The Geraldine Ferraro Flap – Is Ferraro Right?
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Saying Barack Obama was lucky to be black may only have been one more ‘unfortunate’ statement in a string of beauts this election cycle.
The LEFT is all over Geraldine Ferraro’s comment in the Daily Breeze a few days ago:
“I think what America feels about a woman becoming president takes a very secondary place to Obama’s campaign – to a kind of campaign that it would be hard for anyone to run against,” she said. “For one thing, you have the press, which has been uniquely hard on her. It’s been a very sexist media. Some just don’t like her. The others have gotten caught up in the Obama campaign.
“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position,” she continued. “And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.” Ferraro does not buy the notion of Obama as the great reconciler.
The race issue is creating chaos in the Democrat Party and it is being fueled by the desperation of the Clinton Cabal in painting Barack Obama as the “BLACK” candidate.
Well, he is.
Obama has won mainly in red states with large African American populations and lost to Clinton in larger Democrat blue states that have a more balanced population demographic mix. And. so what?
The argument the Clinton campaign is making through surrogate Ferraro is that Obama will NOT be able to win white voters particularly males in the general election. The appeal is to the Super Delegates who will decide the Democrat nomination.
Obama will be able to silence this argument should he win large white male majorities in the upcoming Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Indiana primaries. Flap doubts he will.
After all, Ferraro is RIGHT.
Oh yeah, Flap forgot to mention that Ferraro quit the Clinton campaign yesterday after Hillary threw her under the bus.
Wink Wink……
6 Comments
Mike Belgrove
I run a blog that is aimed at the urban crowd and as a black man I’d like to go on record saying I don’t think Geraldine Ferraro is racist at all. At least not in the way we generally think of a racist. She see Barack being black as an advantage and not a disadvatage. In a way she is right. His race does get him noticed but in all honesty it is not going to help him get elected at all. One of the other writers over at Highbrid Nation says Geraldine Ferraro is evil not racist, lol. He might not be too far off.
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madin
The issue of Ferraro and Wright as described by fullosseousflap raises a very serious problem. Even more importantly, the notion that assertions are facts seems to me to be accepted by much of the media in the same malignant way this blogger has. There is a certain intellectual laziness in not challenging opinions that are vehemently expressed and are mere assertions that are then understood to be facts. For example, HRC opined that she and Senator McCain have passed the “threshold test” to be Commander in Chief, but Senator Obama has not. It’s a false construct. She imagined some “test” that exists solely in her imagination, asserts she and McCain “have passed it” and Senator Obama has not. It’s a ridiculous argument on its face, yet I heard no one question what in fact the “test” was. Ferraro and Wright did the same thing: couch an opinion as assertion and consequently expect it will be treated as fact.
Individuals in public life have a special responsibility to make clear what are their opinions, and what are demonstrable facts. We should all do that. But when opinions can sway public perceptions we should always be skeptical, for our own good.
Finally, there is a subtle but important difference between a fact and the truth. We all have posses some degree of irrational stereotypification of groups of people.
We all feel some races/ethnicities/religions/rich/poor/men/women, etc., as a group have some common characteristics, often inferior to the group with which each of us particularly identify. I submit that is a fact. The Venetians feel superior to the Romans, rural southerners think New Yorkers are fast-talking and arrogant, we make snap judgments about a person based upon how they are dressed. But the truth is that a serial killer can wear a tuxedo, a righteous attorney general can break the law by frequenting prostitutes, a black man can jump onto subway tracks as a train approaches to save a white man, and on and on. The “fact” that we may prejudge, may presume, does not equal the “truth” about anyone or any group. Understanding these distinctions, among opinion, assertion, truth and fact, is essential to our present and future well being as individuals and a commonwealth.