Geraldine Ferraro quits Hillary Clinton campaign

Geraldine Ferraro, in hot water over race-tinged remarks about Barack Obama, apparently resigned a few minutes ago from her role as fundraiser for Hillary Clinton.

Ferraro, a former vice presidential candidate, began the day fiery and unrepentant, telling ABC's "Good  Morning America" that the Obama campaign was twisting her words.

"My comments have been taken so out of context and been spun by the Obama campaign as racist," she said. "That, you know is doing precisely what they don't want done -- it's going to [divide] the Democratic Party and dividing us even more."

Ferraro also defended her comments on Fox Tuesday night.

Clinton had already rejected the comments. CNN reported that in her letter, Ferraro said she was "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."

-- Scott Martelle

Comments

[Matt Wayne]

Ferraro: They're calling me racist!
Obama: What a dope.
Ferraro: There, he just did it! Stop calling me racist! It's racist!

[Bz]

The truth is, Geraldine Ferraro, if he were a white man, you wouldn't have sounded a peep.

[N.E. BodybutHillary]

Clearly Ferraro should have started her comment with........
"I'm not racist, but...."
That is the official beginning to any racist comment.
Oh, Hillary, that is also from the Carl Rove playbook chapter 3 page 16. You know, the paragraph following ......
Don't worry, Jesse Jackson won there too.
Real classy group you got there Mrs. C.

[alee21]

Anyone discussing race, is, by today's criterion, a racist. I post to you that Affirmative Action is an extreme practice of racism by virtue of the failure of inclusion of all ethnic groups such as Asians.

[Dennis Kelley]

I have this fear that Hillary and her tribe are trying a new tactic. The statement by Ferraro is making this primary racial. Will this kill the party, you bet. I am white, a 40 year Republican aps planned. They now know they will not pull the black vote. What they are trying to do is create a backlash with the white voters by nd a retired military officer. Will I let this tactic influence me. Hell no. If Hillary and slick Willy steal this primary I will vote for McCain.

Hillray talks about wanting to have the Michigan voters and those of Florida recognized. However little has been said about her veto of having any caucuses. She wants her cake and eat it too. Let's test her loyalty to the voters verses herself. Penalize the states 25% of their delegates and see what her position is.

If there is no penalty how will the DNC ever keep control of the party?

Remember those who claim to be able to raise the money for a re-vote are strong Hillary backers. They have only suggested two alternatives. A primary mail in vote or counting the votes already submitted. I would also suggest the they consider the mail in vote in Florida with a delegate penalty and conduct a caucus in Michigan with a delegate penalty. Hillary wants the voting to be fair but will not participate in any caucus. The reason is obvious. Let's not change the rules. If a state were to run a caucus and all the candidates were not on the ballot, redo the voting and run caucuses.

[Randy]

Unfortunately, Americans are brand oriented and victims of psycho-conditioning on the subject of race and sex.

Obama is a black man.

Hillary is a white woman.

Do the candidates benefit from their race or sex based on this time is history... "You bet!"

Our society is evolving and people are making determinations based on what their convictions are ... good, bad or indifferent.

Obama is benefiting from a certain pathology centered on "societal balancing" and so is Hillary as well.

Obama is getting 85%(plus) of the Afro-American Vote.

The facts are the facts...

I'm sorry if I somehow hurt your feelings by speaking the truth.

Geraldine Ferraro didn't call Obama a MONSTER unlike Obama's staff had called Hillary. Ferraro simply stated that he is benefiting from his minority status as an Afro-American male.

Grow-Up and free your MINDS! Dummies!

[El Grande]

Geraldine Ferra-who? Why is this old douche bag flapping her pie hole. Let her go back to her racist eyetalian bretheren. If Obama is where he is at becuase she is black, then Clinton is where she is at becuase she has a vagina and married Bill. They are both affirmative action presidential candidates.

And I really enjoy Clinton continuing to destroy the Democrat party. The first party to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ... stupid predictable Democrats. Obama had the only shot to defeat McCain, and now the Democrats are going to either destroy Obama or let Clinton steal the nomination. Either way, McCain now can defeat a Clinton mauled Obama or an election stealing, racist, horn dog husband having, permanent victim.

[N.E. BodybutHillary]

When Ferraro claims to have been fighting discrimination of any kind for the last 40 years, you have to wonder if she is counting in "Hillary Experience Years". They are similar to "Dog Years"

[Always Right]

I was at a TUPPERWARE soirée just last night and found
more suspense and substance than in this non event.
One ressemblance is the emptiness of the tupperware
containers and the emptiness of the Axelrod gibberish.

[N.E. bodybutHillary]

To paraphrase MS. Ferraro, the reason Barak Obama is a candidate for president is his dancing ability, his affinity for watermelon, and that he seems to prefer laceless footwear. Nothing racist could possibly be gleamed from that.

[Naren Patel]

It is amazing to note that Geraldine Ferraro, a white woman, does not think much of the contributions of white mothers like she and Obama had, in their children's lives.
Let the Ferraroes of the world note that when and if Sen. Barack Obama becomes US President, millions of American will dance with joy outnumbering Al Qaida, not because Obama is an African-American, not because he is biracial, not because he is a child of a white mother like Cunningham, Ferraro, and Clinton are, not because he is a Christian, not because he happens to be a male, but because American voters truly believe that Obama will make a great President. Please, please let Obama be Obama and don’t drag him down to your level. Thank you.

[Raymondo Kelly]

By refusing to reject and denounce Geraline Ferarro's racist remarks Hilary Clinton has lost my vote. I realize that politics can be dirty but there is no place in the Democratic party for this kind of blatant racism.

[Jerry Tsai]

Keith Olbermann of MSNBC said it best. Apparently he thinks Senator Clinton's campaign has been hypocritical and cowardly, and yet he thinks Senator Clinton is better than that. After two months of active campaigning, however, I am not sure Senator Clinton is better than her campaign. I sure hope so, though.

For the first time ever, Olbermann addressed his "special comment" not toward Republican failings, but toward Senator Clinton's failings:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23601041/

[Ricci Groomes]

Obama's long time friend and spiritual advisor slandered Hillary and the USA and Obama said he should not be held accountable for what other people say. And yet when comments are made by Hillary's associates, Hillary is called racist and she IS expected to be accountable for other's comments. I don't see a race card being played here. I see that old gender card of double standards being played. I was there in the 60's and we all wanted civil rights: blacks, women, gays and the handicapped. Martin Luther King was a very strong advocate and unifying force for equal rights and he knew how to unify the masses much like Obama today. But let's face it; it was the politicians, led by LBJ, that passed the laws that guaranteed those equal rights. In this, the Clintons are totally correct. No amount of marching and demonstrating (and hoping) changes the law. As one of those demonstrators, I understood that what I was doing was only focusing attention on the need for a change. If the media had not thought our marches and demonstrations news worthy, who knows where we would be today. After the civil rights movement of the 60's broke into separate factions, African Americans lost a great leader when King was assinated, but they were able to continue in strength because they had the laws of Congress as their stepping stones and the black movement has stayed strong. On the other hand, the women's movement, despite all the progress that was made in the 60's, virtually disappeared in the 70's and does not enjoy the same unifying force today as the Blacks. We seem to have lost our collective herstory with each passing generation. Perhaps because our herstory does not ressonate with the same horror as our black American citizens our perhaps because this generation of women has been brainwashed into not being able to recognize when they (or their sisters) are being treated unfairly. American women of all colors, ages, religious beliefs and sexual orientation should not only be irrate when they recognize double standards, but they should stand up and shout,"No more! We will not tolarate double standards being cloaked in the disquise of racism." This election is not about the color of one' skin. It is about a level playing field. I say it is time to throw out the race card along with the double standards. This election is about who can get 'er done. Our country is in the worst mess ever. I watch the news at night and it resembles the Depression era and Viet Nam all rolled into one unfathomable disaster. The American citizens can't afford to make another mistake. Those that are running for the highest office in the land need to spend their campaigning time telling us how they are going to fix this mess. Shame on you Obama for trying to fool the American public with card tricks and talking down to Hillary. Loose the smoke screen of hope and tell us what your plan for fixing this country or step aside for a woman with a plan.