Here's Geraldine's original comments, and, once again, BO takes them out of context

[joeybee12]

Reached at her home in Manhattan on Tuesday evening, she said that, in her original remarks, she was asked why there had been so much excitement about Mr. Obama’s candidacy. “And I said, ‘I think part of it is because he’s black,’ ” she said. “People are excited about this historic candidacy. I am, too.”

But the Obama campaign “twisted” her remarks, she said. “I am livid at this thing,” she said. “Any time you say anything to anybody about the Obama campaign, it immediately becomes a racist attack.”


From the NY times.

Your ObamaGirl video was debunked, you twisted Hilary's comments about a Unity ticket into calling it racist, Obama twisted Hilary's comments about MLK to play the race card...do you honestly think this bullshit helps? Can anyone have a serious discussion on racism in this country when garbage like this is thrown out there? And do you beluieve this will not bite BO on his butt in the GE when the repukes call him on it?

[babylonsister]

1. Link to her 'actual' quote please? nt

[bunnies]

2. Yeah. And Im sure "They're attacking me because Im white"

Was taken out of context too right? :eyes:

[Colobo]

6. Yeah, poor old white Geraldine! Those blacks don't know how bad she's had it and

how lucky they are.

[Straight Shooter]

20. As I recall, when GF was on the Mondale ticket, she was put through the political meatgrinder.

It was nothing like what Obama is going through. Everything she did and everything her husband did and everything her parents did was put under a media microscope. She was denigrated at every turn, and she was lambasted by the Catholic Church for being pro-choice. I didn't follow the campaign closely, but I was certainly aware of the antipathy of the media looking to pounce on the smallest thing with which to beat her over the head.

Even though her life experience may not be comparable to that of a black, she was the daughter of an Italian immigrant. I can tell you from my family's experience, many "white" people don't consider Italians to be "white." There was a lot of bigotry towards Italians not that many years ago. It isn't comparable to the overt racism towards blacks, but it did exist. "Wop" and "dago" are still slurs that don't even raise eyebrows, just as "wetback" and "chink" apparently don't incite outrage. Go figure.

[Colobo]

3. Really? What about this?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5028671&mesg_id=5028671

A coincidence? Apples and oranges? Poor Geraldine?

[easy_b94]

4. whatever

[LakeSamish706]

5. I'm sure glad that the Hillary folks don't twist anything that Obama says..

We sure would be in trouble then...

:sarcasm:

[NYCGirl]

7. Please provide a real link. NT

[SoonerPride]

8. You have lost your mind. Better go find it before it rolls under the fridge.

Seriously that was the worst attempt at spin, ever.

[rndmprsn]

9. how do you defend this sucka!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5028671&mesg_id=5028671

"If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race," she said.

Really. The cite is an April 15, 1988 Washington Post story (byline: Howard Kurtz), available only on Nexis.

Here's the full context:

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."

[OhioBlue]

10. where are her original comments?

your title is "here's Geraldine's original comments"
so wtf are they?

[Johnny__Motown]

11. I saw the video of her saying what she did,,, sorry.. this is wrong , please try again

[MethuenProgressive]

12. It's the BO MO.

Search high and low for something -anything- that can be spun as "racism", alert the media and EXPLODE WITH OUTRAGE, then Hope the OUTRAGE captures more airtime than the truth will.

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[Spider Jerusalem]

13. Here are her actual original comments, from the site of the newspaper they first appeared in:

When the subject turned to Obama, Clinton's rival for the Democratic Party nomination, Ferraro's comments took on a decidedly bitter edge.

"I think what America feels about a woman becoming president takes a very secondary place to Obama's campaign - to a kind of campaign that it would be hard for anyone to run against," she said. "For one thing, you have the press, which has been uniquely hard on her. It's been a very sexist media. Some just don't like her. The others have gotten caught up in the Obama campaign.

"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position," she continued. "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. And the country is caught up in the concept." Ferraro does not buy the notion of Obama as the great reconciler.

http://www.dailybreeze.com/lifeandculture/ci_8489268



(the Daily Breeze, Torrance, CA...not exactly a major publication)

[islandmkl]

15. dear geraldine: just stop talking. NOW.

[DogPoundPup]

16. Shillary I mean Billary I mean Killery..oh sh1t!

You know who I mean...that republican HC...she plays a mean game of politics huh? A regular Karl Rove like scallywag eh?

:hi:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

17. Well here's an audio interview between Ferraro and John Gibson.

I guess people can listen to it and use it to help decide.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqL_sm0J8jc

[libnnc]

18. 1988. n/t.

[snooper2]

19. Um, no, those are not the orginal comments..

That is racist lady having time to "re-spin" what she originally said...

I am in Bush land

[LibGranny]

21. Ferraro's comments

Sound like sour grapes to me - her candidate is losing and she cannot think of any reason why except to say it's because Obama is "black"! Ferraro looks like an old turtle (wrinkled neck & buggy eyes) and Clinton needs to fire her just as Samantha Powers was fired from Obama's campaign even though Clinton really is a MONSTER!