Wednesday - March 12, 2008

Here we go again

FOXNEWS: Former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro is stepping down from Hillary Clinton’s finance team after remarks she made to a California newspaper suggested Barack Obama is getting favorable treatment in the media because he’s black.

FOX News confirmed Wednesday that Ferraro, who has been a fundraiser for Clinton, is leaving the campaign after calls from Obama’s team to restore civility by not letting the debate devolve into race-based arguments.

“The notion that it is a great advantage to me to be an African American named Barack Obama and pursue the presidency, I think, is not a view that has been commonly shared by the general public,”Obama said.

Oh bullshit. This is example #25619 that his candidacy is about little other than race. But speak the truth and be damned. Ferraro is utterly correct, thus she too has to go. You may not know this, but I made a blogging decision the other day, that I wanted the posts I put up to be at least half my own writing. But I’m going to have to break that rule here, unless you just want to read me swearing for the next several lines. It’s a crock people. It’s the contrapositive race card YET AGAIN. All the blacks are voting for Obama because he is black (kinda), and all the kiddies who have been raised under the “afro-aura” (which tells them constantly that anything and everything black is desirable, so they really should be black, act black, think black and should also actually feel bad that they aren’t) are behind him for the exact same reason. It’s all about the B. But don’t you dare mention that, or you get The Label, and we toss you outta the game.

Total hypocrites. It is not a great advantage. It is an ENORMOUS advantage. And so is his middle name. I think we should just think of him as Elliot Ness ... because he’s untouchable.

“I’m sorry I said nothing negative,” she told FOX News on Wednesday. “I care about the black vote in this country. I really don’t think this is right that they should attack me as racist.”

Former Maryland Lieutenant Gov. Michael Steele, who is black, said that Ferraro’s comments are true, and the fact she can’t speak them “goes to the heart and ugliness of racism.” He said Obama’s candidacy is not diminished by her words, but an oversensitivity is harming debate in America.

“It just speaks to the fact that race, no matter how you slice and dice it,” is all too present in people’s minds, he said.

See? I feel vindicated now that an actual black person has agreed with me. Sorta, mostly. Um, Steele hasn’t had his blackness revoked yet, has he? I mean lately. It’s so hard to stay current.

Posted by Drew458     on 03/12/2008 at 06:33 PM   
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