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| The vengeance of Ginni Ferraro |
| 2008-03-21 |
| Former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro said today that she objected to the comparison Sen. Barack Obama drew between her and his former pastor in his speech on race relations Tuesday. . . . "To equate what I said with what this racist bigot has said from the pulpit is unbelievable," Ferraro said today. "He gave a very good speech on race relations, but he did not address the fact that this man is up there spewing hatred." . . . Ferraro said she had "no clue" why Obama would include her in his speech, and said Obama's association with Wright raises serious questions about his judgment. "What this man is doing is he is spewing that stuff out to young people, and to younger people than Obama, and putting it in their heads that it's OK to say `Goddamn America' and it's OK to beat up on white people," she said. "You don't preach that from the pulpit." Ferraro also said she could not understand why Obama had called out his own white grandmother for using racial stereotypes that had made him cringe. "I could not believe that," she said. "That's my mother's generation." . . . |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #13 FERRARO was on CNBC/MSNBC segment critiquing Obama's speech as defective and non-responsive, + calling for OBAMA to take a clear position on WRIGHT'S VIEWS. JUAN COLE + GERALDINE = TWO BIG PRO-DEM, MSM-PARTY STRIKES AGZ OBAMA. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-03-21 20:09 |
| #12 Good catch, Jan. :-) Senator Obama was intelligent and hard-working enough to get an undergraduate degree at Columbia and a law degree at Harvard, where he edited the Law Review, one of the most prestigious opportunities there. There are plenty of other persons of colour admitted to both schools, so that wouldn't have gotten him the editorship, nor kept him in once he got into either school. But other than being very bright and hard working, I certainly don't know anything that makes the honourable Senator worthy of the highest office in the land. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-03-21 16:38 |
| #11 hmmm, interesting, how can BHO compare Ferraro to Wright if he never heard any of Wrights speeches of hate? Very telling. |
| Posted by: Jan 2008-03-21 15:00 |
| #10 I think it was foolish of Obama to make the Ferraro comparison. I'm sure it played well to the choir of minorities who want to excuse their own personal failures or to liberals who wallow in white guilt. However, all that it did was to give the media another celebrity squabble that would assure at least another 3 day media cycle to draw attention to Obama's association with the Rev. White. At this point, Obama should be doing ANYTHING to change the subject. While his coming out speech may have been necessary for his faithful, it did nothing but perpetuate the story for those who may not yet have heard about it - or worse, further clarify for those who may not have been paying attention to just how hateful of a church Obama has been attending. By taking aim at Ferraro, a one-time democratic vice president, he shot himself in the foot. |
| Posted by: Woodrow Slusorong7967 2008-03-21 14:56 |
| #9 D'oh...point taken Panda2099. My question was regarding to BHO as being "full of talent". I was curious as to, aside from that which you state, what other talents you saw in the man? I gather you see little or nothing. DoDo...I'd also include BHOs ability to speak to a crowd...with or without teleprompters. He can deliver a speech eloquently. The minute one adds journalistic inquirey, and critical thought, his unpreparedness is shamefull. He should never have gotten this far in the process. That he has, is a frightening prospect. He still has a very good chance of becoming POTUS. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2008-03-21 12:02 |
| #8 Rex wheres the question. My post fully encapsulate yours, BO has no economics, but socialism, therefore he is not qualified to run this economy, frankly his bona fides are a joke. in his world of liberation theology, socialism is the outcome where the blind get to lead everyone into their own blindness. counterprogramming obama is easy, he has nothing but his race to stand on. |
| Posted by: Thraviper Panda2099 2008-03-21 11:49 |
| #7 Rex Mundi: Barak is a gifted orator when he has a teleprompter. He has been weak in extemperaneous speaking and in taking questions. He has been weak in the debates even though moderators have softballed questions. |
| Posted by: DoDo 2008-03-21 11:48 |
| #6 Question to Panda2099: BHO might have some talent, but it's not the kind that serves the US well. He's a gifted orator, and can inspire people with most innocuous statements. But politically he's done almost nothing, except to propose a global tax to be levied on the American people. He has the kind of talent to pull the wool over on the DNC, that is for sure, but only because the Dems themselves aren't interested in ability, only demogoguery and identity politcs. In that sense, BHO was their godsend. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2008-03-21 11:31 |
| #5 He included Ferraro's statements because the phony moral equivalence wouldn't be complete. Out and out race hatred directed at whites when expressed from the black pulpit or in an audience of black folk is considered the norm. The well-founded observation that Ferraro made about Obama's progress in the campaign needed to be distorted and amplified into a racial slur of epic proportions. This allows Obama to absolve black leaders (Wright) of guilt in perpetuating racial blood-libels and push back responsibility to evil white folks where they believe (and will always believe) it belongs. What is funny is that as a Democrat she objects to being tarred with the same brush that is normally reserved for 'racist Republicans'. |
| Posted by: Fleagum Stalin9281 2008-03-21 11:06 |
| #4 “Ferraro said she had "no clue" why Obama would include her in his speech.” Well Gerri, it’s called a political pre-emptive strike. You see, the fact that no white candidate could have delivered that speech and received any where near the same accolades as he did proves you were spot on with your prior analysis. Good lord woman have you forgotten the basic tenets from the “Gospel of Identity Politics”? Minority Status was, is, and always will be a disadvantage. And to speak aloud of any such privileges resulting from such status will brand you a heretic to the Progressive movement. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2008-03-21 10:41 |
| #3 Obama should pull out of this race, take a sabatical under the tuteledge of Mr Tom Sowell, and then maybe he'll have a career and some substance to offer. This period has only served to demonstrate how inadequate is his preparation. Here is a guy, full of talent leaping to the fore on the backs of white and black voters, yet he's totally unprepared to deal with the economic complexity of a market economy. His bona fides are legal education and community organizing.....big deal, another ambulance chaser with a skill for gathering a crowd.....please do yourself a favor barrack, admit your not ready, you have not the education to lead a high bandwidth economy, as evidence by the company you've kept, and the positions that guide that company are soooooo obsolete, and yet.....you dont see that. You sir have a lot of gaps in your education, and whats holding you together is pure and simple; your ability to organize an operation under the greater fool theory. |
| Posted by: Thraviper Panda2099 2008-03-21 09:11 |
| #2 Obama would probably say that she's acting like a typical old white lady. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-03-21 08:38 |
| #1 out to young people, and to younger people than Obama Snark of the week! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-03-21 06:19 |