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...Where is it written that only senators are qualified to become President? Surely Ronald Reagan does not subscribe to that maxim. Or where is it written that mere representatives aren’t qualified, like Geraldine Ferraro of Queens? Representative Morris Udall, who lost New Hampshire to Jimmy Carter by must surely disagree. So must a longtime Michigan Congressman named Gerald Ford. Where is it written that governors and mayors, like Dianne Feinstein of San Francisco, are too local, too provincial? That didn't stop Richard Nixon from picking Spiro Agnew, a suburban politician who became Governor of Maryland. Remember the main foreign affairs...

Ferraro Happy About Palin, Won't Reveal for Whom She's Voting (Jake Tapper, August 31, 2008, POLITICAL PUNCH) Former vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro told National Public Radio's Jacki Lyden that she was happy to see Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- who mentioned Ferraro in her remarks Friday -- on the GOP ticket. "For 24 years I've been saying, 'It's great to be the first, but y'know, I don't want to be the only,'" Ferraro said. "And so now it is wonderful to see a woman on a national ticket." [...] As for whom Ferraro will vote, the former congresswoman from...

Geraldine Ferraro, the first Vice-Presidential candidate of a major political party (Dems ‘84) feels that Sarah Palin’s candidacy will draw a lot of Hillary’s supporters who feel that Dean, Obama and the Media gave Hillary (and women) a raw deal in this election cycle to support the McCain/Palin ticket.. (this comment)

Don't feel bad for Geraldine Ferraro. Looks like the Hillary supporter who got into hot water back in March for claiming Obama's race was an advantage has landed on her feet, scoring a gig with the English-language edition of the People's Daily, the official organ of the Chinese Communist Party. For some reason, Geraldine apparently decided to adopt a pen name, writing as "Ding Gang." Perhaps a Chinese-language expert out there can explain the hidden meaning behind her choice of alias. What's that? The author of Obama Phenomenon in U.S. appearing in today's People's Daily isn't Ferraro? It really is...

The amiable Gene Robinson is a regular MSNBC guest, but he's apparently not a regular MSNBC viewer—at least not of Keith Olbermann's show. Otherwise he would have never claimed, as he did tonight, that no one accused Geraldine Ferraro of being a racist back in March when she said that, for current political purposes, Obama was lucky to be black. For it was none other than Olbermann host who accused Ferraro of precisely that. On this evening's Race for the White House, David Gregory invited Robinson to comment on a Ferraro op-ed in today's Boston Globe in which the former...

Geraldine Ferraro may not vote for Barack Obama because of his “terribly sexist” ways. The most damning charge against Obama is “Sweetie-gate,” ... It is my understanding that feminists don’t like being called “Sweetie.” (“Kitten” and “Pussycat” should also be avoided.) In fact, the vast majority of women don’t care for such terms of endearment.

Randi Rhodes, an afternoon host for the progressive Air America radio network, was suspended Thursday after repeatedly insulting Hillary Rodham Clinton at an event last month. Ms. Rhodes used vulgar language that likened Ms. Clinton to a prostitute at an event sponsored by KKGN, the Air America affiliate in the San Francisco area, on March 22. A video of Ms. Rhodes’ remarks was published to the video-sharing Web site YouTube on Tuesday, prompting condemnations by some bloggers.

Mr. Obama’s Philadelphia speech, in spite of its eloquent passages expressing his hope for better racial relations in America, is a mastery example of literary subterfuge, the broadening of the scenery whereby an object of inquiry becomes blurred and lost in the background, or more bluntly, the escaping of a slippery fish from a pond into a lake to hide in a wider expanse of water. His speech is essentially a sophisticated lawyerly defense of Rev Wright’s sin on the basis of self-defense. While Mr. Obama’s understanding on the root causes of America’s racial problems is quite apt, he attempts...

Geraldine Ferraro, a pioneer and trailblazer in American history, has done more to ruin a sterling reputation in the past few days than anybody but Eliot Spitzer. By claiming, I think falsely, that Obama would not be where he is if he were white or a woman, I think she totally overlooks the impact of his charisma, eloquence, demeanor, message, use of the Internet, focus on caucus states, and his refusal to take special interest money as factors in his sudden rise. She betrays a stunning inability to look more than skin deep for reasons for his success. But this...

Geraldine Ferraro steps down from Hillary Clinton's Finance Committee.

She just won't shut up... Any time anybody does anything that in any way pulls this (Obama) 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. Racism works in two different directions. I really think they're attacking me because I'm white. How's that? – Geraldine Ferraro, to the Daily Breeze of Torrance Welcome to the world of tolerance and inclusion hyper-race-sensitive liberals like yourself forced on the rest of us. Something about sleeping in the bed you made...?

While even Hillary Clinton refused to defend her supporter for claiming that Obama only made it this far because of his race, Ferraro refuses to retreat. In fact, now she claims that critics only attack her because she’s white. But far from backing off from her initial remark, Ferraro defended it and elaborated on it. “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....

When we were kids, my brother and I used to always get our butts whipped by my dad for hitting my sister, LeVita. As the only girl at the time, she would run to Daddy and tell him we hit her. So, believing his baby girl, he took it out on us. But one day he was at the kitchen table and watched us play in the front yard and his eyes lit up. He saw his baby girl hit me and Reggie, and when we hit back, she ran screaming into the house to tell him the usual tale....

Once, Geraldine Ferraro represented the historic breakthrough. Now the former vice presidential candidate and the first woman on a major party ticket is championing the presidential bid of Hillary Rodham Clinton. And she's drawing contrasts between Clinton's race for the White House and her own moment in the spotlight. In 1984, Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale selected Ferraro (in her third two-year term as a congresswoman from New York) as his running mate, triggering euphoria among many women over a new era in American politics. But in an interview Wednesday in Sacramento, Ferraro described how the excitement faded and she...

The buzz in the publishing world this week has been about the auction, currently underway, for the memoirs of former CIA director George Tenet. The bidding — which should end early next week — could bring in as much as $5 million for the Bush administration defector. Whatever publisher wins, there's at least one person who can't lose — Robert Barnett, the D.C.-based attorney who represents Tenet. A senior partner of the D.C. firm Williams & Connelly, Barnett — who insists that journalists call him an attorney, not an agent — has become the go-to-guy if you think you've got...

Defining Kerry downward Posted: March 15, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Will George W. Bush share the fate of his father and be turned out of office 18 months after having won a military triumph that vaulted him to 90 percent approval? So it seemed during the primaries, as almost a dozen Democratic candidates pummeled Bush daily for having misled the nation on Iraq and presided over the greatest job loss since Hoover. These same two months have been the halcyon days of John F. Kerry. Every Tuesday night, he has appeared before the nation smiling in victory....

The liberals had been willing to allow years for the UN inspectors to search for wmds, but America was not allowed to wait for the bombs to stop exploding to find the prohibited weapons. Even the beloved Bill O’Reilly on April 29, 2003, condemned the New York and Los Angeles Times