Comments on: Geraldine Ferraro on Obama http://www.all-encompassingly.com/geraldine-ferraro-on-obama/ we still remember mitch hedberg Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:12:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Albert Johnson Jr http://www.all-encompassingly.com/geraldine-ferraro-on-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-94363 Albert Johnson Jr Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:17:10 +0000 http://www.all-encompassingly.com/geraldine-ferraro-on-obama/#comment-94363 Ms. Ferraro, I am terribly disappointed. Your recent suggestion that Mr. Obamas’ success happened only because he is black is especially painful. To think that being black in America is a lucky thing strikes me as being inconsiderate. I am a black person born the same year as Mr. Obamas’ wife 1964, and I can tell you at no time in my life was being black a lucky thing, or are you unaware of the sad and continuing legacy of American race relations. You disregard Mr. Obamas’ legitimate and laudable accomplishments by attributing them to one thing, and it’s the one thing Mr. Obama tries least to be – a man of race. Mr. Obama is a child of God, a husband, a father, a university graduate and a lawyer. Mr. Obama has been a stellar state representative of Illinois and he is currently a United States Senator, and great American. Somewhere probably in the high teens of the list of things Mr. Obama is would be black man. The statements you have made and defend amount to making his race his primary attribute. You are playing the race card in a manner that is insulting, and quite frankly would be more expected from the kind of reactionary people America has hopefully outgrown. In 1984 I was a student at the University of Southern California an institution with a traditionally conservative bent. I remember campaigning for and ardently defending a certain congressperson from New York as being more than just a woman, but a person regardless of gender worthy to potentially lead this country. I’m sorry to know now that I was wrong, and all the time any Gerard really would have sufficed. Ms. Ferraro,

I am terribly disappointed. Your recent suggestion that Mr. Obamas’ success happened only because he is black is especially painful. To think that being black in America is a lucky thing strikes me as being inconsiderate.

I am a black person born the same year as Mr. Obamas’ wife 1964, and I can tell you at no time in my life was being black a lucky thing, or are you unaware of the sad and continuing legacy of American race relations. You disregard Mr. Obamas’ legitimate and laudable accomplishments by attributing them to one thing, and it’s the one thing Mr. Obama tries least to be – a man of race. Mr. Obama is a child of God, a husband, a father, a university graduate and a lawyer. Mr. Obama has been a stellar state representative of Illinois and he is currently a United States Senator, and great American. Somewhere probably in the high teens of the list of things Mr. Obama is would be black man.

The statements you have made and defend amount to making his race his primary attribute. You are playing the race card in a manner that is insulting, and quite frankly would be more expected from the kind of reactionary people America has hopefully outgrown.

In 1984 I was a student at the University of Southern California an institution with a traditionally conservative bent. I remember campaigning for and ardently defending a certain congressperson from New York as being more than just a woman, but a person regardless of gender worthy to potentially lead this country. I’m sorry to know now that I was wrong, and all the time any Gerard really would have sufficed.

]]> By: Vigilante http://www.all-encompassingly.com/geraldine-ferraro-on-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-94265 Vigilante Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:25:55 +0000 http://www.all-encompassingly.com/geraldine-ferraro-on-obama/#comment-94265 One of the reasons why Barack Obama was right when he observed that the Republicans had the big ideas in the 1980's is because Democrats had so many <b>small-minded</b> leaders, like Geraldine Ferraro, at the head of their party. One of the reasons why Barack Obama was right when he observed that the Republicans had the big ideas in the 1980’s is because Democrats had so many small-minded leaders, like Geraldine Ferraro, at the head of their party.

]]> By: doug http://www.all-encompassingly.com/geraldine-ferraro-on-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-94261 doug Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:07:44 +0000 http://www.all-encompassingly.com/geraldine-ferraro-on-obama/#comment-94261 The most refreshing thing, to me at least, is that Ferraro seems to throw aside the petty, "Oh, your advisor called me a monster! They have to resign!"..."Your surrogate made some insensitive comments, they have to be fired!" nonsense that is plaguing the Democratic campaign. The most refreshing thing, to me at least, is that Ferraro seems to throw aside the petty, “Oh, your advisor called me a monster! They have to resign!”…”Your surrogate made some insensitive comments, they have to be fired!” nonsense that is plaguing the Democratic campaign.

]]> By: Ryan http://www.all-encompassingly.com/geraldine-ferraro-on-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-94257 Ryan Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:45:58 +0000 http://www.all-encompassingly.com/geraldine-ferraro-on-obama/#comment-94257 I was but a wee babe in my mother's arms at the time she ran but that is awesome she calls it how it is. I heard someone mention that a while back, that Obama wouldn't be where he is if he were white. It seems so true. Who better to say that than a woman who ran 24 years ago and says it was because she was a woman? I was but a wee babe in my mother’s arms at the time she ran but that is awesome she calls it how it is.

I heard someone mention that a while back, that Obama wouldn’t be where he is if he were white. It seems so true. Who better to say that than a woman who ran 24 years ago and says it was because she was a woman?

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