If you think Ferraro's comments hurt Clinton, you better think again.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

Geraldine is quickly becoming the darling of the RW media, having already been lauded on BillO's radio show and on FOX News. Watch for Lou Dobbs to be all over it this afternoon, coming to her rescue and lambasting "PC liberals". It will play beautifully to Hillary Clinton's white, working class base, who absolutely loathe anything that smacks of affirmative action or political correctness. It's being spun as "she was just telling the truth". Hell, I've seen that sentiment expressed more than once here on DU this morning.

Doesn't matter whether Ferraro is asked to step down or not. The damage is done.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. I think race-baiting might work for Republicans.

Most racists are already voting Republican.

Democrat primaries? Probably not so much.

[redqueen]

5. I hope not... but

I'm starting to wonder.

[XemaSab]

7. In the last week I've *really* started to wonder

:(

[itcfish]

12. Race Baiting

has worked great for Obama. LOL Labeling the Clintons as racist got him plenty of votes.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. Do you even understand what the term "race-baiting" means?

"Labeling the Clintons as racist got him plenty of votes."

When the Clintons go racist with this Ferarro bullshit, yeah, I hope it gets him plenty of votes.

[sniffa]

45. No he doesn't

But like many people here, he's just a screaming idiot. WEEEEEEEE!

[DURHAM D]

16. Totally worked for Obama but splits the party. eom

[BumRushDaShow]

19. So you think this is why he won states

with 1% or less black population like Idaho and Wyoming and Utah and Vermont and Maine, etc? But then I guess her supporters will say anything that is the opposite of reality! War = peace, up = down, 2nd = 1st, losing = winning. :rofl:

[papau]

55. I agree - Obama playing the race card over pretend slights by "supporters of Hillary" is reason for

90/10 AA split rather than the 70/30 split before he played the race card.

[earthlover]

38. Don't count on it. In Ohio exit polls, 20% said race was deciding factor in vote, 85% voted Hillary

Which extrapolated to 31% of Hillary voters voting for her because she is white and Obama black.

This Ferrarro thing will appeal to similar types of people.

Hopefully Ohio was a fluke, but I fear it was not.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

50. Exactly. PA, outside of the big cities, is a carbon copy of OH. nt

[Independent-Voter]

54. OH and PA have some of the highest rates of hate groups per capita. Coincidence?

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/hate.jsp

[AlinPA]

59. Yes, but those voters are mostly republican, especially in the cental part of PA

and it's "T".

[bornskeptic]

58. Blatantly untrue!

Of the 20% who said race was a factor, 59% voted for Clinton and 39% for Obama. Thus voters who admitted race was a factor constituted about 22% of Clinton's total and 17% of Obama's.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

42. Not all Democrats are the same.

I spent over 20 years in male-dominated blue collar industries, and resentment over affirmative action and equal opportunity is fierce. I also went to NV and TX to canvas for Obama and some of the comments I heard from registered Democrats were hair-curling.

[wndycty]

2. And what say you if Hillary's Black super delegates start to bail?

:kick:

[leftofcool]

4. They don't have a choice but to bail

According to many, they have already been imtimidated into bailing

[mrreowwr_kittty]

30. This isn't about superdelegates. It's about voters.

She will certainly lose some SDs because of the comments, especially if Ferraro remains on her campaign. But what Ferraro said plays to the deep-seated resentment of many white working class people toward affirmative action. Obviously, the campaign has no regrets, as evidenced by the way Ferraro is parading herself on every RW media hack outlet that will have her.

[papau]

56. if Hillary's Black super delegates bail it will prove Obama race card playing worked

[AX10]

3. John Alter said that the media was giving him a free pass...

because no one wanted to appear "racist" if they were not supportive of Obama. That is utter shit, but he still said it.
By the way, this militant PC crap has got to stop.

[ContinentalOp]

9. So a member of the Clinton campaign makes a pointedly racist remark to stir up anti-pc sentiments

among racist white Democrats but if anyone points it out it's "militant PC crap"? :crazy:

[AX10]

15. She is not a racist. Her comment was not racist.

So only Obama can talk race, but HRC cannot. :wtf: It is this god damn PC crap has gone too far.

[Umbram]

29. "It is this god damn PC crap has gone too far."

From a Clinton supporter, this comes as no surprise.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

52. Didn't take long for them to come out, did it? nt

[mrreowwr_kittty]

51. Thank you for proving my point, Mr. Dobbs. nt

[meow mix]

6. Hillary has called for the Bigot-Vote many many times. Ferraro wasnt near as subtle about it.

she needs to take some pointers from hillary on this matter. just a suggestion.

[Riverman]

18. Look - When your from Queens married to the MOB, you can't be too subtle

OMFG!

[mrreowwr_kittty]

33. Yeah, it was about as blatant as you could get.

Pretty shocking, considering how deft they've been with the more under-the-radar dog whistle kind of stuff up to now.

[grantcart]

8. you forgot her very good friend Gibson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqL_sm0J8jc

[JVS]

10. Let me get this straight. You think that cashing in on the resentment white people feel toward...

political correctness and affirmative actions is a good way to win the primary and go into the election with McCain?

[mrreowwr_kittty]

20. You are right. This only helps Clinton in the primary.

If she pulls off the nom, McCain will be turning her into the "affirmative action" hire in November. But I think we both know by now that HRC is willing to lose the war if it means winning this battle with Obama.

[JVS]

22. This is the kind of shit that fucks with the very fabric of our party!

Don't expect to see too many black people (a group that regularly votes 85% or more for Democrats) making a point to get out the vote if she is gets the nomination using resentment against black people.

This is the kind of stuff that superdelegates might even step in to kill her campaign over. She is playing with fire here.

[Barack_America]

11. It's untrue. It is a slam against affirmative action. And it won't sit well with superdelegates.

This is playing on white America's resentment of affirmative action, and blatantly so.

Hillary can no longer win without superdelegates. I'm going to guess they won't be too happy that a Dem candidate's campaign is spewing anti-affirmative action rhetoric on RW radio.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

23. I'm not talking about superdelegates. I'm talking about voters.

This will help her tremendously with working class white voters in PA. It's a no win situation for Obama. By making an issue of it, he drives more embittered whites to her. If he lets it go, her surrogates will keep making these kind of comments. At this point it should be pretty obvious that it's a deliberate calculated strategy.

[Barack_America]

28. It's not going to get her 80% of the vote in PA. And that's what she needs...

to win via pledged delegates. Thus, her only option remains superdelegates and this is NOT going to help her with them.

[VolcanoJen]

61. That's exactly what it is!

A slam against Affirmative Action. A lingering sense of "white victimhood" among older, white, blue-color workers. Yep, Lou Dobbs is just gonna love Geraldine Ferraro.

After reading Ferraro's comments yesterday, I went home and re-read the excellent Newsweek cover story on Michelle Obama. Michelle speaks almost heartbreakingly about how she didn't fully realize her own "blackness" until she left the south side of Chicago for college and arrived at Princeton.

Michelle's thoughts are the perfect antidote to Ferraro's lashing-out.

[Occam Bandage]

13. Clinton supporters: Congratulations on your latest exploitation of race.

[Riverman]

17. OK - Fine let's go for the Older, White Guy, Blue-Collar Vote by

Persistently pointing out that we just can't have a woman going thru menopuase in the White House being do close to the Nuclear Button! Talk about answering the phone in the middle of the night! Holy Christ - if it happens in the middle of one of those mood swings - is she going to scream at Putin that she just can't take it right now! I think us older white blue-collar guys could relate to that. Let's play the demographic game to the hilt - let's appeal to the long in-bred conditioning of splitting working people about their fears of some other segment of the working class who will take their jobs. Nice Move! Rove is so proud of you that you have taken not just pages, but whole chapters from his play book!

[mrreowwr_kittty]

25. Are you talking to me? nt

[Riverman]

34. Well Actually Hilary! But, if the Shoe Fits!

[mrreowwr_kittty]

49. I hope it doesn't! :)

[wndycty]

21. I bet these comments will over real well with the Black folks in Philadelphia

:kick:

[JVS]

26. Her reasoning is probably that they won't vote for her anyway.

God help the party us if she gets the nomination this way. It will dampen turnout of one of the best democratic voting blocs. It's also so fucking wrong that it makes me want to puke!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

24. Ferraro and Hillary: the perfect tag team.

[Bread and Circus]

27. Draw a line in the sand..... this white guy will gladly stand on the other side and

not vote for anyone who exploits or promotes institutional racism.

And what Ferraro said is patently false. Obama is where he is today because of talent, attitude, hard word, and charisma. If he was white he would already have the nomination by now, probably right after Iowa.

[earthlover]

41. The real irony is Obama is half white....

So he would only be half advantaged according to the twisted logic of Ferrarro.

[MadAndy]

47. How many times do the Clintons get to act like racists before we ADMIT they are RACISTS.

They are a disgrace to the party and are tearing it apart.

[Armstead]

31. Yes that colored boy didn't really earn anything....

[JimGinPA]

32. I Thought Again - You're Wrong. People Don't Like Racist Remarks

[mrreowwr_kittty]

36. I wish I were wrong. But I'm not.

Lotta white people in this country who have been led to believe that affirmative action is taking their jobs and wrongly depriving them of their privilege.

[JimGinPA]

40. So, Your Premise Is We Should Give In To The Racists & Vote For HRC?

:wow:

[mrreowwr_kittty]

46. Hardly. I went to TX last week to volunteer for Obama.

I'm just pointing out a reality of our country. I believe Obama has what it takes to overcome the racism, but we all know it won't be easy.

[book_worm]

35. you're right HRC's racist base will eat it up

that's the point you're making isn't it?

[mrreowwr_kittty]

37. Yep.

Go canvassing for Obama in a white, working class neighborhood sometime and see for yourself. I have, so I know of what I speak.

[4_Legs_Good]

39. I'm sad because Ferraro's comments hurt my image of Ferraro

Not that I know much about her, but I always respect barrier breakers, and she really came through ahead of her time.

My respect for her just dropped about 70 points though, which is a real shame.

:(

David

[earthlover]

43. I agree. I used to respect Ferrarro.

I have little use for people who appeal to the basest of our human instincts.

[RiverStone]

44. She earned your lack of respect

What a stupid, elitist, racist thing she said....:mad:

[mrreowwr_kittty]

48. I really hope that feminists like Gloria Steinem take her to task for this too

A lot of prominent women leaders have gone down in my estimation for their shocking willingness to ignore and excuse the Clinton campaign's behavior WRT race.

[zulchzulu]

53. Ferraro's "message" is exactly why we need Obama vs. the stale Clintonian garbage

There is a long and wide trail of Clinton surrogates playing the "Stupid" Card over the past months. You can bet they are given permission to go out and be assholes. It's easy for them.

Ferraro is just another example of an another surrogate taking the low road. I guess she can always hang her hat on her wonderful race in 1984 with Fritz Mondale.



Nice job, Geraldine!

:rofl:

[mrreowwr_kittty]

62. It's getting real tiresome, isn't it?

Geraldine's comment wasn't even bothering to disguise it in a dog whistle. I'd like to know why feminists such as her and Gloria Steinem think racism is a justifiable tactic to get a woman in the WH.

[rucky]

57. Now THAT'S something to brag about! n/t

[VolcanoJen]

60. And Clinton's refusal to denounce Ferraro's comments is disgusting, and telling.

According to an interview with the Associated Press just now, when read Ferraro's comments:

I do not agree with that. It is regrettable that any of our supporters on both sides, because we’ve both had that experience, say things that kind of veer off into the personal. We ought to keep this on the issues. There are differences between us. There are differences between our approaches on health care, on energy, on our experience, on our results that we’ve produced for people. That’s what this campaign should be about.

You know what this reminds me of? Bush after the Swiftboat attacks began on John Kerry. He would say, "Well, I don't agree, but I think both sides are bad" all the time. Over and over. It was infuriating to me.

But not as much as watching a Democrat do it, that's for sure.