Oh and Kos himself is a huge supporter of Obama, if Hillary gets the nod, look for him to be pissing himself trying to get back into her good graces.

ArmyAunt on March 20, 2008 at 6:46 PM

Helps if I put the link on there!

http://avideditor.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/rev-wright-reprints-hamas-stand-in-church-bulletin/

Nahanni on March 20, 2008 at 6:42 PM

Whoa…that is a freaking bombshell. UNFIT for the presidency by belonging to an organization for 20 years when that org supports terrorism. Hamas has in its charter that it wants to murder jews, therefore Hamas is a terror organization.

This is HUGE…oh how I hope Obama gets the nomination. Wright + typical white person + Hamas = John McCain wins.

JustTruth101 on March 20, 2008 at 6:53 PM

She no longer has to worry about how her speech reflects on Hillary, and so Ferraro is much freer to speak her mind on this issue.

You got that right Ed. She can some damage now.

forest on March 20, 2008 at 7:00 PM

If Geraldine keeps telling the truth, she’s going to have no choice but to change parties.

Delicious.

Can you imagine Gerry switching parties and then writing a book about her conversion?

OPERATION CHAOS

misterpeasea on March 20, 2008 at 7:32 PM

Succinctly, “Rev.” Jeremiah Wrong fulminates hate froth from his mouth.

hoi polloi on March 20, 2008 at 7:56 PM

I. Love. This. Ferraro called Barry on his lack of experience and points out that he is a candidate only because of his minority status - something Hillary could never do, because she’s in the same exact boat.
So Barry implies that she’s racist and pisses her off, guaranteeing more refreshing frank honesty from Mrs. Ferraro! Bad move Barry - she has the upper hand, not being constrained by a dishonest narrative the way you are. Dick Morris had an interesting insight in Real Clear Politics yesterday:

Wright’s rantings are not reflective of Obama’s views on anything. Why did he stay in the church? Because he’s a black Chicago politician who comes from a mixed marriage and went to Columbia and Harvard. Suspected of not being black enough or sufficiently tied to the minority community, he needed the networking opportunities Wright afforded him in his church to get elected. If he had not risen to the top of Chicago black politics, we would never have heard of him. But obviously, he can’t say that.So what should he say?

I wonder if Barry thought that his speech on Wright would receive the same positive reaction as Mitt’s religion speech, and the issue would be put to rest.

Dork B. on March 20, 2008 at 8:03 PM

So Barry implies that she’s racist and pisses her off, guaranteeing more refreshing frank honesty from Mrs. Ferraro! Bad move Barry - she has the upper hand, not being constrained by a dishonest narrative the way you are

Aren’t you forgetting that she too was only chosen for VP based on her gender. She had only been in congress something like 5 years before she ran. Some commenter above said that she has acknowledged that, but I didn’t know that and haven’t seen the quote. So to me her narrative is not really more pure than Hillary’s or Barry’s, at least when it comes to putting identity ahead of qualifications.

JiangxiDad on March 20, 2008 at 8:16 PM

Had we the grim republican virtue of our forefathers, they’d both have been tarred & feathered in short order.

dhimwit on March 20, 2008 at 8:05 PM

Well yes, we’re victims of our success. Mature, affluent liberal democratic societies fail in time. The scenario you paint would more likely happen in China today. In 100 years, they too may have a failing, wealthy, liberal society. It has happened there before I believe.

JiangxiDad on March 20, 2008 at 8:20 PM

It appears to me that Ferraro has a right to be mad as hell . . . but then what do I know, I’m just one of Obama’s “typical white” men.

rplat on March 20, 2008 at 8:30 PM

Ferraro pointed out that her candidacy would have not been possible had her name been Gerry Ferraro, implying that her gender was the main reason she was invited on the ticket that year. I think it was the same appearance (on FOX?) on which she pointed out his lack of experience and that his race was his ultimate qualification.

But you guys have followed this closer than I have, because I have thought that none of this Wright business matters to his supporters at all. It possibly could bloody him up for McCain a bit; but again, the Dems will rally behind this guy no matter what his Pastor says. Maybe it could send a few undecideds McCain’s way…I guess McCain is polling higher than Barry and Hill, or was.

*Sigh* I guess it’s time to admit that I’m burned out on this election.

Dork B. on March 20, 2008 at 8:44 PM

Blood makes the grass grow… kill kill kill.

Hog Wild on March 20, 2008 at 8:46 PM

JiangxiDad on March 20, 2008 at 8:16 PM

For what it’s worth here’s the quote from CNN.

“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.

Oldnuke on March 20, 2008 at 8:51 PM

I want a shout-out for Juan Williams, who is giving his head a shake and waking up to the bullshit that is going down on this. He’s saying so on NPR, not just on Fox. You’ve walked off the lefty-lib plantation now, so testify, my good man!

drunyan8315 on March 20, 2008 at 9:09 PM

I want a shout-out for Juan Williams,

You the MAN, Juan!!

Honestly, he has displayed remarkable integrity in quite a few instances lately and it’s freakin’ refreshing. I like him a lot.

tree hugging sister on March 20, 2008 at 9:26 PM

Ferraro: typical white person?

profitsbeard on March 20, 2008 at 9:46 PM

wise_man

I said:

It’s pretty hypocritical of Ferraro to be launching this attack against Wright at this time, calling him a “bigot” and whatnot.

Ferraro has been in the Democratic Party for a long, long time and she has to have heard this kind of speech from black leaders before. I would assume that she has heard it several times before. She’s been paling around with people like Wright for decades. Yet, she never felt the need to point the racism until now.

She was willing to abide the racism as long as it got the Democratic party black votes, but now that the racist is baking her opponent, she feels compelled to show her distain for the pastor.

29Victor on March 20, 2008 at 4:40 PM

And you said:

She’s been paling around with people like Wright for decades.[citation needed]

The only thing I can guess you are referring to his if she never spoke up when Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton made racist comments. I don’t get the “paling around” claim. So if she was a ‘good democrat’ and practiced her version of Reagan’s 11th commandment, and never spoke ill of democrats - why does this have to be hypocritical?

wise_man on March 20, 2008 at 4:45 PM

By “paling around” I don’t mean that they’re playing softball together after hanging out at the theater. I mean political paling around.

People like Wright are part of the ugly, hateful underbelly of the Democrat party. These ideas that Wright is expressing aren’t something isolated to him or his church, they are opinions overtly held by a sizable segment of black activist Democrats and have been for decades. They are the elephant in the Democrat’s room right along with the anti-war protesters that hate soldiers and the Kos Kiddes that hate America.

As a source, I cite Obama’s speech. He, himself, said that this was part of black culture in the U.S. I would also cite the black commentators that have been defending his & making excuses for Wright’s remarks for the last two days.

There is a difference between Reagan’s 11th commandment about not attacking Republicans on policy and this. Antisemitism, bigotry, anti-Americanism and other hate speech are expunged from the Republican Party as soon as they are spotted, not ignored for political gain. Which is what she and other Democratic Politicians have been doing for decades.

Ferraro didn’t just fall off of the turnip truck. Anyone who pays attention to the news or reads any recent history books knows about ideas like Wright’s and that people who hold those ideas and similar make up a sizable Democrat voting block. Ferraro didn’t just fall off of the turnip truck. She’s not some bright-eyed idealist fresh out of college. She is a political insider. She was a Congresswoman and candidate for Vice President. She knew the bigotry & hatred was there staring her straight in the face and she ignored it, and she didn’t just ignore it, she profited politically from it.

But now, when a finger has been pointed at her, when the evil has been exposed and she has been compared to it directly. Now out comes the liberal outrage, now she is willing to call it what it is, what she has known it to be for a long, long time.

29Victor on March 20, 2008 at 10:14 PM

You make some valid points, 29Victor.

Ferraro made her remarks about Obama’s race also to point out his thin resume. She recognized that her own way back when was equally thin and that she was being used for identity politics reasons.

For some reason, Hillary! supporters such as Ferraro do not see that the Madame of the Mao pantsuit is just as ill-credentialed to be president.

Obama has a lot of baggage that deserves scrutiny just as does Hillary! Obama’s financial and influence connections with Rezko, his reliance on father-figure mentors such as the Communist Davies(?)/Davis(?) in his youth and Pastor Wright with his black separatist grievances and anti-American diatribes for 20 years, and his oblique connections with the Kenyan Ondinga raise a lot of red flags about an easily manipulable and manipulating candidate.

His bill to send a sizable amount of our GDP for the Millennial Poverty Act was shuffled with expedience through the Senate by his buddies in the Foreign Relations Committee to add to his resume as capable in the world arena. (BTW I believe that the bill has passed in the House. Hold on to your wallets.)

Obama has been noticeably absent from his senatorial duties throughout his campaign season, failing to show up for some critical votes that would demonstrate exactly what he stands for. I believe, also, that he has not convened one of the committees on which he serves.

Essentially, he adds up to being a token candidate.,, and probably a dangerous one to our economy and to our national security/foreign policy.

As far as a Gore/Obama08 ticket, there were bumper stickers floating that idea at least a year ago. They were photographed on some pricey gas-guzzlers at a global warming event. (Sorry. I lost the file photo.)

The idea is not far-fetched either. The Gore-bots would love to extract their revenge for what they deludedly thought was stolen from themselves in 2000.

The revenge against the Clintons would be ironically sweet, too, for those in the Dem anti-Hillary camp. There was bad blood generated between the Clintons and the Gores during that campaign. The Gores saw Hillary using her time supposedly on behalf of Gore’s candidacy instead being channeled to her own eventual campaign chest.

There is a certain satisfaction in seeing the Dems’ reliance on identity politics to generate dissatisfaction coming around to bite them where the sun don’t shine. I guess Saul Alinksy’s textbook didn’t plan for such contingencies.

onlineanalyst on March 20, 2008 at 11:12 PM

To lift a page from Hillary!’s playbook, we need oppo research teams doing work on both Dem candidates right now; stat. Feed each camp enough crap about the other to keep the guns blazing all the way to Denver.

For example: Dear Obama, follow the Chinese. Hillary!, follow the Chicago Black political machine. Gold for both!

It’s gonna be a riot :)

Wanderlust on March 21, 2008 at 4:58 AM

It really is fun watching the indignation as they turn their own tactics on each other. I think they must be so mentally deranged that the don’t even realize this is the stuff they have been doing to conservatives and republicans for 50 years. I just hope all those middle of the road undecideds are watching closely and becoming a little bit enlightened.

peacenprosperity on March 21, 2008 at 7:51 AM

Now this is what I call chickens coming home to roost.

Kafir on March 21, 2008 at 9:08 AM

I’ve rarely agreed with anything Ferraro said, but She is right on about the Rev.

People, please stop calling people ‘African Americans’
It’s ‘American’
Obama is not African. He is an American.
There is no Africa-America on my globe.

(sorry, just a pet peeve of mine)
Otherwise, I have to go around calling myself an Irish-English-Scottish-Portugese-Cherokee Indian -American.
ridiculous.

bridgetown on March 21, 2008 at 9:38 AM

The Chicago columnist blaming whites for just not getting it excuses what is wrong, blaming anyone but one’s self for hatred, by discrediting what should be right, love of one’s country and fellow humans.

Tolerance vs. PC vs. good citizenship.

When people like the Rev.Wright congregation persist in hating and blaming others for not understanding their God given Constitutional RIGHT to hate America, allowing them to fester is an option as we must tolerate, even as we witness their festering infection leading towards violence upon our own unity and loss of opportunity for ourselves.

HOW MANY GENERATIONS of whites must pay for 87 years of black slavery practiced once upon a time 232 years ago? Blacks blame whites, but the USA is not obligated for European rules set into motion prior to our independence. The USA did not instigate slavery. From 7-4-1776 Declaration of Independence to 1-1-1863 Emancipation Proclamation was only 87 years, one long lifespan during which children were born, yes; none-the-less, only 87 years endured our national practice of slavery. For 145 years, from 1863 to 2008, the blacks have had their freedom and the right to vote (women’s vote did not arrive until 1920, and ERA equal pay for equal work has yet to occur). Since LBJ in 1964, civil rights have studiously been observed for nearly half a century and further layers of protection and benefits have been bestowed upon blacks and minorities by our nation in order to rectify any former guilt and enhance opportunities for minorities to the point that today our nation practices reverse discrimination. Geraldine laid it on the line.

The minorities STILL demanding government and social hand-outs are the people who just don’t get it. ANYONE enforcing reverse discrimination doesn’t get it, either.

Obama represents hope and change that we can believe in WHEN he gets over himself. Evidently, he is not yet there as he blames us for not sharing his take, but we are listening and watching. No more is asked of Obama than of McCain or Hillary. WHO represents the ‘will’ of the majority of Americans and who will best serve our American nation?

That anyone’s candidacy for POTUS enjoys the rights of reverse discrimination is unacceptable.

E pluribus unum functions when we are all equal under the law, POTUS candidates as well.

maverick muse on March 21, 2008 at 9:44 AM

Fox has been playing the hypocrisy card to trump Obama’s race card, pointing out that his rationale for excusing Rev. Wright’s hatemongering because of all his “good work” is diametrically opposed to his verdict on Don Imus (who was thrown off the air during a pledge drive for his charity that helps sick children).

miles on March 21, 2008 at 9:49 AM

Geraldine Sausages

Drtuddle on March 21, 2008 at 3:48 PM

There should never have been a problem with what GF said to start this thing. It was obvious fact. Now that the Obama people have played the race card they are looking more stupid by the minute. It is interesting to watch how someone with the nomination sowed up can manage to lose it, but I think that is what he has done (thank goodness).

duff65 on March 21, 2008 at 5:20 PM

Up yours all you Midwest Dem phonies who tell me how bad my “peeps” are.

crashman on March 21, 2008 at 11:28 AM

Yow! Sok it, Crashman! (That’s a positive comment)

fabrexe on March 21, 2008 at 10:55 PM

Yow! Sok it, Crashman! (That’s a positive comment)
fabrexe

Hey thanks very much fabrexe!!
Election time was always the most torture when I worked in Ann Arbor…..one can only take so much passive aggressive lefty lunacy!

crashman on March 22, 2008 at 1:56 PM