Comments on: Clinton Supporter Geraldine Ferraro Gets Caught In Racial Comments, Says She’s Being Targeted Because She’s White

By: Lib4

Lib4 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:14:15 +0000

Yo idiot lib4. Learn how to spell. It is spelled “South.” You spelled “sounth.” Go back to 4th grade.

You are pathetic….that’s all you have to offer…typical.

I rest my case.

By: John

John — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:37:49 +0000

Yo idiot lib4. Learn how to spell. It is spelled “South.” You spelled “sounth.” Go back to 4th grade.

By: lib4

lib4 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:41:08 +0000

Not to be outdone in ignorance, Lib4 from Pennsylvania shows how narrow minded and ignorant he/she really is. First assuming that all white Southerners are closet Klansmen? Whether you know it or not lib4, ignorance and bigotry are alive and well in New England, the West Coast, and also in your hallowed state of Pennsylvania. It is not just a Southern thing.

Yo retard…where did I say all southerners are bigots…..in order to make a point I referenced a preferred method of exploiting race that just happened to be used by Republicans and democrats in the sounth in the 1960’s. I know your brain can only operate on one level at a time so i am taking the time to explain this to you.

Believe me I know that bigotry is alive and well all over this country sir….I have personally faced it myself in my neck of the woods even in supposedly tame suburban Philadelpia….

While youre at it look this up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

good day sir

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:48:59 +0000

Geraldine looks and sounds so much like my ex-mother in law, it scares me a little/

I love that motivational poster in the 2nd clip. Big white letters saying TEAMWORK with a picture of hyenas ripping up a zebra carcass.
Teh funny’s in the details.

By: spencer

spencer — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:22:28 +0000

Liberalrob writes that “no self-respecting Dem should” meaning that no self respecting dem would go on the Fox News Channel. If you were really an open minded liberal rather than being a closed minded bigot, you welcome the chance for a Democrat to air their views on any venue.

All things being equal, yeah, you’re right. But all things are not equal – Fox News is a propaganda arm of the Republican Party, and when Democrats appear on that network, it never helps the party (though it may help the politician at the expense of the party – see Exhibit A, Lieberman, Joe).

Democratic views are never aired on Fox without passing through a thick layer of distortion. Therefore, it makes no sense for Democratic politicians to make appearances there.

By: Tom Maguire

Tom Maguire — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:03:01 +0000

From the 1988 flashback:

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.”

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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.”

So help me out – what history was Jackson making? First liberal male to run for the Democratic Presidential nomination?

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:41:11 +0000

Fox is not a “forum” but a for-profit mouthpiece of conservative politics with a long history of bad faith smears. But John above makes a good point. It’s to Ohio and Pennsylvania, New Jersey voters of European origin that a lot of the worst racist crap has Bren slung. Ferraro is not trying to pitch to Southerners but to Pennsylvania’s suburbanites, to South Philly that looks a lot like the outer boroughs.

By: Sean D. Martin

Sean D. Martin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:02:18 +0000

QiaB: “Vampire. No reflection.”

Damn you, Q. Now I’ve got to clean up all the milk that just shot out my nose.

By: John

John — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:52:51 +0000

It amazes me how these so-called liberals reveal what hypocrites and basically how stupid they really are. Liberalrob writes that “no self-respecting Dem should” meaning that no self respecting dem would go on the Fox News Channel. If you were really an open minded liberal rather than being a closed minded bigot, you welcome the chance for a Democrat to air their views on any venue. Are you that arrogant liberalrob?

Suggestion to both of you. Read and learn facts before you get on here with your two bit opinions.

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:57:37 +0000

Ferraro said almost the EXACT same thing about Jackson in 1988.

So she is on the public record as a long term racist. Clinton renouncing her is not enough. She needs to explain why she courted the help of a woman with this sort of history.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0308/A_Ferraro_flashback.html

By: liberalrob

liberalrob — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:37:31 +0000

You’re right about Ferraro, who needs to a) STFU and b) not go on Fox for any reason whatsoever (no self-respecting Dem should). There’s no defending her on this.

I think you do have to regard Ferraro as the prototype for Hillary, though. Lots of parallels (except the husband being President).

By: lib4

lib4 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:37:30 +0000

The 21st Century version of the “Southern Strategy” is alive and well in the DLC run HRC Campaign……

I am beyond shocked shocked that so called Democrats would stand for these comments from anyone let alone a Democratic Party “leader”…

This latest incident should shame the even the most ardent supporters of HRC …(I see that is a pipe dream as these people now claim that it is Obama playing the race card ??!???)

Expect more race baiting in the weeks to come as HRC goes “all-in” and tries to win the “white blue collar” vote in the middle of my home state of Pennsylvania.

Boy I cant wait for the ebonics filled, Obama supporting robo-calls that will be unleashed by HRC in cities like Harrisburg, Scranton, York, Wilkes Barre, and Johnstown.

They dont call it Pennsyl-tucky for nothing.

By: dwightkschrute

dwightkschrute — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:29:42 +0000

Politico just unearthed this quote from Ferraro in 1988:

“if Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn’t be in the race.”

Once is a mistake, twice is a pattern.

By: dwightkschrute

dwightkschrute — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:15:33 +0000

Your pal BTD over at TalkLeft is of course treating this as something that “is awful” for Obama. And to think pro-Hillary blogs call Obama supporters delusional. That blog has really gone off the deep end.

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:05:28 +0000

How do you look at yourself in the mirror without stabbing yourself?

Vampire. No reflection.

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:51:22 +0000

Well, to be honest I wouldn’t put a whole lot of stock into Howard Fineman’s reporting.

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:50:32 +0000

You reject and denounce, but have you initiated TAKEBACKS? No, I didn’t think so. No takebackses. How do you look at yourself in the mirror without stabbing yourself?

By: durablend

durablend — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:46:19 +0000

Fineman on MSNBC says this is the way the Clintons are going to keep playing it…no firing, no denouncement, just keep playing the race card.

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:44:47 +0000

Allright. You’re right.

I was looking in the video clip. Your headline is accurate and I denounce and reject myself for saying otherwise.

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:39:58 +0000

Quote from the article I linked above:

“Any time anybody does anything that in any way pulls this campaign down and says let’s address reality and the problems we’re facing in this world, you’re accused of being racist, so you have to shut up,” Ferraro said. “Racism works in two different directions. I really think they’re attacking me because I’m white. How’s that?”