Jack Cafferty, CNN: Geraldine Ferraro's Racist Remarks About Barack Obama

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Aired March 12, 2008

JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Last night on this program we were talking about Geraldine Ferraro's racial remarks about Barack Obama. I mentioned that I had known the congresswoman for a long time and that she used to have more class than that. Apparently, I was mistaken.

Thanks to some excellent digging by Ben Smith at politico.com, we find out that the woman who helped Walter Mondale lose 49 states in 1984 has been saying offensive things about blacks for longer than I had realized. In a piece that originally appeared in "The Washington Post" back on April 15, 1988, written by our friend, Howie Kurtz, Ferraro said this: "If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race," which sounds a lot like what she's saying about Obama now, that if he was a white man, he wouldn't be in this position.

This kind of rhetoric ought to be beneath a former congresswoman and the first woman ever to run for vice president on a major ticket. Sometimes you can learn more about someone by watching what they don't do than by observing the actions that they actually take.

For example, when Samantha Power, a top adviser to Barack Obama, called Hillary Clinton a "monster," she was gone the next day. Yet, Geraldine Ferraro makes racial remarks about Barack Obama and retains her seat on Hillary Clinton's campaign finance committee. She also refuses to apologize. This is the kind of ugliness that threatens to tear the Democratic Party apart.

So here's the question: Should Hillary Clinton remove Geraldine Ferraro from her campaign finance committee for her remarks that Ferraro made about Barack Obama?

You can go to CNN.com/caffertyfile and post a comment on my blog

[catgirl]

1. Well said Jack

The subtle point about noting what actions are taking as opposed to
actions NOT taken was not missed. Hillary Clinton let this sewage seep
in to every crack rather than firing Ferraro.

She finally acted on this because it wasn't going away. A little too late
Hillary, the damage was done.

[Carolina]

2. K&R

revealing that GF has been what Barbara Bush called her all along!

[imagrandpa]

3. Cafferty - Do you think we are stupid? (Re: Geraldine comments)

Come on Jack... As we say in Texas,
"that dog just don't hunt".

You and others (K. Olberman) RAILED
against Geraldine F. - very nearly
calling her remarks regarding "Obama's
black advantage" to be racist.

For you (and others) of your ilk to believe
you have the ability to sell such flawed
logic is quite insulting.

I have a simple and undiluted question
for Jack or any of his aplogists:

Do you REALLY believe that Obama would
be enjoying 90% of the Black vote if
he were NOT considered to be a Black
man?