"Separately, Hillary campaign manager Maggie Williams went in the other direction, suggesting in a statement that the Obama camp was playing the race card by criticizing Ferraro's remarks, which is hardly a rejection, obviously."

Reeks of Rove...

Howard Fineman gets it...Watch Olbermann

Disgusting

The Clintons, after tonight, need to win 64% of delegates in every state.

If the frog is on the fence post, the last dog is about to die

Hillary's campaign is flip-flopping on rejecting racism. Who's in charge Maggie or Wolfbreath?

Hillary disagrees.
Maggie says Obama is playing the race card.
Wolfson rejects Ferraro's remarks but not her cash.

(from Ben Smith's blog) from April 15, 1988's Washington Post, an old quote from Geraldine Ferraro:

"If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race"

If Hillary does not fire her or ask her to leave her campaign, she will be ruined. She will then be associated with racism as McCain has with anti-catholic and anti-jewish bigotry. She cannot just say that they do not agree with this point of view. I mean come on. Remember politics 101 says that sometimes political gaffes sometimes can be the obvious truth, of which you cannot speak of. It would be exactly the same as if Obama came out and said Hillary is where she is today because of her husband. Everyone knows it but it is so bad to say because it is below the belt. BTW it was just announced by msnbc that Obama got blacks 9 to 1. Wonder if this had any effect on this?

How can you reject those comments, but then accuse Obama of playing the race card. It makes no sense.

We are watching the Clinton Legacy go down the drain right before our eyes...

"Barbara Bush, when asked what she thought of Ferraro said she couldn't respond, however, the word she was thinking of rhymes with "rich"[10]. Later that evening Mrs. Bush called Ferraro to apologize for allegedly calling her a "witch"."
- Wikipedia

Maybe she's just a loudmout jerk?

Also I thought this b---- word was a taboo for feminists? Nice hypocrisy.

From Ben Smith at Politico:

A Ferraro flashback

"If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race," she said.

Really. The cite is an April 15, 1988 Washington Post story (byline: Howard Kurtz), available only on Nexis.

Here's the full context:

Placid of demeanor but pointed in his rhetoric, Jackson struck out repeatedly today against those who suggest his race has been an asset in the campaign. President Reagan suggested Tuesday that people don't ask Jackson tough questions because of his race. And former representative Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that because of his "radical" views, "if Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race."

Asked about this at a campaign stop in Buffalo, Jackson at first seemed ready to pounce fiercely on his critics. But then he stopped, took a breath, and said quietly, "Millions of Americans have a point of view different from" Ferraro's.

Discussing the same point in Washington, Jackson said, "We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got North to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history."

Umm, Greg, that was a pretty odd way to recount what Clinton said. Here's the full quote from the source you cited:

"I do not agree with that. It is regrettable that any of our supporters on both sides, because we’ve both had that experience, say things that kind of veer off into the personal. We ought to keep this on the issues. There are differences between us. There are differences between our approaches on health care, on energy, on our experience, on our results that we’ve produced for people. That’s what this campaign should be about.

Granting that what she said was ungrammatical, it still does not equate to what your parsing implies: "...she does 'not agree' with what Ferraro said and added that it's 'regrettable' that supporters on 'both sides' say such stuff."

Clinton didn't suggest that both sides use race baiting language. She was obviously referring to the Power flap and the Monster comment. Why break up what she said in a misleading way? Odd... or maybe just sloppy.

Wolfy is Client # 10.

Ferraro :

"I'm on Hillary's finance committee. I've done a fundraiser for her here at my firm. And I went and worked the phone banks before Super Tuesday. I have to tell you, this is a very emotional campaign for me,"

Wolfson's response:

Ms. Ferraro is speaking for herself. We have made clear that we reject her remarks.

Speaking for herself?
Who is this fool trying to fool?

Geraldine Ferraro is comparing her selection to be the VP candidate to where Senator Obama is today, and claiming that she was only the VP candidate because she is a Woman, and that Senator Obama is only where he is because he is a black man.

Here is the difference, and it is a huge one.

Voters did not elect Geraldine Ferraro into the VP slot. She did not run in any primaries, so yes she got picked without having to earn it.

Senator Obama has had to run a fifty state national campaign and earn ever vote and delegate that he has obtained. He started out as a huge underdog against a very tough slate of opponents, including Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton who was dominating all the polls.

He earned every vote that he has received.
No one ever got to cast a vote to make Geraldine Ferraro the VP candidate.

Geraldine Ferraro, you race baiting creep, you were the one who got special treatment because of your gender.
Senator Obama has had to work his way to the top and earn every vote along the way. He is a great American, and you are disgraceful failure. Shut up and go away.

GMan08, I think it's clear enough from Greg's synopsis that he isn't trying to say HRC says both sides are race-baiting, just that both sides get trashy with each other.

I think going for the racist vote helps Clinton in PA and so she is going for it! It's a new, unforgivable low. I was thrilled to see Nancy Pelosi's comments - now there is a fellow Italian woman I can be proud of!

I think Hillary's response to this was fine. They can't really fire her since she's just a supporter. Still, I'd like to see every company she's associated with cut ties with her (including Fox News, though that's unlikely)

Let's all take a step back, for a second.

Look at the bigger picture.

Ferraro is saying:

a) Obama is black. He gets the black vote.
b) Hillary is a female. She gets the female vote.

I, myself, being a white woman over 40 who lives with and loves a black man, should really be torn, I suppose.

So why is it that I've been an Obama supporter and campaign donor for a year, and why is it that I voted for Obama in the NY primaries in Westchester County?

Does this mean I am not a real American woman?

Ok, I have been sick of the clintons since the 90's, but I am really sick of them now. Really, really.

This statement says it all:

Separately, Hillary campaign manager Maggie Williams went in the other direction, suggesting in a statement that the Obama camp was playing the race card by criticizing Ferraro's remarks, which is hardly a rejection, obviously.

How can anybody with a brain support these monsters? They are monsters and could care less about people, the country and the democratic party. All they care about is their own self aggrandizement.

If we have to have a woman nominee to satisfy the feminists and women in the party who are so bent on a woman regardles of the fact that the woman is a lying, disgusting animal, I hereby nominate Nancy Pelosi for President. Pelosi would make a great president, as would obama. Clinton would be pathetic even if she got that far, which she wouldn't. Pelosi for President!!!!! That would be a compromise, with obama as VP. That would shake up the country and I guarantee that obama would be her VP.

One other point, where in the f*ck has this woman been for over 20 years?????? I can't believe that anyone pays attention to her. This is a total joke.

I'll also say, I was skeptical of the Obama campaign's decision to call shenanigans on this but I think it has worked in exposing the dark underbelly of the Clintion playbook.

Here's another gem from the Faux interview- she basically threatens not to raise money for Obama if he is the nominee. Is this a joke?! Has she never heard of the Internet? Is it because of people like this that Clinton has been behind in fundraising?

Turn the page, Democrats, let's start a new chapter in American History.

It is sad that it is now confirmed that Geraldine Ferraro is a racist.

It is sad that SHE USED THE SAME WORDS AGAINST JESSE JACKSON in 1988 and joined Koch, Ronald Reagan in diminishing Jackson's candidacy.

It is sad that she made these comments ON FOX NEWS, and went back to defend herself again on FOX NEWS.

It is sad that Maggie Williams, the devil's advocate, fervently defended her.

It is sad that Hillary Clinton has refused to show some spine.

It is a shame that this is coming from Democrats, NOT Republicans.

It is a pity that majority of Hillary Clinton supporters and voters are racists .... yes .... racists.

It is unfortunate that what we never knew about Geraldine Ferraro, may be what we don't know about Hillary Clinton.

The full story is here:
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/BUSTED_Ferraro_made_SAME_racist_comment_about_Jesse_Jackson

I am a snark addict, but this is just sad. This is not what the Democratic party--at least in theory--is supposed to be about. Congrats to Obama on Ole Miss.

Now is the time, Unpledged Superdelegates (yeah, I'm looking at you) to take a stand.

Do you approve of Ms. Ferraro's rhetoric and its place in the Democratic party, or do you denounce and reject it?

Yeah, I'm looking at you. Time to pi$$ or get off the pot.

Free publicity. Hillary must be woefully short of cash.

I don't know what the policy on censorship is here, but can I be the first to say: Geraldine Ferraro, Go Fuck Yourself.

Nice excuse Wolfson--learning from McCain and Hagee, huh?

Maybe Roger Stone was right about Hillary all along...and her proxy female attack dog.

Fiona Apple (Not in Love lyrics):

Conversation once colored by esteem
Became dialogue as a diagram of a play for blood
Took a vacation, my palate got clean
Now I can taste your agenda
While you're spittting your cud

And it doesn't make sense
I should fall for the kingcraft
of a merit-less crown
No, it doesn't seem right
To take information
Given at close range

/End lyrics

Just to clarify, I've always known it's not a black v female vote. I just never realized that Clinton endorsers would try to make it that way.

Sickened cynic, I guess I am.

One other point, I am starting to get the feeling that obama will pull this out and the clintons will be sent packing. Pelosi's statement today gave me hope. That was huge. I think that the more they flail and smear and lie, the more people get turned off. Maybe, just maybe, we can finally turn the page and do something right in this country for a change. Wouldn't that be a shocker. I can't wait to actually go and vote in a presidential election for somebody as opposed to picking the lesser of two evils. I don't ever remember doing that in my lifetime and I am pretty old. Gee, what a concept.

Please, please help me. Very disheartened here. I can not, morally, support an organization that includes institutionalized racism as part of it's culture.

If the DNC remains silent on the issue of Geraldine Ferraro's racist comment, her subsequent support of it and Senator Clinton's decision to keep Ferraro on her campaign staff, then I can no longer support the Democratic party.

Those who permit racism are equally guilty to those who propagate it, and by refusing to chastise the Clinton campaign, the DNC is just as guilty as those in the past who stood idly by in the face of discrimination. I feel as if we've been thrown back to the 1960s, and it makes me feel stupid and ashamed. What would Martin Luther King say right now?

Perhaps it truly is time to let the Democratic party die. Perhaps it truly died a long time ago, and I have just been too blind to notice. It is time for something new, better and real.

I think this week is going to be remembered, months from now, as the week that changed the dynamics in the 2008 Democratic election.

And I think that this year is going to be remembered, decades from now, as the year that changed the dynamics of the Democratic party.

Thank you Geraldine. I think you just made Obama our nominee.

Thank you Nancy. I think you will make sure he's our nominee.

I'm going to bed now, long overdue. Thank God for daylight savings time.

Peace,
Lis

I think this is the end for Hillary. I saw Carville on CNN and he looked devastated. I think he knows the failure to come out against Ferraro early and strong was a grave, campaign-ending mistake.

I agree that it was a (gutter) strategy but once again, she overplayed it. The DNC will not put forward a candidate that has claimed the mantle of the racist vote. Supers who are elected officials will not do that. Geez, even the GOP would not do that.

I expect she will hold a press conference on this because it is getting enough play and (in combination with the other shenagins) has solidly convinced people that she is and has engaged in race-baiting that she needs to put forward a serious response to salvage her and Bill's rep and even to hold on to her Senate seat.

The way I see it the McCain endorsement and the tepid response to Ferraro have just given supers cover to anoint Obama.

Maybe I'm totally off here but I was terrified of the repercussions of the "affirmative action candidate" smear and now it seems to have hit back at Hillary and I think the blow is fatal.

The first comments by Ferraro were the dog whistle. It was easy to distance themselves gently, but not throw her overboard. They look tough by not dumping her like Obama did Samantha Power. Nobody will push the Clinton campaign around, don'tcha know.

Today's new Ferraro comments were the dog attacking the trainer. She went too far and now the Clinton campaign needs to respond in a new way or truly risk condoning racism. If they do nothing, we may have crossed the rubicon. If she does not officially distance herself from these statements she will wear those words just as if she said them herself.

What is so fucking sad is that Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman on a Presidential ticket. It was my first presidential election as a voter. I proudly defied my parents' history and voted for her and Mondale.

I am 44 now and I read Samantha Power's first book when it came out and was moved by the power of her words. I have followed her career and have always been impressed by her intellect.

2 great female role models. One tripped up by a moment of youthful indiscretion and the other done in by her old world thinking that appears to be more entrenched than we knew.

It's bumming me out tonight. I fear there will be many more casualties before we even see the vote in Pennsylvania.

Not only that, my cable is out and I am missing all the coverage!!

I agree. The Democratic leadership has to stop waiting and start acting. If they don't, the voters will take this as a tacit approval for racism. If they think they can wait this out and hope they'll unite the party in november, they are naive. We are asked to tolerate too much just to accommodate the Clintons' big ego.
If Hillary manages to cheat her way to the nomination, there will be severe consequences on the democratic party.

My question is Where the Hell is Richardson.
He said early March that we need to rally behind the person who is in the lead in delegates. Well its now March 12th and Obama is even farther ahead then he was then, so where the hell is the endorsement.

Hey Geraldine! As Anne Richards would have said: you were born with a silver foot in your mouth. And as Mose always says: your mind is out to lunch and your mouth is doin' overtime.

This is orchestrated. The Clinton have shown they'll do anything to win... If they somehow get the Dem nomination, I'm voting for McCain now.

Call it a hunch, but I expect to see some notable endorsements and Super Del moves toward Obama in the coming week.

Like Col. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, the Monster is out there in the jungle acting on her own recon with no method, only madness. The party can't afford this. They will call in the chips.

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I am hoping to create a database of his amazing comments. He is the most commenter I know. (that is the grammar I intended).

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Psst....Wait till you hear this....That Obama guy, heh heh, he's got TWO black children, heh heh, pass that around.

I think my head is going to explode. Dem on Dem race baiting. Never thought I'd be privy to such scumbaggery.

RaeK

You are one fucked up individual.

"You need many years of therapy. Many, many, many fuckin' years of therapy."

Geraldine, meet Elliot. That ought to solve everyone's problem.

The Olbermann Special Comment Wednesday night on Hillary & Gerry should be interesting.

Oh stop crying....a bunch of babies.

quick question: does anybody doubt that the ferraro issue provides a perfect window into why the democratic party has a knack for losing elections that it should win through sheer force of will? those of us who had experienced the democratic party at its pusillanimous best have spent the last several months wondering how they could possibly blow this very winnable election.

we finally found it: hillary will decide to clip the party in two along racial lines. then, for the coup de grace, the so-called superdelegates, in whose wisdom ordinary, lowly democratic voters are supposed to place their trust in the event that the rabble makes the wrong choice, will stand on the sidelines, smiling nervously as they watch the party ripped apart.

where is the outrage? hell, where is the self-interest? what scenario do these party elders keep playing out in their heads whereby hillary is somehow coronated through a non-democratic process and everybody closes ranks afterwards and sings songs of peace? what are they going to do? go to the convention with obama ahead in pledged delegates (which, despite the clinton campaign's incessant whining and attempts to change the rules to fit their floundering campaign, is still the only measure that matters), popular vote and states won before retreating to some back room where the group of mostly older, white men decide that it's hillary's turn?

let's assume that that indeed happens. who thinks that more than 5,000 blacks nationally will show up to vote in the general election? hillary will lose forty states without the black vote, which she is assured of losing if she disenfranchises the entire party.

don't fall for the clinton bullshit. there are rules that govern this primary. this is still a nominally democratic process. the clinton campaign tinkers with this at the peril of not only the party, but our country.

REHIRE SAMANTHA POWER!!!!

"If I did not say provocative, racist drivel, I would not be on TV today." - G. Ferraro. April 1, 2008

Either
1) Clinton can't exercise leadership and control her staff

2) She's a two-face liar who is doing it on purpose

Incompetence or duplicity.

Any intrepid reporters want to ask her to resolve this question?

Is this what the WH will look like?

Um, so is anybody in the party going to do anything about this? If the party remains silent, then are basically approving these comments. Somebody (really everybody) needs to step up.

No one cast a vote for Geraldine Ferraro to put her on the VP ticket in 1984. She was handed the slot without ever having run in a single primary. She is the one who got there just because of her gender.

Senator Obama has run in all fifty states, and earned every vote and victory that he has received, so Geraldine Ferraro is making a false comparison.

You Ms. Ferraro got the VP slot because you were a female.

Senator Obama has earned his victories on merit, despite being a Black man and not because he is.

Stop your race baiting tactics now.

Shouldn't Wolfson have rejected, renounced, denounced, condemned, censured, impeached, disparaged, depreciated, reviled, and scolded Geraldine for her remarks? After all, this is what Hillary demanded of Barack when the support of Louis (Farrakhan) was raised at a debate. Shouldn't her spokesperson be held to the same standard that she demanded of Barack?

Nothing to see here, right? Move along? It's Obama that's the racist; who, by the way, has the singular advantage over poor Hillary ... of being black? - is your head exploding yet?

Ferraro's racist hissy fit perfectly reflects who Hillary and her campaign have decided to be, and have been with increasing enthusiasm since Iowa: angry, calculatedly divisive, and displaying a hell of a mean streak.

Hillary's campaign tells us way more than we should need to know about how she, and the people around her, think, and what they are willing to do to win.

It is amazing to me - Hillary's kitchen sink employs the kinds of disgraceful, dishonest tactics that have distinguished the Republican party ever since I started paying attention. They play, and very successfully, to the worst in us - the lizard brain where we hate and fear.

Hillary and so many of her supporters and surrogates are an angry bunch, and frequently appear to be an irrational bunch. I think they know exactly what they are doing. We've been intimidated by this meanness, this divide and conquer thing, this my way or the highway arrogance, from the Bush White House for eight years now. It works. Mark Penn knows that. And so does Hillary. But it only works because the rest of us buy, out of laziness or cowardice, the cynical crap they are selling.

I hope to live to see the Democratic party denounce and reject the Clinton-controlled, corporate-owned DLC wing of the party, that is so completely mired in the ugliness of corporate-think, that sells a candidate by appealing to fear and hate and self-pity, and that has now turned to hostage-taking - to intimidating the Democratic party by making it clear that they are completely willing to burn the party to the ground if they cannot win the nomination.

The thing that needs to change, I believe, is the nervous-nellie mindset of whatever remains of the progressive coalition within the party: the Democrats that dither and wait it out while Clinton and her cornered-rat campaign destroy the party.

Obama is doing fine. He's who he is, a fundamentally civilized person; and he is running a campaign that reflects how he thinks.

So is Hillary.

Bust a move, Democrats. What about this is still unclear? Take a stand. Is this really the campaign you think will win for you in November?

I don't believe it will.

I'm a white feminist grandmother. If you allow Hillary and her corporate-owned campaign to speak for the Democratic party, I think you will lose, and that you will deserve to lose. But I'm only one person. All I can tell you about it for sure is that Hillary Clinton will not, under any circumstances have my vote.

I wish I was black. How else does one become president of the Harvard Law Review?

Laura Bush for President! She has 8 years of foreign policy experience--more than Obama--and she's white, which means she has had to work doubly hard against all advantages that blacks have historically had in the US.

This party is one small scratch away from completely bleeding its support from the African American community. Hillary has quite clearly gone mad. It's time for the party bigs to write "Dunce" across her pointy white hood and sit her in the corner.

Al Gore... it's time for you to endorse Obama.

John Edwards... it's time for you to put your money where your mouth is and endorse Obama.

Richardson... you said whoever has the most delegates after March 4th should get the nod. What are you waiting for? Endorse Obama.

No one cast a vote for Geraldine Ferraro to put her on the VP ticket in 1984. She was handed the slot without ever having run in a single primary. She is the one who got there just because of her gender.

Senator Obama has run in all fifty states, and earned every vote and victory that he has received, so Geraldine Ferraro is making a false comparison.

You Ms. Ferraro got the VP slot because you were a female.

Senator Obama has earned his victories on merit, despite being a Black man, and not because he is.

Stop your race baiting tactics now.

It seems pretty obvious that this whole Ferraro flap is part of a Clinton plan. Sen. Clinton should be directly asked: Can you say without equivocation that you or no one else in your campaign has been discussed Ferraro's comments with her?

Racall who played the race card in South Carolina. Bill Clinton. That didn't play so well. But Mississippi offered another opportunity to peg Obama as the "black" candidate. Ferraro is in some ways the perfect surrogate. She can disarm critics by saying, as she did, that she wouldn't have been the VP nominee if she wasn't a woman. Suggesting that Obama is benefitting from some kind of political affirmative action is clearly targeted at working-class white voters in Pennsylvania.

"We Have Made Clear That We Reject Her Remarks"

(but we still think it's hard to wake up a nigra at 3 AM)

There's a reason why Obama has won in many states that *do not* have a large African American population. The fact that he wins the AA vote is to his credit. Consider that early in the primaries, Clinton had the AA vote because Obama had not yet earned the trust of AA's. Obama turned that around by running a brilliant, inclusive campaign that proved that he knows his stuff and has the gravitas to win.

Can you say: ANGRY WHITE WOMAN?

I have to believe that Clinton is deliberately sabotaging the general at this point. If Obama wins the presidency, her career ambition is probably over with a capital O. This is driving her off the deep end.

She's throwing in such divisive stuff, and being so ambiguous about it. The only numbers that are changing at this point are the "would you be satisfied with the other candidate" score.

Imagine that. Hillary. Polarizing. Whodathunkit. Pennsylvania, you need to end this baby ASAP. A Hillary vote is quickly gaining the status of a Nader one.

Sorry, Obamacrats.

Don't hold your breath for a Clinton denunciation. Ferraro has the full blessing (and script) of the Clinton campaign to stoke simmering resentment among white working class and Latino voters that Obama is an unfair beneficiary of affirmative action.

By now, the Clintons have already looked past the anticipated indignation among the chattering classes. They know – in the end – this won’t matter. The message will resonate resoundingly with the right voters in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, West Virginia, Indiana, Kentucky and Puerto Rico.

This is Hilliary's Sister Souljah Moment. It’s just a rerun of Bill's 1992 racially charged Sister Souljah Moment. At the time, he was widely rebuked by pundits and the Democratic Party's African-American supporters, but got a "right on" where it mattered. Later post-election analysis would credit Clinton's "moment" as pivotal in winning independent and moderate white voters. And Clinton would go on to fix the African-American problem by winning 83 percent of their general election vote.

Now, we have "Sister Souljah: The Sequel" perfectly timed for release before the Mississippi primary where African-American would expectedly vote overwhelming for Obama -- and drive home Ferraro’s message loud and clear.

The sequel is dark and cynical. But it’s a predictable, can’t-miss hit at the box office.

Here is Andrew Sullivan's take on Ferraro. It is a nuaunced position, but may be close to the truth: Clinton is sacrificing the black vote in order to win the blue collar vote.

"The Clinton campaign's decision not to reject or denounce Geraldine Ferraro's racial gaffe strikes me as a conscious and deliberate one. The Obama campaign saw Samantha Power resign for a less offensive remark. But Ferraro is now on the networks and airwaves amping up the volume, and Clinton, in classic passive-aggressive mode, is merely "disagreeing." Isn't this obviously about Pennsylvania? Isn't this classic Rove-Morris politics - to keep designating Obama a beneficiary of affirmative action and Clinton a victimized white woman in order to racially polarize a primary where Clinton needs white ethnic votes?

Ferraro's original gaffe was an accident. The compounding of it is a strategy."

Again. The party is silent. Cowards.

Are they that afraid of the Clintons or are they in their pockets? Either way, the party seems to agree with Ferraro/Clinton.

Good luck in November.

The Obama people are racist....they are the ones who cry race all the time.

Geraldine Ferraro has a history of racist statements-In April, 1988 she said if Jesse Jackson were not Black he would not be in the race. By not condemning and rejecting Ferraro's comments AND removing her from her campaign, Ms Clinton implies that she approves of what Ms Ferraro has said ! Well, I guess that's her 1st Amendment right. I do not think the majority of Democrats will agree with this. We shall see.

I think this is more than racism. It is an attack on Obama supporters. She is basically saying that Obama supporters are blinded by race. This could have two effects:

1. diminishes any wins over Clinton, making Clinton supporters feel better about supporting a losing candidate.
2. Obama supporters can rethink their support, maybe switch to Clinton, Obama's support may vanish in the Fall.

Excuse me but did i miss something here with geraldine's comment "And if he was a woman (of any color), he would not be in this position." Then why is Hillary running. How did she get there. ferraro please stop drinking the kool aid sweetie.

Blacks in the USA did not invent racism-the patent belongs to the white race.

Geraldine Ferraro is 100% correct! Senator Obama is NOT qualified to be PONTUS.

Obama if he were white would be noting more than a CY 2004 elected, part time US Senator. Not much more on his resume unless one can use his part time "present" IL Senate experience and of course his "community organizer" work (whatever that was, open ended job description). Obama: upward mobility at its best!

Have we ever heard an Obama surrogate spout some garbage about how Clinton has come as far as she has mainly because she's a woman, or using some old sexist lines, or minimizing her perfromance by comparing her to a prior female candidate who won a battle but lost a war? No.

But we've heard many Clinton surrogates spout garbage about how Obama has come as far as he has mainly because he's black (Ferraro), or using some old racist lines (Cuomo's "Shuck n' Jive), or minimizing his perfromance by comparing him to a prior black candidate who won a battle but lost a war (Bill's Jesse Jackson comments).

There is a pattern emerging. McCain and the Republicans have already begun using the same tactics, where race is used by surrogates (Hussein, Somali robes, etc.) but McCain disavows the statements. Bush 'rejected and denounced' the Swiftboat adds against Kerry, too, lest we forget. So, let's be honest, Clinton is running the standard campaign which has traditionally worked: let surrogates do the dirty work and appear to remain above the fray. Many of us hate it and want something better from our candidates. Part of Obama's "change" rhetoric is about avoiding the negative, identity based politics which has reigned supreme for decades (centuries?), and that's what many of his supporters like about him, including myself.

But, while I support Obama, this is part of the campaign is becoming the real test for him. Can he fight the good fight and win? Can he be a game-changer, or will the old game chew him up and spit him out? What Clinton is throwing at him is soft compared to the bricks the R's will throw. If he can't pass this test, then he shouldn't be the nominee. So, to the Clinton camp, I say, BRING IT ON! Because if Obama can't handle it, I'd rather have Clinton in the WH than McCain.

That said, this 42-year-old white male is still sending another $25 to Obama this week.