“…and she has resigned from being a member of my very large finance committee.”

LOL! In other words, folks, continue to send money, The Campaign Goes On!!!I’m beginning to wonder if this will be what finally puts the stake thru Hill’s heart. (I can dream, can’t I?)

Hillary now says she “repudiates” Ferraro’s comments

Aahhh, but does she REJECT them?

Is this indicative of the Demoncratics demographics and the extremes within the party? Demoncratis being on the left of the political spectrum and those who part their hair on the right are more in touch with the common folk and those who part their hair on the left are completely out of touch with reality.

Question: why is it Dem politicians always issue their “apologies” in front of black audiences?

Is it so large that Hillary has people on there she doesn’t want, or is Hillary merely bragging about the size of her campaign.

It’s just an attempt to present Ferraro as a relatively low level official.

Farmer_Joe on March 13, 2008 at 7:59 AM

Hm. I follow your meaning, but that concludes that she was speaking on behalf of the Clinton camp according to Clinton camp strategy. In this particular case, I’m not convinced that is what happened. I think Ferraro is more of a Dem party loyalist then a Clinton loyalist. I think she was just being blunt about her own perceptions. And I’m not sure, that taken in context, they are in and of themselves offensive. I think there is a considerable appeal to people to vote for the first of something.

Perhaps she falsely diminished his accomplishments and played up his identity, but I think she was stating her views that the press has ignored the former and embraced the latter. I think the Obama camp played the issue out (masterfully actually), probably in response to Hill’s call for the head of his foreign policy expert.

IMO, Ferraro was hired to speak to white America, on the assumption they would be as racist as most democrat voters (black and white) are.

Newsflash to African-Am. community. Obama is opposed because he’s an empty liberal asshole with a vicious America-hating wife. It’s the content of his character that sucks, not the color of his skin.

btw, same for Hillary, and Ferraro.

Thanks MLK. You were right about this one, and I’ve adhered to your message.

Spirit of 1776 on March 13, 2008 at 7:50 AM

I don’t understand why they didn’t push back on this one.

Because Ferraro blew their strategy with this one. The strategy is to imply that Obama has only gotten this far because he’s black, but to not ever say it. Then when the Obama camp complains, they act all affronted: “Why, whatever do you mean, sir?”

Ferraro came out and stated the thesis baldly, messing up the subtle little play.

Then we have Hillarys gaff of offering Obama the back seat,
when Obama a head!

Now we have a racial comment by Ferraro and the best part is
Ferraro isn’t backing down,and shes standing her ground.

So ya,Team Hillary is behind in delegates,the popular vote
and has this trifecta on a roll,well i say how Liberal of
you Hillary,and thanks for showing your true colours!

A portion of a Obama:
something happened back here in Selma, Alabama. Something happened in Birmingham that sent out what Bobby Kennedy called, “ripples of hope all around the world.” Something happened when a bunch of women decided they were going to walk instead of ride the bus after a long day of doing somebody else’s laundry, looking after somebody else’s children.

“When (black) men who had PhD’s decided ‘that’s enough’ and ‘we’re going to stand up for our dignity,’ that sent a shout across oceans so that my grandfather began to imagine something different for his son. His son, who grew up herding goats in a small village in Africa could suddenly set his sights a little higher and believe that maybe a black man in this world had a chance.

“So the Kennedy’s decided we’re going to do an airlift. We’re going to go to Africa and start bringing young Africans over to this country and give them scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful country America is.

“This young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets and came over to this country. He met this woman whose great great-great-great- grandfather had owned slaves; but she had a good idea there was some craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided that we know that, (in) the world as it has been, it might not be possible for us to get together and have a child. There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama , because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. Was born. So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma , Alabama . Don’t tell me I’m not coming home to Selma , Alabama .”

Okay, so what’s wrong with that? It all sounds good. But is it?

Obama told his audience that, because some folks had the courage to “march across a bridge” in Selma , Alabama , his mother, a white woman from Kansas , and his father, a black Muslim from Africa, took heart. It gave them the courage to get married and have a child. The problem with that characterization is that Barrack Obama, Jr., was born on August 4, 1961, while the first of three marches across that bridge in Selma didn’t occur until March 7, 1965, at least five years after Obama’s parents met..

Obama went on to tell his audience that the Kennedys, Jack and Bobby, decided to do an airlift. They would bring some young Africans over so that they could be educated and learn all about America . His grandfather heard that call and sent his son, Barrack Obama, Sr., to America .

The problem with that scenario is that, having been born in August 1961, the future senator was not conceived until sometime in November 1960. So if this African grandfather heard words that ‘’sent a shout across oceans,” inspiring him to send his goat-herder son to America , it was not a Democrat Jack Kennedy he heard, nor his brother Bobby, it was a Republican President, Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Obama’s speech is reminiscent of Al Gore’s claim of having invented the Internet, Hillary Clinton’s claim of having been named after the first man to climb Mt. Everest, even though she was born five years and seven months before Sir Edmund climbed the mountain, and John Kerry’s imaginary trip to Cambodia .

I don’t quite get this. Much like McCain/NYT, people on both sides of the spectrum have come out and said ‘I know her, she is no racist/bigot/etc’. And she said the same had applied to her, i.e. she was offered the VP slot because she was a woman. So for all the things the Clinton camp has had come out of it, I don’t understand why they didn’t push back on this one. Maybe because Ferraro herself withdrew, but even that takes the cred away from Hillary “cleaning up” the act.