Ferraro Obama Comments

Does Clinton Camp Talk of Sexism Risk the Democrats' Future?

Eric Deggans | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics


Eric Deggans

This is how the Clintons could pull the Democratic Party down to general election defeat alongside their fading presidential hopes: a pointless fight over gender politics.

Why I Predicted the PA Results Exactly Right

RJ Eskow | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics


RJ Eskow

The Texas and Ohio results persuaded me that the Bradley Effect is real, and the Clinton campaign has been successful in characterizing Obama as a primarily "black" candidate.

What Really Counts in Pennsylvania

Craig Crawford | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics


Craig Crawford

The nationwide popular vote race is significant because it represents Clinton's only chance for a winning argument to superdelegates who will ultimately decide the outcome.

Pennsylvania Observations

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics


Michael Fauntroy

While Obama is still the overwhelming favorite to win the nomination, he now has some nagging questions to answer.

Jason Linkins

The Game Of Renouncing And Denouncing

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics


In yesterday's New York Times, columnist Stanley Fish weighed in on the "guilt by association" game that's played itself out again and again this poli...

The Black Elephant in the Room

Jim David | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics


Jim David

At least Obama was trying, in his speech, to start a dialogue about the black elephant in the room. And that's more than any white politician has done.

Focus Group: Many Dems Agreed With Ferraro's Remarks

The Swamp | Frank James | Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics


Geraldine Ferraro's comments about the role that Sen. Barack Obama's blackness has played in his political success are fodder for the Sunday talk show...

Open Letter To Geraldine Ferraro: Please Keep Doing What You're Doing For Obama

Ryan Barrett | Posted 03.14.2008 | Home


Ryan Barrett

I guess you were right, Ms. Ferraro. One African-American man is lucky - to have you around helping him out, that is.

Geraldine Ferraro's Skewed Views

Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes | Posted 03.14.2008 | Home


Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes

Ms. Ferraro certainly has an odd view of the world. She sees an American society in which being black is an advantage - seems to believe you can quantify human misery...and then rank it to your own political advantage.

Reading The Pictures: Old Ferraro CW: Glass Ceiling Hero. New CW: Trouble From The Beginning

Michael Shaw | Posted 03.14.2008 | Media


Michael Shaw

2008-03-14-time_ferraro.jpgQuestions following Ferraro's vice presidential nomination cast her in a terribly awkward light, and raised early questions about her legitimacy as a number two.

I'm Not Racist. Some of my Best Friends Are Black.

Orlando Lima | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics


Orlando Lima

Ferraro is not racist but the fact that she doesn't understand what the term "racism" means highlights why it is a massive problem in America.

Hillary's Gettysburg

Tom Douglas | Posted 03.13.2008 | Home


Tom Douglas

I am keenly aware of historical ironies whereby would-be conquerors are destroyed from within by those who overreach as a result of their desire to at...

TRANSCRIPT: Olbermann Anti-Hillary Special Comment

Huffington Post | Posted 03.13.2008 | Media


Text of Keith Olbermann's "Special Comment" delivered live last night on MSNBC, decrying Hillary Clinton for the tactics of her campaign and specifica...

Once You Go Black...

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics


Raymond Leon Roker

What Geraldine Ferarro said about Obama isn't entirely without merit -- it just entirely misses the fact that there hasn't been a candidate in our lifetimes that didn't benefit from a certain appeal due to their height, wealth, race, name, faith or smile.

Ferraro: I Wish I Were a Black Man

Andy Borowitz | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics


Andy Borowitz

Ms. Ferraro said, "As it is, being a white woman, when I make racist remarks about black men everyone accuses me of being a racist."

Olbermann Slams Clinton in Special Comment: "You Are Campaigning As If Barack Obama Were The Democrat And You Were The Republican"

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.12.2008 | Media


Character as Destiny: The Clintonian Narcissism of 2008

Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics


Jon Robin Baitz

Underneath the stomach-turning Clintonian strategy for winning the nomination are little passion plays playing out -- about the state of the nation, and the state of its soul-sick psyche.

Modern Feminism

Susan Kaiser Greenland | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics


Susan Kaiser Greenland

If the Clinton campaign isn't careful, it will set the women's movement back a generation or so. As women, it is not in our best interests to be viewed as victims.

Ms. Ferraro, Please be Quiet

Harold Pollack | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics


Harold Pollack

We are trying to be a better nation than Geraldine Ferraro's comments presume we are. We don't need these little drops of racial poison in our national life.

Ferraro: Obama Camp Attacking Me Because I'm White

Daily Breeze | Gene Maddaus | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics


Former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro today defended a remark she made to the Daily Breeze last week, in which she suggested that Sen. ...

Keith Olbermann To Do "Special Comment" About Hillary Clinton Tonight — First Time Targeting A Democrat

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.12.2008 | Media


UPDATE, March 12, 2007: Well, he did it — and here it is. ---------- On last night's "Countdown," Keith Olbermann announced that tonight he'd...

Welcome Back, Geraldine

Seth Greenland | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics


Seth Greenland

When Ferraro was named the Vice-Presidential candidate in 1984, the national reaction was: "Geraldine Who"? Does anyone really believe that this Democratic Party water-carrier was put on a national ticket for anything other than her lack of a Y chromosome?

Obama Ferraro Race Flap Roils Race

Huffington Post | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics


"Geraldine Ferraro has stepped down from her role as a member of Hillary Clinton's finance committee," CNN reports. Ferraro said thousands of people...

Color-coded Hillary Alerts

James Moore | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics


James Moore

If there is anyone qualified to make comparisons between Karl Rove and Hillary Clinton, it's me. Like democracy's Darth Vader, she relies on surrogates to go out and fire the gun.

Ferraro's Remarks About Obama Decried

AP | ANN SANNER | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she disagrees with Geraldine Ferraro, one of her fundraisers and the 1984 vice presidential can...