Geraldine Ferraro has gone off the rails
She's gone insane.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/12/ferraro.comments/index.html#cnnSTCText
First of all, saying someone is successful at politics because of a race, gender, ethnicity, or any other superficial reason is divisive. It boils someone down to a demographic and I think politics and opinion is a bit more nuanced than that. I understand what she's saying: Obama's unique position as the first ethnic minority to win a major party's nomination has blunted the impact of Clinton's position as the first woman to win a major party's nomination. What I don't understand is the characterization that Obama wouldn't be as successful as he is in the 2008 race if he wasn't an ethnic minority.
Fine, that's just word parsing and some logical fallacies. But Ferraro's response to the Obama campaign is repulsive:
Ferraro also told ABC's "Good Morning America" that "every time" someone makes a negative comment about Obama, they are accused of racism.
Who said anything about racism?
"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,"
Ferraro wasn't talking about why Obama is wrong on the issues. She was bemoaning the fact that he's successful because he's black.
"Racism works in two different directions. I really think they're attacking me because I'm white. How's that?"
ARE YOU FAWKIN SERIOUS? And just so you know, this isn't the first time Ferraro has been called racially insensitive. Regarding Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential run:
"[I]f Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race."
Seriously. Put a cork in her.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/12/ferraro.comments/index.html#cnnSTCText
First of all, saying someone is successful at politics because of a race, gender, ethnicity, or any other superficial reason is divisive. It boils someone down to a demographic and I think politics and opinion is a bit more nuanced than that. I understand what she's saying: Obama's unique position as the first ethnic minority to win a major party's nomination has blunted the impact of Clinton's position as the first woman to win a major party's nomination. What I don't understand is the characterization that Obama wouldn't be as successful as he is in the 2008 race if he wasn't an ethnic minority.
Fine, that's just word parsing and some logical fallacies. But Ferraro's response to the Obama campaign is repulsive:
Ferraro also told ABC's "Good Morning America" that "every time" someone makes a negative comment about Obama, they are accused of racism.
Who said anything about racism?
"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,"
Ferraro wasn't talking about why Obama is wrong on the issues. She was bemoaning the fact that he's successful because he's black.
"Racism works in two different directions. I really think they're attacking me because I'm white. How's that?"
ARE YOU FAWKIN SERIOUS? And just so you know, this isn't the first time Ferraro has been called racially insensitive. Regarding Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential run:
"[I]f Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race."
Seriously. Put a cork in her.