Your opinion on the Ferraro comments about Obama...

[BrickCop]

Personally I see nothing wrong with what she said. I provided a link to the story below. I give her credit by not shirking from her beliefs, in an ironic twist the ensuing backlash proved her to be right.

I wholeheartedly agree with these Ferraro statements:

"Any time anybody does anything that in any way pulls this campaign down and says let's address reality and the problems we're facing in this world, you're accused of being racist, so you have to shut up," she told the Daily Breeze of Torrance, California. "Racism works in two different directions. I really think they're attacking me because I'm white. How's that?"

In her first interview with the Daily Breeze, published late last week, Ferraro said: "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman, 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."

I agree in that I cannot remember/think of another individual with less experience in the position Obama is now.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/12/ferraro.comments/index.html



Your thoughts???

[JTShooter]

Yeah, I don't understand the backlash from this comment... I guess the truth hurts...

[equinox137]

I think it's hilarious to watch the Demoncats eat themselves alive....:D This is better entertainment than Land of the Dead.

[Kpdpipes]

His campaign is based very much around the same issues and talking points that Edwards had in 04, right down to the almost verbatim speaches. It didnt wotk for Edwards,. yet it IS workign on the surface for Obama.. His race IS one of the differences whether they like it or not.

[Sgt_H]

You have a guy who was a civil rights lawyer for what, a day? Then was a state legislator where he liked to vote "present". Then won an almost uncontested Senate race where he served without distinction for 2 years before running for President. At least John Edwards actually had to go to court and win some cases before he went to the Senate. Whatever his motives were he actually had to put in a day's work. I haven't seen where Obama has.

I think that Edwards is a fair comparison. He was a first term senator but he only made it as far as VP on a loosing ticket. Obama is somehow the second coming.

I think Ferraro's comments are accurate and I think it's funny that she's now saying, "Racism works in two different directions. I really think they're attacking me because I'm white. How's that?". That, is high comedy.

[LeanG]

It didn't affect me one way or another. I think when you're playing politics, PC is something that's ingrained in everyone's head. The media plays on it, and talks about it like it's the second coming. Basically, I believe that this is a story created to keep the fire going. I don't think it's a big deal

An example was when I was watching the Democratic debate, there was a discussion between two opposing candidates who held similar views. Watching the news the next morning, all I heard was how the candidates were at each other's throats.

Sometimes a manufactured story is more exciting than the real thing. Something like this doesn't need to be addressed by every anchorman sitting behind a news desk, waiting for rebuttals from the other side, or soundbites from a panel of "democratic strategists and experts".

But that's just me.

[DAL]

Ferraro acknowledged the obvious by saying that her being a woman was an important factor in her being chosen as the Democrat candidate for VP. (I think it was just about the only reason.) I think she was also right in saying that Obama's race helped him get where he is. It seems pretty obvious that fewer Democrats would be so excited if he were white. He might have had things easier in life had he been white, but in this campaign race is a definite advantage.

[1042 Trooper]

Ferraro - as wrong, left-wing and liberal as she is - was dead-on in this one.

The supporters of Barack Hussein Obama (not Osama) are like watching groupies at a rock concert. It's pathetic to watch it happen but, like a train wreck, you just can't look away.