Geraldine Ferraro resigned from Hillary Clinton’s finance committee yesterday. She said she “wanted to get this off the news.” She said this during a live interview on the NBC Nightly News. It was only one of a series of TV appearances on Wednesday. She wants to “get this off the news?” For some reason, I don’t believe her.
She says her remarks that “if Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position” are divisive only because the Obama campaign has “played this type of a race card.”
They’ve got it right on Daily Kos:
[T]he Clinton campaign is in no hurry to stem the bleeding. Clearly, they’ve made a calculated decision that this is good politics in certain parts of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky, so why put the brakes on it?
What I hope is that this year something fundamental has changed in our politics. What I hope is that the divisive techniques that have succeeded in so many past elections will fail because voters in all fifty states — Democrats, Republicans and Independents alike — will smack the practitioners down and say “Enough!”
Spink Nogales | 13-Mar-08 at 9:12 am | Permalink
Not that anyone cares, but I have found the actual newspaper article that started this entire Geraldine Ferraro Controversy and have provide a link to the story below. Although not exculpatory, it is interesting to see what was said by Ms. Ferraro in comparison to what is being emphasized in the opinion mills.
WARNING: Extreme racist content. To click on the link below you must be at least 18 years old.
http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_8489268
B. Moore | 13-Mar-08 at 4:24 pm | Permalink
my friend:
i have not noticed that Mr. O’bama has ‘deliberately played’ the “race” card. to my way of thinking, his organization just lets it lie there and allows other people to do the manipulation of same…
but i WILL say this: it is time NOW for the afro-american voter to put up or shut up… vote for Obama for canditate/president or NEVER EVER AGIN complain there is no ‘black’ voice in Washington.
my last reading or newspapers sez even Jessie J. issued some kind of statement about Obama being the current ‘standard-bearer.’
sounds like to me Jessie J. is saying ‘hold your nose and vote…’
otherwise i see that today you been busy. 4 ‘posts’ early in the morning.