Ferror made a glib statement. When it outraged people she tried to find a scapegoat to blame and naturally it ended up being Obama supporters. Frankly, I'm getting a little tired of the profiling going on.
Of course, Obama is popular with African American voters. Duh? Why wouldn't he be?
Obama is a very qualified, elegant, ethical man with a great vision for this country--and the icing on the cake for the African American community is that he is black. I don't need the icing on the cake.
Many older white women respect the vision Obama has for our country and we believe in his ability to bring the country together to get the wheels of government moving again. He is not perfect. In spite of the impression the Clinton campaign has been pushing, we don't see him as a rock star or a god. We see him as the most competent candidate, one that can really deliver change not just talk about it. In a race with a viable first woman candidate, I think it says a lot for Obama's policies that so many of us are voting for him.
If Hillary were the best candidate, I'd be thrilled to support her. I have dreamed all my life that someday a woman might have a chance to be president. I don't think women are better in any way. I'd just like to see the equality America promised me when I was growing up realized.
I was excited to see Ferraro on the ticket when she ran, but disappointed that she didn't prove to be ready intellectually or politically to be competitive. I've always thouyght she was put on the ticket as a "token" woman, so maybe that's why she is now expressing disdain for Obama? Maybe she thinks he is there for the same reasons she was there? Ferraro might think Obama is lucky to be a black man--an idea so far fetched asd dismissive of the work it took for him to get himself to this place in time--but that is totally laughable.
Ferraro says people are attacking her "because she is white"?
No, Geraldine, it is because you are sounding stupid.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Psst! Geraldine Ferraro--your ignorance slip is showing
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Carol, did you watch Ferraro's performance on the NBC Nightly News? It was classic dodge and swerve.
Larry Van Guilder
Yes, I saw it. The whole thing is so ridiculous. What is wrong with that woman anyway? I thought I heard hillary say she wasn't connected to her campaign yesterday, then today I heard she resigned. Sometimes the spin gets out of control and feels like the whole world is wobbling!
It's a twister, it's a twister!
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I can't believe Ferraro said that shit in public in this day and age. Twenty some years ago that rhetoric went over a lot better than it does today.
Talk about out of touch.
One thing for sure, this campaign is exposing just how racist people who vow they are not racist really are. I know seeds of racism are within me. As a child living and educated in America, how could they not be?
The fact that Ferraro doesn't see anything wrong with her racist statements is what bothers me the most. Dissing a black man like Obama who has worked his butt off to get where he is sends a terrible message to others.
By doing this Ferraro was promoting ignorance, and she deseves to be called on it.
The war, our economy, our natonal security, our health---that's what we the voters care about. If the candidates run out of steam trying to distinugish themselves as different, then they just plain ought to be quiet.
Both these candidates will find surrogates saying ridiculous damaging things. That's ineveitable, but how they handle it says a lot about the kind of adminsitration they will establish.
Ferraro should be sent back to her "room of one's own" to spend some times thinking about all the damage she has done.
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