Is this because its Democrat on Democrat crime and no one cares? ; ^ )
I don’t personally think there was anything “racist” about her remarks. ie If one was to come on here and agree that he wouldn’t be there if he wan’t black, I would take that as an honest assement of the situation as that person sees it.
What I find amusing, however, is how clueless she is of the kind of perception that her statements give in the position she’s making them from. Or…are they smarter than I give them credit for?
Either way, the further and further along this election goes, the less and less I like Hillary.
Personally I believe that it was a calculated ploy by the Clinton campaign. They get somebody involved in the campaign to go out and lob a racial grenade in hopes it will have some effect. Then they distance and act shocked and dismayed by the comment.
In the end it was just a stupid thing to say. Whether true or not, its only purpose is to stir up shit. I think just about everybody hear realizes that and for the most part simply ignored it.
Is this because its Democrat on Democrat crime and no one cares? ; ^ )
I don’t personally think there was anything “racist” about her remarks. ie If one was to come on here and agree that he wouldn’t be there if he wan’t black, I would take that as an honest assement of the situation as that person sees it.
What I find amusing, however, is how clueless she is of the kind of perception that her statements give in the position she’s making them from. Or…are they smarter than I give them credit for?
Either way, the further and further along this election goes, the less and less I like Hillary.
the comments per se are not overtly racist but they are intended to fan racist sentiments…that minorities like Obama are getting special treatment and stealing the jobs from hard working blue collar Pennsylvanians. Time for white people to call a spade a spade!
Geraldine Ferraro is not a stupid woman which is why I see an ulterior motive in her monumentaly stupid remarks…that a black man called Barack Hussein Obama is leading the race for the Whte House because of the color of his skin and nothing else. Gimme a friggin break.
Or you could think that this is the Democrat mindset–“A black man couldn’t get where Obama is on his own merit. African Americans can’t really get anywhere without the help of Liberal Democats. Oh sure, they can go to Harvard and become U.S. Senators, but that is just window dressing.”
I heard some clips of what she said. I could not believe that she had said that stuff.
You know what is ironic about it, if you exchange the name Barack Obama with the name Donovan McNabb, you would get an eerily similar transcript between what Ferraro said and what Limbaugh said several years ago.
To her credit, Hillary probably did the right thing by immediately axing Ferraro. I agree, I don’t think her comments were outright racism.
To her credit, Hillary probably did the right thing by immediately axing Ferraro. I agree, I don’t think her comments were outright racism.
Actually she didn’t. She called for Obama to fire someone for calling her a “monster,” but when they called upon her to do the same, she did not and only said that she “regretted” the comments. She also gave some excuses about how she doen’t really work on the campaign but just volunteers to do some fundraising. After enough guff from the media, Ferraro resigned and cried “reverse racism” as she did so.
There was nothing dignified whatsoever in what went on.
This stuff is great,Ferraro took one for the team there will be more.Clintons will have their soldiers from the machine do the dirty work.
All this race stuff is just par for the course,I see it as entertainment ,it is what it is politics.Much more to come.The kid gloves are off and now we see the kinder,compassionate,understanding Liberal party at work.
Wasn’t Bill the first black president? Obama is bi-racial
Well, I figured since you were going to bring yourself to childish attacks on my dyslexia and contribute absolutely nothing to the discussion, I would respond in kind.
Dyslexia? First off, if you have dyslexia I had no idea. You spelled her name wrong twice and you were the one posting about how clueless someone appears.
Geraldine Ferraro is not a stupid woman which is why I see an ulterior motive in her monumentaly stupid remarks…that a black man called Barack Hussein Obama is leading the race for the Whte House because of the color of his skin and nothing else. Gimme a friggin break.
Damn! I thought I was a cynical bastard, but I didn’t even THINK of this take on the statements. Now that you’ve said it, though, it sure sounds like that’s what she was saying.
My first thought when I heard the comments was that she sounded a helluva lot like Jimmy “the Greek” Snyder, who made those off-the-cuff remarks that he did not intend as racist, but that were so clumsily worded and so off the wall that they couldn’t help but be racist.
I thought Ferraro was trying to say, albeit in a pretty awful way, that Obama would not be at the forefront of the race if he weren’t black because a white person would not have the ability to motivate and inspire the black voting community the way Obama does. Anyone who’s followed the primaries has seen that Obama wins the black vote by a pretty good margin in most, if not all of the states so far. So Ferraro’s statements have some ring of truth, but DAMN, she sure as heck didn’t think about her phrasing too well.
Plus . . . Obama’s race is just one of many factors that make him appealing (or unappealing, as the case may be) to various voters. Undoubtedly, some folks may vote for/against him because he is black, but others will vote for/against him for other reasons, too. To suggest that his appeal is tied up entirely in his race would be laughable if it weren’t such a sorry commentary on how too many people in this country think.
The kicker in these seemingly endless racially-charged exchanges is that it gives Republicans and pundits the opportunity to inject claims of racism into the fray, without the offender or the target intending or receiving it as such. Someone in the Hillary camp says something stupid and racially-charged but not racist, the Obama camp denounces it without charging racism, and their opponents and the media spin it as Hillary’s camp being racist, and Obama’s camp calling the attacks racist.
Rush was spot-on in his urging Republicans to prolong the race. The longer the fire burns, the hotter it gets, the more damage done. Brilliant.
Yes, I am dyslexic, but even if I wasn’t what difference would it make. Why not judge the content of the post instead of spelling errors. It would be ironic if, for example, I repsponded to her social clulessness about racial sensitivity, but then used a racial slur in my post and was oblivious about it.
It’s not even liek Ferraro is even a common name. Hell, I get my name mispelled at least 50% of the time. I never once thought that the people were clueless or that their ignorance was amusing. I simply assumed that they didn’t know how to spell my name.
Anyway, I’m not necessarily annoyed…slightly exasperated maybe…and I enjoy getting direct and to the point sometimes, hence telling you to go fuck yourself. ; ^ )
Plus . . . Obama’s race is just one of many factors that make him appealing (or unappealing, as the case may be) to various voters. Undoubtedly, some folks may vote for/against him because he is black, but others will vote for/against him for other reasons, too. To suggest that his appeal is tied up entirely in his race would be laughable if it weren’t such a sorry commentary on how too many people in this country think.
No doubt…for an ex-VP candidate the statement is amazingly stupid and pointless. Anyone could easily say that Hillary or John McCain wouldn’t be where they are if they weren’t either A) white, B) a woman, or C) an old POW. All of them are pointless because the candidates are where they are for many different reasons, race, sex, life history.
Does anyone think Hillary would be this close to being the Dem nominee if she was black, or McCain the Repub nominee if he wasn’t white?
I thought Ferraro was trying to say, albeit in a pretty awful way, that Obama would not be at the forefront of the race if he weren’t black because a white person would not have the ability to motivate and inspire the black voting community the way Obama does. Anyone who’s followed the primaries has seen that Obama wins the black vote by a pretty good margin in most, if not all of the states so far. So Ferraro’s statements have some ring of truth, but DAMN, she sure as heck didn’t think about her phrasing too well.
She’s made that comment or similar ones on at least three occasions and were not taken out of context. When called on them, instead of defending them with an “what I meant to say was…” she simply stood by them and called foul on the media and the Obama camp.
Th eirony is, Obama is where he is because people, black AND white (among others) are VOTING for him. She, OTOH, was not chosen to be a NP candidate because she was the most qualified, but because she was the most qualified woman they could find.
It’s one thing to say that someone gets in a position because they are filling a “quota”…it does happen and people can make the argument for members of anyone’s cabinet or staff, but it is entirely something different when they are getting elected.
Well, but then again you weren’t the Vice-Presidential candidate of a major political party. But more to the point, the real reason there’s been no outrage is that people are more interested in Client No. 9.
Hell, I get my name mispelled at least 50% of the time. I never once thought that the people were clueless or that their ignorance was amusing. I simply assumed that they didn’t know how to spell my name.