Ferraro Obama Remarks

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The Game Of Renouncing And Denouncing

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Jason Linkins   |   March 26, 2008 10:30 AM


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 political season, and found it lacking: In politics, and in much of the rest of life,...

Focus Group: Many Dems Agreed With Ferraro's Remarks

The Swamp   |  Frank James   |   March 16, 2008 11:31 AM


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 shows. During a speech, the 1984 Democratic vice presidential nominee was reported as saying: "Barack Obama would...

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

Michael Shaw | Posted March 14, 2008 | Media


Michael Shaw


July 23, 1984

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Sep. 3, 1984

The problem started with a refusal to release her taxes.

Deriving financial benefit from her husband's real estate business but...

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

Orlando Lima | Posted March 14, 2008 | Politics


Orlando Lima

Geraldine Ferraro tried to stick her foot in her mouth but her loafers were too small. So instead she unpacked a whip and stuck that in there and it fit just right. This week she theorized that a self-made black guy with a Muslim name has a political advantage over...

Hillary's Gettysburg

Tom Douglas | Posted March 13, 2008 | Off The Bus


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 attain their objective. The examples are endless: the needless expansion of the Roman empire to untenable proportions; Napoleon in Russia; the Nazis in Russia; the...

Once You Go Black...

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted March 13, 2008 | Politics


Raymond Leon Roker

Here we go. Again.

Barack Obama is now 'lucky' to be a black man in politics? That's so convenient, it almost leaves me speechless. What former vice-presidential-candidate bigmouth Geraldine Ferarro inferred about Senator Obama — that he is where he is due to the color of his skin —...

Ferraro: I Wish I Were a Black Man

Andy Borowitz | Posted March 13, 2008 | Politics


Andy Borowitz

Former congresswoman and Hillary Clinton supporter Geraldine Ferraro ignited another firestorm of controversy today with more explosive comments about race and politics.

"I wish I were a black man," Ms. Ferraro told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "That way, I could make all the racist comments about black men that I wanted...

Modern Feminism

Susan Kaiser Greenland | Posted March 12, 2008 | Politics


Susan Kaiser Greenland

Clinton advisor Geraldine Ferraro, the first and only woman to have been a major party VP candidate in a presidential election, views herself as a victim of racism. Yesterday she said, "Racism works in two different directions. I really think they're attacking me because I'm white." Hillary Clinton, a Senator...

Ms. Ferraro, Please be Quiet

Harold Pollack | Posted March 12, 2008 | Politics


Harold Pollack

I have been offline caring for a loved one who took ill. She is recovering well. Hospital care - -despite its many shortcomings -- has a routine excellence we don't often see in other compartments of our lives.

Healthcare also provides the chance to see modern American diversity perform...

Ferraro: Obama Camp Attacking Me Because I'm White

Daily Breeze   |  Gene Maddaus   |   March 12, 2008 08:54 AM


Former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro today defended a remark she made to the Daily Breeze last week, in which she suggested that Sen. Barack Obama would not be where he is if he were white.... "Any time anybody does...

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

Huffington Post   |  Rachel Sklar   |   March 12, 2008 07:43 AM


UPDATE, March 12, 2007: Well, he did it — and here it is. ---------- On last night's "Countdown," Keith Olbermann announced that tonight he'd be delivering another of his "Special Comments" — his impassioned, angry monologues fueled by outrage and...

Welcome Back, Geraldine

Seth Greenland | Posted March 11, 2008 | Politics


Seth Greenland

I never thought we missed much when America was denied the Vice-Presidency of Geraldine Ferraro, but now I know I was wrong. Recently, the feisty former New York City Congresswoman and Mondale running mate had this to say in an interview with the Daily Breeze: "If Obama was a white...

Obama Ferraro Race Flap Roils Race

Huffington Post   |   March 11, 2008 08:13 PM


"Geraldine Ferraro has stepped down from her role as a member of Hillary Clinton's finance committee," CNN reports. Ferraro said thousands of people are part of the finance committee, saying it is not a staff position, but a voluntary one...

Color-coded Hillary Alerts

James Moore | Posted March 11, 2008 | Politics


James Moore

If anyone has paid acutely painful attention to the political ministrations of Karl Rove over the past two and a half decades, it's me. And if there is anyone qualified to make comparisons between democracy's Darth Vader and Hillary Clinton, I stand at the head of that line, as well....

Ferraro's Remarks About Obama Decried

AP   |  ANN SANNER   |   March 11, 2008


WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she disagrees with Geraldine Ferraro, one of her fundraisers and the 1984 vice presidential candidate, for suggesting that Barack Obama only achieved his status in the presidential race because he's black. In a...

WTF Geraldine?

Jennifer Lehr | Posted March 11, 2008 | Politics


Jennifer Lehr

"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept." ...


 

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