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Geraldine Ferraro: I am Nothing like Wright
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by deng | March 21, 2008 at 02:41 am
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Just over a week after she resigned her post on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign after making controversial comments about Barak Obama's presidential bid, Geraldine Ferraro said she resented being compared to Rev. Jeremiah Wright in the Illinois senator's recent speech on race relations.
Ferraro, a former congresswoman and the Democratic party's 1984 vice presidential nominee, stepped down from her fundraising post with the Clinton campaign last week after suggesting Obama's success in the presidential race can largely be attributed to the fact he is black.
Former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro said today that she objected to the comparison Sen. Barack Obama drew between her and his former pastor in his speech on race relations Tuesday.
In the speech, Obama sought to place the inflammatory remarks of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright in a broader context, in part by placing them on a continuum with Ferraro's recent remark to the Daily Breeze that Obama is "lucky" to be black.
"To equate what I said with what this racist bigot has said from the pulpit is unbelievable," Ferraro said today. "He gave a very good speech on race relations, but he did not address the fact that this man is up there spewing hatred."
Ferraro, the only woman to ever run on a major party presidential ticket, sparked a controversy when she told the Breeze that "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position."
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at 04:45 on March 21st, 2008
deng, Good stuff.
at 08:04 on March 21st, 2008
Thanks, Dave,
Have you seen Fawlty Towers? Where Basil Fawlty runs round shouting 'Don't mention the War!'
This election so reminds me of him. You've got Samantha Power and Geraldine Ferraro resigning for such petty reasons while those they represented are bending over backwards in their efforts to not mention Iraq, high crimes and misdemeaners, impeachment - shall I go on..?