Althouse: "To equate what I said with what this racist bigot has said from the pulpit is unbelievable," said Geraldine Ferraro.

March 20, 2008

"To equate what I said with what this racist bigot has said from the pulpit is unbelievable," said Geraldine Ferraro.

"[Obama] gave a very good speech on race relations, but he did not address the fact that this man is up there spewing hatred."

No word yet about how Obama's white grandmother liked the way he equated her occasional private remarks — whatever they were — with Jeremiah Wright's years of stoking hatred as he led a large attentive crowd.

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former law student said...: How old are you? In the 20s you were acquainted with...
Man, I thought I was old.

Nah, I just used to talk to older people when I was a kid. A lot of families in my neighborhood had Granddad living with them. Older people are glad to tell kids the story of their lives. The oldest person I knew had been born in 1875, but several of my own relatives immigrated as young adults between 1900 and 1910.; 3/20/08, 4:35 PM
Trooper York said...: Or his much more pompous grandfather

One question, how does such a monumental gas bag manage to stay on the ground long enough to post a comment?

It’s a mystery.; 3/20/08, 4:37 PM
former law student said...: Geraldine Ferraro might not be right about much but she is absolutely right when she said that if Obama was white he would not have the success that he has right now.

I guess that's right; I guess if Bill Richardson was white, he wouldn't have the success he has right now, either. Without that half-ethnicity they'd both be way back in the pack.; 3/20/08, 4:41 PM
reader_iam said...: Trooper: He's fine, just doing his thang.

Just leave him be. If you get bored, read this comment thread from last September at Kevin Drum's place.

Me, I have commitments elsewhere until later tonight.; 3/20/08, 4:47 PM
former law student said...: reader -- my only reservation about voting for you is your willingness to throw our primary system U.T.B*

*I've seen the underside of a but, BTW. There are brakelines as well as shift and accelerator linkages.; 3/20/08, 4:58 PM
Trooper York said...: Got it reader_iam. Thanks.; 3/20/08, 4:59 PM
Unknown said...: I wonder what the reaction would be had there been a blogosphere around when Kennedy gave his speech on religion in Houston; or when MLK gave his speech in Washington; or when Lincoln gave the Gettysburg address. The same petty sniping, the same urge to bring down a courageous speech.

I don't believe Mickey Kaus, who has been wrong on just about every major issue over the last five years, has any special insight into, really, anything.; 3/20/08, 5:06 PM
Anonymous said...: How many state governors can you name? I know Richardson because I'm in NM, there's Arnold in CA, there's Jindal in LA, there's Pallin in AK. Oh, and maybe Bush still in FL?

Charlie Christ is a turncoat Republican in Florida; for my money, you have to go to Minnesota to find a governor who is worth a nickel--Tim Pawlenty is Vice Presidential material. He has cut spending, cut taxes, kicked deadbeats off of the state welfare rolls, chased CHicago welfare cheats out of the Minneapolis bus terminal with a bullhorn, and sent thousands of freeloading health care cheats off to find coverage from a disreputable HMO.

THAT'S how you make change possible--and Minnesota now has full coffers, lower taxes, and a great standard of living. Kudos to him and KUDOS to you for asking a relevant question.

Hmmm. Could we have more of that around here, vice this sad sack "look at me, look at me" routine?

If I wanted to know how retards function in public, I'd skip the Pooper Pork and bric a brac show and just watch them stumble out of the school for the gifted down the road.; 3/20/08, 5:15 PM
blogging cockroach said...: this is one of the finest and most intelligent discussions
about electoral politics i have ever heard or read
you are all to be congratulated

despite obamas brilliant speech i am not convinced
thats because im the head of cockroaches for hillary
here in cambridge mass
so i know who i would support in the general election
of course being a loyal democrat means i will vote for obama if necessary
im just not sure if anyone would let me
it being very hard to work those levers by someone my size
but this being massachusetts and all im sure something can be worked out

now after all this high-mindedness i am sorry to say this doesn't help much; 3/20/08, 5:16 PM
Chip Ahoy said...: If only Shirley Chisholm were still around, She'd straighten out you ignorami. <-- that's Latin for dumb asses.; 3/20/08, 5:19 PM
Anonymous said...: If we're going to have someone playing a pompous white guy character, at least he should be both dead and funny like Sir Archy.

Anyway, we've fallen over the 200-odd comment event horizon, and this thread is now spiraling into the black hole of Blogger oblivion.; 3/20/08, 5:28 PM
KCFleming said...: Hey! No fair!
It's over and I didn't even get to bat!
And I even got insulted, so I should get to rant and bitch for days.

Dang.; 3/20/08, 5:50 PM
Daryl said...: Doyle wrote: She's also too daffy to realize she's embarrassing herself.

Leftists think sexism and ageism are acceptable--if you're defending a left-winger. She's just a batty old lady. Quite daffy.

How can she possibly think she's accomplishing anything other than to make herself look bad? I mean, take a look around. Nothing she said has caused any sort of problems for Obama. He's doing better than ever this week. (sarcasm); 3/20/08, 5:59 PM
blake said...: My vote's for the booger eaters.; 3/20/08, 6:47 PM
somefeller said...: When you get a real education, come back and talk to me. Education is not only in books. Nor does it come out of the pie holes of professors whose only experience with ghettos and projects was out of books, trumped up government reports, and think tanks. I got my BA from college and my advanced degrees from the University of Real Life. Now, recess is over. Go back to your Kindergarten class.

Ah, yes, MCG comes up with his standard comeback of "I have a real education, unlike, you, you people who have degrees and stuff".

I'll agree that a university degree doesn't necessarily equal a real education, and that a lot of welfare programs didn't turn out so well (thankfully, we had bipartisan welfare reform in the 90s to fix a lot of that), but this combination of conspiracy theory history (predictably, with no links to reputable sources to back it up - MCG's standard operating procedure) coupled with a massive dose of chip-on-shoulder cultural resentment is just absurd to read. As our French friends might say, it is to laugh.; 3/20/08, 8:32 PM
portia said...: I was thinking he would be readier in eight years, now it's never. He lost me with the two little girls soaking up the racism of fifty years ago. What price black authenticity? Selling your family's psyche? It's Hillary or Nader, no problem.; 3/21/08, 12:20 AM
portia said...: I couldn't care less that Wright is a Christian or that Louis Farrakhan professes to be a Muslim. I couldn't care less whether the hateful minister who endorsed John McCain is, deep inside, a decent man or a fundamentalist. But I do care about these pastors' divisive and crazed words; I do care that their "sermons" exploit and pander to the worst fears and passions of people based on perceptions and misperceptions about race. I hate that these preachers' sermons prejudge people's motives or behavior based on their race or ethnicity. I hate the haters, and I expected Obama to make a straightforward speech about what has become the Hate Hour -- and the most segregated hour -- in America on Sunday mornings.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-oew-meyers20mar20,0,4038350.story; 3/21/08, 12:49 AM
Charlie said...: It is time to tell the truth about the Democratic Party. I'm glad that I ran across Janice Ponds' book, Stealing the Minds of America, on The Sope-Bocks blog.
Ponds' book offers the history and TRUTH of how the Democratic Party has ALWAYS worked to keep blacks down.
Before November, 2008, we need to get the word out. Black = Democrat is NOT the right way to vote. Issues, morality and policy are the right way to vote!; 9/25/08, 8:32 AM