Geraldine Ferarro lets her emotions do the talking

[Mononoke28 135]

Wow,where has she been for the last 30 years ?

ambassador to the UN Committee on Human Rights during the Clinton administration. From 1996 to 1998 she appeared as co-host of the political television show "Crossfire." Currently, Ferraro is a senior managing director of the Global Consulting Group, a corporate public relations firm.

Um,that's nice,good for her.

I think it's amazing what she has done at her age and in her condition. My dad past away from Multiple Myeloma and believe, it's not an easy cancer to deal with. It doesn't have a cure, patients have very little energy since their blood cells are less each day and their bones become brittle like chalk. So yeah, good for her!

Diana

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I fail to see what the controversey is here. She absolutely coorect in her assertion that Barack Obama wouldn't be where is he is today if he were not black (or so he conviently says so)........

It should be intuitively obvious to anyone unless you're brain dead, in a fog, or a liberal democrat.

Ignorance is alive and well.

Yeah, so.....good morning.

Ignorance is to disavow the obvious......

Tell me, then. Where are all of the other black legitimate presidential candidates? It worked out well for Al Sharpton, didn't it? I guess Colin Powell should be glad he's black. Same for Condy Rice

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Ferraro: My comment wasn't racist, it was a fact

Posted: 10:40 AM ET

Ferraro says her comments were not racist.

(CNN) – An unapologetic Geraldine Ferraro said Wednesday morning that her comments about the electoral impact of Barack Obama's race have been taken out of context, and that she stands by her words.

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

"It wasn't a racist comment, it was a statement of fact," she said on CBS' Early Show, adding that she would leave Hillary Clinton's national finance committee if she were asked, but would not stop raising money for the New York senator's presidential bid. She also blamed Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, for misinterpreting her remarks.

Ferraro also told ABC's Good Morning America that "every time" someone makes a negative comment about Obama, they are accused of racism.

Late Tuesday, she told interviewer that she felt she was being attacked because she was white.

"Any time anybody does anything that in any way pulls this campaign down and says let's address reality and the problems we're facing in this world, you're accused of being racist, so you have to shut up," she told the (Torrance, California) Daily Breeze. "Racism works in two different directions. I really think they're attacking me because I'm white. How's that?"

In another interview Tuesday, she compared Obama's situation to her own 24 years ago, when she was the first female candidate for vice president.

She told a FOX News interviewer: "I got up and the question was asked, 'Why do you think Barack Obama is in the place he is today" as the party's delegate frontrunner.

"I said in large measure, because he is black. I said, Let me also say in 1984 - and if I have said it once, I have said it 20, 60, 100 times - in 1984, if my name was Gerard Ferraro instead of Geraldine Ferraro, I would never have been the nominee for vice president," she said.

In her first interview with Daily Breeze, published late last week, Ferraro said "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman, 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," Ferraro told the newspaper. She also said Hillary Clinton had been the victim of a "sexist media."

Obama himself has called the comments "patently absurd," and his chief strategist, David Axelrod, has called for Clinton to cut ties with the former New York congresswoman, who serves on her campaign's finance committee. Clinton has said that she does not agree with Ferraro's remarks.

Clinton campaign spokesman Mo Eleithee told CNN's Sasha Johnson Tuesday evening that "Ms. Ferraro is speaking for herself. We have made clear that we do not agree with her remarks."

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Let me also say in 1984 - and if I have said it once, I have said it 20, 60, 100 times - in 1984, if my name was Gerard Ferraro instead of Geraldine Ferraro, I would never have been the nominee for vice president," she said.

Interesting. I wonder if she feels the same for Hillary's popularity now?

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She said the same thing about Jesse Jackson many years ago.

Geraldine is an unabashed racist.

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She said the same thing about Jesse Jackson many years ago.

Geraldine is an unabashed racist.

Nice (unfounded) attack, Troll.

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Unfounded? Clearly, you're not reading her the way I am. You probably share her views.

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Unfounded? Clearly, you're not reading her the way I am. You probably share her views.

Is 'reading her' how you make judgments? Not based on actions? Or facts? Just gut?

She did say that nasty 'S' word, but god forbid we bring that up. The race card is far more easy to pull.

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[Mononoke28 135]

I don't think how she's being racist, really. She's not saying anything bad about Obama, she just said he's getting attention for being black. Same as she did back in 1984. That's not being racist.

Diana

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I don't think how she's being racist, really. She's not saying anything bad about Obama, she just said he's getting attention for being black. Same as she did back in 1984. That's not being racist.

Diana

For the first time, the Democratic Presidential nominee will not be a white man. She could equally say - as she did for herself - that Hillary would not be in her position right now if she were male. To my knowledge, she hasn't. Why not?

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Obama would not have broken into Clinton's once rock solid support among blacks if he weren't black, I think that much is true.

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She's engaging in a bit of hear-say IMO.

There is obviously a reason why all 43 presidents were white men, but to suggest that today's candidates wouldn't get the attention they do if they weren't black or female says more about her cynicism than it does about the merits or lack thereof of particular candidates. She would also be suggesting that people are voting en-masse based on personal characteristics rather than policy issues. Perhaps thats right, I don't know - though it doesn't say much of anything positive about the electorate or the people they vote for.

What I would ask is whether her comments are actually adding anything useful to the current debate over these two candidates... Personally I don't think they are..

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And Obama won Miss. based on race. Fact.

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And Obama won Miss. based on race. Fact.

Fact, eh? Dev the Omniscient, is it?

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Well - he won 90% of black voters and only 30% of white voters. For better or for worse, I'd say race was a factor