Geraldine Ferraro Must Resign Immediately
| A few days ago Geraldine Ferraro, one of Hillary’s top fundraisers, and member of her finance committee said the following about Barack Obama: | |
If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. 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. And the country is caught up in the concept.
First of all, this is incredibly demeaning and disrespectful to Senator Obama, everything he stands for, everything he has accomplished, and the millions of people who support him. He has better experience than Hillary, he has better judgment than Hillary, he has a much stronger message than Hillary, he is a better organizer and manager than Hillary, and this campaign has shown that he has a much better character than Hillary. Secondly to say a black man running for president is winning because of his race is one of the most ludicrous and ignorant things you could say about race in this country. By her own logic Jesse Jackson would have been our first black president by now, or at least our first black Democratic nominee.
To say he is only where he is because he is a black man is incredibly offensive, much more so than someone calling Hillary a “monster”, and even more offensive (and ridiculous) than him being compared to Ken Starr. For this reason, Hillary must strongly denounce and reject Ferraro’s comments and support, and Ferraro must resign from Hillary’s finance committee immediately.
