Posted on 03/12/2008 7:05:37 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
Geraldine Ferraro has established a history. No, not the history of embarrassing her gender by taking part in what Democrats probably consider The Fiasco of 1984. Geraldine Ferraro, for the lack of more tactful way to put this, is an unmitigated limousine liberal bigot.
I’ll caveat this by admitting that I shouldn’t hold differing forms of the same exact racial bigotry to differing standards. Senator Byrd may have been more evocative when he donned the KKK sheets as …an Exalted Cyclops, but he and Geraldine have both held the same dishonest untruths to be self-evident.
Like Senator Byrd in his misspent youth, Geraldine Ferraro has a history of being less than open minded when large and powerful black men gave campaign speeches to Democratic audiences. Maybe something about the strong, dark coffee scares the ofay Congressnoble from The Empire State.
Her recent remarks concerning Barack Obama leave me disappointed that Barack Obama didn’t drop the campaign pose and punch the snotty patrician right across the kisser. Geraldine offered us all a lesson in Sociological Clichés 101 when she addressed the role of race in Barack Obama’s assent to national prominence.
"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color), he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is."
If this were merely a one-off, just a political ally of Hillary’s jamming her foot between cheek and gum, this would merely be an amusing example of progressive charity. However, this is not a one-off. She also had the lack of judgment to throw down the racial demagoguery against the master, the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
Jesse likes a good game of political T-Ball with the boys. He teed off on Geraldine and knocked her faux-progressive, nouveau riche, yuppiedom from hell for a loop. Jackson’s total and utter smack down of Ferraro follows below.
Ferraro offered an enlightened perspective on Jackson’s professional career.
"If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race,"
Jesse made effective use of this opportunity to slay Ferraro in her tracks. Howard Kurtz describes Jackson’s reaction below.
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."- Howard Kurtz (WAPO April 15, 1988)
Here Jackson had pointed out a truth that needed to be emphasized. The South went through its time of troubles over race and racism. As someone born and raised in Virginia, I’ve spent my entire life hearing condescending snot-boxes like Geraldine Ferraro tell me how much more enlightened she was than “Ya’ll down South.”
They ooze moral condescension one day, and then accuse the Barack Obama’s and Jesse Jacksons of only being successful because of their skin color. Perhaps this was what President Bush meant when he spoke out against the soft bigotry of low expectations. Or maybe I just expect too much from the Geraldine Ferraro. She’s a limousine liberal. What can you expect from one of them?
Was Ms. Ferraro wrong to believe that O'bama is where he is only because of race?
Or just wrong to say it?
I’m sorry. She was absolutely right about Jesse Jackson. The man is a buffoon. He always seemed like he looked for big words in the dictionary, then he would use them incorrectly. If he weren’t black, he would have been laughed off the public stage years ago. The same is true of Al Sharpton.
As for Obama, even Obama used to admit that he got attention because he wasn’t white. Now he acts outraged because Ferraro says the same thing. The only thing Ferraro screwed up on is saying that sexism is responsible for Hillary’s downfall. The truth is, Hillary’s getting less of a boost because of her gender than Obama is getting because of his race. But that’s not sexism.
Hillary knew that she was going to say this and in fact probably orchestrated the whole thing.
Remember. They’re appealing to white voters.
Clinton probably directed her to make this comment and then proceeded to throw under the bus when it didn’t work. You would like to call her trailor trash from Arkansas, but that would be an insult to anyone living in a mobile home.
I watched liberal icon Keith Olbermann go after her last night and it was awesome. Same way at DU. These liberals are ready to tar and feather Hillary and her campaign surrogates. They hate her more than we do, I think, which I never thought possible.
But then, there are many on our side who are dying to make Condi the VP, most often probably just to prove to the world that we aren't racist/sexist, but that at least has some sense to it in electoral terms.
Well, THAT I can agree with. But your piece makes it sound like it was wrong to believe that race entered into O'bama's position.
I happen to agree with her - No white male 2-year Senator would have survived the first primary.
It serves her no purpose to point that out, but nonetheless it's true.
Ferraro is correct. Both Jackson and Obama are substantially effects of identity politics. For that matter, so are Mike Huckabee and Hillary Clinton.
What they don't know is that Obama is a disaster in the making. He is an even worse candidate, and even if he wins, he will drag america into a spiral of economic and financial ruin in such short time that the Dems will lose their majorities in the House and Senate in 2010. The media will not be able to obfuscate his lack of principles and leadership. Words alone will not manage the country. He will go after the hardworking and attempt to give their assets to the poor around the globe, bankrupting us all and making us all miserable and impoverished. I kid you not.
She was right about Jackson. She’s right about B. Hussein. What she doesn’t get is that neither she or Hillary would be where they are or have been unless they were women. Typical liberal, completely blind to the obvious.
BINGO! Geraldine Ferraro is the LAST human being alive who should lecture anyone on politically symbolic tokenism. Her resume wouldn’t be worth spilling coffee on without it.
So, he took a step down, and ran for Vice President. He offered only rhetorical skills (less than those of Obama, but in the same category). Edwards, both in his 2008 race and in the 2004 one, offered the impression of hope and opportunity, rather than any real programs to accomplish anything. (That's rather like Obama, also.)
Bottom line, Edwsards crashed and burned, rather than working his way into a leadership position in the race, based on credentials as a white man that were about as thin as Obama presents as a black man. So, the example is close, but not a perfect fit.
Congressman Billybob
That’s most of our national field! If you are right about this, that, my friend, is indeed scary.
Keep talking Geraldine. Run Hillaryous Run! Twisted sisters.
Don’t be dissing Dee Snyder...
We are watching the Clintons and their minions slowly destroy what for years was a reliable base of black voters. These people won’t stop until they have taken the nomination from BHO. Then, the real fun begins.
Jackson is right about the above. We got over it. The bigotry in the North is much more subtle and much greater.
The funny thing about this is Jackson is right about Geraldine Ferrara and she is right about Obama. Oh how I love fratracide when it is the Demonic-rat party.
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