Sort of on the fence with this one.

It may have been inappropriate for her to make that statement, but it some sense it rings true.

I am not a racist by any means, but it doesn't take a genius to see that the color of his skin may play in his favor.

The man is well educated, good public speaker, and has many good ideas. These attributes alone should make him a wise choice, but some people overlook the obvious where others focus on the obvious.

The same type of reference could be used for Hillary, and probably would have no recourse.

I don't see the problem. Newscasters analyze the "black vote" and the "women's vote" and the "Jewish" vote. These are terms that apply to groups of people that on a whole are likely to vote for someone based on certain cultural similarities.

Nobody ever wins with just the vote of one group. And no group has 100% agreement, anyway.

Much ado about nothing. IMO.

Author I reported the post, I guess nobody else noticed the mistake on the title of the thread. I am sure it was an accident, I thought I would notify you. The word "was" should be "wasn't" I believe.

I personally do not see a problem with her statement. It is sad that we want her to manipulate her answer instead of giving her opinion. I thought we wanted honesty from our politicians?

[edit on 3/12/2008 by sputniksteve]

Originally posted by sputniksteve
Author I reported the post, I guess nobody else noticed the mistake on the title of the thread. I am sure it was an accident, I thought I would notify you. The word "was" should be "wasn't" I believe.

I personally do not see a problem with her statement. It is sad that we want her to manipulate her answer instead of giving her opinion. I thought we wanted honesty from our politicians?

[edit on 3/12/2008 by sputniksteve]

Honesty would be Ferraro saying "I don't think you should vote for the Black guy"


What she said was no where close to honesty.

Two things:

1) It's not "a fact", it's her opinion. That is, it's a fact that that's her opinion.

2) Her comment -"Ferraro also told ABC's Good Morning America that 'every time' someone makes a negative comment about Obama, they are accused of racism". No, every time someone makes a racist comment about Obama they're accused of racism. If stating "the only reason -x- is because of your race" isn't a racist comment, then I guess Ms. Ferraro has redefined the term. Which wouldn't be the first time a politician weasel-worded something. Like the definition of "is".

Personally, I love seeing the Democrats ripping into each other.

Originally posted by NGC2736
I don't see the problem. Newscasters analyze the "black vote" and the "women's vote" and the "Jewish" vote. These are terms that apply to groups of people that on a whole are likely to vote for someone based on certain cultural similarities.

Nobody ever wins with just the vote of one group. And no group has 100% agreement, anyway.

Much ado about nothing. IMO.

The Problem is that Ferraro want's to insinuate that the only thing Obama has going for him is the color of his skin. And this is done in a way to actually draw attention to the color of his skin, as if to say "Do you really want to vote for a Black candidate?"

Obama is where he is because of many factors, most specifically his perseverence, charisma, and the way he runs his campaign. To simply reduce all of this to "It's cause he's black!" Screams of racism.

Why Racism? Because this is what is being shouted behind closed doors in the Clinton campaign rooms. It goes like this

"Why are we losing so badly?"
"Don't worry Hill, they are only voting for him because he's black"

Like my mother said when asked why she doesn't want a woman president..

" I don wan't a woman president... I just want the *right* woman, not *any* woman"

Maybe he is working with the Zionists. They seem to be the masters of this particular sociopolitcal effect to gain high positions of power. Maybe I'll have a look.

Aha, my Zionist radar never fails me:

"That effort begins with a clear and strong commitment to the
security of Israel: our strongest ally in the region and its only
established democracy. That will always be my starting
point.

"I don't think there is any nation that would not have reacted the way Israel did after two soldiers had been snatched. I support Israel's response to take some action in protecting themselves."

His chief financial supporters are the billionaire Pritzker family (Zionist Jews out of Chicago). Abram Nicholas Pritzker founded the Hyatt hotel chain. The Pritker family is one of the wealthiest in the USA. They’ve owned Braniff Airlines, Royal Caribbean Cruises, and so forth.

Obama’s primary bank is Penny Pritzker (Zionist Russian-Ukranian Jew) who is one of the richest women in the USA. Pritzker is a treasurer for the “Real Estate Roundtable,” an AIPAC offshoot in Washington that lobbies for legislation to help commercial landlords.

Almost all members of this “Roundtable” are Zionist Jews.

Typical Zionist planning. If he is president there will be increased racial tension because the common ignoramous and media spin will suggest that his bad decisions are because he is black. It will be all over the Zionist MSM and op/eds. The nation will be accused of being racist, we'll see a bunch of polls about it. Race crimes will rise, leading to the illusion of a more strict police state as cops' actions will also be considered racist by who he tazes, etc...

It's all they will talk about on Fox.

Seems "PC" only applies to white people.

GF makes a statement in conversation and it's breaking news tragedy time! Obama attends a racist church for 20+ years and that is nothing more than back page fringe. He's one to complain.

I do my very best to treat people as they should be treated no matter their color, etc..but this double standard thing is ridiculous and that's from a human perspective not a white one!

Furthermore, I agree with GF in that because of a speech he made 4 years ago and being black it vaulted him into the forefront. I'm going to go one better, had he not made that speech at the Dem convention he would not even be running for Pres.

Neither Clinton or Obama are even close to being qualified to run this country.

Originally posted by jbondo
Seems "PC" only applies to white people.

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Furthermore, I agree with GF in that because of a speech he made 4 years ago and being black it vaulted him into the forefront. I'm going to go one better, had he not made that speech at the Dem convention he would not even be running for Pres.

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Then why didn't Al Sharptons speech about "Riding this Donkey for all it's worth" vault him to the forefront? That speech was made during the same convention.

See the flaw in your logic? The reason why Obama was vaulted with that speech was not because he was Black, it was because of his Speech! It made people feel more united than divided. It made me proud to be an American again because it showed me what kind of rhetoric we could actually use in political discourse. And he is proving that it works.