Ferraro Freaks Out At Hussein For Comparison To Wright
Geraldine Ferraro complained Thursday about Barack Obama lumping her in with his controversial pastor, who she called a “racist bigot.”
Obama mentioned Ferraro on Tuesday in his speech on race and his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., whose heated, anti-U.S. sermons raised questions about the company the Democratic presidential candidate keeps.
“To equate what I said with what this racist bigot has said from the pulpit is unbelievable,” Ferraro told the Los Angeles newspaper, The Daily Breeze, on Wednesday. “He gave a very good speech on race relations, but he did not address the fact that this man is up there spewing hatred.”
Ferraro, who left Hillary Clinton’s campaign finance team after saying Obama wouldn’t be where he is if he were white, said she had “no clue” why Obama included her in his speech. She said Obama’s relationship with Wright raises questions about his judgment.
“What this man is doing is he is spewing that stuff out to young people, and to younger people than Obama, and putting it in their heads that it’s OK to say ‘God damn America’ and it’s OK to beat up on white people,” she said. “You don’t preach that from the pulpit.”
The Wright controversy lit up shortly after Ferraro, a former vice presidential candidate, left her post on the Clinton finance committee following her initial interview with The Daily Breeze on Obama’s success.
In his speech, Obama drew a comparison between the two individuals.
“We can dismiss Reverend Wright as a crank or a demagogue, just as some have dismissed Geraldine Ferraro, in the aftermath of her recent statements, as harboring some deep-seated racial bias,” he said.
Speaking in Philadelphia, Obama then argued that the issue of race cannot be ignored and that to over-simplify and focus only on the negative aspects of the matter would distort reality.
Overall, Ferraro said Obama’s speech was “excellent,” aside from the part where her name was mentioned.
Obama also discussed the racial views of his white grandmother Tuesday, a topic he revisited Thursday in an interview with 610 WIP, Philadelphia Sports Radio. In the interview, Obama denied his grandmother held racial prejudices and described her as a “typical white person.”
“The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity — she doesn’t,” he said. “But she is a typical white person who, you know, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know there is a reaction. That has been bred into our experiences that don’t go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way.”
But Obama described his grandmother Tuesday as a woman who was at times fearful of black men.
“I can no more disown (Wright) than I can disown my white grandmother, a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed her by on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe,” he said.
(Fox)
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You know, I am enjoying this Democrat in-fighting tremendously, but I heard a disquieting supposition this afternoon on the radio from a pollster, Zogby maybe…
March 20th, 2008 at 1:33 pmIt is as such…AlGore enters the race and offers Obama the VP and Hillary the majority leader position in his administration.
This was suggested as an answer to the Democrat’s current dilemma regarding the electability of either Clinton or Obama. As it stands, McCain seems to be a shoe-in if pitted against these two idiots.
The Dems are definitely up against it and I wouldn’t put it past them to try something desperate.
Gore would stand well in opposition to McCain. He has a lot of baggage though his biggest problem would be in having to debate global warming.
But there is no shortage of eggheads around that have fallen for that ruse and I think he would have a fair chance of getting elected.
Well, as a typical voter I hope he doesn’t mind if I don’t vote for him.
March 20th, 2008 at 1:39 pmGet lots of popcorn, this is gonna get good!!!
Can’t wait for the convention!!
March 20th, 2008 at 1:49 pmHussein [might] take sloppy seconds (but NOT to Hillary) … but Hillary would NEVER take sloppy thirds to anyone.
These usually liberal/leftist leaning “pollsters” are trying their damnedest to salvage something … anything out of this bucket of vomit on the democrat side. So, they will twist polling questions to make them more double-sided than an SAT exam …
For instance, I just saw a poll question:
Do you think LESS of Obama since the Rev. Wright controversy?
Well, I would have to answer YES … However, THAT answer would be viewed as ‘I had been supporting B-HO up to that point …’
THAT would be WRONG … I wasn’t supporting the man from the beginning, and I DO think even LESS of him since the Rev. Wright bullshit … So, how should I have answered? NO it didn’t think less of him … Or I don’t feel any differently than I did prior to the controversy …
As for Gerry Ferraro … tough shit, lady … NOW you see the dogs you’ve been lying down with during your democrat adult life … Don’t go bitching when their fleas start biting on your ass.
March 20th, 2008 at 2:09 pmDenghis, heard the same thing, scary!
March 20th, 2008 at 3:19 pmAh, crikie; don’t tell me that algore disease is going around again?
March 20th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Drillanwr
March 20th, 2008 at 6:45 pmYou’re on target, Drill…I do agree with you. This is supposed to be Hillary’s time and she will gladly kill, maim or probably even fuck the whole complement of the House of Representatives (if she hasn’t already, no wait…that was Bil) to get what she wants.
Obama is a political interloper that came out of nowhere and is totally fucking up Hillary’s place in the history books as the first dumb cunt to become the President of the United States of America.
Whilst I have no particular problem with a woman as President, I would just as soon have one who has conquered her menopause and is ready to lead us into the 21st century without the ‘dumb cunt’ tag. Just me, I guess…
This is an interesting show for now, but you know that if the demoncrates manage to fool the country and win in November, that all of this will used to promote the need for a fairness bill (Hush Rush).
March 20th, 2008 at 10:20 pm