Geraldine Ferraro

America's Twisted Marriage of Religion and Politics

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics

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In a presidential campaign infused like never before with the candidates' efforts to sell their religious beliefs as best-fitting an illusory mainstream, Obama hasn't quite pulled it off.

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Obama's Philadelphia Address: All the "Right Stuff"

James Zogby | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics

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There will be those who will attempt to pick apart Obama's speech, seeing not enough here or too much there. Those who do not want to heal the divide will inevitably find fault.

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We Are Here Because Of Ashley

Karen Russell | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics

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The cynics will continue to blather on about Rev. Wright and the politics of guilt by association. Others, like me, will be inspired by Obama's call to action and continue this provocative and healing dialogue on race.

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I am White, Male, 52 Years Old

Dave Winer | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics

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Like everyone else I feel that people always find a way to push me to the side, to objectify me, to react to my body as opposed to my ideas, and to use me as a screen to project their fears and doubts on.

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An Open Letter to Geraldine Ferraro

P. Gabrielle Foreman | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics

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Saying that a Black man has it "easy"" resonates with anti-affirmative action implications -- no matter your record on that program. Saying such things in this climate makes Black people's jobs and lives harder.

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Why We Must Oppose All Forms of Injustice

Ellen Bravo | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics

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Oppression, alas, is not a zero sum game. The fact that Hillary Rodham Clinton has been subjected to outrageous displays of sexism throughout this campaign doesn't mean racism has been defeated.

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Focus Group: Many Dems Agreed With Ferraro's Remarks

The Swamp | Frank James | Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics

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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...

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Obama Converts to Judaism

Andy Borowitz | Posted 03.15.2008 | Politics

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As a sign of commitment to his new faith, Obama said he anticipated being Bar Mitzvahed sometime between now and the crucial Pennsylvania primary and that he would no longer campaign on Saturdays.

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

Ryan Barrett | Posted 03.14.2008 | Home

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

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Words Matter

James Zogby | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

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Rep. Steve King should be formally censured by the Congress, so as to make it clear that bigoted remarks such are unacceptable and will not be tolerated.

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Theater of the Patently Absurd or "Bitch Is the New Black"

David Dante Troutt | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

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The central flaw in Ferraro's remarks is a conflation commonly made in talk about race: the difference between equality and symmetry.

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Geraldine Ferraro's Skewed Views

Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes | Posted 03.14.2008 | Home

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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.

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

Michael Shaw | Posted 03.14.2008 | Media

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Questions following Ferraro's vice presidential nomination cast her in a terribly awkward light, and raised early questions about her legitimacy as a number two.

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

Orlando Lima | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

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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.

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Ferraro Keeps Getting it Right: Obama Should Apologize to Her

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

Let rival Clinton (or God forbid, hubby Bill) even breathe the R word about Obama and the screeches from the clinically obsessive Hate Hillary Clubbers are swift and loud.

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Women of My Generation Have Clearly Lost Their Minds

Lynda Obst | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics

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Hillary, as strong as she is, wins as a victim. That is the trajectory of her career: I am a victim. Punch. So why are women whining and identifying with being the victim again?

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Hillary's Gettysburg

Tom Douglas | Posted 03.13.2008 | Home

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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...

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The Ferraro Fallacy

Matt Cooper | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics

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At first I was willing to give Geraldine Ferraro the benefit of the doubt. Maybe she was clumsily trying to say that a lot of Barack Obama's appeal is...

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Bottom of the Ticket, Back of the Bus: Hillary Clinton's Racist Campaign

John Eskow | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics

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Instead of asking when did the racism of Hillary Clinton's campaign against Obama begin, one is now forced to ask: has it ever been run without racism?

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Geraldine Ferraro and Samantha Power -- Ugghh!!

Hilary Rosen | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics

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Samantha, thanks for stepping back. Gerry, thanks for nothing. She is bewilderingly insistent on staying in this fight.

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So Much for Making Good, Snap Decisions at 3 A.M.

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics

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By not blasting and firing Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary is taking away the outrage against Republicans when they trot out the same seedy arguments during the general election.

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Why Willey Won't Vote For Hillary in November

Phillip Martin | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics

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Ferraro's comments reflect the mounting anxiety of many ethnic whites who have come to believe that there are built-in advantages to being black or Mexican or another minority.

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TRANSCRIPT: Olbermann Anti-Hillary Special Comment

Huffington Post | Posted 03.13.2008 | Media

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

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Geraldine: A White Obama Would Be Writing His Convention Speech

Adam Hanft | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics

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Is there any doubt that a white candidate, who shunned corporate law to become a community organizer and had the courage to take an early stand against the war, would have sent Hillary back to Chappaqua?

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Once You Go Black...

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics

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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.

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