Posted on 03/12/2008 9:39:08 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
Former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, who is stepping down from Hillary Clinton’s finance team after telling a California newspaper that Barack Obama has been aided politically by his race, said Wednesday evening that the remarks were nothing more than a “statement of fact.”
Ferraro told FOX News she’s leaving her unpaid post on the Clinton finance committee because she doesn’t want the flap to become a campaign distraction, but blamed the fallout on Obama’s operatives.
“Somebody must have seen this (article) and said, ‘Wow, this is really something — we go after Ferraro, we go after Clinton,” Ferraro said in an interview Wednesday night on FOX News’ “Hannity & Colmes. “They made this a divisive issue, not me.”
Ferraro, who also is a FOX News contributor, she said she was simply exercising her First Amendment rights: “It was a statement of fact — nothing more, nothing less.”
Word of Ferraro’s departure spread Wednesday afternoon following calls from Obama’s team to restore civility by not letting the debate devolve into race-based arguments.
Speaking to reporters in Chicago, Obama said he didn’t think the comments were racist, but he did call them “ridiculous” and “wrong-headed.”
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And she spoke the truth about Osmama Obama.
The media can’t allow that .
Amen to your post.
1)Hillary! has Gerry make comment they both KNOW is forbidden to say but true. No career pol EVER pipes up like that out of the blue.
2)Hillary! is "agast" and makes a high minded rebuke of Gerry to look like she is taking the high road.
3)The issue is now front and center, benefiting Hillary! but without her fingerprints on it.
4)Gerry resigns as pre-agreed but keeps talking smack, refusing to back down and keeping the issue alive for days, again as pre-planned.
Don't know about anyone else, but I'm real sick of only one candidate having the right to point out his opponents’ flaws, while he is held above criticism.
Damn, as “little” of him as there is already, if he’s diminished, or demeaned, any at all, there won’t be anything left!!
Right on. The old hags from the 60’s and 70’s will stomp all over anybody—black, yellow, red, or white—just to get a fellow feminazi into office. (Note the fact that HRC wouldn’t be anywhere if she hadn’t married a man, or at least we think he’s a reasonable facsimile thereof.
Obama is where he is because the rest of the field is so lame.
No she's not.
It's her opinion, but it's unverifiable, so it isn't "a fact"
The melanin candidate, the estrogen candidate, and the open borders candidate. How lucky we voters are.
oooo...that reality check stings
Crypt keeper has a wife? Who knew?
As another poster pointed out, she stated her opinion.
Yep, I suspect Ferraro actually believes she’s running for office again, vicariously through Hillary. And she probably expected an important cabinet position in HillBubba’s WH. There’s a sense of entitlement with aging feminists.
When will McCain apologize for this slur?
Reminds me of the story, “The emperor has no clothes.”
The other truth here: had GW Bush been a 'black man'; and was running against Hillary; and Ferraro offered the same observation; the MSM would never have printed it.
Liberals live that story every day. . .they and their gullible. Chicken Little is another of their favorites. (Both work into their popular 'global warming' scenario, with Algore leading the warming parade.)
In the 1960s the Tenth Amendment (states' rights) became code words for racism and the N-word.
Today the First Amendment is fast becoming code words for bigotry, racism, the N-word, the H-word (as in Barack censored Obama), and all forms of "evil."
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