Obama's Winning Because He's Not White!

[snapcat]

It's sad to see the Hillary Camp embracing such radical and racist attitudes. Ferraro has a track record of patently offensive and racist remarks.

Very sad, indeed!

From Politico ...

A Ferraro flashback


"If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race," she said.
Really. The cite is an April 15, 1988 Washington Post story (byline: Howard Kurtz), available only on Nexis.
Here's the full context:

Placid of demeanor but pointed in his rhetoric, Jackson struck out repeatedly today against those who suggest his race has been an asset in the campaign. 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."

Asked about this at a campaign stop in Buffalo, Jackson at first seemed ready to pounce fiercely on his critics. But then he stopped, took a breath, and said quietly, "Millions of Americans have a point of view different from" Ferraro's.

Discussing the same point in Washington, Jackson said, "We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got North to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history."
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From AmericaBlog ....


http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/11/204337/675/349/474608

Markos found a Geraldine Ferraro interview from February 27, 2008, on FOX News' John Gibson's radio show, where she said pretty much the exact same thing she said this week about Obama and race. The thing is, it's nearly verbatim the same thing. These are talking points that she rehearsed, and/or was given. The question is by whom?

FERRARO: 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...

GIBSON: You mean if he were John Edwards?

FERRARO: If he were a woman of any color, would he be in this position that he's in, absolutely not.

GIBSON: Geraldine, are you playing the race card?

FERRARO: No, and that's the problem. Every time you say the truth - I'm the first person, John, and you know how honest I am, I am the first person who will say in 1984 if my name were Gerard instead of Geraldine, I would never have been picked as the vice presidential candidate.​

Then look at what she said earlier this week:

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.​

Now look at what she said earlier today:

"If in 1984 my name was Gerard Ferraro instead of Geraldine Ferraro, I would never have been the nominee for VP."​

In politics, those cute little zingers tend to be things you practice in advance. They're intentional, they're talking points. Ferraro planned this entire line of attack over 2 weeks ago. The question is whether Hillary's campaign planned it for her, with her.

Why doesn't the Hillary Camp "reject and denounce" these statements?

 

[jetsonboy]

She's been in the Senate, what, just six years longer than him? That's the only additional public official experience she has. McCain has more---if experience is important, vote for him. http://www.justusboys.com/forum/showthread.php?t=206490

Don't you people get it?? She lived in the White House for 8 years as First Lady! That's experience right there that you cannot argue against because she knows more about what it takes to be President of the United States!! And about McCain, I am a Democrat, gay and do not want him as President, nor do I want Obama. For me, it's that simple, thank you very much.

 

[MystikWizard]

Well if he was white.. he would have won Texas and Ohio
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I don't think so, he has no connection to Hispanics and does not connect with Democratic rank and file. The Democratic blue collar workers don't give a shit what color he is or how well spoken he is, they want someone that will help them with their problems.
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Lance- That was a great post. I'm sure the Obama supporters will be thanking you for contributing to their scant knowledge of their candidate. The more I look at the inconsistencies and blanks of Obama's record the more I realize that none of us know anything about this guy, none of us have the faintest idea of what he would do or how he would conduct the Presidency. I guess we are just supposed to HOPE!

Apparently there is some connection with Obama and the Latinos, otherwise they wouldn't be voting against him in such huge, noticeable blocks. Otherwise, the numbers would be more evenly spread. So, there is something obviously going on with Latinos and I'll leave you to draw your conclusions with what it is.

Don't you people get it?? She lived in the White House for 8 years as First Lady! That's experience right there that you cannot argue against because she knows more about what it takes to be President of the United States!! And about McCain, I am a Democrat, gay and do not want him as President, nor do I want Obama. For me, it's that simple, thank you very much.

Yep. Nancy Reagan lived in the White House for 8 years. Barbara Bush lived in the White House for 4 years. And Laura Bush lived in the White House for 8 years. That's all experience. I guess they're all automatically qualified to be President of the United States, as well, since they have this "Experience". Funny thing is that I bet you can't give me a comprehensive list of what she did as First Lady, though, now can you? Well, how can you, since she won't release the records for the public to see.

You guys are getting so desperate, it's laughable. The problem is that it is the same song and dance every day for your Clinton supporters, whining and crying about the same things that have been covered for the past several months.

Something's gotta give somewhere, and voters across the country are telling you what they think of your so-called "arguments".

 

[iman]

NEWS FLASH - THIS JUST IN - OBAMA ADMITS TO BEING BLACK:

"I mean, think," he exhorted supporters at the Catfish Bend Casino in Burlington, Iowa. "You've got a black guy named Barack Obama running for president. You've got to have hope."

Chief campaign strategist David Axelrod said that Obama was proud of his heritage and understood "the historic parameters of his quest" -- but that he didn't need to belabor it to attract African American voters.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationw...n24,1,1471994.story?page=2&cset=true&ctrack=3

CRAZED SUPPORTERS DEMAND OBAMA REJECT AND DENOUNCE HIMSELF!

 

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[snapcat]

I heard that Hillary is going to pick Sinbad as her VP, and Sheryl Crow as her Chief of Staff.

LOL!

 

[lancelva]

It's sad to see the Hillary Camp embracing such radical and racist attitudes. Ferraro has a track record of patently offensive and racist remarks.

Very sad, indeed! [...]

Why doesn't the Hillary Camp "reject and denounce" these statements?

Umm...where have you been?

Senator Clinton:

"I do not agree with that and you know it’s regrettable that any of our supporters on both sides say things that veer off into the personal. We ought to keep this focused on the issues. That’s what this campaign should be about."

Campaign Manager, Maggie Williams:

This campaign should be about the leadership we need for a better future and these attacks serve only to divide the Democratic Party and the American people.

 

[MystikWizard]

I heard that Hillary is going to pick Sinbad as her VP, and Sheryl Crow as her Chief of Staff.

LOL!

Don't forget Jack Nicholson as her Press Secretary.

Cher will be in charge of Entertainment.

 

[NickCole]

But the same thing happened in Alabama on Super Tuesday and the divide has been a lot less in intervening states.

No, it's been increasing.

So I think the severity of todays result is more related to the location than any stoking.

I've pointed specifically to Obama doing it.

 

[NickCole]

Another interesting twist:


http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0308/A_Ferraro_flashback.html

She was right then, as well.

And she has also said if she were a man she wouldn't have been VP candidate.

If Hillary weren't Bill Clinton's wife she probably wouldn't be the Presidential candidate.

None of that is a bad thing. Successful people recognize their opportunities and seize them. But it's interesting that one can say the latter two I've written above without much resistance but saying Obama is, in this instance the way the numbers are going, lucky he's black, is resisted when the truth is it's just as obvious.

We have major problems in this country with just TALKING about race and that's because it's the Big Secret with everybody pretending they're not in any measure racist. Especially blacks who'll use the term "reverse racism" as if that's a different kind of racism because it's "justified." My point is that Obama is stoking those racist elements with his racial talk and the way he's doing it is dividing people who used to be allies -- if he's dividing the Democratic Party to get what he wants I don't see why anybody believes he'll unite Democrats and Republicans. Like George Bush he talks about unifying but in truth he unifies separate groups against each other.

 

[NickCole]

I think it is really rich that Geraldine "Married to the Mob" Ferraro has the temerity to suggest that Obama is getting ahead because he's black. She was hands down the most unqualified person to be nominated for Vice President in recent decades (Dan Quayle included) and the way the feminist lobby browbeat Mondale into nominating a woman no matter how unqualified made the Democratic party a laughingstock. She was an embarrassment then and she's still an embarrassment.

Saying she was an embarrassment is not true.

And she's the first to say her primary qualification was being a woman.

Americans just go bonkers when somebody stands up and tells the truth about things we're all supposed to keep secret. Ours is the strangest country. Everybody's busy keeping secrets everybody else has got.

 

[NickCole]

Congresswoman Ferraro's statements were not appropiate. ...

What, exactly, was inappropriate about her comments?

Be specific.

 

[NickCole]

"Placid of demeanor but pointed in his rhetoric, Jackson struck out repeatedly today against those who suggest his race has been an asset in the campaign. 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."

She was right.

Stuff like calling New York City "hymietown" would have prevented him from getting as far as he did in that race if he were not black.

 

[khushibagh]

Saying she was an embarrassment is not true.

And she's the first to say her primary qualification was being a woman.

Americans just go bonkers when somebody stands up and tells the truth about things we're all supposed to keep secret. Ours is the strangest country. Everybody's busy keeping secrets everybody else has got.

Then she should have had the self respect in 1984 to turn down the nomination.

 

[NickCole]

Then she should have had the self respect in 1984 to turn down the nomination.

Mondale was going to run with a woman and Ferraro believed (I think rightly) that she was qualified to do the job and also to be President if that happened. Why turn it down? Being a woman probably made life harder in many instances, why not seize an opportunity it provided?

I feel the same way about Obama.

My criticism is that, first of all, just mentioning it gets some people crying Racist. And secondly Obama is using race to divide and conquer rather than unite. He and his wife are using racial language in a way that's making a deep division in the Democratic Party that I think he hasn't the slightest idea how to heal even if he wants to. He's tearing apart a fabric he doesn't know how to sew back together. And McCain isn't a George Bush or Tom DeLay; I think a lot of Democrats who've been attacked by Obama supporters over these weeks and watched Obama play the race card will end up staying home in November if Obama's the nominee. Polls indicate that, and I hear it more and more from people I meet. I believe that's something we should be very concerned about.

 

[noah617]

Originally Posted by noah617
But the same thing happened in Alabama on Super Tuesday and the divide has been a lot less in intervening states.

No, it's been increasing.

Okay, it's less than it was in Alabama over a month ago but it's increasing. That would explain his big wins in mostly black Wyoming and Wisconsin. The race divide has more to do with the dynamics in individual states than it does with stuff the candidates are doing.

Quote:
So I think the severity of todays result is more related to the location than any stoking.

I've pointed specifically to Obama doing it.

And others have pointed out specific incidents of Clinton doing it so what?

 

[blueto21]

That Ferraro (old hag) is going around to right-wing media outlets to plead her case about being beaten up because she’s white is troubling. This has nothing to do with her being white but everything to do with her ignorant racist comments. As long as the Democratic Party and its DNC leadership stand by and allow the race-baiting from the Hillary Clinton campaign to continue, I will believe that they condone it.

A strong case can be made that Obama would have risen just as fast, and possibly faster, had he been white -- contrary to Ferraro's moronic statements. People forget that Obama's 46, not 36. He's got every bit as much raw brain power as Bill Clinton, and, I would argue, more skill as a speaker and "stumper" than Bill had as a candidate. Bill was a year younger than Obama when Bill first ran. White guys with Obama's talents are often recruited for statewide offices as entry-level elected positions, not state legislature positions. Had he been a white Harvard Law Review president with oratorical skills to die for, his trajectory might have been state attorney general (Bill's first elected office), then governor, then presidential candidate. Obama had to start his electoral career in a state senate district with a high African American population, because no money people would bet on a black statewide candidate. People often forget the stunning fact that, since Reconstruction, only 3 blacks have been elected to governorships and only 3 blacks have been elected to the US Senate. So please stop stoking race resentment, Ms. Ferraro. You are really beginning to sound like a self-serving, pro-feminists, anti-male, racist bitch.

Let me remind you that at the beginning of this campaign Obama and Clinton were splitting the black vote. He earned their overwhelming support partly, I may add, because of the race card being played out, first by Bill and then Hillary, and now her supporters. Let me further remind you of the questions about Obama at the beginning of the campaign to the effect of whether he was black enough and why he wasn't getting black support. Everyone was asking him "why aren't you getting the black vote?"

Imagine the frothing at the mouth that would be elicited by a supporter of Obama saying "The reason Clinton has lasted this long is because she's a woman". Oh, the horrors! The ringing accusations of sexism! The repeated conference calls with reporters denouncing the sexism in the Obama campaign!

And yet, something similar occurs, and we have the Clinton campaign saying, in essence, "Nyah, nyah, nyah. You started it!! Not us!!"

And we think reporters and political junkies are gullible. PUH-lease!

 

[blueto21]

As usually Keith Olbermann sets the record straight.

 

[sunoftheskye]

Sad. Hillary's campaign is just...sad.

 

[White Eagle]

For what it's worth, Hardball just announced that Ferraro resigned from whatever post she had with Clinton. Good riddance.