Countdown - Special Comment - Ferraro
I had so much respect for Geraldine Ferraro. Gone. It was gone in an instant. It is amazing to me how someone who appeared to have so much insight could be so tone deaf. I understand that she has cancer. The chemotherapy can be terrible. It is clear that brain function can be effected. I’m not trying to give her excuses I’m trying to explain something that appears so out of character.
I’ll have more later. Yes, she has stepped down but I think that there is more to say about Hillary Clinton and her followers. I believe they really agree with Ms. Ferraro. I don’t think that Ms. Ferraro is in some type of Chemo haze. I think that she really feels this way.
I think that if you look at my side bar you see 60 or 70 categories. You see Race but you don’t see anything on Sexism. Does Ms. Ferraro therefore conclude that I’m a sexist?
I would like to avoid and condemn those that would like to rank discrimination. Racism is worse than sexism or the other way around. They are all bad. They all need to be confronted. They needed to wiped out of existence. Ranking them is worthless. It serves no propose other than to divide those who would like to fight all discrimination.
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From WaPo:
Geraldine Ferraro has relinquished her position on the Clinton campaign after causing a firestorm with her remarks that Sen. Barack Obama is only where he is politically because he is a black man.
A senior Clinton adviser said no one on the campaign forced Ferraro to quit the finance committee. “Nobody told her to step down,” the adviser said, adding that it might have been counterproductive to try to tell her what to do, given how off-the-reservation Ferraro had been in recent days. (more…)
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I don’t usually place anything under the video. I would like to make an exception in this case. Keith Olbermann’s Special Commentary was so good, that I think it is important for me to highlight it and publish a segment of it.
From MSNBC:
Senator, as it has reached its apex in their tone-deaf, arrogant and insensitive reaction to the remarks of Geraldine Ferraro, your own advisers are slowly killing your chances to become president.
Senator, their words, and your own, are now slowly killing the chances for any Democrat to become president.
In your tepid response to this Ferraro disaster, you may sincerely think you are disenthralling an enchanted media and righting an unfair advance bestowed on Sen. Obama.
You may think the matter has closed with Rep. Ferraro’s bitter, almost threatening resignation.
But in fact, Senator, you are now campaigning as if Barack Obama were the Democrat and you were the Republican.
As Shakespeare wrote, Senator, that way madness lies. (more…)
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I run a blog that is aimed at the urban crowd and as a black man I’d like to go on record saying I don’t think Geraldine Ferraro is racist at all. At least not in the way we generally think of a racist. She see Barack being black as an advantage and not a disadvantage. In a way she is right. His race does get him noticed but in all honesty it is not going to help him get elected at all. One of the other writers over at Highbrid Nation says Geraldine Ferraro is evil not racist, lol. He might not be too far off.
Thanks for sharing. There was an editorial in our sunday paper about the 3 am phone call. Pleading for her to drop out. That she is making more enemies along the way with these sort of problems with her workers and with her own comments. He was pleading for her to step down for the sake of the democratic party. That people don’t hate Obama and he has a better shot of beating McCain. If she continues out of stubborness that all the democrats will pay the price and it just pleases the republicans. In the mean time we are losing ground. The war casualties are going up again and they are taking the back seat to this contest where they should be in the forefront to combat McCain.
Ferraro is an idiot who whether she knows it or not is helping the Clintons help McCain become president. She’s a tool in their undermining of Obama, who they know is more likely than Hillary to be the Dem nominee. Bill & Hil prefer President McCain to President Obama. They hope that leaves Hillary one more shot at the presidency in 2012.
What a miserable mess.
Being black didn’t help him get elected as President of Harvard Law Review; didn’t genetically pre-dispose him to oppose the Iraq war; didn’t cause him to deliver a riveting speech at the Dem National Convention. If being black were enough, Angela Davis would have been our first female black (communist) president.Or what about Jesse Jackson. Or if I really wanted to get stoopid what about Alan Keyes. Obama is where is today because of his actions and his personality. Oh and by the way, Geraldine Ferraro is where she is today because of her actions and her personality.
Mike -
Thanks for your insight.
I see the Geraldine thing as my oppression is worse than yours. Maybe I’m wrong but that’s how I see it.
I appreciate your comments.