bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:34 pm Post subject: Ferraro: Obama chosen because he's black; a sacrifice fly... |
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http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/03/12/ferraro-quits-clinton-campaign/
I think the Clinton campaign offered Ferraro up as a kind of sacrifice fly, as we would say in baseball.
She's right, though. It's good to see people finally calling-out the levels to which the whole race issue is clouding peoples' judgment in the USA. I'm not a Clinton fan, but it's good to finally see people discuss this.
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Ferraro was unrepentant about her comments, in which she said Obama is �lucky� because this election is being run at a time when �the country is caught up in the concept� of a black president. She said she has a 40-year history of opposing all kinds of discrimination and that she was speaking from a historical context, noting that she would not have been chosen as Walter Mondale�s running mate in 1984 if she had been a man.
�I�m sorry I said nothing negative,� she told FOX News on Wednesday. �I care about the black vote in this country. I really don�t think this is right that they should attack me as racist.�
Former Maryland Lieutenant Gov. Michael Steele, who is black, said that Ferraro�s comments are true, and the fact she can�t speak them �goes to the heart and ugliness of racism.� He said Obama�s candidacy is not diminished by her words, but an oversensitivity is harming debate in America.
�It just speaks to the fact that race, no matter how you slice and dice it,� is all too present in people�s minds, he said. |
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