Ferraro: The Obama Camp Should Apologize To Me For Calling Me A Racist

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Ferraro: The Obama Camp Should Apologize To Me

NBC Nightly News | March 13, 2008 08:05 AM



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/13/ferraro-the-obama-camp-s_n_91287.html

Geraldine Ferraro took her fight to NBC Wednesday night. Joining substitute host Ann Curry, Ferraro lashed out at the Obama campaign. She accused them of putting her remarks and questions of racism in the national spotlight.

"If anybody is going to apologize, they should apologize to me for calling me a racist," she said.

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[Exilednight]

1. Someone needs to tell cinderall that if the the shoe fits.... n/t

[Yurovsky]

2. Somebody's off their meds ...

this lady is batshit crazy. No wait, she's a batshit crazy racist.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

19. She actually is behaving like someone who's off their meds...

...kind of like the tail end of the Britney Spears crazy behavior with the British accent and such, right before the courts stepped in, and it was revealed that she was quite possibly bipolar and on a not-too-smart cocktail of recreational and prescription drugs.

As I've said elsewhere on DU, I've never cared for Ms. Ferraro's style, dating all the way back to the Mondale campaign, but there actually seems to be something mentally / emotionally "wrong" with her in 2008. She just won't let this go. Maybe she likes the attention. Who knows?

[Yurovsky]

32. You nailed it right here ...

"Maybe she likes the attention. Who knows?"

Sad...

[UALRBSofL]

35. Saying she is off her meds???

You don't know anything about her yet you say things like this. It would do you some good to go study up on her a little bit and find out what she has done for the country before saying she's off her meds. That's is just an attacking statement that's not needed on DU.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

45. OK, make sure to reply to all of the other people who have made the same observation on DU...

...and offer the same lecture to them, because I'm not the only one.

People who have served their country sometimes have issues. Ms. Ferraro has issues.

As far as it being an "attacking statement," that's a judgment call, and I respectfully decline being judged by you, because you don't know anything about me, either, and I'm sure you'd want to take the same advice you so freely give to others.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

49. Took your advice, found out what she has done for the country:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5073316&mesg_id=5073316

[hisownpetard]

47. If you see her with an electric razor in her hand, grab it! We don't want another year of

'bad wig' pictures in the press...

[MadBadger]

3. Who in the Obama campaign called her a racist?

[Abacus]

18. No one, this is SC redux. /nt

[papau]

23. Everyone posting on DU from the Obama camp should apologize - Ferraro is correct

[MadBadger]

25. No, I will not apologize to that sexist pig.

[ensho]

31. you sound like a neo con?

nt

[MadBadger]

33. Since when do Neocons cry about people being sexist?

[ensho]

36. pig is the give away word

nt

[MadBadger]

39. So what did I say that was neoconnish? I'm not the one who is a Fox News Analyst.

[rucky]

4. STFU, already!

jeez.

[DevonRex]

17. Just realized

what STFU means. Thanks rucky! In my defense I've been sick for about a month, so my brain isn't functioning real well. :)
Jen

[TechBear_Seattle]

5. It is not slander when it is true

Not all racists wear hooded white sheets.

[papau]

24. but it is slander when it is not and is just Obama playing race card - again

[kwassa]

6. How clueless can a professional politician be?

She keeps digging the hole deeper and deeper and deeper ...

[ensho]

34. you wish. you sound like a neo con too

nt

[olkaz]

7. Why does Hillary let her go on like this?

I just don't get it.

Is it such a given that black voters will vote for the (D) candidate in the general that the campaign can crap all over them?

And honestly, when did Ferraro become relevent? Why have we even had to put up with this??

[Apollo11]

40. So Hillary puts the words in Ferraro's mouth?

Hillary has enough problems keeping her husband under control, as far as I know. ;-)

[sniffa]

8. Oh Jellybean, you're delusional

But keep going on TV and radio, and keep digging.

[southern_belle]

get over yourself, Geraldine!

:eyes:

[Fearless]

9. Come again?

:rofl:

[City Lights]

10. Keep digging, Ger.

:nopity:

[BlueJac]

11. Pathetic

[bunnies]

12. No one called her a racist. This is bordering absurd. nt

[jakem]

13. wow. something really pushed her buttons...

[Connie_Corleone]

14. The Obama campaign never called her a racist.

The only one calling Ferraro a racist is Ferraro herself. Why doesn't she apologize to her own damn self?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

15. Chutzpah-- I think we have a new classic example

the old classic:

chutzpah

1892, from Yiddish khutspe "impudence, gall" from Heb. hutspah. The classic definition is that given by Leo Rosten: "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan."

[NDambi]

16. She's loving being in the public eye again...spotlight, flashlight, neon light..street light

she sees this as a renewed moment in the sun..she's been underground and wants some sunshine on her forgotten ass..

OOOOoooo..the cameras are me again!!

[ensho]

41. sadly it seems reality doesn't visit your brain very often

Geraldine is standing up for women

[NDambi]

48. No she's not...she's playing the woe is me ...they are attacking me

as a woman I say screw her..she needs to go back wherever it is she was..before she crawled out from under her rock to use the same rhetoric she's been caught using before..

[mmonk]

20. Those that are that defensive as to turn it around give themselves away.

[Levgreee]

21. They should've done this closer to the PA primary, would've got them more votes

or maybe they have multiple stunts in the books... can't do them all at once, I suppose

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

22. I apologize...

You're the wife of a mobbed-up New York realtor whose political career peaked with the worst presidential electoral ass-kicking the Democrats ever experienced, and who then slid into a Nora Desmond-like period of decline only to be dragged in front of the klieg lights to make a series of increasingly indefensible statements that really confirmed to nearly everybody who heard you that its really a good thing that you've been incommunicado for the past twenty-five years.

But hey. You're not racist.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

28. I'm not familiar with the "DUzy nomination process," but...

...you should receive one for your post. Very accurate and succinct.

:patriot:

I especially like the Nora Desmond reference, because...although I know that many people here do not acknowledge it...the Ferraro incident can't be written off to "Hillary Bashing, Obama Boosting." There is something genuinely sad about this woman's current behavior. One element of that may be her inability to see herself through the eyes of the world. I'm not saying she should "seek approval"...that's also a very destructive form of behavior...but I have a hard time believing that she feels good about all of this.

[asjr]

26. Ferraro is hurt and indignant. I don't blame her.

Nothing she said was racist. If anything it was a compliment. But unfortunately Obama backers are going to try and twist anything to make it seem racist. Neither the Clintons nor Ferraro is racist. They have always fought racism. The media are pushing this as hard as they can in order to get an audience. Talking heads abound now on TV bringing up the same thing over and over. I thought the media's bent for scandal with Spitzer would divert attention for a while but I suppose I was wrong. I don't care who gets the nomination--Obama or Clinton but I refuse to bash either one or jump on a bandwagon of deceit. Have you all forgotten what a disaster the last 7 years have been? Yes, let's keep throwing insults at each other to take up space on this board and continue saying It's your fault--no, It's your fault. Your candidate is the worst in the world. No, your candidate is. Are we in Junior High or still in elementary school? None of us will get to be the prom queen or king. I am sure I have stepped on toes here, but it seems none of us can handle the truth.

[Araxen]

27. I firmly believe she is a racist

and she should be the one apologizing.

[Occam Bandage]

29. Someone needs to stick a cork in her mouth already. She's embarrassing herself.

[ensho]

30. go Geraldine! she is not a racist and never has been

they should apologize

[still_one]

42. They never brought it up, SHE did. She is and continues to use it as part of the campaign

How do you know her TRUE feelings about race?

[ensho]

43. I'm old, I remember when

I was there

[still_one]

44. Why did she bring up race in the first place? Making a comment

that Obama wouldn't EVEN be in this presidential run if he wasn't black, implies that the only qualifications he has are the color of his skin. That doesn't attack Obama on issues, but on his color, and THAT is the problem

She obviously believes it is relevent or she would not continue to bring it up

Point blank, race isn't relevent, gender isn't relevent, it is ideas, experience, and judgement, and the candidates record. That she resorts to this, and continues to pursue it, indicates she does have a problem with people of color

Incidently, I am in my fifties. Ferrao was against busing, and for supporting tax credits for parents sending their children to private schools. While those positions are NOT racist, it could be viewed as an elitist view

No question she was a powerful advocate against sexism, and discrimination against women, which is extremely important and significant, but her feelings on race I think were expressed by her recently. When the person she is supporting, is against her comments that Ferraro continues to defend that should tell you something

[still_one]

37. When did the Obama camp come out and specifically say that?

I know a lot of people, including Clinton are slaming her for her comments, which are racists

It is amazing that she continues to defend her position

I believe that is intentional to try and appeal to the worst elements of our society, thinking it will help her candidate in the election

It is a very bad misjudment

[Alter Ego]

38. Get over yourself, Gerry.

You're still shooting the Clintons in the foot every time you open your goddamn mouth about this.

Your comments were horribly ignorant at best, racist at worse.

[Political Heretic]

46. You'd have to stop being a racist first.

I didn't call Ferraro "a racist" as opposed to saying she made a "racist comment" until she defended her comments with the David Duke "white racism" screed. That's when I knew, wow... I am staring at an honest to god racist.