Olbermann calls on Clinton to denounce Ferraro

Ferraro actually has a point. While Sen. Clinton receives a ton of daily bad press with plenty of sexist remarks, one feels that 'holy' Obama's camp is untouchable. There's this that you just don't talk about or simply are taboo to tal about, like his heritage. It reminds me to the early stages of the Venezuelan Bolivarian Revolution. Scary!

I'm just curious why Keith Olbermann, or any other guy sitting around shooting the breeze at MSNBC, didn't find the time to defend white women last November, against this surrogate for Barack Obama:

Nov. 30, 2007

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., hosted a fundraiser Thursday night at the famed Apollo Theater, a venue with historic and symbolic significance to the black community.

Obama was introduced by comedian and actor Chris Rock, who told the audience they'd regret and be embarassed if they voted for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.

"You'd say, 'I had that white lady! What was I thinking?" Rock said.

Haha?????

Olberman nailed it. The Clinton campaign has been using dog whistle politics sinc it lost Iowa, it is about time somebody called them on it.

Actually, a pretty good strategy by team Clinton - raise the raise issue just before Mississipi to see how it works (it did - she got the overwhelming majority of the redneck vote) so she can fine tune it in Pennsylvania.

Obama never plaid the race card, she is the one that used the word "Racist". She herself accused Obama and his campaign of being racist and she said they accused her; In-fact when Obama was asked in an interview, he said she personally and her comments was not racist. His campaign never said it was racist either. She is the one injecting race and racism into the campaign.

"Clinton's advisers said Wednesday that they were concerned about her standing among blacks, once a core constituency for her and her husband, but that they also believed black support for Obama was a foregone conclusion at this point."

I love it - looking more & more like whoever gets the nomination is going to PO the others constituency so much that McCain will look very attractive.

If Hillary's last name wasn't Clinton, she wouldn't be where she is.

Keith raises good points that Hillary voters won't address. Unfortunately, they'd rather give the Republican party another four years than to give anyone else a chance.

I think the Clinton's over-playing the race card and the skirt card is self defeating to the democrat's chance to win this race. Obama should stay away from such childish fray. The racist wounds should not be opened again. Such cheap shots, from both sides, play well in the hands of the conservative right.

Bravo Keith Olbermann! You said what needed to be said.

Democrats need to come together quick and this type of campaign Hillary is running is NOT helping whatsoever.

Hillary Clinton needs to be reminded that she had a national approval rating of what, 49%? There are a lot of people now that would most-likely move that number to over 55% maybe 60%.

Win at all costs, or winning ugly should not be a strategy. Hillary, for your party's sake, stop now, take command of your campaign, or leave the race.

Olbermann has a point because there have been numerous high profile Clinton supporters taking swipes at Obama because he is black or has a middle name "Hussein" or is a Muslim. If Hillary was not behind her campaign would not be acting so despaately. It is disgusting to watch the "kitchen sink" policy whose only HOPE in her campaign is that something will stick-so Rovian.
Ferraro, on the other hand, must not respect Hillary very much because she continues her rant even though informed Senator Clinton has regretted and rejected it.

Obama hasn't claimed Ferraro's remarks were 'racist,' just kind of dumb.

Olbermann's right about one thing: Clinton has run a desperate, petty, negative, disingenuous, and highly insincere campaign. She's not fit to be the President of anything that I want any part of. "It's my turn! It's my turn!" Let me get my violin. Hey, still lots of time to unleash a whole new boatload of Rovian smear tactics before PA, though, so get to work doing the only thing you know how -- attacking hope, optimism, and the intelligence of the voters of every state you lose.

Chris Rock is a comedian, what he says is purely for the entertainment of masses and its consequences are far less destructive than a serious political racist statement

Ferrarro did her damage and now all the poor, poor white people can nurse their grudges into a vote against Obama, for being such a lucky black man.

Meantime, I still wait for the realease of the Clinton tax returns. Curious to see how many pairs of boxers they donated last year.

I still wait for the list of donors to the Clinton Library.

I still wait for the release of Mrs. Clinton's records from the White House Archives.

When is that going to happen?

There is only one way for Hillary Rove Clinton to win and that is to convince super delegates that Obama is supported primarily by blacks and not electable. She is wrong and her tactics are wrong. I can not support her anymore. This is my 3a.m. call to her. Goodnight.

Ms. Ferraro's racist comments were not some random, "off-the-reservation" event. She is much too experienced, much to savvy a politician, and much too high in the Clinton campaign to make such comments without the prior approval of the campaign.

This is also at least the FIFTH instance of the Clinton campaign attacking Senator Obama's race. Each time, it has been a carefully choreographed event -- the racial remark, a weak distancing reply from Mrs. Clinton, sometimes a resignation from an unpaid position after their work is finished, and then followed by days of denials of playing the race card.

The days of denial, of course, are not true denials. The denials are designed exclusively to keep the race issue alive and a topic of media discussion. They're reinforcement.

These are not isolated events -- this is a campaign stragegy by Mrs. Clinton. This is who she is.

just think how refreshing it would be if the Clintons (both of 'em)would just disappear from the american political scene. And, as for Ferraro, I tremble when I'm reminded that it's mostly retrogrades and air heads like her who have had so much influence over this country. Whew...!

Ferraro was clearly out of line. Obama would have gotten ninety percent of the black vote anyway --- even if he were white --- based on his policies and positions alone. Right?

"And he closed with a sardonic signoff, a riff on the icon of all broadcast commentators: 'Good night and good luck.'"

Mark:

Keith signs off EVERY night with "Good night and good luck" as a tribute to one of the greatest journalists of our time - Edward R. Murrow.

In Mississippi, 27 percent of the votes for Hillary came from Rush Limbaugh Republicans. In Texas, more than 700,000 Rush Limbaugh Republicans voted for Hillary. What does this mean? That the Republicans think Hillary would be easier to beat. If you subtract these Republican crossover voters from these totals, that means Obama creamed Hillary. In the November election, those Rush Limbaugh Republicans are going to vote for McCain. Analysis has to be based on the facts, which are not only the votes, but who those voters are and who they are likely to vote for in a general election.

Hello Americans:
Don't prove to the world once again that you are stupids.
Superdelegates - come out of the hole and save democratic party.
character is what needed.
inaction supports injustice.

Obama is playing the race card. A darky will never be president of these United States. Dirty white liberals are destroying this country.

The Clintons have long since been called on their race politics. It even has a special name: blackification. Every now and then you have an operative get up and say, "Yo, White folks, Obama be a ------", then be fired or fall on his or her sword. It works, because for every voter who thinks, there are ten or twenty who are suckers for race politics.

Keith who?

Do you think that if New Orleans had been populated by a majority of white women the government would have let them rot for several days before sending help? This insane argument that white women have had it as tough as the black community is outrageous.
Angry white women and Archie Bunker Democrats will never vote for Obama, and half the party will never vote for the Monster.
Looks like President McCain.

The problem with all of this is how it makes it near impossible to imagine Hillary getting support from Obama supporters now -- unless he's on the ticket. That's bad, not just because he probably won't bite, but also because she can't really pick anyone else who can solve the problem. Here's a thread that talks about how the VP should be selected:
http://digits.hrblock.com/ssDigits/digits.php?rType=1&sPath=1140&sNode=1140&uId=198

What a whiny bi%ch - this is a 'play date' compared to what will be in store for BHO IF he gets the nomination - time to man up!

Give me a break, the Obama camp has been playing the race card all along. Remember the comment,"For the first time in my life I am really proud of my country"

Totally agree with comment by CTA above. Hillary is softly floating enough stuff about race to try and destroy Obama's chances in PA. If she truly were the better candidate, she would have had this wrapped up a long, long time ago. I blame the DNC and the party elite for harboring and encouraging Hillary's fantasies that she's actually a winning candidate. If the nomination is hers in August, she will lose handily in the General. Giving her a Senate seat for not throwing all of Bill's stuff all over the White House lawn after the Monica affair was more than enough party payback.

Why does Ferraro have a point? Because America has so much lower standards for blacks and women than for white men? What woman or black who talked English as horribly as GWB, and had his mediocre resume, could ever become president in the next 100 yrs? The USA is still very much a gigantic affirmative action program for stupid white men. Anyone who denies this is an idiot, and Ferraro who i used to respect and admire has definitely put her foot badly in her racist and sexist mouth on this one. She's even claiming she's inferior to Alzheimers Ronnie and King Bush I, her opponents in 84. What the heck is she thinking?

I think race and sex are always in issue. From exit polls, Obama won 85%-90% of Black votes may not good for Black people. It is understandable for Blacks to race their candidate, but it may be even better off in long run to vote for Clinton. First, it will show to Whites that Blacks are on issues not on races themselves. This will bring the country together. This will heal race issues if there ARE those issues. If they one-sidedly voted for Obama, at least it will leave the impression on Whites that Blacks are voted racially, not the Whites. This is certainly not beneficial to heal race issues. Second, to vote by objectively and consciously for the best candidate will be better to the country, it, in turn, beneficial to Blacks also. That to believe that 90% of Blacks think Obama is better candidate than Clinton is subjective is less-supportive. Third, Clintons had good relations to Blacks in history. It is time for Black to show their support to Clintons, too. If someone did some favor to you, you shall certainly do the same. Last, in my view, it is better for Clinton to be elected for Blacks than Obama, because Clinton can implement policies that is good for Blacks without being charged with racist while Obama may have problems for such policies that maybe charged as race issues from his opposition. So my view is that it is not wise and not good for Blacks to overwhelmingly vote for Obama. I am an Asian-American and I am not racist. And I hope my opinion can be viewed as positive to Blacks.

I think race and sex are always in issue. From exit polls, Obama won 85%-90% of Black votes may not good for Black people. It is understandable for Blacks to race their candidate, but it may be even better off in long run to vote for Clinton. First, it will show to Whites that Blacks are on issues not on races themselves. This will bring the country together. This will heal race issues if there ARE those issues. If they one-sidedly voted for Obama, at least it will leave the impression on Whites that Blacks are voted racially, not the Whites. This is certainly not beneficial to heal race issues. Second, to vote by objectively and consciously for the best candidate will be better to the country, it, in turn, beneficial to Blacks also. That to believe that 90% of Blacks think Obama is better candidate than Clinton is subjective is less-supportive. Third, Clintons had good relations to Blacks in history. It is time for Black to show their support to Clintons, too. If someone did some favor to you, you shall certainly do the same. Last, in my view, it is better for Clinton to be elected for Blacks than Obama, because Clinton can implement policies that is good for Blacks without being charged with racist while Obama may have problems for such policies that maybe charged as race issues from his opposition. So my view is that it is not wise and not good for Blacks to overwhelmingly vote for Obama. I am an Asian-American and I am not racist. And I hope my opinion can be viewed as positive to Blacks.

Everyone knows that Olberman and Chris Mathews are huge Obama supporters and since when are "journalists" suppose to infuse themselves into the story. THis is just another talking head trying to make the story about him. Funny I dont remember him calling for an apology from Chris Rock when he chastised Hillary and called her the "white lady" at an Obama event. SHUT UP KIETH.

Gerry being half white wont make your statement half right.Its that spring cookout at Desperation Yacht Club Lots of red faces feigning composure and control of the moment Shrill voices; soiled hands; grasping at flotsam in a place called Status Quo.

hillary is where she is because of (1)being a woman (2) having the name Clinton, and (3)divisive, dishonest, and deceptive campaign tactics. Does she represent the "best" female candidate America has to offer? Obama is where he is because (1) he represents the cream of the crop among African-AMericans, (2)he is talented and fresh, (3)he is gracious, dignified, articulate, refined, and brilliant. Go figure, voters!

Kevin D., exactly. Very succinct as well.

These last few months of Hillary's campaign have reminded me more and more of the "fiction" that was the film Primary Colors. When faced with a choice about using the dirt on the other candidate they don't even hesitate. It is about winning - at any cost. At first I didn't care which one of them won, as long as they gave us a change from the Republican mess of the last 8 years. But now I see that there may be no change at all with another President Clinton.

Of course she was right! But am I also right when I say that Hillary Clinton would not be where she is if she weren’t a woman and her husband hadn’t been a 2-term President? So she has no brain or experience on her own? That’s what my comments could imply. That’s also what Ferraro’s comments implied. The real question is are we going to continue on with roiling in such deep-cutting, divisive statements, or are we going to quit playing all of these “cards” and just move into the future? Trust me, this is a well thought out strategy that “advisors” come up with to distract from larger, true issues. This is true on ALL sides and it needs to stop. We all need to stop buying into the hype. All 3 Presidential candidates are smart, experienced, capable, and ready to lead. What we all have to consider is which one best represents our future goals, current ideals, and vote for that person. Easy enough. Everything else is B.S.

Keith Olbermannic commentary? - This is exactly what we mean when we say the press is biased against the Clinton campaign. Ferraro didn't say anything that wasn't factual.

The black vote is out in droves for one reason and one reason alone. If it takes a black candidate to get them out to vote, wonderful, but let's be honest about it and Ferraro was when she said that Senator Obama is lucky to be whom he is, i.e. a black man running against a woman. Yes, Senator Obama is qualified to run. Not enough for me to support though; I think he needs more experience than two years at the national level. Is he awesomely charismatic, the press obviously thinks so, but I don't, but then I have had the privilege of seeing and hearing the truly charismatic, for me, anyway. Should the Clinton camp denounce Ferraro, I don't think so.

Is the Democratic Party losing it? Probably, but not because of the candidates; but because of the biased press.

Ridiculous, Obama calls Ferraro's statements. I don't think so, I think they are fact, and I think he should own up to the fact, that he knows it. That is what is truly ridiculous, and I think Obama's camp and Clinton's camp and the 'unbiased' Press owe Ferraro an apology.

The fact that the black vote is out in droves and Obama’s camp is getting in the high 90 percentile of their commitment makes Ferraro’s statement a fact; Senator Obama is lucky to be whom he is. Please be honest about it, but you can’t, because you will be labeled as giving out a racist comment by the ‘biased fueling’ Press, the ‘pro- black racist beneficiary’ Obama camp, and be ignored and denounced by the ‘ sex, race and age’ discriminated Clinton camp.

Yet, not all voters are voting for either ‘just because of race or gender, that is true, that’s not the only reason, just one of the top reasons.

Are you telling me that the Clinton camp doesn’t deserve a huge part of that 95 to 98 percent black vote, or for that matter, Ferraro in her day? Let’s call a ‘Spade a Spade’ or ‘It is, what it is’.

For the Obama camp to fault Geraldine Ferraro as the reason for the Democratic Party losing the 1984 race in 49 states, is truly abhorrent on the part of a Democratic Candidate’s camp.

It had nothing to do with Reagan and Iran Hostage Crisis, did it? It had nothing to do with a handicapped candidate, did it? It had nothing to do with sexism, did it?

Oh, I see, it’s all right to fault Ferroro for losing the race because she is a woman, but don’t say anything about Obama’s camp, right. No, that didn't say she lost the race because she was a woman is a sexist society, they didn't have to. Ferroro was 'unlucky to be who she was in that campaign.'

However, that wasn’t a racist-sexist remark, was it?

The Democratic Party in general and the Clinton camp, in particularly, has almost lost my vote for not coming to Ferraro defense.

Obama's camp accuses Clinton's camp of back knifing the Democratic Party when Clinton states McCain has more experience in national security than Obama, and supporting a Republican with that statement and yet, it's okay for the Obama camp to get out their is their sexist attitude, covered up by their racist indignation, and hit one of the Democratic Party's best efforts for woman rights. Nice, really nice. Oh sure, it's just ridiculous. Obama pushing his pseudo – racial naiveness and above-it-all attitude, is what is really ridiculous.

The American people are still waiting for the TAX RETURNS... the same question Ms. Clinton asked of her rival when she was running for senator. Her rival was "heckled" by her campaign staff and dressed up in Uncle Sam's costume outfits! Her apology is SUSPECT and it is a LITTLE TOO LATE because she has run a consistently, negative campaign that now defines who she is.

On the other hand, Sen. Obama continues to try to run a fair campaign.
Sen. Obama for President 2008

If you don't like Spitzer, what do you think about CLINTON. Republicans know the deal and they are voting for her with other whites. Its a strategy.

Barack is on life support. This is all up to white America, and they are going to make their choice. I will not believe in Barak until I see it with my own eyes. He is clearly the BEST candidate for President including Mccain, but guess what...Black folks better turn to Tiger Woods, because it aint never gonna happen.

Congratulations Keith Olbermannic for giving a frank evaluation of Geraldine Ferarro's comments. Fact is comments were said. Fact is they were racial. M. Ferarro could have displayed diplomacy, and apologized for any news release misunderstandings immediately. Subject would have disappeared quickly. She did not. She instead claims she is being attacked by Barck Obama Campaign. Fact is her past reveals additional racial comments. Ms. Ferarro is an experienced politican and knew exactly what she was saying.

Ms. Feraaro is connected to Hilary Clinton Campaign. She was involved with fundraising campaign. Hilary Clinton Campaign manager Maggie Williams was interviewed and did not denounce Ms. Ferrarro. Instead Maggie Williams blamed it all on the Barack Obama Campaign too. Hilary Clinton did not make a strong statements either. Hilary soft pedaled the issues. This was not wise.

I am evaluating all candidates. I do plan to vote and will casting my vote for the Presidential Democrat if Barack Obama is candidate. Hilary Clinton has sadly disappointed me over the course of her campaign. I do not support John McCain, but am considering voting for him if Hilary Clinton is candidate.

Race or gender bias has no place in the campaign. This is 2008!! I was so excited Hilary Clinton was running. I was excited Barack Obama was running. These are two strong candidates. Hilary Clinton has taken too many distasteful political actions and stances over the course of her campaign for my vote.

FYI - I am caucasian, conservative, midwestern raised, college educated professional,and registered Republican. This has been an exciting primary and have been researching and evaluating primary race closely. I live in Mill Valley, California five minutes. from San Francisco.

Kay

Ferraro just said what many of us Illinoisans are thinking about the 3-year Senator from Illinois. It boggles the mind how arrogant Obama is and how many people -- probably due to liberal guilt -- are feeding his ego. On paper there's no way a woman of any race or age or a hispanic, Asian or white man would be taken seriously as a Presidential campaign if they had the scant record of public or private service that Obama has. Hillary doesn't have stellar qualifications to be President but she does have some sort of a professional track record. People may not like nor agree with her track record but at least she's got something to attack or defend.

Obama has almost nothing --no big blunders but no big accomplishments. And it is the black community claiming "he's one of ours" who continues to push his race into everyone's face. I believe Obama himself isn't preoccupied with his race but his black campaign staff and supporters are.

In this race we need to stick to the issues and not get bogged down by this other stuff. The Republicans are sitting by watching the Democratic Party slowly implode.

Keith, I love you. You speak the truth. If Hillary doesn't stop this insanity McCain will win.

Since when is racist to tell the truth? If Barach Obama were a white freshman Senator he would have been steamrollered byt he Clinton machine long since.

John Kerry was getting 85% of the black vote against Edwards in the south in the last election (was John black??). Do your research and understand media is playing the race card as is HRC.
This is the only entertainment news and strategy they have.

Why do people keep insisting that Obama is Muslim. He is a Christian. And I agree that quiet Super Delegates lead to back door politics, what I sure don't want to happen. It is time to fix the Democrat Party and the time is now.

Sigh, tired of all the whiners who cry racism anytime Hillary wins a state and try to bring her down.

Truth is yes Obama is black, and yes hillary is a woman. Those are facts indisputable. If bring up either bothers you move to another planet.

Congratulations Keith Olbermannic for giving a frank evaluation of Geraldine Ferarro's comments. Fact is comments were said. Fact is they were racial. M. Ferarro could have displayed diplomacy, and apologized for any news release misunderstandings immediately. Subject would have disappeared quickly. She did not. She instead claims she is being attacked by Barck Obama Campaign. Fact is her past reveals additional racial comments. Ms. Ferarro is an experienced politican and knew exactly what she was saying.

Ms. Feraaro is connected to Hilary Clinton Campaign. She was involved with fundraising campaign. Hilary Clinton Campaign manager Maggie Williams was interviewed and did not denounce Ms. Ferrarro. Instead Maggie Williams blamed it all on the Barack Obama Campaign too. Hilary Clinton did not make a strong statements either. Hilary soft pedaled the issues. This was not wise.

I am evaluating all candidates. I do plan to vote and will casting my vote for the Presidential Democrat if Barack Obama is candidate. Hilary Clinton has sadly disappointed me over the course of her campaign. I do not support John McCain, but am considering voting for him if Hilary Clinton is candidate.

Race or gender bias has no place in the campaign. This is 2008!! I was so excited Hilary Clinton was running. I was excited Barack Obama was running. These are two strong candidates. Hilary Clinton has taken too many distasteful political actions and stances over the course of her campaign for my vote.

FYI - I am caucasian, conservative, midwestern raised, college educated professional,and registered Republican. This has been an exciting primary and have been researching and evaluating primary race closely. I live in Mill Valley, California five minutes. from San Francisco.

Kay

Anyone with a clue knows Keith Olberidiot and NBC News have been in the tank for Obama since Fall. This comes as no surprise.

If Hillary had Obama's abilities she would have already locked up the nomination. Any white candidate with his character, command of issues,and charisma would have an easier time. It should be noted that Hillary and John McCain have the same firm, Burson Marsteller managing their campaigns. For me this is explanation enough for the racist attacks on Obama.

Olbermann needs to be quiet, he has never scolded Obama for has tatics either, I'm African who believes that Ferrao was right on the money when she made that statement, Obama is becoming the Black President, just look at the Black community voting for Obama just because he's Black, and not truly on the issues, experience, or the substance of his message.

Hillary does not need to scold Ferrao for her statements about Obama in anyway. I see that Olbermann and other gender-biased news, anchors have been very hard on Hillary, but not on Obama, this not fair at all, here we are trying to elect a man who has little experience as compared to Hillary or McCain to tackle the problems of the Bush mess that requires somone with a little more experience to achieve this goal, it seems like to me that Obama should be challenged and scrutinized more to see whether he is even quailfied enough to be President in the first place, being a inspirational and motivational on hope and change does not make one quailfied and experienced enough to be President.

I believe the news media is making a big mistake by promoting an inexperienced candidate like Obama given the peril America is in at this day and time, Hillary has faced racism and gender discrimination from the Obama campaign as well, who in the media standing up for Hillary? So if olbermann wants to be fair and balanced he needs to also be having special comments challenging and scutinzing Obama's slick campaign tactics against hillary as well, and also scurtinizing and challenging his ability to be Presiendent.

Olbermann isn't endorsing Obama? Yeah, right. He and Matthews have spent months trashing Clinton on everything...and I'll never forget how disappointed they were she didn't lose in NH.
This is all nonsense, and what Ferraro said needed to be said. But I see the Obama crowd is taking a page from the Sharpton/Jackson playbook where any mention of race (from a white person) is branded "racist," but it's fine for blacks.
This attitude is not unnoticed, and will result in a McCain victory.

Kristine, back on your meds please.

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 disadvantage. 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.

Ferraro actually has a point. While Sen. Clinton receives a ton of daily bad press with plenty of sexist remarks, one feels that 'holy' Obama's camp is untouchable. There's this that you just don't talk about or simply are taboo to tal about, like his heritage. It reminds me to the early stages of the . Scary!

Posted by: Alex Marin | March 13, 2008 8:03 AM

The scary thing Alex is that you really don't get it!!! Then again maybe you do because you're suggesting that Barack is like Hugo Chávez. Your an un-American dirtbag!!!

I don't always agree with Keith's comments but he's definately right on this one and it took guts for him to come out so strongly, given the support he has received from the Clintons in the past.

The Clinton campaign is based on an arrogant and manipulative spirit of entitlement and the desire for raw power. This is by its nature divisive and selfish. I sense a continual willingness to sacrifice the common good to achieve their ends. The underlying message that she will be "ready on day 1" is fear-mongering.

I feel safer and more hopeful about my country's capacity to renew itself with a leader like Obama who possesses courage and vision, yet who has the character to be informed by humility and an openness to learn from experience and from others. I believe Barack Obama's leadership will bring a new sense of possibility when it comes to issues like the economy and justice, peace and security. He will help us remember our founding spirit at the same time we learn to explore new ideas which can help us, working together, towards greater tolerance as an American community and the tremendous capacity to make a healing difference in the world.

As a woman, I am really tired of this fake race affirmative action card that Hillary and her supporters are playing, because the gender affirmative action card is at least as big.

Hillary is pretty lucky to be who she is--an older woman with the same name as a 2-term president, who has hitched a pretty good ride to his star power. Let's face it, Ferraro and other older women are only voting for Hillary because she's also an older woman. Older women are her base. The sisters are out in force for her in every single primary. Should we call them out on their gender bias?

What the demographic experts know is that Obama has attracted a lot of white men to his campaign, (mainly those who are affluent) and Hillary knows she can't win without their support. White men are now the key demographic in play. So Hillary plays the race card to peel off as many scared (and less affluent) white men as she can from Obama, all the while playing the gender card with women, and whining about how "unfair" everyone is to her because she's a woman.

This, of course, comes from the candidate who less than 4 months ago was the "inevitable" nominee and front-runner.

Anyone who thinks the press is biased on this issue needs a reality check. You can't spin the ugliness of her actions away with lame arguments about press bias. Hillary's actions are exactly as they seem.

Olbermann is right to call her out on her tactics. Does Hillary really want to be the David Duke of the Democratic party?

The atrocious race-baiting that Clinton's campaign has done subtlely over the last couple months has annoyed me. Ferraro's comments, and the Clinton campaign's inability to distance itself from them immediately disgusts me.

I would have frustratingly voted for Clinton to keep a Republican out of office had she shown any sort of moral integrity. I will instead write Obama's name in during the general election if he does not receive the nomination. I refuse to vote for someone who has outed herself as being racist. As Democrats, we are supposed to be fighting against this.

olberman is right. bill (monica scandal)cost us just enough votes in 2000 to get the election stolen. now hillary's divisive campaign will cost us an even more important election. pennsylvania please bail us out and vote obama. the sooner this all ends the better.

It truly amazes me! The media continuously, since South Caroline state the type of voters both candidates attract. Obama the African-American, white men , higher education and the young. Clinton Latinos, white women, lower educated and older generation. The American public have been discussing race, gender and age factors amongst themselves though out this campaign. Farraro point out what the public is saying and of course she is racist. If you thing like Obama and Al Sharton that this is not spoken of by Americans, then you must be living on another planet.

Just curious... hasn't the black population always voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic candidate in previous elections And weren't these candidates white? But there were no accusations then of blacks being "racist" in their voting patterns. This year they're voting overwhelmingly for Obama - in similar fashion as they voted overwhelmingly for Clinton, Gore and Kerry... over their opponents. Guess they were being racist then too!

Olbermann was a bit bombastic and righteous, but he had a clear point. He just didn't need to repeat it for 10 minutes. Everyone knows what the Hillary campaign is doing- they learned it from the GOP playbook. Very "what, are you saying race could possibly be an issue, I'm just trying to be fair and balanced!". And then right after saying Obama is being indirectly sexist. Amazing.
Perhaps some of the GOP smear job in the 90s rubbed off on Los Clintones

These last few months of Hillary's campaign have reminded me more and more of the "fiction" that was the film Primary Colors. When faced with a choice about using the dirt on the other candidate they don't even hesitate. It is about winning - at any cost. At first I didn't care which one of them won, as long as they gave us a change from the Republican mess of the last 8 years. But now I see that there may be no change at all with another President Clinton.

Posted by: The Misanthrope | March 13, 2008 10:02 AM

Well put! Obama 2008.

Geraldine Ferraro is wrong about one thing: when she was running for vice- president many people did NOT patronize her. I thought she was terrific--better than Mondale. I also remember a prominent columnist at the time, having watched her press conference defending her finances, saying he thought she'd be more than capable as commander-in-chief and delighting in the prospect of Brezhnev having to face her over a negotiating table, Gerry glaring at him over her glasses. Maybe she's forgotten, but I haven't! As far as Obama goes, I like him, but he probably gets off easy on tough questions SO FAR, but I seem to recall that Reagan never had to answer a tough question...

bravo keith! summed it all up very well...

Keith needs to report the news--not MAKE IT.  This quasi-manic guy in the Capone-striped suits has become too full of himself.   I really don't think Olberman heard the entire conversation involving Ms. Ferraro--a MUST for good journalism.  Ferraro made an interesting  point, actually.  I understood it to be about novelty--something John Edwards did not benefit from--ever.  And, the MSM did not help.  I didn't hear BHO say he thought Ferraro's words were racist--I've only heard others supporting BHO say it--kind of like when BHO's camp says HRC doesn't say things but her camp does.  It is all the same food fight.  Haven't Blacks  made the election about race as much as they say HRC has?  Why have most Blacks voted for first-time Black prez candidate BHO?  It is not clear that they are running on issues. I don't want to be muzzled if BHO is ever in office and he does a sh!!!tty, harmful, unAmerican job--like Bush. All protest--or intolerance of a bad administration--may be construed as bigotry. No thanks.  WOULDN"T WANT BHO HIDING BEHIND THE RACE CARD often times, as BUSH HIDES BEHIND THE TROOPS.  Bad.  Bad.   I would like to hear, now, that BHO would never do this.  And, I would like to hear, one way or the other, if BHO will make certain nations in Africa his pet project (and USA taxpayers' new money pit)--as Cheney/Bush have made of Iraq.  Interceding in nations is a UN project, not a USA or USA prez's project.

Keith Olbermann had every right to make the comments he made last night.

This wasn't an isolated event but a series of events and a concerted effort by the Clinton campaign to paint Obama as an under-achiever who was lucky to be judged by a lower, i.e. "Black" or "affirmative action" standard.

The insidious racism running through the Clinton campaign, started w/ the MLK statements, then the Jesse Jackson statements, then the "he's not a Muslim, as far as I know" statements, and now the tepid response to Ferraro's statements, and Hillary's willingness to allow this is stunning!

Her campaign has allowed all of these events to go on without real rebukes, which only confirms what we already know:

Hillary will say and do whatever to get elected and she has essentially decided that if she can't have the presidency, Obama certainly won't have it.

It's a sickness, really. . .

tony,

You're mostly right, but I would point out that Mr. Obama is the cream of the crop of ALL Americans, and that is why he is where he is.

On media bias: would even the Hillary supporters acknowledge that if the tables were turned, and Barrack Obama has LOST 11 states in a row, trailed Hillary in the total vote count, states won and pledged delegates, that the cry for Obama to drop out would have been COMPLETELY OVERWHELMING. Why does Mrs. Clinton NOT have to answer the obvious, pertinent question: how are you going to win the nomination?

Even with your "big win" in Texas, you lost delegates on account of the caucus. You're at the point where you need to win every state by about 65%. That is, to say the least, EXTREMELY UNLIKELY to happen. So how are you going to win? Are you going to try to cajole the superdelegates to OVERRULE the will of the Democratic Party to which you ostensibly belong? Are you going to attempt to drag down and destroy the man that the majority of Democratic voters have supported throughout this primary campaign? Is there anything you WOULDN'T say or do to destroy Barrack Obama?

How else can you win, Mrs. Clinton? When's the last time this "victim" of tough media treatment had to answer a question like that, eh? Do you really think Mr. Obama would not have been compelled to withdraw from this race if the tables were turned?

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It wasn't that long ago that the question was if Barrack Obama was "black enough" and it was CLINTON who was claiming the majority of black support in the early primaries.

I guess they were voting for Hillary back then because they thought she was a better candidate.

Then Bill Clinton flew off the handle and basically called South Carolina out as racist fools because, ya know, they'd also voted for Jesse Jackson in 1988.

Ever since then the overwhelming majority of blacks have voted for Obama. Of course, now they're simply practicing racial solidarity instead of voting for the candidate they thought would represent them best. Try not to forget, folks, Mrs. Clinton WAS that candidate less than 3 months ago.

The cynical side of says this is exactly what the Clinton campaign wants. I remember cringing on Super Tuesday when some states that Obama was winning were in part because of overwhelming African American support. That would be the deathknell of his candidacy.

What has sustained his momentum is his believable pledge to move towards a post-racial future. If blacks prefer Obama 4:1 and whites prefer Clinton 3:1 (and let's not forget that WOMEN have been supporting Hillary 2:1 also, but I'm sure THEY are just voting their conscience and not their gender), that disparity will likely lead on-the-fence voters to view Obama with much greater suspicion.

Hillary, you are a soulless, craven trainwreck. You cannot defeat Barrack Obama without OVERRULING the will of the people. You have turned your campaign into an absolute horror show. And of course your opponent, Senator Obama, has run just about the best upstart political campaign in modern history.

You have lost. Withdraw to the Senate and lead Congressional Democrats for the next generation. Sounds like a pretty good gig to me, and FAR better than what you deserve for the damage you insist upon doing to the Democratic Party to which you ostensibly belong.

Why didnt anyone have a problem a few months ago when Michelle Obama said

The Huffington Post

Michelle Obama: "Black America Will Wake Up And Get It"

Please someone who is a Barak supporter tell me why its OK for her to say these kinds of things but not the otherway around. And yes i am serious and no I dont see a different between this and what Gerald Ferraro said.

RE: R. Payne, please put the Michelle Obama thing to rest. It has just been brought to my attention since the Gerri F. comment that this is a country based on freedom of speech. That said, WHAT'S GOOD FOR THE GOOSE... If Gerri F. has the right to HER opinion, Michelle has the right to hers. So let's all dismiss the Michelle Obama comment as FREEDOM OF SPEECH, unless of course, only WHITE women are allowed freedom of speech in AMERICA and BLACK women are NOT.

I totally agree with the posting by VoteConsciously and I am black. I have been saying what he/she said for a long time. Wake up black people! Good post VoteConsciously....

Posted by: VoteConsciously | March 13, 2008 9:28 AM

So when its the Obama campaign it is freedom of speech when it Clitnon it is racist. That is what I thought

I guess the thousands (millions?) of black
Americans who are quietly proud and jubilant over this self-confidant young man who qualifies to run for the nomination for President of the United States had better just quit being proud. Can it be that he really is not black? Or just ashamed of it?
I had the impression that some of the excitement is precisely because they are proud of one of their own.
But Senator Obama calls that slice and dice.

Is Barack Obama the first black Presidential candidate? No, I do not believe he is....so, if he is where he is only because he's black...then he should thank the previous black Presidents that paved the way for him...oh, there's no one to thank. You mean to tell me that blacks that only make up 13% of the population in America are the only ones that are voting for Barack and he's winning...hmmm, that's interesting!! So, who are the other 87% of the population voting for??

Sure, Barack may have increased the attention of black America to the nominating process...but by no means is the fact he is black, the reason he is winning (which,is where he is). Jesse Jackson didn't make it this far...nor did Al Sharpton...and they were both black. Barack is where he is because people are tired of the BS that goes on in politics and it's refreshing to hear someone talking about it...talking about changing it...talking about the government actually working for the people...

We have an articulate, distinguished, Harvard Graduate running for the Presidency of the United States of America...and he just happens to be black!! Perhaps, he's just a good candidate...

Way to go Keith !

The Clinton Camp and her supporters are going to have some answering to do after this campaign comes to an end. The Clinton's are going to have to be reevaluated as to the place they fill in Democratic politics. So far they have demonstrated complete abandon for the party to feed the Clinton ego. As for Clinton supporters ... You have shown yourselves capable of becoming just the female version of 'angry white males'... abandoning any sense of purpose or morality to support your one cause whatever other hard fought cornerstones of humanity be damned to the feeding fires. Pathetic.

She’s right on target. She’s not saying that Obama has an advantage b/c he’s black…she’s saying that black people are voting for him because he’s black and that gives him an advantage. BIG DIFFERENCE! As an attorney, let me tell you...EVERYTHING comes down to how words are interpreted. People misinterpreted Ferraro and THAT is why they are pissed. Sorry folks but its true and if you don’t like to hear the truth…too bad. Look at the exit polls and election results of EVERY SINGLE SOLITARY state. Obama is winning the black vote 80% to Hillary’s 20% (or thereabouts). The proof is in the pudding! So african americans can either quit playing the race card, or quit voting for Obama and proving people like Ferraro right!

Also, while your checking out the above referenced statistics and proving me right, why don’t you take 5 mins and stop blaming Hillary Clinton. Before Barrack came along, black folks loved the Clintons….Well, NEWS FLASH- they haven’t changed and they still fight for the minority communities so show some appreciation and respect even if you don’t vote for her! The only thing that has changed is the fact that a black person is running against a Clinton and I guess “BLACK” trumps “CLINTON” in their eyes (b/c they surely aren’t voting based on Obama’s impressive political record!) lol

As an African American, I don't see what is the big hype about what Ferraro his said about Obama, what she stated is very obvious and factual, this is not racial at all, but the media is the Obama campaign has been very succesful in spining her comments in that direction, this is a real shame, because the media is even helping to divide the Democratic Party even further, I believe this is the ultimate strategy and plan to help the Republicans keep their party in power beyond 2009.

Obama is becoming the Black President whether we want to accept it or not, look at the Black vote for Obama, when Gore and Kerry where running for President, this many of my black folks where not voting for them in droves like they are for an inexperienced, non substance, 2 termSenator like Obama, Ferraro was right, Obama blackness is an advantage to him in this race, and her comment is not racial and offending to me.

I reallly am surprised at Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the biased news media is supporting this Johnny Come Latly Senator just because he's an eloquent inspirational motivational speaker and not on his experience, this is beyond my understanding or reasoning, but oh I really get it now, Obama does not need experience or qualificans at all to be President in their opinion, because all my race of people see that he's a black man like them trying to run for the highest office in the land.

I would like for a black on day to be President equally as a woman, but what I'm voting for is the person who has the most experience and qualifications to clean-up Bushes mess after he leaves office, therefore, I'm placing my vote with Hillary because she meets that threshold, as oppose to Obama who's just getting in the US Senate 2 or 3 years ago.

I cannot and will not vote for Obama just because he's black like me, I refuse asslmluate with other people in my race just because it may be the popular or the expected thing because both have the same skin color, I'm looking out for my best interest in this campaign, and my best interest and convictions is sticking with Hillary, over Obama, maybe if he had the experience and qualifications equal to or greater than Hillary, I would have considered voting for him, but he does not compare to Hillary's credentials at this time, Obama needs more time in the US Congress before I would consider voting for him to occupy the White House.

It's hight time that the media start concerntrating on Obama's personal and political life to challenge and scrutinize to see whether Obama is truly able to handle the top position in America on Day one of his Presidency, because I what I see where headed towards making the same mistake that we did electing Bush who's nothing more than a puppet to his advisors and his vice President, Dick Cheney, because Bush did not really know what he was doing in order to make the right decisions to help keep the economy strong, and making the right decisions concerning military issues to protect this country from the people who atttacked this country doing 9/11.

I believe Obama will be that same puppet like Bush and at the mercy of his advisors due to his lack of experience and qualificans this needed to make sound and grounded decisions on the economy, foreign and military policy,and other domestic and international issues that's an interest to our country.

is it possible that blacks are utterly and completely disgusted by the race-baiting dog whistling tactics that are being used and that is what is driving the majority to vote for Barack Obama? Are we suppose to be too stupid a race not to notice those ugly patterns? Not too mention he is intelligent, wants to be a unifier, gracious, and a gentleman. There is so much dirt that many of us would like to see Barack Obama throw at Hillary but he uses superhuman strength not to go there. He has not damaged Hillary's chances if she wins the nomination but she is trying everying and anything "kitchen sink" to damage his. People...we say we don't want politics as usual...but yet we get so caught up in picking sides and sticking to them that we don't denouce wrong when we see it especially if it's our candidate who is throwing the mudd. I for one am tired of that. I cannot in good conscience vote for Hilliary clinton. I don't think she even wants my vote. I cannot look at her during the state of the union and not think how much of what she says is truth and how much are twisted up half truths made to make her oppenent look bad instead of taking care of the peoples business. I am a life-long democrat. On election day if Hil gets the nod I will do 1 of 2 things...I will not vote or I will vote for McCain if Hilliary gets the nom. At least with McCain I may not agree w/his policies but I trust him and trust that he has the interest of the country at heart.

This clip is from Glenn Beck. I think if this gets out to the main stream media (which it won't) , Obama might be all done ?


http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/7273/

The Clintons Interjecting the Race Card (Skin Color) is not Being Educated, or Having a Well Cultivated Mind.

-To me being educated and having well cultivated minds do not mean only those with college degrees. My grand mother, only graduated from 8th grade, and she was one of the most educated people I have ever known-…

The Clintons knew that if they pushed hard enough by saying to enough of those less educated with un cultivated minds, that they could play on their prejudices, fears, and personal insecurities AS IN: ARE YOU PEOPLE CRAZY?....DO YOU REALIZE THAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO VOTE TO PUT A BLACK MAN IN OFFICE? ARE YOU AWARE THAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO VOTE FOR A BLACK MAN OVER WHITE WOMEN? .....

ONE CAN SUGAR-COAT IT ALL DAY, BUT IT IS, WHAT IT IS….

The Obama supporters are polled to be the more educated etc. The word educated takes in a lot of territory beyond just having a college degree.

Therefore the word "Educated" Having a cultivated mind" includes many basic common sense definitions….

It speaks extremely well for America to have as many people as we have with a well cultivated mind who can see the big picture….

How do we reach at least the 20 percent who are NOT THERE? That is the ADDITIONAL amount that Obama needs to win.

Now that the Clintons have effectively got “SKIN COLOR” registered in the minds of enough voters to give her campaign more volume, How do we change that?... I am asking because I really don’t know, and that makes me very sad.

At this time in history, I don’t need to re list all the reason why the U S and the world need Obama as U S President, most of us know them.

.However at the top of the list is the fact that Obama has proven that “he can inspire (GIVE REASON TO HOPE) and organize people of all SKIN COLORS, nationalities, ages, backgrounds, education and economic levels.

When you are capable of doing those two things, and you know what must be done, the rest of the job is a matter of being skilled, and putting a skilled team together who also understands the need to get the things done that you must have done.

. Obama has also proved more than capable of doing that, based upon how well his campaign is run…and what it has accomplished….I would hope one would not have to be a Rocket scientist to understand that…...

ON THE OTHE HAND HILLARY, EVEN THOUGH THIS IS HER THIRD RUN FOR THE WHITE HOUSE, HAVING “THE EXPERIENCE” THAT SHE REFERS TO, HAVE SHOWN ONE BAD JUDGEMENT AFTER THE OTHER WHEN IT COMES TO ORGANIZATION, AND BRINING PEOPLE TOGETHER, EVEN IN HER CAMPAIGN…..

.However from all those years of campaigning EXPERIENCE, the Clintons learned something about the various human nature of the voting population.

There fore they knew when all else failed, if they played the race card hard enough, that, could win over at least 20 percent of those who border line being less educated, and having less cultivated minds…

They had learned enough about the dynamics of that which inspire racism to know, that among that group, if they appealed to their sense of fear and insecurities which equal racism they could win over about 20 percent….

Bill Clinton tried the race card in South Carolina, that time it backfired. So they planted Geraldine Ferraro to do the dirty work. Ferraro made “said statement "because he is black'' on a radio show, and on two other occasions until the press, finally, picked it up. Then when the polls showed that playing the racist card worked, even though Hillary lost in Ms, Hillary comes out apologizing and apologizing…

Now yet again, “Hillary has found her voice;” only now, it is in playing the racist card …

No one in Obama’s close Camp can say this, but I can: Black folk if you are not insulted yet, I can understand why we were in slaved so many years…

.I personally feels so embarrassed that I supported the Clintons in those years; I just want to put a bag over my head….

And I repeat…. Educated and having a well cultivated minds do not mean only those with college degrees, my grand mother, only graduated from 8th grade, and she was one of the most educated people I have ever known…

The Clintons finally got the racist card activated, so now, what can “we the educated with the cultivated minds” do to help that 20 percent to see Obama as “the man” who is running for U S president, to listen closely to what he has to say, and not, just see a Black man….

With America being the melting pot that it is, we do not need a U S president who has obvious racist tendencies…..I am looking at the big picture…

How can we erase the fact that the Clintons by using racism has succeeded in forcing at least 20 percent of the un educated to see Obama as a “black man only” and ignoring the reason he is the best Person for U S president?

Actually on the up side of this story, it’s good she did it early enough, so that we have some time. But we must start today making every effort to stop it before it bleeds too much into those states that has yet to vote….

Additionally, one does not need to be a Rocket Scientist to see the race card in reference to Bill and Hillary’s statement about Obama being Vice President when Obama is clearly leading. I don’t think Hillary or Bill would have made that statement if John Edward would have been leading instead of Obama...

TO ME, IN THAT THE CLINTONS WERE SAYING: YOU SEE AS A BLACK MAN, OBAMA IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO BE PRESIDENT, EVEN THOUGH BASED UPON YOUR VOTES, MANY OF YOU ARE TOO STUPID TO KNOW THAT. HOWEVER, HE CAN BE MY VICE PRESIDENT; SINCE THE MAJORITY OF YOU SEEM TO PERFER HIM OVER ME…..I CAN DO YOU THAT FAVOR…..

If The Clinton had not played the race card, I could have let that one past, but it is, what it is……

Most of us know that if Hillary had not been Mrs. Bill Clinton, she would not be running for U.S. president, which actually takes away from just any women rising through the ranks and running for U S president

If Obama and Hillary were both white men......try to imagine...who would have the best resume? Hillary Clinton. What's wrong with noticing this?

Blacks have always heavily voted Democratic, hell they came out and elected Bill Clinton into office twice, and no one was calling them racist for supporting a white candidate, the same trend was true for Al Gore and John Kerry, they ALL carried most votes from African-Americans. so why should Barack Obama be any different?

And let's get his race straight: he's half black and half white!!! Why are people being so ignorant assuming he is pure African -American, or just because his middle name is Hussein he is a Muslim?

Seriously, educate yourselves, Hillary is showing how desperate she is and it is her desperation that will not only destroy the Democratic Party, but give the election to Mr. John Warmonger McBushCain and a 100 year war in Iraq and gas being $7.00 a gallon.

Face it: Obama came from behind and built an insurmountable lead, took in huge amounts of money in donations, and has run a better campaign than either Hillary or McCain... Barack is the only candidate that is capable of getting America into a new direction after the Bush-Clinton dynasty. Attack Obama all you want about him being inexperienced, but weren't George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, FDR, and JFK inexperienced as well? And they turned out to be great presidents didn't they?

Nice try David Axelrod, but Obama's gonna lose. Ferraro is awesome. It's no different than Jackie Robinson being honored for being the first black player in baseball. Blacks are not racists. Only bad white people are racists. It's called reverse discrimination.

I love the fact that Ferraro was the one that said the racist comment, than turned around and cried that the Obama campaign was attacking her. I am not a sexist, but if you are going to run as a woman, and not as an eloquent presidential candidate, you will not get my vote for president. For those that say what she said is "fact"; tell me, in what parallel universe is Obama either a white man or woman of any color and not succeeding, and I'll take it as such; until then, let me and others vote for the best candidate regardless of their genitalia...

when one speaks of racist its always one sided black?keith the brain oibermann says? a terrible racist attack on wonderful loveable obama? yes racist not obama's minister, whites are blue eyed devils? the jewish brain oibermann has spoken! he's a jewish media judge on issues person? must make news out of nothing right olbermann a democrat? racist is on newnation.org!!! crime black crime on whites not a issue rape on white women is not a issue? how about 24.6 graduate and vote too? 90% blacks vote for obama and amnesty 24.6 graduate? how about kawme kilpatrick lies under oath? this is not racist news? says everybody is calling him the n word thats not racist? this poor poor democrat mayor of 24.6 graduate class of detroit? obama brother? the n word what? negro? ferraro the shame you brought to our space cadet candidate hillary!!democrat controled schools same sex marriage reading to our 2nd graders by people who have their own kids in private schools not a issue either their america olbermann the brain? yep media hollywood worthy news storyies not issues of any worth! blue eyed devil is a racist issue don't you think olbermann the brain and whites? hate crimes for people of color ONLY? fear is not to know what future will bring? yet the clues are all for one to see! corporate path for which purpose is control of YOU!!! replace remove new world order make a pervert society with no system of normal, law or behavior order.blacks are not racist yet 90% support obama thats what? independent one for all and all for one! now that sounds fair don't you think? michigan little big horn AMEN. civil rights for all people! RACIST prapaganda?

Finally, someone in the media, who doesn't docilely retransmit the grossly slanderous, pathetic misinformation that the Orwellian Clinton machine is churning out at a daily pace. Thank you Olbermann, for your courage- if only the Democratic party elders had called this unscrupulous catfighter out of the rink before March 5th, the Democratic Party would be marching on to an inspiring victory in November. Clinton is sabotaging Obama's campaign for the presidential elections in 2008 in order to position HERSELF for 2012!!!!!!!! Am I the only one who sees this egotistical machiavellian tactic???? 3 months ago I would have been content with a Clinton presidency, now I may toss in a blank ballot if she is the nominee.

If Ferraro was a black woman, she would not be in this position.

Another Clinton White House? Been there, done that. Go to the back of the bus, Hillary!

Are there in-group and out-group biases (involving for example race/ethnicity) that impact and bias perceptions of candidate credentials? These are empirical questions..and there is a considerable body of literature on point most of which predates this presidential contest...I'd love to see a journalist write up an article about this research.. talking to the scientific experts in this domain. It might inject impartial insight into this discussion and allow the public to better understand how we as humans process information often automatically... and how it impacts decision-making processes.

Keith Olberman appears to have been at pains to imitate the style of Edward R. Murrow. But while Murrow took on the powerful and sought to secure basic freedoms, including the right to speak and argue one's point of view, Olberman seems to prefer to dress up his preconceptions in affected rhetoric and attack a rather easy target. In doing so, he offers his listeners little more than the sort of simple bromides and angry analysis one routinely finds on op. ed. pages in the nation's newspapers.

If he had wanted to attack someone, he should have taken on Ferraro, and as a journalist, he should have given her an opportunity to respond. Instead, he used his position to mount an attack not on Ferraro, but on Clinton, a questionable practice for any journalist, particularly in the middle of a hotly contested primary campaign.

Because this is an op. ed. piece, not detached reporting, there is no reason to view it as anything more than an expression of its author's beliefs, prejudices, and misconceptions.
From what has been published on the web, Ferraro appears actually to have said that Obama has had an advantage, not so much because blacks have voted for him in overwhelming numbers, but because his race has buffered him from the usual criticisms and challenges someone who was not black and had such an unimpressive record in public service would ordinarily face, including challenges to his ability to govern, owing to his lack of experience at the national level and his relatively undistinguished record in both Springfield and Washington DC. The point, of course, is not that Obama is black, but that because he is black people like Olberman tend to shy away from tough challenges and spring to his defense if they believe he has been unfairly slighted (and that is the most one can read into Ferraro's remarks, which were not an attack on Obama, but could be read, and have been, as questioning his qualifications, which some clearly view as 'racist.')

The demographics of the primaries and caucuses are both clear -- blacks have voted for Obama 8 to 2 or 9 to 1, while women have voted for Clinton by margins of 6 to 4 or 7 to 3, with the white vote generally splitting along social and economic (and therefore educational) lines. White professionals and college students have generally favored Obama, white workers and retirees usually have not. More detailed discussion of data from exit polls, no matter how insufficient, might help to clarify the choices of voters and why they appear to be voting in blocs based on age, social and economic position, race, and sex, but -- alas -- the media have not provided such discussions.

Instead, the media have generally ignored issues and programs and instead offered their public the usual 'horse-race' reporting; they have simply avoided serious discussion of the demographics of the primaries. Yet these demographics have major ramifications for both the general election later in the year and the Democratic Party's chances of winning in November. A more detailed discussion of voter demographics might help voters to assess who is actually winning the popular vote, as opposed to who is winning the caucuses, which are a very special kind of electoral process that excludes a major part of the population. A more detailed discussion of programs certainly would help voters make more informed decisions.

But the media have not discussed either the programs of the candidates nor the types of contests Obama and Clinton have won. Had they done so, they might have noted that on average it takes about 12,000 to 13,000 votes to win a delegate in a Democratic Party primary, but only some 1,400 to win a delegate in a caucus state. Indeed, the winner of the Alaska caucus obtained some 300 votes, trouncing the loser, who only managed about 100. But this cannot by any measure be assessed as a "popular" vote by Alaska's 450,000 eligible voters. In Texas, there was a significant difference in both the turnout for the primary (c. 3.8 million) and the caucuses (c. 40,000 with 41 percent reporting), as there was in Washington (c. 600,000 in the primary but only 30,000 in the DP caucuses). Yet a third of Texas delegates for the DP were awarded through caucuses, clearly a disproportionate number if democratic participation by members of the DP was the goal, and all those in Washington were awarded through caucuses because the primary there was 'non-binding.'

But there is no discussion of this in the media, even though the difference between primaries and caucuses is critical to understanding why Obama has done so well, e.g., if he enjoys the support of professionals, students, and an energized black base, his campaign would seem to have an obvious advantage in caucus states, especially if Clinton's support indeed is predominantly among the less educated, the middle-aged and elderly, and older women.

But rather than thoughtful and detailed analysis and discussion, the media invite us see the 'race' in simple terms -- a 'charismatic' candidate, two 'populists' (one of whom was studiously ignored, while the other was eventually greeted as a good old boy), a 'kitchen sink' strategy, racial and sexual polarization, and so on. There is nothing substantial in their reporting or their analysis, and the use of terms and phrases like 'front-runner' or 'majority of the popular vote' are misleading at best.

Obama has indeed won 28 states to Clinton's 16, but it seems worth noting that in the first 44 contests, while Obama and Clinton each took 15 primaries, he took 13 of 14 caucuses, that she has won more votes in primaries than he has, and that if Florida and Michigan are counted, the difference in 'elected' delegate count (assuming one can in good conscience equate delegates won in primaries with those captured in caucuses) is razor thin relative to the vote cast, about 40,000 out of 26 million.

It would be refreshing to see and hear and read detailed and thoughtful discussions of the actual nature of the horse race in the DP (and the GOP for that matter), and it would be wonderful to read and listen to and watch clear and detached reporting on the programs offered by the candidates, including a careful dissection of their health plans, their educational plans, and so on, as well as detailed and thoughtful discussions of the backgrounds of the candidates.

But it is unlikely that we will get such discussions, which might actually help voters to make informed decisions regarding the candidates, their backgrounds, and their programs. Instead, we will probably continue to get horse-race reporting, superficial and poorly thought out analysis, polemics, and invective.

And that is a disservice to everyone, from the candidates to the public at large in an election whose outcome will probably decide whether the country gets the national health-care plan it so desperately needs, the long overdue reform of a sclerotic legislative process, an economic program that favors rather than destroys the nation's economy, and a rethinking of American foreign policy, from root to branch.

I do not support either Obama or Clinton, but I cannot applaud Olberman's outburst of self-righteous indignation which is the antithesis of what he should be doing as a responsible journalist and generally harmful to free speech and the political process, which should be open, not hedged around with taboos and self-righteous censure by self-appointed guardians of the commonweal's soul. Whether Murrow would have approved of Olberman's 'special comment' is impossible to know, but my guess is that he would have winced.

Obama took this time to run for President because he knew that he may have had a better chance of running and winning against a woman candidate, because he knows that the American people are not really ready for a woman President from the start, that's why Ted Kennedy encouraged him to run now because this may be the first and last chance or opportunity to do so.

The Obama campaign needs to stop whinning and complaining about statments of race everytime someone comments on it, this shows his lack of confidence that he can win this election fairly and squarely without the massive black vote.

This subtle call for the massive black vote by the Obama campaign is one of the reason's why Obama is becoming known as the black President in my opinion, as a black male, this is the oldest trick in the book the Obama Campaign is using to try and rally my fellow black brothers and sisters to vote for him in droves, by focusing on the White man is picking on me strategy, because I'm black, what a lame, sorry and dirty underhanded excuse Obama's campaign is using to keep a mess going, you know the old saying is, "If one keeps stirring in a mess it will soon start stinking", this is certainly the case that's happening on purpose to keep racial tensions between the races in the fore front of the American people's mind for personal, political advantage and gain in order for the black race to leave Hillary's campaign and join Obama's instead. Obama is subtly palynign the race card and sofar shrewdly playing it well to the majority of black folks, but as a black man myself, I see right through the game thye are palying and not falling for it, like in my race.

But one thing the Bible state's that "A House Divided Against Itself shall Not Stand," Obam is also too arrogant and self centered any way to be Hillary's vice President, he definitly not a humble man, Obam is very sneaky, so before people go out and vote for him, please check out his background throughly to find out what he's really all about, because he's really got people fooled and decieved through his mesmerizing eloquent public speaking skills on hope, unity, change, and inspiration, if he was so inspiring why is the party so divided now, the other candidate can not make an statement about race without the Obama campaign making a big deal outof it, to further gain the black vote, well, so far, he's been successful in achieveing that, so Obama should not get mad or upset, because someone says because he's where he is in the race because of the black vote, this is a fact, just look at the evidence.

My race of people are making a mountain out of a mole hill where it should not be, Obama should not want to win this race because of the majority black vote, but through a combination of all races votes, but it seeems like now he wants to win by any means necessary, well the black man is not falling for Obama ookie doke and going with Hillary, because she has the most experience to get things as President done in Washington, if she's become the Presidential nominee I hope Obama will not be her running mate, and that's vice versa I hope she will not be Obama's running mate to help him win a Presidency he does not or have the right experience or qualificans to have.

Obama says he have the ability tounify the party and country, let him put his money where his mouth is and make it happen on his own, Let him try and bring the whites, blacks, and other races together on doing and after the election, since he's says he's the best person that is able to do this, well prove it not just talk and preach about it, Let us see if he's able to walk the walk Obama's always arrogantly and boastfuly preaching about on the campaign trial, but not at the expense and/or help from Hillary or the gender-biased media and those gender-biased people against a woman being President from the start in the Democratic Party. and if Hillary is not the nominee, I will not help bring the Party together to help an experienced candidate like Obama to become President, he needs more seasoning in government office before he would ever get my vote, It don't matter to me if he where black or white, I'm looking for experience not gender or race to get this country back on the right track once Bush leaves office.

Obama really don't meet the Qualifications and experience in US government at the national level like Hillary does to be Commander and Chief of America. I like the sign someone showed during a Hillary Rally stating "Help Wanted For President, Experience Required", Obama need not apply, because he lacks the experience for such an high office in at the national level.

So, Geraldine Ferraro thinks Obama is only in the race because he is black? What does she think her friend Hillary is in for? Would Clinton be running if she had not been the wife of a president? If she did not have fame (or perhaps notoriety would be a better word)? I'd rather see someone like Senator Patty Murray of Washington State as a presidential candidate. She's honest, productive, and experienced. The prospect of eight years more of the Clintons (still on the two-for-one deal) and an old man talking about 100 more years of war is a sobering one. The country would be bankrupt long before then.

Obama is a sane, intelligent candidate with excellent judgment. Americans will have only themselves to blame if one of the other two are elected.

This is a tempest in a teapot. And I defend Ferraro based on her history and the context of her remarks. But first let me say this:

I believe that Obama is a talented orator and politician. He has strong leadership credentials and his message of change is backed up with actions, votes he’s cast, positions he’s taken, choices he’s made. I think there is still racism in this country and that African Americans still get the worst of it. I believe it is more difficult to get ahead still in 2008 in this country as black man than as a white man. AND I believe Geraldine Ferraro was correct in saying that if Obama was a white man, he wouldn’t be in this position today. I believe this because Obama has become something bigger than himself. He has become a symbol. A positive one. And an important part of that idea of change that he espouses, of turning a new leaf for this country – is the idea that this country, in our lifetime may very well elect an bi-racial President. I'm excited by that. Ferraro chose her words poorly. But she's correct. What she failed to do was state very clearly that the fact that Obama's race is only one component of what makes his candidacy so exciting to many of us, black, white, green, red, yellow and brown.

Keith is right. Given her initial overwhelming lead, Hillary Clinton would have locked up the nomination a long time ago, if she had Obama's organizational and administrative abilities. Hillary lost black and white voters because her campaign was poorly planned. Let's hope voters see through this last desperate attempt to rule or ruin. Thank you, Keith.

"casual prejudice," i think that's a term that all Americans need to think about. it should not have to be that you need to be a person of color to realize that ferraro's words reflected racism. although i've always viewed olberman as a goofball in the past-has made a very clear and well defended statement. quite honestly clinton is in the position she is in because of her husband and people think they are going to get him. her "qualified" experience is being his wife. i decided i was against her policies years ago when she voted for the iraq war. she is a coward and a follower, and furthermore she is just out to get recognition and money. people need to wake up.

A Keith Olbermann opinion? Not exactly a mental giant now is he?

Obama and Clinton are both very intelligent, impressive people but I don’t think they would be the front-runners for the Democratic nomination if they were white men with unknown spouses.

Geraldine Ferraro’s comments were accurate. If people are offended it is because they want to be offended.

Why must it be considered offensive to discuss the issues of race and gender, when race and gender are so clearly issues in this campaign?

Let's not allow taboos to squelch intelligent discussion. Not talking about race and gender doesn't somehow erase their significance.

Keith who?

Posted by: Cissy Patterson | March 13, 2008 9:12 AM

Cissy who???

Look at the track record of the Clintons and Ms. Ferraro. They have worked for minorities during their long careers in politics. The press, including Olbermann, are making a mountain out of a molehill. I knew the right hated Hillary; the fact that they left hates her too has been an amazing revelation to me, a person who watches, listens and thinks about the political landscape. Obama is NOT the Messiah; I wish the mainstream press would GET this memo! And leave the old broad alone! She speaks truth about herself (in 1984) and about the current situation! I'm a liberal but I do not think Obama is ready for the real world of Washington...unless he IS the Messiah.

I agree Obama is very intelligent, but he's not ready to be President yet, he needs a little more experience at the national level, and as an African American, I know that still we face racism in this country, but this election should not be decided on race or gender, but on who has the most experience to fix the most Bush will leave behind in 2009. Ok Bill will be bck in the White house, that could be an great asset to her and this country,just think we would have a former President as an advisor to Hillary who's already been in the office and can give her good sound advise on many issues that affect this country, but Hillary will be the one who makes the final decisions on various as Commander and Chief.

As I recall, Obama has voted Present on many issues doing his political career both in the state Senate and US Senate on very important issues that required him to make a vote, that's not good judgement and leadership in taking a stand one way or the other in my opinion, any issue that he thought was controversial, he would vote present rather than to tackle the issue head on, he made those decisons not to vote present, because in the back of his mind he had aspirations of running for President, and he did not want to have a record of voting for or agaisnt a certain issue, this is certainly not the kind of person who I want to be my President, because he has a tendency to run and hide and not tackle certain issues head-on, he not really a fighter, like Hillary, but instead a hider.

Sure I would like to see both a black person or a women because President, but I want them to have the most and right experience to run this country, and not based only on gender or race, and who can inspire or motivate the best, but on the candidate who has the most qualifications and experience, Hillary meets that threshold now. Anybody who can speak well like Obama can talk a good game, but lacks what it truly takes to run such an high office, another thing, Bush ran a good campaign against Gore and Kerry, but look what mess this country is in now, So I believe it's not all about who can run the best campaign, but who has the most experience and quailfications to back-up what they are speaking about on the campaign stump, a candidate can say anything just to get elected, but can they truly perform once winning the office without needing on the job training like Obama.

If Obama had the most and right experience and qualifications over Hillary, I believe he would do a fine job, but he's not there just yet; like Hillary, Obama sounds very good in and eloquent; most inspirational, motivational, preachers and speakers are, but we most fairly scrutinize and challenge each candidate's political and personal life to see whether they are even fit to be the leader of the free world, Obama has not been strongly challenged in this area as of yet by the biased media, but the Republican Party is waiting in the wings to reveal Obama's political and personal life for all America to see that his not really what he's cracked-up to be, I believe it may not be pretty and rosey as the media has projected to the American public about him up to this date, then people are going to regret that they voted for this man to be our Democratic Presidentail Nominee, the skeletons will come out of the closet about Obama one way or the other, causing us to lose the general election to the Republicans again for thired time in 8 years.

I'm a black man, but if Obama is the nominee, and Hillary is not, I will not be voting for him, I will refuse to back a candidate based on race or gender, and who has the most eloquent speaking voice, I beleive many other Hillary supporters agree with my position and follow my lead, believe it or not, it's going to take both Hillary and Obama supporters, male, female black and white as well as other races working together to beat the Republicans doing the general election, and if Hillary supporters feel that she was not treated equally and fairly doing this campaign, they wil not help to bring this party back together in order to put an inexperienced, non-qualified arrogant, and sneaky candidate like Obama in Office, over a person who has the experience and qualificans as Hillary does right now.

We die hard Hillary supporters would either stay home and not vote at all, or vote for McCain or Nader on general election day, you may have a few Hillary supporters switch to Obama, but not enough for him to win the general election, because the party has and will continue to be so divided based on race and gender, because Obama is seen now by myself and many other voters as the Black Presidential candidate, Obama helped to keep racial tension going subtly to make black people keep voting for him by the masses in protest to Hillary's campaign, which I beleive have not made racial statemnts towards my race of people, but the media and Obama's campaign so far has been very successful in spinning it that way, Obama claied he did not want to be the black, red or blue state President, but the President of the whole United States, that was just a campaign gimmick, he really went after the black vote in many sneaky and deciteful ways to try and become the nominee, I'm not fooled by that, and I'm sure other strong Hillary supporters are aware of it too.

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.

I’m confused. Isn’t Hilary a woman. The race is pretty even between the two of them. So if Hilary was winning would she say that Hilary is lucky she is a woman and Obama is unlucky because he’s a man. Confusing. I don’t know if you have examined the plight of blacks since we were slaves, jim crow, segregation, inner cities, poverty disparity, prisons, murder rates, abortions, drugs, aids, etc. I don’t think lucky is something that I would use to describe blacks in america. Plus she used this exact same comment against Jesse Jackson in the 80’s. I guess being highly educated, articulate, charasmatic, makes you lucky.

(E-mail to Geraldine Ferraro)

Geraldine,

You're quoted as saying that the response of Obama's campaign to your comments was that they "did it to hurt Hillary."

Well, weren't your remarks meant to hurt Obama? And that “spigot" of hate mail you complain you are getting, is it coming from Obama's staff or from individual citizens speaking their mind?

And as to hurting Hillary, she and Bill, her de facto Co-President running mate have already done that. Their sordid past is an open book--the Travelgate, Pardongate, Chinagate, cattle-futures, Whitewater scandals; the using Marines as waiters; the IRS auditing of critics; the hiring of detectives to dig up dirt on women seduced by Bill; the Monica Lewsinki trysts in the rooms of the White House; the 50+ deaths by murder, suicide, accidents and sudden illnesses of people connected the Clinton regime; the Impeachment.

All that is bound to come out in due course and derail the Clintons' schemes to retake power.

My advice to you, Geraldine, is to fade back into the woodwork and enjoy your retirement.

C. Navarro

There is absolutely nothing wrong with discussing race in a campaign... where warranted and with tact. But, what actually was her point… what did she think she would accomplish? In truth it was just a diversion from the real issues and has no place in a democracy. Problem is far too many of us… lack sensitivity in this area. These delusions of grandeur and such arrogance will be the undoing of us all.

There are racist comments and there are racial comments. Ferraro made a racial comment. I'm not a supporter of either candidate but to be fair, we need to stop getting hysterical over people expressing their opinions.

Simply stated, if Obama were white, the majority of black votes would have probably gone for Hillary. After all, her husband was the "first black president". Especially since their social policies (Clinton and Obama or another white candidate) are nearly identical.

If Hillary had received 80%+ of the black vote in all the primaries to date instead of her opponent, she would have the nomination locked up by now. Ergo, he has benefited in these primaries from being black. This observation takes nothing away from him or his talents or his many other attributes. It's a racial observation, not a racist one. It merely acknowledges the impact of the black vote, which is apparently driven more by race than gender or policy. Let's face it; Presidential politics is a full contact sport. If any group is going to cry and whine every time their candidate gets smacked, they ought to take up knitting and leave national politics to those who can take the heat.

The first time in this process that race was mentioned was when Michelle Obama suggested to the black women of SC to vote for her husband instead of for Hillary. I have heard several very intelligent blacks say they will vote race before gender. Then again I have heard equally as many intelligent white women say they will vote gender first. I think Barack and Hillary are running on almost the same platform and so the only thing that separates them really, is race and gender and so that is the deciding factor for many democrats. What will be very interesting to know is how strong the black vote will be for Hillary if she gets the nod. Equally will the women that wanted Hillary because she is a woman, still come out and support Barack?

Obama is now appearing on the various news outlet’s trying to defend himself on having such a long relationship with a racist and bigoted Pastor J Wright, People please don’t fall for this, Obama is good at lying and duping the American Public, he has no credibility or trust now, he should have put this in the bag a long time ago, he’s only doing it now, in order to save his Political career, well, the American public are not illiterate or stupid like he may think. Obama’s goose may be finally cooked on this one, America please remember this at the voting poles, let’s stop Obama before he becomes our President, there is no way Obama can claim he did not know what his Pastor was preaching on Sunday mornings, if he was not their in person, Obama could buy video and audio tapes of his teachings like other people do over the internet and mail order service, so he knew or should have know that his Pastor was teaching anti- American, and racist sermons over the last 20yrs. Obama should not try an insult the American’s people’s intelligence. I don’t want a Presidential candidate who is already trying took make a fool out of me. Obama is no good fro America, vote for Hillary it least you know what you are getting, as opposed to Obama, who have a lot more skeleton’s in the closet that’s yet to be brought out into the light.

It is truly amazing to me that people are still trumpeting Hillary's resume as proof of her experience. Have any of you Hillary-ites actually fact checked her so-called experience. Visit Newsweek's article debunking over 95% of what she claims as experience on the page below http://www.newsweek.com/id/123121
For the record, Barack Obama was President of the Harvard Law Review, a steadfast community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, a professor of constitutional law at the Univ of Chicago, an 8-year State Senator in Illinois and has spent almost two years in the Senate. In terms of politics, his resume far outstrips hers. Re: Geraldine Ferraro, Obama nor his camp have called her out as a racist -- the pundits have done that as have many Americans. Facts are facts, let's try to stick to them and not just flaunt what you thought you knew or heard.

Ferraro has a point.
You cannot explain Obama's
success any other way.
He is not, contrary to popular
belief--a good orator. His voice
gets on my nerves. He sounds
like Mr. T.
Also, look at his voting base.
Mostly white Protestant. White
Protestants are the ones with
the most missionary activity--by
far--among black Americans and
blacks in Africa. They are the
ones with the most compassion
for blacks; although this is foolish
because America is less than
13% black and I don't see nearly
as much missionary activity out
of white Protestants among Asians,
Hispanics, American Indians and
Appalachian Whites.
Clearly, after taking all of these
Beaver Cleaver, Father Knows Best
and My Three Sons type Protestant
states like Utah, Wyoming and
Colorado, the vote for Obama is
chiefly because he is black.
More typical Catholics and Jews,
on the other hand, see deeper
reasons for voting. They see strong
candidates as the only way to go
because their forbears needed strong
candidates to help them after they
came over from Europe. They want
to see results and not just talk.
By the way, the DNC is going to
have to go above pledged delegate
count in order to name a nominee
because higher pledged delegate
numbers is the only thing Obama
has right now. Clinton has more
superdelegates and has taken the
big states.
But, one more thing is clear. She
has overcame terrible obstacles in
order to achieve wins that not many
thought she could achieve--this
shows fine presidential material.
Furthermore, she had Obama and
the media against her; whereas
Obama only had her campaign
to fight--he didn't have to fight the
media.
As for Ferraro, she is only speaking
the truth and apparently looks for
solidity in a candidate, and, when
she ran on the Mondale ticket, she
not only didn't depend on fans of
all things Italian to support her, but,
as her autobiography attests, many
Americans, not just fans of Italian
culture but Italians themselves, did
what they could to try to stop her.
Obviously an independent woman
seeking independence and strength
in a candidate.

If Obama where white, and he had the same grasp of the issues, character and organizing ability, he might perhaps get a few less black votes, but, believe me, he would get a lot more white votes. The Clinton campaign had been planned for years yet demonstrated a like of foresight and disorganization. This from someone who claims she is ready to be Commander In Chief on day one. It took her five years to finally figure out her vote for the Iraq war was a mistake. That is hardly a learning curve to inspire confidence. The only reason Ferraro can't see this is because she is blinded by predjudice.

I'm an Black American Male who believes that Obama should stop his campaign and go home, America does not need a President who is associated with a known racist and bigot for over 20yrs and than having him work in his campaign, Obama is a undercover racist and bigot as well, there is no way he can convince me that he truly did not know what his Pastor's teachings stood for, Come on please don't insult my intelligence.

I believe now that the truth has finally came out will still come out about Obama's past, America is going to be even more shocked, so people put your seat belts on and fasten them tight, because a steep roller coaster of Obama life is going to be revealed before you even faster, now that the news media his finally got some guts to start sharing with America all of Obama's deep dark secrets that he thought would never come up and out, before he was mistakenly nominated for Presidency.

I recommend that the mature voters lead teach and guide the younger voters in a different direction from Obama, because they have tremendously been brained washed by Obama's occult like speeches, it's going to be hard to get them to accept that Obama is not good for America, but if the older voters stick together and really mentor our young people, they will begin to fall away from Obama's campaign and grip hold on their young minds one by one, some of these young people really don't know the election process, and many have voted for the first time in their lives, Obama's campaign rallies to them where like going to a late night rock concert, they begin to follow Obama like he was a popular rock or Rap star, so many of our young people's minds has to be purged and reconditioned away from Obama's compelling grip, it's like being on a ill-legal drug and have to go through drug detoxicifican in order to come down off it, this is how far some of our young people his been deceived and brain washed by the Obama campaign.

I suggest that all Americans begin writing letters by the millions to the media and the DNC Chairman Howard Dean to pressure Obama to step down, and if he refuses, do not vote for him anymore throughout the rest these primaries, this will send a strong message that we do not want a liar, a person that was associated with a known racist or bigot Pastor for over 20yrs, and now Obama tries to denounce the Pastor to dupe the American people into saving his political career, it's over for Obama now, no turning back for him, If this happens, the Super delegates and voters will start switching to or back to Hillary's side because it would be the most popular, politically correct, and safest thing to do now, I believe if we don't denounce and get rid of Obama now, America would have made a grave mistake in the long-term, Democratic Party and America as a whole will suffer for not stopping this man in his tracks before he divide this country up even more.

As a Black voter for Hillary, Geraldine Ferraro was right on the money, if it was not for the black vote, Obama would not have gotten this far in the first place, her statement is not racist to me, she was only stating fact by looking at the high percentage of blacks voting for Obama in the primaries, this is very obvious, this is not rocket science you know. So, the voter's and super delegates who voted for Obama reject needs to reject those votes and vote for Hillary before it's too late, Obama is definitely a liability and political death for the Democratic Party and America as well

Those who do not believe that Hillary had the most advantages in the pursuit of her ambitions should name another person ever elected to the U.S. Senate without holding a prior elected, judicial, administrative or executive position of any significants. Oh, and hey Darrell, guilt by association is unamerican.

I go with it was a statement of fact. Obama would not pull 91% of the black vote being white and this primary woud be over with Clinton the clear winner. Olbermann, like many others is clearly out of touch with reality, and is just another "journalist" who thinks Obama is the golden boy of the moment. The Obama Campaign is playing the race card very well, and soon no one will say anything negative about him. Hmmmm....actually that has been going on since the race began. OOOPS..there is that word again!

Olbermann doesn't seem to want to grasp or admit that Obama is a member of an exclusive Black racist church... Strange!

I'm an Black American Male who believes that Obama should stop his campaign and go home, America does not need a President who is associated with a known racist and bigot for over 20yrs and than having him work in his campaign, Obama is a undercover racist and bigot as well, there is no way he can convince me that he truly did not know what his Pastor's teachings stood for, Come on please don't insult my intelligence.

I believe now that the truth has finally came out will still come out about Obama's past, America is going to be even more shocked, so people put your seat belts on and fasten them tight, because a steep roller coaster of Obama life is going to be revealed before you even faster, now that the news media his finally got some guts to start sharing with America all of Obama's deep dark secrets that he thought would never come up and out, before he was mistakenly nominated for Presidency.

I recommend that the mature voters lead teach and guide the younger voters in a different direction from Obama, because they have tremendously been brained washed by Obama's occult like speeches, it's going to be hard to get them to accept that Obama is not good for America, but if the older voters stick together and really mentor our young people, they will begin to fall away from Obama's campaign and grip hold on their young minds one by one, some of these young people really don't know the election process, and many have voted for the first time in their lives, Obama's campaign rallies to them where like going to a late night rock concert, they begin to follow Obama like he was a popular rock or Rap star, so many of our young people's minds has to be purged and reconditioned away from Obama's compelling grip, it's like being on a ill-legal drug and have to go through drug detoxicifican in order to come down off it, this is how far some of our young people his been deceived and brain washed by the Obama campaign.

I suggest that all Americans begin writing letters by the millions to the media and the DNC Chairman Howard Dean to pressure Obama to step down, and if he refuses, do not vote for him anymore throughout the rest these primaries, this will send a strong message that we do not want a liar, a person that was associated with a known racist or bigot Pastor for over 20yrs, and now Obama tries to denounce the Pastor to dupe the American people into saving his political career, it's over for Obama now, no turning back for him, If this happens, the Super delegates and voters will start switching to or back to Hillary's side because it would be the most popular, politically correct, and safest thing to do now, I believe if we don't denounce and get rid of Obama now, America would have made a grave mistake in the long-term, Democratic Party and America as a whole will suffer for not stopping this man in his tracks before he divide this country up even more.

As a Black voter for Hillary, Geraldine Ferraro was right on the money, if it was not for the black vote, Obama would not have gotten this far in the first place, her statement is not racist to me, she was only stating fact by looking at the high percentage of blacks voting for Obama in the primaries, this is very obvious, this is not rocket science you know. So, the voter's and super delegates who voted for Obama reject needs to reject those votes and vote for Hillary before it's too late, Obama is definitely a liability and political death for the Democratic Party and America as well

I read an article over the Internet that Obama has gained delegates in Iowa, This is unbelievable that people are still supporting this guy who his been associated with an known racist for over 20yrs, What is wrong with people, this really blows my mind.

I'm an African American male who believes that Obama should be sat down, and no longer a Presidential candidate, you mean to tell me that know matter what Obama is or was involved in the past doesn't matter to you just as long as a Black man becomes President, where is our values and morals headed in this country?

Obama should be a past presence in the campaign, but instead he's still winning? Obama does not have a campaign this is an occult, for example, people who are a member of an occult can't seem to break a way from it's leader even if they wanted to, because the leader have some kind of satanic strong-hold on their minds, where they could not disband from them, this reminds me of the Obama campaign, his followers are so mesmerized and hypnotized by this mans speeches that they can no longer make sound, rationale, informed judgments, or decisions whether their leader are right or wrong in his or her thinking processes, this is very scary to me.

This also is how Jim Jones of the Jonestown Massacre was able to get his followers to drink tainted kool-aid that eventually lead to their deaths by the thousands. Obama seem to have some kind of satanic mind control over his followers, because these people are still willing to vote Obama by the droves no matter what his twisted beliefs are.

Those of us with sound minds need to continue writing and calling the DNC Chairman Howard Dean and all the media outlets to get them to pressure Obama to quit his campaign, because he is not going to do it on his own unless he's under tremendous political and personal pressure to do so. People with sounds minds, please do not send anymore financial support to Obama's campaign, attend his rallies, or vote for him anymore throughout the rest of these primaries, a clear and strong message needs to be sent to everyone that American's, who are in their right frame of mind will not in any way tolerate a candidate who has sat under a racist and bigoted Pastor's teaching for over 20yrs, and did not get up and leave the church or dis-banded his relationship with that pastor in all capacities.

I see that many of us Americans who are in their right frame of minds, need to think and make decisions for those who are not, due to being stung by the Obama bee. We must now strongly cry out loud and spare not, in order to help the media and the DNC do its job and the thing right in order to save our party and America, by having Obama to quit this campaign and go back to Chicago Ill with his friend Oprah Winfery.

By the way, I would like to find out whether Oprah attended this church off and on through the years as well? this will also help explain Why Oprah all of a sudden come out and endorse this man because he was black, Oprah may also be one of or a former member of Pastor J Wright’s Church.