008, -1/+3I imagine quite a few people won't understand what you are saying, but well put nonetheless.
- sqwirl, on 03/13/2008, -2/+0I had to read that a few times to get what you were saying.
Obama's not winning because he's black, he's black because he's winning. That's pretty good. I'm going to use that. - ceruleanocte, on 03/13/2008, -3/+1He would still be black if he were losing... think about it
- sigmaman2, on 03/13/2008, -1/+4But nobody would be paying so much attention to his race if he were losing. Hillary has to make race an issue now to make up ground. Hillary has to make him "Black", because he's winning.
- fani, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1Even variations on it work well -
Hillary's white because she's losing. Obama is black because he is winning.
Hillary's white from losing. Obama is beating her black ( and blue ).
- czeman, on 03/13/2008, -8/+2Did you mean "winning because he is black?" Either way, that was one of the stupidest comments I have ever read.
- cutlerite, on 03/13/2008, -2/+2This is the first domino to fall.
- Zoshchenko, on 03/13/2008, -2/+3She should step down from life. She's stopped being relevant a long time ago.
- reuscel, on 03/13/2008, -1/+7And back into the closet of obscurity whence you came.
- littlequeenie, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1Unfortunately, she is still spewing her hateful comments and blaming Obama's campaign for playing the race card.
Look at her resignation letter - she said she intends to keep speaking.
- littlequeenie, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1Unfortunately, she is still spewing her hateful comments and blaming Obama's campaign for playing the race card.
- IrishJoe, on 03/13/2008, -2/+16Ferraro said, "I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself..." So when she said all that stuff she wasn't speaking for herself, but for Hillary. Is that right? Freudian slip there.
- littlequeenie, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1Great catch!!!
- TheSwashbuckler, on 03/13/2008, -1/+2Nope, she wishes to defend her remarks which if she were still a part of the campaign would be attributed by nitwits like you to Clinton...
- cquinnd, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1If she were still a part of the campaign, her comments would be correctly attributed as she would be an official representative of the campaign in her public comments. Stepping down emphasizes that she was speaking of her own accord all along.
- Araxen, on 03/13/2008, -2/+4I can't stand racists like her.
- BrendanSheehan, on 03/13/2008, -0/+2Well who cares anyway.
Over here in Ireland [and all over Europe] we love Obama, and we wish him a safe and successful 8 years in that oval office. America; if you want the rest of the planet to forgive you for electing that bastard Bush, do yourself a favor [favour] and vote the right person for the job in this time - BARACK OBAMA!!!
- BrendanSheehan, on 03/13/2008, -0/+2Well who cares anyway.
- smacksaw, on 03/13/2008, -2/+3Everyone remember when she ran with Mondale against Reagan? Best campaign slogan ever:
"Vote for Wally and The Beaver"
After hearing her *****, I can't feel bad about that joke. The Beav - hey - go back to wherever you came from and we didn't hear you waxing idiotic.- snotrokit, on 03/13/2008, -1/+1Ahhh Wally and the Beaver. I forgot about that. Last time I thought about that is when we buzzed Mondale's house on the Mississippi River hanging out the side door of a Huey lower than the secret service guys liked, but that is a story for another day.
- sfcitybootcamp, on 03/13/2008, -1/+0Thank god... favorite comment so far: "She should step down from life."
Now maybe she should join Mccains campaign to f up another one. - drbuns, on 03/13/2008, -1/+10She thinks she's being attacked because she's white? She's being attacked because she's a stupid b*tch.
- RonPaulSucks21, on 03/13/2008, -2/+2Adios loser.
- czeman, on 03/13/2008, -1/+3She was just sick of being on a losing team.
- anatraj, on 03/13/2008, -2/+0She'll cause any team she joins to lose.
- ericdano, on 03/13/2008, -2/+3Cruella De Vil has left the campaign. Woohoo!
- sovereign3, on 03/13/2008, -1/+6The strange irony is, Ferraro has failed to mention that Hillary Clinton's campaign benefits not only because she is a woman, but that she is the husband of Bill Clinton. I think it is indisputable that Hillary Clinton would not be considered a serious candidate if she didn't try to remind us often of her husband's accomplishments.
- rgersmrk, on 03/13/2008, -4/+1Jesus, how many times do we need to go over this story? Buried.
- snotrokit, on 03/13/2008, -1/+3You exposed your racism for in exchange 15 minutes of fame and a favor to Hillary that will never be repaid. Hope you sleep well.
- PolishLogic, on 03/13/2008, -1/+1Obama ought to pick her up. She managed to ***** Hillary while working for her, imagine what she could do now that Hillary isn't signing her checks.
- faizal5k, on 03/13/2008, -3/+1Clinton stepping down from campaign in 4...3...2...1...
- saska, on 03/13/2008, -0/+10Diggers who don't read upcoming news and don't watch Countdown (I have reason to believe this represents a small subset of the population, of course) may have missed Olbermann's take on this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23601041/
I provide this PSA only because Olbermann's commentary has been buried about 20 times since it was aired last night.- littlequeenie, on 03/13/2008, -0/+3It was AMAZING!!! That was only the first time Keith has ever done a special comment against a Democrat - he was wonderful. You could tell that it was very difficult for him to do that, but he did the right thing and should be commended for it.
- DiggzDE, on 03/13/2008, -5/+2Hey, look at me. I'm a hyper-sensitive, politically correct democrat.
- Fragalishus, on 03/13/2008, -0/+5Well I suck at Photoshop (Donnie's right) but I'm sure someone knows how to make a proper one of these and can fix it up, or come up with a better slogan.
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/2795/racismferr ...
Or maybe use this picture for something (the original, not with the text I added).
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/171/which2donot ... - onClipEvent, on 03/13/2008, -2/+2most opera aficionados know that Andrea Bocelli is a terrible [opera] singer, he's pretty much the McDonald's of that genera, yet he's so popular, I'll bite the bullet and say that his blindness certainly didn't hinder him from being so popular (there are so many examples in the music industry alone).....people like that gets noticed because the mass majority of us see the 'minority' as people overcoming massive hurdles to get where they are now, something we should take note and aspire to. We generally do not hold the same level of standard for someone who's in the minority.
- rowlodge, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1so many people in important so called ,"communication positions", only make things worse.
- 3drage, on 03/13/2008, -1/+1There are so many unfortunate souls that are out of touch with the people. This situation just helps hit home that much more that all these politicians live in their own little dream world.
- al11588, on 03/13/2008, -2/+2Who is a bigger prostitute Ferraro or Alexandra Dupri. You decide.
- damnyooneek, on 03/13/2008, -0/+2its Dupre with an accent
- SheEye, on 03/13/2008, -7/+4Who does Billary think she's kidding!? We're suppose to believe Ferraro is someone the Clinton's do not know. So they're suddenly surprised she made those remarks. It's the PC thing to do. Hillary is covering herself to insure the black vote. These people are from Arkansas. If you knew them there you'd know they are anything but color blind. Politics! Makes liars of them all. Her husband pardoned a felon and a traitor, as President. A man who's ex-wife later donated over $400 thousand to the Clinton library! Are we to believe ethics are a primary issue in the Clinton's world of finance?! PLEASE! And don't forget "White Water". A $candal that cost Vince Foster his life! (Suicide at a bloodless scene? If you believe that the Clinton's really have us snowed!)
Ferraro made a point that political correctness=fascism, refuses to let speak! Look at the history! Black leaders have been assassinated! Now, in the 21st century, hundreds of years since the inception of this countries government we have our first Presidential candidate hopeful who isn't actually qualified for the office. Ferraro was right in that if a white candidate with this little experience and with the amount of skeletons in his own closet came out for the seat they would have never made it this far. Now this looks like we're socially evolved. Eww, we have a black candidate who spits empty rhetoric and parrots a single word; "Hope" , as if that means he's qualified to lead this country. He's not! He's trying to sound like King, to win the trust of the voters. But he's not really able to hold the seat. And our history proves, even as the world moves forward prejudice still lives in a country where people actually hate other people for loving the same sex!
Given that do you really think America is EVER going to be led by a black man!? If idiots hate people because of who they love, do you actually think we're beyond prejudice for what color they are?! NO! If so, we'd have already had a black President and we'd certainly have more than one Presidential candidate elected to the American Supreme Court. Wake up! America is phobic and racist. Ferraro just had the guts to point that out. And after all, she was only saying in public what Hillary has said a dozen times in private.- damnyooneek, on 03/13/2008, -1/+1you wasted your breath
- SheEye, on 03/13/2008, -0/+0No I didn't waste my breath. I spoke my mind. Freedom is like that you know. Barack's spiritual adviser is a racist black separatist. A matter that's fast becoming apparent in the media today. So if Hillary can fire Ferraro for speaking her thoughts on the obvious,without knee jerks screaming "Racism", why doesn't someone call for Obama's minister to apologize for spitting racist hate mongering comments about white people and the country Obama hopes to represent as President !? Besides that Pastor Jeremiah Wright decries rich Whites, but Obama was raised in a well to do white family. So when his spiritual adviser of 20 years, a man that married the Obama's and has a very close association with Farrakhan, speaks racist remarks why isn't anyone calling for Obama to answer for that?! Instead Obama enables the racist pastor by saying he doesn't think his church is controversial. Well, if calling the country he hopes to represent as President "AmeriKKKa" isn't controversial then Obama is trying to hide the fact he pardons racists with more empty rhetoric. Imagine if he were President!? No, let's not.
- charleslennon, on 03/16/2008, -0/+0Are you trying to say George W. Bush was more qualified to be president than than Sen.Obama?
- sigg14, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1I agree. I also do not think what she said was necessarily racist, it was a stupid remark for a public figure to make in this politically correct world we live in. she should have known better
- SheEye, on 03/13/2008, -0/+0Political Correctness is fascism. She knew better than to fear the PC chains that seek to bind American free thought and speech. Good for her. It's a matter of record in the Presidential elections of the past. Catholics voted for Kennedy. In 2000 the Evangelicals voted for Bush. And, if the numbers are to be believed, in 2004 80% of the vote to re-elect Bush came from the evangelical front. And all of the sudden it's racism to say the black community will vote for Obama because he's black!?
America needs to stop being PC and start being real! Ferraro was speaking to the experience and the background of Obama. If he was white and as short on political weight as he is now the America that is so afraid of offending anyone, or making anyone feel any emotions not approved by the status quo, would note that he's unqualified for office.
But to say that gets ignorant racists all in a uproar as they claim it's not the fact of the matter that's speaking, it's racism because of the color of his skin! But in the same breath, without being qualified to run for office, people are saying what a good thing it is because it shows America is progressing because a black man is running for President! It's absurd! It's not the color of the skin it's the qualifications. But everyone is making it a race issue because he happens to be black and aspiring toward the Presidency.
- SheEye, on 03/13/2008, -0/+0Political Correctness is fascism. She knew better than to fear the PC chains that seek to bind American free thought and speech. Good for her. It's a matter of record in the Presidential elections of the past. Catholics voted for Kennedy. In 2000 the Evangelicals voted for Bush. And, if the numbers are to be believed, in 2004 80% of the vote to re-elect Bush came from the evangelical front. And all of the sudden it's racism to say the black community will vote for Obama because he's black!?
- snullbug, on 03/13/2008, -1/+1Turn off the ***** pump - you are full.
- SheEye, on 03/13/2008, -0/+0So much for having to be at least 13 years of age to post on this forum. Perhaps your vocabulary and level of intelligence shall grow up when you do. (Optimistic as that is, I realize).
- snullbug, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1I tailor my remarks to the demonstrated intelligence level of the original post.
- SheEye, on 03/13/2008, -0/+0So much for having to be at least 13 years of age to post on this forum. Perhaps your vocabulary and level of intelligence shall grow up when you do. (Optimistic as that is, I realize).
- damnyooneek, on 03/13/2008, -1/+1you wasted your breath
- dygel, on 03/13/2008, -0/+3If the gibberish she's spouting is more important to her than what she could contribute to a campaign, then maybe she wasn't all that valuable a campaign staffer to begin with.
- littlequeenie, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1I read that she only raised $125,000 - guess the campaign figures she is more valuable spewing hateful remarks about race and how lucky Obama is to be a black man in America.
- SoxSweepAgain, on 03/13/2008, -2/+1So, now she'll be the designated Racist-at-Large?
How honorable for her. - WNW3, on 03/13/2008, -1/+3I saw her on NBC news last night talking about it with Ann Curry and she (Ferraro) came off as a bit insane.
- coreman, on 03/13/2008, -0/+2Is she the democrat's Ann Coulter, then?
- slapout, on 03/13/2008, -0/+3You do realize that this woman was the Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1984?
- drbuns, on 03/13/2008, -1/+1The ticket she was on (with Mondale) lost in a landslide to Reagan though. Maybe America realized something wasn't right...I don't know.
- mochaman, on 03/13/2008, -0/+2Clinton is using her surrogates to make this a mud slinging contest instead of a serious discussion about the issues. The racial undertone that has taken place in the last few days is going to have an effect on the voters of swing states and HRC is doing this on purpose. Especially independents and dems who have not made up their minds will probably have their doubts in Pennsylvania .
- TonyStark, on 03/13/2008, -0/+4Here are Olbermann's words - pretty powerful
Finally, as promised, a Special Comment on the presidential campaign of the Junior Senator from New York.
By way of necessary preface, President and Senator Clinton -- and the Senator's mother, and the Senator's brother -- were of immeasurable support to me at the moments when these very commentaries were the focus of the most surprise, the most uncertainty, and the most anger. My gratitude to them is abiding.
Also, I am not here endorsing Senator Obama's nomination, nor suggesting it is inevitable.
Thus I have fought with myself over whether or not to say anything.
Senator, as it has reached its apex in their tone-deaf, arrogant, and insensitive reaction to the remarks of Geraldine Ferraro... your own advisors are slowly killing your chances to become President.
Senator, their words, and your own, are now slowly killing the chances for any Democrat to become President.
In your tepid response to this Ferraro disaster, you may sincerely think you are disenthralling an enchanted media, and righting an unfair advance bestowed on Senator Obama.
You may think the matter has closed with Representative Ferraro's bitter, almost threatening resignation.
But in fact, Senator, you are now campaigning, as if Barack Obama were the Democrat, and you… were the Republican.
As Shakespeare wrote, Senator -- that way… madness… lies.
You have missed a critical opportunity to do... what was right.
No matter what Ms. Ferraro now claims, no one took her comments out of context.
She had made them on at least three separate occasions, then twice more on television this morning.
Just hours ago, on NBC Nightly News, she denied she had made the remarks in an interview -- only at a paid political speech.
In fact, the first time she spoke them, was ten days before the California newspaper published them... not in a speech, but in a radio interview.
On February 26th, quoting...
"If Barack Obama were a white man, would we be talking about this, as a potential real problem for Hillary? If he were a woman of any color, would he be in this position that he's in? Absolutely not."
The context was inescapable.
Two minutes earlier, a member of Senator Clinton's Finance Committee, one of her "Hill-Raisers," had bemoaned the change in allegiance by Super-Delegate John Lewis from Clinton to Obama, and the endorsement of Obama by Senator Dodd.
"I look at these guys doing it," she had said, "and I have to tell you, it's the guys sticking together."
A minute after the "color" remarks, she was describing herself as having been chosen for the 1984 Democratic ticket, purely as a woman politician, purely to make history.
She was, in turn, making a blind accusation of sexism -- and dismissing Senator Obama's candidacy as nothing more than an Equal Opportunity stunt.
The next day she repeated her comments to a reporter from the newspaper in Torrance, California.
"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."
And when this despicable statement -- ugly in its overtones, laughable in its weak grip of facts, and moronic in the historical context -- when it floats outward from the Clinton Campaign like a poison cloud, what do the advisors have their candidate do?
Do they have Senator Clinton herself compare the remark to Al Campanis talking on Nightline... on Jackie Robinson day... about how blacks lacked the necessities to become baseball executives, while she points out that Barack Obama has not gotten his 1600 delegates as part of some kind of Affirmative Action plan?
Do they have Senator Clinton note that her own brief period in elected office, is as irrelevant to the issue of judgment as is Senator Obama's…
…while she points out that FDR had served only six years as a governor and state Senator before he became President?
Or that Teddy Roosevelt had four-and-a-half years before the White House?
Or that Woodrow Wilson had two years and six weeks?
Or Richard Nixon… fourteen... and Calvin Coolidge 25?
Do these advisors have Senator Clinton invoke Samantha Power -- gone by sunrise after she used the word "monster" -- and have Senator Clinton say, "this is how I police my campaign and this is what I stand for," while she fires former Congresswoman Ferraro from any role the campaign?
No.
Somebody tells her that simply disagreeing with and rejecting the remarks is sufficient.
And she should then call, "regrettable", words that should make any Democrat retch.
And that she should then try to twist them, first into some pox-on-both-your-houses plea to 'stick to the issues,' and then to let her campaign manager try to bend them beyond all recognition, into Senator Obama's fault.
And thus these advisers give Congresswoman Ferraro nearly a week in which to send Senator Clinton's campaign back into the vocabulary... of David Duke.
"Any time anybody does anything that in any way pulls this campaign down and says let's address reality and the problems we're facing in this world, you're accused of being racist, so you have to shut up.
"Racism works in two different directions. I really think they're attacking me because I'm white.
"How's that?"
How's that?
Apart from sounding exactly like Rush Limbaugh attacking the black football quarterback Donovan McNabb?
Apart from sounding exactly like what Ms. Ferraro said about another campaign, nearly twenty years ago?
Quote:
"President Reagan suggested Tuesday that people don't ask Jackson tough questions because of his race. And former representative Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that because of his "radical" views, "if Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race."
So... apart from sounding like insidious racism that is at least two decades old?
Apart from rendering ridiculous, Senator Clinton's shell-game about choosing Obama as Vice President?
Apart from this evening's resignation letter?
"I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself and you can continue to speak for yourself about what is at stake in this campaign.
"The Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you."
Apart from all that?
Well. It sounds as if those advisors want their campaign to be associated with those words, and the cheap… ignorant… vile… racism that underlies every syllable...
And that Geraldine Ferraro has just gone free-lance.
Senator Clinton:
This is not a campaign strategy.
This is a suicide pact.
This week alone, your so-called strategists have declared that Senator Obama has not yet crossed the "commander-in-chief threshold"…
But -- he might be your choice to be Vice President, even though a quarter of the previous sixteen Vice Presidents have become commander-in-chief during the greatest kind of crisis this nation can face: a mid-term succession.
But you'd only pick him if he crosses that threshold by the time of the convention.
But if he does cross that threshold by the time of the convention, he will only have done so sufficiently enough to become Vice President, not President.
Senator, if the serpentine logic of your so-called advisors were not bad enough...
Now, thanks to Geraldine Ferraro, and your campaign's initial refusal to break with her, and your new relationship with her -- now more disturbing still with her claim that she can now "speak for herself" about her vision of Senator Obama as some kind of embodiment of a quota...
If you were to seek Obama as a Vice President, it would be, to Ms. Ferraro, some kind of social engineering gesture, some kind of racial make-good.
Do you not see, Senator?
To Senator Clinton's supporters, to her admirers, to her friends for whom she is first choice, and her friends for whom she is second choice, she is still letting herself be perceived as standing next to, and standing by, racial divisiveness and blindness…
And worst yet, after what President Clinton said during the South Carolina primary, comparing the Obama and Jesse Jackson campaigns -- a disturbing, but only borderline remark...
After what some in the black community have perceived as a racial undertone to the "3 A-M" ad... a disturbing -- but only borderline interpretation...
And after that moment's hesitation in her own answer on 60 Minutes about Obama's religion -- a disturbing, but only borderline vagueness...
After those precedents, there are those who see a pattern... false, or true.
After those precedents, there are those who see an intent... false, or true.
After those precedents, there are those who see the Clinton campaign's anything-but-benign neglect of this Ferraro catastrophe -- falsely or truly -- as a desire to hear the kind of casual prejudice which still haunts this society voiced... and to not distance the campaign from it.
To not distance you from it, Senator!
To not distance you... from that which you as a woman, and Senator Obama as an African-American, should both know and feel with the deepest of personal pain!
Which you should both fight with all you have!
Which you should both insure, has no place in this contest!
This, Senator Clinton, is your campaign, and it is your name.
Grab the reins back from whoever has led you to this precipice, before it is too late.
Voluntarily or inadvertently, you are still awash in this filth.
Your only reaction has been to disagree, reject, and to call it regrettable.
Her only reaction has been to brand herself as the victim, resign from your committee, and insist she will continue to speak.
Unless you say something definitive, Senator, the former Congresswoman is speaking with your approval.
You must remedy this.
And you must... reject... and denounce... Geraldine Ferraro.
Good night, and good luck.- McGyver, on 03/13/2008, -2/+0Olbermann is a nazi jerk. And speaking of nazis, have you seen Obama's "pastor"?
- chase001, on 03/13/2008, -0/+2Mission accomplished and she gave Shrillary plausible deniability. Her job was done.
- TommyBoy919, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1Ah, Ferraro finally realized that she is an irrelevant, cranky old lady. Good for her!
- hamobu, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1Hillary would split the country down the racial divide just so she could become president.
- TaintedTux, on 03/13/2008, -0/+4OMG....Obama is black!? WTF!? How come no one told me?
I mean that would've made stop supporting him a long time ago. Incredible that I've followed this whole campaign, never realizing that Obama is only here because he's black. I'm so glad we have people like Ferraro to point out this not so obvious fact, now I know Obama isn't intelligent, charismatic, genuine, inspiring, or any of that other positive gibberish people try to say. He's just black. I wanna be black when I grow up so I can run for president.
/sarcasm - BrendanSheehan, on 03/13/2008, -1/+1Now Clinton should step down too.
- pardonmedoug, on 03/13/2008, -0/+2Obviously orchestrated.
- billyfalconer, on 03/13/2008, -1/+0This is the best thing to happen to the Republicans in years. I'm sure Rush is cackling with glee. The Republicans have said for years that they're actually more colorblind, and that the Democrats are the real race baiters.
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