Posted on 05/30/2008 7:27:09 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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 Dem VP candidate wrote that she had been "accused of being racist for a statement I made" back in March.
EUGENE ROBINSON: On the race issue, I wish Geraldine Ferraro would give it a rest. I don't think people were saying she was racist when she made her earlier remarks. What people were saying was she was talking nonsense.
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Count on Olbermann to accuse people of racism ping to Today show list.
We are purchasing popcorn by the case.
LOL. Can’t wait to see how Hillary exits the race and how her avid supporters react.
Hey Gene, how about asking Hissy-fit Chrissie to give it a rest? That guy blames every Obama loss on racist white voters.
[I saw her on O’Reilly tonight and she was telling it like it is.]
I saw it and agree with you. Don’t often agree with her but this election is increasing racism to the N’th degree and no matter the final results, the animosity will linger on.
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MSNBC & CNN are staffed with radicals pimping for Obama
I’ve heard numerous times their anchors or hosts say “We...” when referring to democrats
I accuse Gerald Ferraro of being racist.
Is she is not racist, no one is.
Those who defend her, let their hatred of Obama cloud their judgment.
Any woman who can turn around a completely INNOCENT phrase such as, “Its our time” as being racist and biased because it was utterred by Obama in South Carolina and then goes on to say that that kind of talk is causing WHITES to feel discriminated against and feeling left out because they are thinking why its not their time, that is VERY DEFINITION of the racism.
What Ku Kux Klan and Farrakhan Engage in is some kind of pscyhotic disorder.
What Gerald Ferraro is engaing is RACISM pure and simple.
Their is a clear pattern. She said exact same things about Jesse Jackson that she said about Obama ten years later. Basically that he is only getting anywhere because black.
Now she goes further and completely twists around simple slogans and phrases to accuse Obama of being a racist or biased candidate.
Why such hatred? Because he is clobbering an evil Ovary?
Accused him of SEXISM and RACISM.
Gerald Ferraro and Hillary Clinton, hard working, very hard working, RACIST.
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Geraldine Ferrara will never back off on this
Obama and his racist cover for his black Muslim/Marxist agenda will explode in November
Voters of both parties will turn on Obama bigtime!
Election fraud will be rampant
Exp. in Chicago!
Excuse me, but having the same criticism of Jesse Jackson and Barak Obama isn't necessarily racism.
Do they have the santeria and bad juju working overtime or is it the Daley machine, in full effect?/Just Asking - seoul62........
Yes, I expect the attempts of election fraud will be really bad.
I’ve probably asked 20 times WHY they won’t demand officials from both party’s to be at every polling place to keep an eye out.
Only thing in common between Obama and Jackson is color of their skin. One has based their entire carreer on greivance-platform, the other wants to move beyond greivance and has publicly said that he has actually benefitted from his background and is post-racial candidate.
Bill Klinton so desperately wanted to marginalize Obama and reduce him to Sharpton-Jackson type candidate. His statement was offensive to even most Conservatives, such as Fred Barnes, Joe Scarborough, Peggy Noonan and others. I am that now I mention their names, they would be brutally attacked. That’s fine.
For most Americans, when they compare Obama to other Democrats, the names that come to mind are McGovern, Carter, Gore and Kerry.
Those of the ilk of Gerald RACIST Ferraro, want to desperately believe he is Sharpton-Jackson.
Its our time - this phrase can be viewed as biased by people who are not capable of going beyonds someone skin color.
If opposing sickening and shameless racism of Hillary Klinton and Gerald Ferraro is akin to drinking Koolaid, then I am happy to have two pitchers.
I will urge other like minded individuals to not back down in face of these disgusting racists. Our Nation is better off without cowards like Gerald Ferraro and Hillary Klinton.
Excellent post devolve.
Hillary said Obama can’t get the hard working white vote.
The record clearly shows that Hillary’s campaign was the first to use Obama’s race against him.
The Clinton racism strategy first became apparent in Nevada, when her struggling campaign began to publicly talk about her “Hispanic firewall” against Obama among the rank-and-file in the Culinary union. It hit the national consciousness soon thereafter when former President Bill Clinton, after Hillary lost the South Carolina primary, dismissed Obama’s big win as a race-inspired victory akin to Jesse Jackson’s success in that state years ago.
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/18841454.html
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We’ve got at least one pro Obama sleeper posting on this thread
Naive, ignorant, malicious - it matters not which -
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