<p>ok simba, calm down. I do care. I really do. Now it is all starting to make more sense to me.</p>
<p>From wikipedia: “In 1998, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison called Clinton “the first Black president,” saying “Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald’s-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas,” and comparing Clinton’s sex life, scrutinized despite his career accomplishments, to the stereotyping and double standards that blacks typically endure.”</p>
<p>Hmmmm, now I wonder if Bill Clinton actually won the Presidency because he should have been black? No wonder poor Hillary deserves to almost get the black votes. She was married to a guy who was almost black. Well, at least he didn’t denounce that claim. He used it in an attempt to garner the black votes. Hey folks, I’m just like you…</p>
<p>Interestingly enough, this same author (who dubbed Clinton as the first black president) is endorsing Obama. Go figure.</p>
<p>From January AP article: "Author Toni Morrison said her endorsement of the Democratic presidential candidate has little to do with Obama’s race - he is the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas - but rather his personal gifts.</p>
<p>Writing with the touch of a poet in a letter to the Illinois senator, Morrison explained why she chose Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton for her first public presidential endorsement.</p>
<p>Morrison, whose acclaimed novels usually concentrate of the lives of black women, said she has admired Clinton for years because of her knowledge and mastery of politics, but then dismissed that experience in favor of Obama’s vision."</p>
<p>Like it or not folks, Geraldind Ferraro said what a lot of people think about Obama. He would not have gotten out of the starting gate if he were a woman of any color with his scant experience.</p>
<p>Like it or not, Hillary would not be where she is had she not been married to Bill Clinton with her own scant experience. Many people think that too. yet, I have not heard one Obama surrogate say that. Can you imagine the media hype if they did?</p>
<p>(Or if Obama accused her of being where she is because of her gender??)</p>
<p>1sokkermom, you attacked clinton for not forcing ferraro to resign.
after ferraro resigned, you still derided the clintons.
the clinton campaign reiterated that ferraro’s comments were her own, and that clinton did not back those words.
what more are you looking for?</p>
<p>Did you read her resignation letter? I am sure that it was reviewed by the Clinton campaign prior to its issuance to the press. It is hardly an apology.</p>
<p>It states, I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself and you can continue to speak for yourself about what is at stake in this campaign," Ferraro wrote in a letter to Clinton. “The Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you. I won’t let that happen.”</p>
<p>Yes, I think Clinton should apologize on behalf of her surrogate. Even her resignation letter is an attack on Obama! She never apologized or admitted that she said or did anything wrong. She blamed the uproar on Obama.</p>
<p>When a female candidate with the charisma of Obama comes along, she may do very well. Hillary, even with her many good features, is not that candidate.</p>
<p>But hey, Geraldine is right–black people get all the breaks in this country…don’t they?</p>
<p>The real shame here is that if you say ANYTHING about Obama, you will be accused of either being a racist or pushing the FEAR FACTOR for using his middle name of Hussein. It doesn’t matter if you think the man has no real experience; has no real position on any subject; or has no plan. If you say such things, the Obama supporters get totally defensive and accuse you of some negative personal attack. But, for what it’s worth, the Hillary supporters aren’t much better. However, the majority of anti-clinton supporters are those who think voting for Hillary is a vote to put Bill back in the whitehouse.</p>
<p>Yea, there’s a lot of sorry problems here. Unfortunately, it’s all about defending their candidate. There wasn’t one racist comment made about Obama. The truth is; he wouldn’t be in the political position of leading the democratic primaries if he wasn’t black. That isn’t racist. It’s also not a hate position to mention Obama’s middle name of Hussein. People have referred to Bush, Clinton, Bush, Regan, Nixon, Kennedy, and many others by their middle name. But if you do it with Obama, you are pushing FEAR. PLEASE!!!</p>
<p>Obama and Clinton are going to keep this garbage up. When all is said and done, they are going to wake up and find John McCain as the next president of the United States.</p>
<p>Did you offer any insight onto your thoughts about Ms. Ferraro? Or simply make a snide Clinonite diversionary comment because you don’t want to address the issue?</p>
<p>enderkin asked me what I thought Clinton should do regarding Ferraro. I said I thought Clinton should apologize. Clinton has not apologized. Ferraro has not apologized. The comments that were made by Ferrarro were much more significant than an “off the record” comment to a Scottish paper by an Obama surrogate stating that Clinton was a “monster”. Yet that person, not only resigned, but also very clearly apologized.</p>
<p>The monster comment may have hurt Clinton’s feelings, but had very little additional significance. The racial insinuation goes way beyond that. All the Clinton Kool Aid drinkers know that.</p>
<p>Hunt,
Some of us feel that “charisma” is the least important of all traits by which one chooses a president. After all, GWB had “charisma” and he will go down as the worst president in modern history.</p>
<p>I prefer CAPABLE, SMART & HARDWORKING…adjectives that apply to HRC. So take Obama and his charisma and his inexperience and what do you have…a lot of nothing.</p>
<p>I dunno but maybe this adds a little perspective as to what was said by Ms. Ferraro, her intent and what is in her heart of hearts:</p>
<p>In an April 15, 1988, article in The Washington Post, Ferraro is quoted as saying that because of his “radical” views, “if Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn’t be in the race.”</p>
<p>Seems to me color means alot to this woman and not in a good way</p>
<p>WASHINGTON - Geraldine Ferraro stepped down Wednesday from an honorary post in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign amid a controversy regarding her comments that Barack Obama wouldn’t be succeeding in the presidential race if he weren’t black.</p>
<p>Ferraro notified Clinton by letter Wednesday that she would no longer serve on Clinton’s finance committee as “Honorary New York Leadership Council Chair.”</p>
<p>Obama has called Ferraro’s comments “ridiculous” and his campaign aides have called on Clinton to denounce the statement.</p>
<p>“I think they were wrong-headed,” he said at a Chicago news conference. “The notion that it is a great advantage to me to be an African American named Barack Obama and pursue the presidency, I think, is not a view that has been commonly shared by the general public.”</p>
<p>In a letter to Clinton, first first reported by CNN, Ferraro says: “Dear Hillary, I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself and you can continue to speak for yourself about what’s at stake in this campaign. The Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you. I won’t let that happen. Thank you for everything you’ve done and continue to do to make this a better world for my children and grandchildren. You have my deep admiration and respect, Gerry.”</p>
<p>Campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson said Ferraro left the post on her own initiative.</p>
<p>“Geraldind Ferraro said what a lot of people think about Obama”</p>
<p>People think that he’s darn lucky to be black? That’s the part that grated on me. As I said above, we can all speculate about would happen in an alternate universe with a white Obama; it’s just a guess. But to be of the opinion that black candidates are lucky to be black…why?</p>
<p>Well, I agreed with some of what you said previously, but you did in fact go too far here. There are some people who clearly seize on Obama’s middle name to try to connect him with Islamic radicalism. That is the reason folks will complain about it; they know what the hidden intent is.</p>