CNN has released her letter of resignation:
Dear Hillary –
I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself and you can continue to speak for yourself about what is at stake in this campaign.
The Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you.
I won’t let that happen.
Thank you for everything you have done and continue to do to make this a better world for my children and grandchildren.
You have my deep admiration and respect.
Gerry
Given that Ferraro was defiantly unapologetic for her remarks and even pushed back against those who found her statements objectionable as committing reverse racism (see her appearance on Good Morning America below)…
…it’s not surprising that she is wrapping herself in the mantle of martyrdom and falling on the sword of her own making instead of acknowledging the errors of her statement. Rev. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite:
I think of all the ways this comment is offensive and I’m having a hard time choosing between “staggering ignorance of U.S. history and current culture” and the insightful Catholic theological category for human sin, “willful ignorance.” I lean toward the sin concept, because I believe this is a sinful statement on a number of key levels. But I’m not going to ignore historical and cultural ignorance either, as I believe it is the way forward for the country beyond the Ferraros and their monovision.
The New York Times has reported the Justice Department statistic that “an estimated 12 percent of African-American men ages 20-34 are in jail or prison…The proportion of young black men who are incarcerated has been rising in recent years, and this is the highest rate every measured.” Just for comparison, note that 1.6 percent of white men in the same age group are incarcerated.
So, let’s see, to follow Ms.Ferraro’s logic, the other 88% of African American men are being promoted to high public office? Facts dictate otherwise. There are more African American men now in prison than in college and the employment rate for African American men has dropped to just over 50%. It’s nigh on to impossible to get a job in this economy anyway, let alone when you have a prison record. Incarceration rates, unemployment and poverty are linked.
The reason I believe this statement by Ms. Ferraro is an example of the sin of “willful ignorance” is that a person would have to will themselves to actively exclude evidence fully available in every paper, blog, and 24-hour newscycle to come to the conclusion that it’s a “lucky” break for Senator Obama that he was not born a white man.
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talk about a victim mentality
she is the one who opened her mouth and not only demeaned the obama campaign, but demeaned everyone who has voted for him
Buh-bye!
The Hillary campaign is scraping the bottom of the barrel if all they can do is make racist smears.
How much lower can they go?
So she didn’t so much as apologize to Barack, black people, and the public for her comments, but she apologized to Clinton for “hurting” her campaign. What a POS!
Cooler heads have prevailed. Now, on to the next handfull of mud!
watched the interview again
what a fuckin nit
In other words,
“Bye Hillary *wink*, mission accomplished.”
With Richardson, Dodd, and Biden on the dais; had Obama been white would he have been there. If he had been a woman would he have been there?
That’s one more Republican trait, pretending that your offenses against another make you the victim.
HRC still hasn’t come out and condemned the statements, choosing instead totriangulate her way to a quasi-statement of it being “regrettable”. wow, that was certainly definitive.
With every passing day, Clinton is looking more and more like a GOPer. Since she likes McCain so much, maybe she can get a slot on his ticket.
LOLZ the democrats have finally found the Rovian Weapon - i.e. Politics of Personal Destruction - and they happily begin pointing it at each other!
Yet another woman scorned and punished by the sexist media.. What is the world coming to? Will we never see a woman’s right to free speech respected? .. What is this, Afghanistan under Taliban? Why should they stifle her right to free speech? I mean how do the BO people sleep at night, knowing that rich, white old relics like Gerry cant express their views only because they are women..
I think the HRC campaign will love to play the victim in a controversy of their own making … I think we will see a paraphrasing of my statements above all over Penn in the next 4 weeks. This will further polarize the vote with Whites turning out and voting for HRC.
BTW, now that NY will have a blind-black gov., maybe Gerry should attack him next “Blind black men have been getting a free ride for too long..”
Anyway, Hill’s anitcs are getting funnier by the day. This is a truely wonderful opportunity to weed out the feminists that are really interested in equal rights for all and the femistapo that is only in it for themselves…
To all of you Hill supporters out there who say they will be too bitter to vote for Obama and instead go for a complete polar opposite being the Republican John McCain, I’ll quote John Stewart and just say: #$%@ YOU!
I think they’re trying to avoid the special comment that Olbermann was going to give this evening.
But that is speculation on my part.
What took HRC so long? Why would she wait as long as Bush did to axe Gonzalez?
She is VERY LUCKY that Spitzer is still on top of the news cycle. But she’s a idiot for letting this play out over three days (the paper will run her resignation and Obama’s response tomorrow) when she could’ve killed it in one.
If this is a reflection of how she intends to run the country…..God save us!
Again, this is EXACTLY why Hillary will not win.
We’re all sick and tired of the socalled Baby Boomers. They’re all F’d it up and they wanna try and hold on and fix it. Ferraro is a prime example of all of these old ex-hippies desperately trying to hold on to what little power they have left.
Out of context? Gimme a break. We know EXACTLY what you meant and EXACTLY what you were talking about Ma’am.
Good bye and good riddance.
[Hey you young whippersnapper, this site is run and administered by babyboomers. And Ferraro is old enough to be our mom. By the Summer of Love, she was past 30-not to be trusted by hippies-Sitemonitor]
Good riddance.
Obama got where he is in politics because of intelligence, charisma and sheer talent. Nothing more, nothing less.
Geraldine is just another failed political dinosaur who needs to go the way of the dodo. Obama is the future.
Hillary will be joining her soon when she heads out to pasture.
Geraldine makes me wonder if I should have voted for Mondale in ‘84.
may i paraphrase what ferraro just said?
“look at everything i have done for the darkies, and they have the gall to attack me?”
“So, let’s see, to follow Ms.Ferraro’s logic”
Alas, if she only had followed Ferraro’s logic instead of projecting her own…
Didn’t Elizabeth Edwards say something similar? I do not agree with everything Ferraro said, but if you hear the question, she was opining on a valid point. Mississippi voted along racial lines yesterday. And everyday on CNN they talk about the AA vote as if it is a given to Obama. In the beginning of the campaign, many blacks did not think Obama was black enough. This woman was attacked and stifled and we call ourselves a democracy? I think this will backfire on Obama. She is going to get some sympathy because it appears the Obama people cannot take criticism without pulling the race card.
good riddance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Zytron @ 17:
LOL!
Sure he did…
Well how ya like that. Second public lynching in two days.
I Am A Banana @ 16:
Oh, yeah….Its all us “Boomers” . Your in-depth “analysis” is as ridiculous and narrow-minded as her comments.
“EXACTLY”.
Try again, Savior in Training.
[I had to slip my 2 cents in-Sitemonitor]
Crikey. This is getting worse by the day. How about this: Hillary can’t win, it’s selfish for her to stay in the race, and it’s time she dropped out for the sake of living creatures everywhere. Because the longer this goes on the unthinkable becomes more possible: Losing to the Republicans in November.
It’s same argument they use against that Nader guy, after all….
Eric
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www.changeany1thing.com
Geraldine Ferraro can umm…[Deleted. Over the top-Sitemonitor]
C. Montgomery Burns @ 18:
I’ve been having the exact same thought.
[Deleted-Sitemonitor]
grand Marnier @ 21:
I don’t follow your logic. Are you saying that because we live in a democracy (we really don’t, but I know what you mean) that people are immune from criticism for what they say?
Perhaps when looking at the American people as a whole, but certainly not from Democrats.
And now she is acting like the Joan of Arc of the feminist movement by taking on people of color and not just men?
She’s a idiot! As long as Hillary doesn’t denounce and reject her and her views, she will still be attached to Hillary even if she’s not working directly for her!
If the Democratic party doesn’t bring this thing to a close within the next 10 days, I’m be shocked and assume that they’re embracing defeat in the fall.
grand Marnier @ 21:
No what she said was that we have fought very hard in this country to ensure that race, religion or gender doesn’t get in the way of your talents and your potential and your message. In other words you are judged by the content of your character. Hence John should be judged only by his message not by his ‘assumed’ status of power as a white man. And I totally agree with El on that one.
My respect for her quadrupled that day, provided she really believes in what she says (and so far she hasnt done/said anything that indicates otherwise).
Zytron @ 17:
God…That’s depressing.
I’m so saddened by Ms. Ferraro’s descent into madness. Once as a young man, I had nothing but the deepest respect for this woman. She should know how hard it is for someone who isn’t a white male how hard it is to get a fair shake. But this is absolutely unacceptable, and from a fellow Democrat, too!
Good bye and good riddance, you crazy old woman.
Oh Geraldine you has been, just look at all the sucessful blacks in america….. she is right!!! black men in America have it easy on the inside of jail…. plenty of drugs, gay sex, no books to wok out their minds only there bodies, creating more sucessfull super predators…. also dont forget on the outside they have the privledge of going to that other lock up called public schools that your liberal kind have destroyed via teacher unions (I am talking about LA!!!) where kids can fight with latinos, they dont get a decent education…. also if Obama was a white man he would have the nomination wrapped up weeks ago… kitchen sink strategy, more like the kitchen sink, the toilet and the whole plumbing…. hillary go back to arkansas and fix your life first….
Her words come straight from the Dick Durbin school of apologies. “I’m sorry you are offended.”
No, Geraldine, you are hurting Hillary’s campaign because of the stupid things you said.
As an Obama supporter, can’t say I’m sorry to see the Hillary camp self-destructing.
How was she able to type with her foot in her mouth?
grand Marnier @ 21:
Hill’O is the one that keeps bringing the race card. And she isn’t doing it with tract or validity, she’s doing it because she’s desperate. So Obama got this far because he’s black? I guess that explains the success of President Jesse Jackson and Vice President Al Sharpton. That’s like saying Colin Powell got the job because he was black…No! He was a talented military man that served his country proudly and did it pretty well until 2003.
The Old Guard goes out kicking and screaming.
Swishbuckler is just a racist troll. Ignore it.
Again, the HRC team gives us an example of how NOT To handle a situation successfully.
The mudslinging won’t work. I hope Obama continues to stay above the muck and not address this further. She’s gone, as she should be. But Hillary will take the hit from Progressives who realize She should have taken a firmer hand with Ferraro’s racist tirade.
James @ 34:
Yip. It’s the White Peoples Fault. They get all the breaks in life.
farraro was specking of OBAMA’s experience not blacks in general. to site that his luck and accepetance for blacks is representative to what many other blacks experience is unacceptable. there are some blacks who whites find accepetable. (how many times have i been told …well michelle your different)…once they find you acceptable they appreciate the ability to work with you to feel better about themselves and enjoy you as the wonderful person you are regardless of race. many of them will be the first to say the ole line…you know i’m not racist cuz i have black friends. whites here are going off track and are starting to insult blacks without realizing it. many in the country wish to end racism on some level. hence OBAMA, who is an “acceptable” black is benefitting from his race. he is also reasonably accomplished and well spoken. IMHO he is lite on the experience side in my book and i look forward to him cutting down a bit on his ambition and doing the real work that shows me who he really is on issues over the next 8 years. after that, i think he could be well qualified to be elected president.
Okay okay. Madame Ferraro can find herself an engorged pillar of flesh upon which to inhale with much force and abandon until she has taken upon a hue close to that of the noble blueberry, one of my favorite fruits. How’s that?
Enough of these phoney trustfund feminists. Since when was being a feminist the same as being a victim? Oh now I remember, since Hillary cried and and it appeared to work. Now who is drinking their own bathwater again?
Seriously, someone needs to put an end to this nonsense.
Can’t the super delegates just get together and unilaterally flip their support, based on what they already know? And maybe save the party while they’re at it?
Like i said I think they’re trying to avoid the wrath of Olbermann.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....91110.html
Dear Hillary –
I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself [on the lucrative lecture circuit] and you can continue [to prepare to begin] to speak for yourself about what is at stake in this campaign. [I don’t want to specify this lest more people are alienated].
The Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you[, the heartless bastards].
I won’t let that happen [anymore. I am a loyal Clintonian].
Thank you for everything you have done and continue to do to make this a better world for my children and grandchildren [who I mention to only to demonize Obama’s camp while personifying the Clinton Camp. Kids everywhere will be unsafe if Obama picks up that red phone].
You have my deep admiration and respect.
Gerry
GF/hrc
What calculated bullshit this is. She’s claiming “martyrdom” rather than genuinely apologizing for her remarks. See what that evil Barack did to me? I think it’s meant to “energize” feminists to support Hillary.
I @ 44:
The “partys” over no matter who gets in.
Ferraro is acting just like a Bushie — falling on her sword, to be sure, but with as much dishonorable, disgraceful, infantile whining and puling as possible.
Just shut up, Geraldine, and go away. Don’t go away mad. Just go away. You’re publicly done. Nobody needs to hear what you have to say anymore.