Focus Group: Many Dems Agreed With Ferraro’s Remarks
What does this say about the Dems?
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Democratic Racial Divide
FROM TH-WASHINGTON, D.C. — Geraldine Ferraro often has seemed puzzled during nearly 24 years since she was thrust from obscurity as a congresswoman from Queens to become the first woman nominated for vice president of the United States. But her current confusion is palpable because she has been condemned for repeating what she has heard from fellow supporters of Hillary Clinton and pursuing an apparent major goal of that campaign: to indelibly identify Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama as an African-American.
“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position,” Ferraro told The Daily Breeze newspaper of Torrance, Calif., on March 7 during a telephone interview published in advance of a paid lecture there. For that she has been reviled as a racist, repudiated by Sen. Clinton herself and cashiered from a largely honorary campaign finance post. Ferraro’s confusion is manifested by her elaborating rather than disavowing what she said, as if to ask: Isn’t this really what Hillary thinks?
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Is Ferraro Right About Obama?
TH-The columnist Michael Kinsley once defined a “gaffe” as an occasion when a politician accidentally tells the truth. In our age of political correctness, some would place Geraldine Ferraro’s remarks into this category. Long known for speaking candidly, Ferraro recently remarked that “if Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.”
There’s a molecule of truth in this. Obama’s appeal is that he is an African American who doesn’t sound one bit like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. Blacks are inspired to see one of their own have a serious shot at the presidency. Whites are relieved that Obama doesn’t seem to be motivated by the kind of chronic resentment that seems all too prevalent in black America.
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I thought it was a very truthful comment. Shockingly coming from a liberal democrat. If Obama weren’t black then all those black people that are out there voting for just because he is black- wouldn’t be. All the white folks that are voting for him just because he is is black wouldn’t be either. He is a guy with no political accomplishments other than people oohing and awwing just he is a black guy and he can string a couple of sentences together. Big deal – He is a fraud.