Geraldine Ferraro's History of Bigotry

I previously wrote about how the other day Geraldine Ferraro, Clinton supporter, fundraiser, and member of her financial committee said that Obama is only winning the presidential race because he is black. Her comments not only demeaned his accomplishments, abilities and millions of his supporters, it reeked of the kind of bigoted attacks on minorities that are often heard from people who attack affirmative action, using the issue as cover for racial prejudice, resentment and bigotry.

Indeed, she is essentially claiming that Obama is some kind of affirmative action candidate, and if it wasn't for him being a minority the job would have gone to a better deserving white woman (even though there is absolutely no evidence to back up the assertion that Hillary is better qualified, or that she would make a better president, and Ferraro didn't offer any evidence; furthermore there is much evidence to the contrary, as you can find throughout my blog).

So instead of apologizing for her obviously offensive comments, yesterday Geraldine Ferraro hit back:

Any time anybody does anything that in any way pulls this campaign down and says let's address reality and the problems we're facing in this world, you're accused of being racist, so you have to shut up. Racism works in two different directions. I really think they're attacking me because I'm white.

Yes, you read that correctly, she made the outrageous and offensive claim that Obama was only where he is today because he is black, and then when a large number of people condemned her for her remarks, she claimed she was being attacked because she was white. She actually had the audacity to claim Obama and basically everyone who found her comments to be offensive were racist for calling her on her comments, even though no one even mentioned that she was white in any of the criticisms of her comments. Wow. She just might be insane. This is the kind of ignorant, ludicrous statement you'd expect from Ann Coulter.

And "Any time anybody does anything that in any way pulls this campaign down and says let's address reality and the problems we're facing in this world, you're accused of being racist"? No, that is a bunch of crap. If you had said "Obama isn't fit to be commander-in-chief", that wouldn't have had people calling you racist (it would just make you wrong). If you would have said "Hillary has more experience", no one would have accused you of being racist (again, you would just be wrong). If you would have said "Obama can't handle global warming", no one would have accused you of being racist. You see a pattern here? You can talk about the problems we face in this world, without bringing race into it (in fact race should have NO part of it), and no one will have any reason to accuse you of being racist. In fact, you weren't even talking about problems we're facing in this world, you were attacking Obama and accusing him of being an affirmative action candidate! Are you frickin' nuts??

Oh, and for a little context, this is what Ferraro said about Jesse Jackson back in 1988 when he was running in the Democratic primary against Michael Dukakis:

If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race.

Wow, you know, that sounds so familiar. I can't really put my finger on it...I know I've heard that before...I just can't place it...wait...maybe it was.....Oh yeah! She JUST said the exact same thing about Barack Obama! What a strangecoincidence!! Here we have the only two black major presidential candidates in US history, and in both cases you have Geraldine Ferraro attacking their worthiness and saying they are only there because they are black!

Hmm...gosh, Jesse Jackson and Obama, SHAME ON YOU BOTH for being SO racist! Quit picking on poor Geraldine Ferraro because of her race, how dare you?!

...And of course Hillary has refused to denounce or reject her and her comments, nor has she asked her to resign from her financial committee. I guess we know the score on Hillary's "test of character".