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Geraldine Ferraro Nails It

Article By Writer Kevin Clarke Author: Kevin Clarke
Published: March 12, 2008
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This week was filled with more cat-fighting amongst the Democrats and the pattern of race cards to come is starting to build.

This may be the only down side to a possible black President, which is the leeches that try to surround him and promote their own race baiting agenda.

All political views and differences with myself aside Obama is a man of good character and a fine candidate. He is not in line with my views, but he is clearly a worthy candidate with a positive message.

I believe in common sense politics and that means that I don’t care what group a man belongs to or what minority group tries to claim him, he is to be judged on his merits and issues.

The real issue of racism may well be the endless barrage of false accusations from those who pimp racism to make a living like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. I personal believe the trying to seperate your agenda based on race makes it a negative agenda for unity.

All this said and aside, Geraldine Ferraro’s comments were completely reasonable, said in good taste and for the most part true.

I think this is why the race baiters and liberal media hate the comments so much, because it is true. What is more she also said the same applies to herself.

Just read this liberal idiot who says Ferraro is “Shameful”, or this one that goes on to say we need a museum of slavery to help with her “willful ignorance”. This Liberal Susan Brooks article goes on to compare the need for a slavery museum to the Holocaust. She is then connecting all this to Geraldine Ferraro.

Liberals have no idea what color the sky really is.

Where were these people when TV interviews showed people saying they would never vote for Mitt Romney because of his religious beliefs? Why do these poeple not get outraged when Geraldine made the exact same comparison with her own history?

You notice the media doesn’t cover this part of her comments?
“in 1984 if my name was Gerard Ferraro instead of Geraldine Ferraro, I would have never been chosen as a vice presidential candidate”

Guess the MSM just likes scandal when they can fabricate one, and facts don’t get ratings.

Obama may well be the best candidate to represent his supporters views. He is well spoken, intelligent and professional. These attributes are not enough to come back from 20 points down in 4 months. The highest voter turnouts and rise in black votes are due to his color.

This is not something to look at negatively, but this is a fact. This fact alone makes the statements of Geraldine Ferrero 100% true.

So any supporter of Obama that tries to twist this into a racist statement and ignores the factual value of the statement is simply trying to exploit his race for their own gain.

Obama should be acknowledging that color and gender will always influence any voter ignorant enough to base their vote on these reasons.

If you are white and vote for a white based on color, then you are an ignorant voter.
If you are black and base you vote on color…then you again are an ignorant voter.
If you are a man or woman that votes for the same gender as yourself based solely on gender…then again you are an ignorant voter.

Why is it that blacks voting for Obama as high as 90% in some states is considered progress and when he only gets 25% of the white vote it’s considered scandal?

We recall this quote from the Charlotte Observer:
““Because he’s black — bottom line,” librarian Elisha Minter said, explaining her support for Obama. “He’s qualified.””

That is the most ignorant and racist thing on this page. This woman is proud to be basing her vote only on the color of his skin. She is no doubt a hero to her party, and she is more proof of what Geraldine Ferraro said as being true.

How many other idiots like this voted to push him over the top?

Why is the old man on TV saying “I would never vote for a mormon!”, that is ok but if the same comment was made about a candidate being black it would have been blatent hatred and racism?

Are not religion and race two divisions that have equal injustices throughout history?

Since when is basing your vote on race only OK when you non-white? I again think merit and issues are the only factors that anyone should use.

So why is it the media doesn’t find scandal in only 10% of Democratic black voters voting for the white candidate? Didn’t these people base their vote on skin color too? Why isn’t this a race issue? Or just an amazing coincidence…..

The problem is that the Democratic party has for so long been purposely dividing America into groups and creating black vs white and rich vs poor. This is an old trick that help ensure you have a large number of this exact type of ignorant voters ready to pull levers.

I vote on merit and issues and not race, gender or economic class baiting. This explains my Republican voter registration card. I am not stupid enough to let CNN or self proclaimed “activists” bait me into a “color vote for progress”.

Since when is any vote based on color known as progress?
I would wager that the great Dr. King would agree with that thought as well.

I imagine Dr. King would ask all voters to judge candidates not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. This is a concept that is NOT meant to only apply to whites in America, but to all people when judging all other people.

Ferraro even points out in the AP article that she knows she was chosen based on gender. Ferraro proves she is the only one who lives in the real world and faces what is common sense.

It’s hard to try to blame her when she is right and experienced in being exactly what she says Obama has become.

The controversy began when the national media picked up on comments Ferraro made in an interview last week with the Daily Breeze newspaper in Torrance, Calif.: “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.”

Ferraro said she stands by her assertion that Obama’s success in the Democratic campaign is due “in part” to his race.

Obama, however, said that if someone in his campaign had suggested that Hillary Clinton “is where she is only because she is a woman” she would be offended.

Clinton has said she disagrees with Ferraro’s remarks. In an interview with The Associated Press, she said, “It’s regrettable that any of our supporters — on both sides, because we both have this experience — say things that kind of veer off into the personal.”

Ferraro is the latest in a series of candidate surrogates whose comments have roiled both presidential campaigns. Last week, Obama adviser Samantha Power resigned after calling Clinton “a monster.”

Ferraro, who was Walter Mondale’s vice presidential running mate, said Wednesday that her remarks were not racist and had been taken out of context.

“I was talking about historic candidacies and what I started off by saying (was that) if you go back to 1984 and look at my historic candidacy, which I had just talked about all these things, in 1984 if my name was Gerard Ferraro instead of Geraldine Ferraro, I would have never been chosen as a vice presidential candidate,” Ferraro said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “It had nothing to do with my qualification.”

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18 Responses to “Geraldine Ferraro Nails It”

Katy on March 12th, 2008 9:42 pm

She might have a point if she actually ran for her place on a ticket, but since she didn’t she needs a tall glass of STFU. She did have it handed to her because she is a woman. Barrack has been campaigning and voting, and from what I remember, he won Iowa, barely lost NH and NV and won SC. The black vote in NH, albeit small went to Hillary. In IA there was not a black vote to look at. I can’t comment past that because that is when the Clintons changed the conversation to make it all about race. I do know the polls had certainly changed after the Clintons ran with the race card. The numbers work out in their favor, you know, if it is black vs white.
Kevin on March 12th, 2008 9:46 pm

Katy,
good point about not earning her spot on the ticket. her being used as a pawn to win a group of voters is very different from earning a large total demographic as Obama has.

But in fact his race has sealed the deal, as the map of who won where on CNN shows us with the entire southeast going to Obama.

Its important to remember that I find Obama to be classy and inspiring, but I don;t close my eyes to the fact that it is now helping him more than it hurts. His color is what scares the McCain people as a matchup in the southeast would get hairy.
Michael Kraft on March 12th, 2008 11:19 pm

I think its black + Those who hate hillary VS White + Those who dont hate her.

(Black)12%+ (hate hillary)50% = 62%
White AND Dont Hate Hillary = 38%?

He is winning because she is the least liked candidate they oiffered and he is the most inspiring. BUT the value of his race paid off big in South Carolina which is considered when he became a contender and turned the race around.

Then throw in races like the all important and close Missouri, where he won about 3 counties, only the black areas to her winning the rest of the state…but it added up to a .5% win.

Her only chance was to throw on A Sombrero head to El Paso and shout some “si se puedes!” and try to appeal to the illegal immigrant vote in west Texas.
Gina.N on March 13th, 2008 12:11 am

Ferraro now says that she’s being attacked because she’s white. She also needed to point out to everyone that Jesse jackson was black.

She was given a podium to discuss the candidates and their issues and the best she could do was tell everyone that Obama is black (no kidding) and that everyone votig for him is essentially racist and ignorant. All she can see now are *sexist* and *racial* attacks against her.

Her words and reaction are truly unbelievable and she’s been exposed for what she is. She is a racist with serious men issues - despite all the success she has achieved.

Also, this woman is so backward, she doesn’t even know what the internet is. For the first time in her life, she’s being called on these types of remarks. The Mass Media can no longer protect her even if they wanted to - so now the Obama campaign is orchestrating an attack on her and not new age media. She needs to go back into her cave.

From another article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/us/politics/13ferraro.html?ref=us

Ms. Ferraro, 72, said she had been the victim of a barrage of abusive e-mail and telephone calls in the last few days, organized, she suspects, by Obama operatives. Asked how she knew it was an organized effort, she said, “It was too orchestrated, bang bang bang. Where else could it come from?”
Harry Sutphin on March 13th, 2008 12:18 am

Is anybody sure that she isn’t in bed with Carl Rove and then she quit so she could speak her own mine . Was she then speaking for Clinton the hill woman. What a spin doctor I think if the american people do not elect Obama we have had it as a country as we once knew it. It’s all over and you want to talk scare card there it is my people. Get scared!!!
Katy on March 13th, 2008 12:18 am

I would agree that he is winning based on his race in the southeast, the demographics show that without a doubt. I wish I would have been able to see what the real vote would have been, but we will never know. I know the polling early on said Clinton would have won. I think it was a mix of the race card that the Clintons played + the fact that Obama could actually win + Obama being an inspiring candidate = Black voters becoming a block joining together.
We certainly haven’t seen this kind of overwhelming support, even with Jesse Jackson, which by the way, when he ran he got 54% of the black vote in Mississippi in ‘84.
Katy on March 13th, 2008 12:19 am

Sorry, when I say real vote I mean if Clinton hadn’t goaded this into an all out race war.
Graham P. on March 13th, 2008 2:06 am

Ferraro’s remarks are correct, just ask President Al Sharpton. I and all white males are compelled to vote for every black man that runs. Since there are so few white women voters in the Democratic party only a black man has a chance. That is why the government is 100% black male politicians. Just look around you the evidence is in front of you! Why can’t you see Jerry is telling the truth!
Zoey on March 13th, 2008 3:37 am

Obama was not winning the majority of the black vote until Bill Clinton opened his big fat stupid mouth in South Carolina. After that, there has been a subtle but a clear pattern of what some might consider minor-race baiting coming from the Clintons. It is not the validity, nor the significance of the race baiting that has turned the tide against the Clintons. It is simply — the sheer consistency.
Mary Barry on March 13th, 2008 9:24 pm

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 7:23 AM, wrote:

My comments to journalists at the Chicago Sun-Times.

To: Abdon Pallasch, Journatist,
Chicago Sun-Times

Hello:
Many, silently would reflect on Geraldine Ferraro’s comments and think the same. Interesting, how people want to interpret it as “racist”: That’s nonsense. Why is it acceptable that each time Huckabee’s name is voiced, it is always followed by the word “evangelical”; or Mr.Romney - it’s followed by the word, “Mormon”? It seems you can identify a person using religion, all the time and never be criticized; but why can’t you say Obama, followed by the “black”? He’s being given a greater number of votes by the black population - because he is BLACK.

Then Obama’s comments re: his upbringing and how he had to fight for everything … is nonsense. How many single mother/children - “white” - ever get the opportunity to attend the most prestigious schools in the US, like Harvard? He calls this a struggle? That’s nonsense. If it weren’t for his “white” grandparents, maybe these opportunities for him would not have been possible. It’s others who make these dreams become a reality if their home circumstances are evident.
What about Hillary Clinton? She’s had an uphill battle being “woman” to make her way in this campaign. Yet the media doesn’t come to her aid whenever there is a questionable statement re: gender.

Obama is an inspiring speaker with a flair for captivating an audience. But so is Clinton in her manner of delivery; but with a different style. One IS black and one IS woman. So be it.
Mary Berry
Florida
Michael Kraft on March 13th, 2008 11:15 pm

“Ferraro’s remarks are correct, just ask President Al Sharpton.”

Well that could also be because Obama is a decent candidate an Sharpton is a joke, hypocrite and a racist clown.

Its a combination of his color helping in the important southern races, and the use of that fact to atach hillary.

I HATE Clinton, she is the worst thing on the TV and the dirtiest campaigner whil Obama has been very clean and respectful in his run for office thusfar…..But His staf couldnt wait for the slightest cance to try and pull the race card after Bill opened his mouth.

What Bill said was no big deal and not meant to offend anyone, but they couldnt wait to spin it into a march.

Obama is the far better candidate, as Hillary is so corrupt I cant look at her,…but he is reaping the reward of a voting demographic that will pull his lever no matter what without thinking twice.
Kim on March 14th, 2008 9:21 am

Geraldine Ferraro’s comments deserve merit because what she unashamedly (and rightfully so) said is true! Obama would NOT be where he is if he were not black. And Obama’s camp gets defensive and calls her racist? They are laboring under double standards and bigotry. Have you heard Obama’s pastor’s sermons on the news? If that’s not pushing the race card, I don’t know what is.
I grew up and live in the south. Racism is still rampant in this part of the country, however, 90% of it is pushed by the so called minority.
Adam Schifter on March 14th, 2008 3:37 pm

Katy is correct. The fact that Ferraro did not have to run to be on the ticket makes her argument fall flat on its face. In fact it makes her look more stupid than racist. Of course most racists are stupid so it goes hand in hand. Democrats aren’t exactly jumping at every chance to elect a black man despite Obama’s seeming popularity. We’ve only had four black Governors in all of American history and one of those in NY was by default. Personally I think Democrats are the saddest kinds of racists- racists in denial. If General Colin Powell had run as a Republican for President I don’t think you would see this kind of infighting. You’d have a few outwardly racist idiots who would say “no way” but the majority would say he is well suited for the position and would vote accordingly. Barry Goldwater backed Powell not because he was black but because he was an honest man who was good for America. Republican’s value character and hard work.. two things Obama and Powell share in common. This is a major reason why some Repub’s have voted for Obama. Liberals want to act like they care about social justice and progressive change, but at the end of the day who do they vote for and how much do they give to charity? “Arthur Brooks, the author of “Who Really Cares,” says that “when you look at the data, it turns out the conservatives give about 30 percent more.” He adds, “And incidentally, conservative-headed families make slightly less money.”" Of the top 25 states 24 are Red States. I am a Democrat and I do support Obama but I can no longer ignore the fact that so many Democrats just like Ferraro are mostly talk and little action in regards to true empowerment and opportunity for all Americans. If Obama and the American people are robbed I guarantee you that McCain will look like a breath of honest fresh air. Save your party Clinton and run for Governor of NY instead.
Angela on March 19th, 2008 12:06 am

Here’s the deal: There is NO point in discussing this because the Democratic candidate was decided long before the Clintons allegedly “pulled the race card.”

Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee. How do I know this? History, my friends, tends to repeat itself.

African Americans received the right to vote before women and race relations were acknowledged as real and problematic in America with the passing of the Civil Rights Amendment. The Equal Rights Amendment has yet to be ratified. I suppose America doesn’t feel that sexism is a problem. It simply doesn’t exist. Acknowledging it would be too inconvenient.

Please do not misconstrue my comments. Racism still exists in America and it is a shameful fact. However, I feel that sexism is much more prevalent in our society and it receives much less attention, but that’s because sexism is also a subject that is frowned upon in almost every sector of society, so I will probably be crucified for broaching this taboo topic. Americans appear capable of acknowledging racism, but sexism is a different story. Our world is run by men, after all.

Perhaps I feel this way because I am a woman, but I think most people, if proper thought is given to the subject, would come to agree with me. Fashion trends and magazine covers happen to reflect much about a particular society. As sociology has told us, in society, those who wear the most clothing hold the most power. For God’s sake, the media refers to Hillary Clinton as “Hillary” and Barack Obama as “Obama.” Isn’t that disrespectful? Well, she is a woman, after all, so I’m not surprised. The media does the same thing to female athletes, not to mention how the commentators like to remark about the female athlete’s appearance. These are things their male counterparts will never have to endure. I wonder how people would view Hillary Clinton if she was HOT? That’s an interesting perspective.

Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee. I will welcome it, as it just might do some good for the black community. His nomination will also open the door for a future female nominee. As history has predetermined, there will not be a female president until there has been a black one. There’s really no sense in talking about it. Until blacks and women are truly equal, the topic will linger and continue to infect things that shouldn’t be polluted by the clouds of race and gender. It’s simply natural because people identify with the familiar and they will naturally push their own self-serving agenda. It’s human nature, simply put.

Before anyone renounces me as loving “Hillary” because she’s a woman or labels me as an ignorant voter, please save your breath. My vote is reserved for McCain. I know what to expect from him. The Democrats, though they will probably win due to the hype currently surrounding them, are a bunch of wild cards right now. With the current economic state of affairs, that is a very disconcerting thought. As you can tell, my financial agenda takes priority over my equality issues. In a world where female labor is less costly than male labor, I have to look out for numero uno. See? We are all self-serving.
The work and the glory on March 23rd, 2008 3:57 pm

I’ m just a regular 16 year old Catholic girl. I dated a 17 year old Mormon boy, whom I loved very much. We were great together, but sometimes I couldn’ t figure out why he loved me back. After all, I wasn’ t Mormon, and he told me that he“ would love to convert me, but wouldn’ t force me.” He even got me a Book of Mormon for Valentine’ s Day (romantic, I know). One time, he talked about marriage and how he would want to be married to me forever (which scared the crap out of me. Who at my age thinks about marriage? …
boddy on March 28th, 2008 1:40 am

Well, this article is quite interesting but let me just point out something that allot of people don’t understand especially the author of this story, “race is not as polarizing as religion” the Mormons chose to be who they are but, you don’t chose to be what race you become. The reason why blacks are discriminated around the world is because of America, because of their slave history. Even blacks from Africa are being treated as slave because of America, so dont you tell me that race is the same thing as religion. I certainly like Obama but I am not voting for him but people like you will make me change my mind. I am white if you wish to know.
Michael Kraft on March 28th, 2008 12:54 pm

“The reason why blacks are discriminated around the world is because of America, because of their slave history”

Really. America is the cause of all black racism in the entire world?

“Even blacks from Africa are being treated as slave because of America”

You sir, are a complete moron.

What decade do you live in? We live in a world where murder for religion still happens every single day, but I challenge you to find a single slave in America.

300 years from now, liberal idiots like you will still be trying top play race cars based on the situation of the 1800’s.

But I assure you that murder for religion will still exist.

I like Obama too, and I too wont vote for him because he shares the same leftist,liberal, weak, victim entitlement attitude that you do.

I have never owned a slave or cared about the color of someones skin in judging their character,…. so I for one don’t really have patience for your guilt trip.

If you want to preach entitlement or American guilt, you should get in a time machine and go find someone who deserves it.

Living in the past has damaged and weakened the African american community more than anything me or my family has ever done.

The race guilt card only guarantees nobody will every get real change. This is exactly why liberals play the race card….because their entire philosohpy relies on keeping a large percenage of the population poor. If they actually helped the poor get educated and prosper they would lose their entire voter base.

A democrat that suceeds in business and works their way out of poverty…..is known as a republican.

Ask Bill Cosby, hell tell you the truth.
Anonymous on March 30th, 2008 12:31 pm

I think many Americans are sick and tired of a president who puts his own brand of God above America. And I think Mormons have something special to prove, given how one of their profits, um, rebelled against America. But I don’ t think that any religion has a monopoly on crazy. So, yeah, I kind of agree with Washingtonians for Romney that a Mormon can become president. It might be a handicap , though.