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"If Obama was a white man..."

Texan

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Gotta love it when the Dems are imploding over race. :lol2:

I'll have to admit this is the first time I can ever recall agreeing with Geraldine Ferraro on anything. But what she says is true - the Dems have a novelty to toy around with and they're too stupid to look past his color and bullsht speeches.

There's no way in hell a white man with no experience could have risen to the top like Obama has. Such hypocrites. :x

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PHILADELPHIA — The Democratic presidential contest was jolted Tuesday by accusations surrounding race and sex, set off by remarks from Geraldine A. Ferraro that Senator Barack Obama had received preferential treatment because he is a black man.

Ms. Ferraro, the former congresswoman and vice-presidential candidate who backs Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, told The Daily Breeze, a 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.”

She made the comments last week, but on Tuesday, the Obama camp latched on to them, calling them outrageous and demanding that Mrs. Clinton repudiate them....


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/us/politics/12campaign.html?hp
 

Mike

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March 11, 2008
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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."
 

Steve

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It was not until we got North to New York that we began to hear this

Many blame the south for being racist.. but few would think the liberal north east is.. having lived briefly in the south, I didn't see much to back up what I had heard from the media..

after moving to the north east and living here for a some time.. I could honestly say.. there is no place on this earth that is as racist.. as the liberal north east.. and I am not talking about the rural conservative areas, but the cities..

I would expect that the liberal vote will continue to split down racial lines more then idealogical lines.. and when a study is done at the taxpayers expense.. it will show that Barrack carried the youth and Black vote, and Hillery carried the older white vote.. with them splitting the color blinded true liberal vote
 
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Anonymous

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Just one of many Hillary will use and discard like a piece of trash in the months to come....


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former congresswoman and vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro is resigning her fundraising position with Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign after controversial comments she made about Clinton's rival, Sen. Barack Obama.


Comments by former Rep. Geraldine Ferraro are drawing criticism from the Obama campaign.

"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.

"The Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you. I won't let that happen."

Ferraro told CNN she sent the letter to Clinton Wednesday afternoon.

Ferraro stirred controversy with her recent remarks that Obama's campaign was successful because he was black.

She told CNN's Suzanne Malveaux Wednesday that she was "absolutely not" sorry for her comments.

"I am who I am and I will continue to speak up," she said.
 

Texan

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Big Muddy rancher said:
Maybe somebody should run the new Governor of New York for president.

He should get lots of vote.

He is a legally blind black man. 8)
Good idea, Big Muddy. He sounds just about as qualified as the one that's not blind.
 
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Texan said:
Big Muddy rancher said:
Maybe somebody should run the new Governor of New York for president.

He should get lots of vote.

He is a legally blind black man. 8)
Good idea, Big Muddy. He sounds just about as qualified as the one that's not blind.

More--He has even less connections to/experience with the D.C. establishment of slime and corruption...... :wink:
 

TSR

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Texan said:
Big Muddy rancher said:
Maybe somebody should run the new Governor of New York for president.

He should get lots of vote.

He is a legally blind black man. 8)
Good idea, Big Muddy. He sounds just about as qualified as the one that's not blind.

I don't know, although he's not black, many say we're experiencing a blind and deaf one in office right now! $4.00 gas, no I haven't heard
 

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