Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Geraldine Ferraro
Former vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro has given up her fundraising position with Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
“I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself and you can continue to speak for yourself about what is at stake in this campaign,” Ferraro wrote in a letter to Clinton, sent Wednesday. “The Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you. I won’t let that happen.”
Ferraro had recently made the following remarks to a California newspaper: “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman 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.”
She told CNN today that she was “absolutely not” sorry for her statement. “I am who I am and I will continue to speak up,” she said.
No..
Whites will now deliver PA for Hillary (for sure)…
So it’s all good
P.S.
It’s okay to be white….
Obama has pulled the race card a couple times too many.
ENOUGH
Talk amongst yourself…
I don’t know…
I used to be a Hillary supporter… This was just the last “STAW” I dont see how I can support her anymore…
(watch for this during the evening).
I’m from Canada… so it really doesn’t matter to me…
but Obama speaks of such Hope
(watch for this during the evening)
Name one other presidential nominee in history with Senator Obama resume and accomplishments?
Geraldine Ferraro
Totally agree. The point was made though. Obama over-extended the race card. PA will not take this shit
All these hateful slash and burn and lynch racist tactics from the Obama Campaign just go to show who is really behind their campaign and has been from the very beginning; Karl Rove. Obama is nothing more than Karl Rove’s tool to stack the deck in favor of the neocons and more endless war.
I really hope moronic assholes put Obama in the White House so the neocons can 9-11 you all again and you’ll suicide yourselves against ALL of Russia’s and China’s nukes when Prez Obama gives the command to nuke Iran in his “smart” Neocon war.
The rest of the planet, AND the universe, AND God, have had just about enough of the Nazi Amerikan Empire.
And “anti-dumb-war” Obama is as GOPNazi as they come; Condoleeza Rice in pants, with a crack pipe in his mouth and Larry Sinclair between his legs.
Did you think Nazis were going to depend on idiot assholes like Bush forever? That sooner or later they wouldn’t find some stupid desperate Oreo NAZI like Rice, only male, that has a way with words and giving good speeches that NEVER SAID A DAMN THING so he couldn’t be pinned down?
Fools. Amerika’s own overwhelming stupidity, masked as idealism, in the face of overwhelming evil condemns itself. So desperate that things have “really changed” when they’ve not changed one iota but gotten far worse, they buy the rope, toss if over the tree limb, tie the hangman’s noose, put it around their fool necks, and jump off the stool “just so my children can see the first black President.”
AS FUCKING IF.
No, really, go NUKE yourselves.
File Note: Change “Obama” to “Clinton” and post this tomorrow
Ferraro did what she felt was the best thing for the campaign. I admire her for that. IF Americans can’t see the forrest for the trees then we are all doomed! baaaarack has made smooth speeches that say absolutely NOTHING,yet the youth of our great nation are so brainwashed by his rockstar appeal to them. Sadly they will have to accept reality one day no matter which way the votes fall. Ferraro is one of the creatures that makes Ameica great! Bless her!
The truth is no one knows how Obama would have done if he was white and to assert that you do is ridiculous. He would have run a different campaign and would have experienced different constraints.
hillary clinton, 2008, seriously. obama and his supporters (and ESPECIALLY david axelrod) have made it almost impossible to speak the TRUTH about obama. i am so sick of hearing him whine and bitch about comments that he can’t interpret correctly. while hillary clinton isn’t a monster, he is definitely winning because of his black support. two totally different “put-downs.”
News flash, Fucking Moron: The lynching metaphors don’t work at all with “the first WOMAN President”. And there is no applicable word for Oreo either.
Thanks for brilliantly showing just how abysmally stupid and clueless Obama supporters really are.
PA is okay with Ferraro
I think MI and FL will be as well
Appears with all this racial (fake) crap going on…
The old man beat’s them both in the general.
Political Wire got an advance look at a new Strategic Vision poll in Pennsylvania which shows Sen. Hillary Clinton holding a big lead over Sen. Barack Obama, 56% to 36%.
In a general election match up with Sen. John McCain, McCain leads Clinton, 48% to 42%, and tops Obama, 47% to 44%.
The full survey will be released tomorrow
News flash, Fucking Moron: The lynching metaphors don’t work at all with “the first WOMAN President”. And there is no applicable word for Oreo either.
Thanks for brilliantly showing just how abysmally stupid and clueless Obama supporters really are.
Note to file: include above mentioned revisions.
Substitute “Cracker Bitch” for Oreo
xbjllb:
I’m not an Obama supporter…
It was a “parity”.
At the very least, you need to relax though.
Take your meds if you have them
I appreciate Geraldine Ferraro standing her ground. She is right about the Obama campaign using Geraldine’s statement to make Hillary look bad.
She said this way I can say what I want, and Hillary can say want she wants. What a brave woman she is not to be a subordinate of the Obama camp.
…not going to be…
I’m still waiting for Obama to tell the world how proud he is of the black support he got in Mississippi. He should be grateful. Maybe a joint press conference with Jesse Jackson?
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And Al Sharpton! Can’t forget Oprah!
Oprah rages: “Its a smear !!!”
Sorry… that quote on the Globe still makes me giggle
Don’t take meds or have any. Legal OR illegal.
Uh, what revision do you propose for “crack pipe in his mouth and Larry Sinclair between his legs”?
Good luck.
Did anyone see Fox News this evening about Obama’s preacher making his remarks?????????
Don’t take meds or have any. Legal OR illegal.
Uh, what revision do you propose for “crack pipe in his mouth and Larry Sinclair between his legs”?
Good luck.
You’ve got us there…
Obama just loves the blow !!
No !!
Details please!!
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No, what kind of remarks?
The Preachers comments:
“Hillary ain’t never been called a n******. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person.”
Unreal…Bring it on….
BIG BIG Mistake by Obama..
Obama chruch is very racist from the start. Check out the website. If anyone read Michelle Obama thesis, it’s plainly clear she is a racist.
The Preachers comments:
“Hillary ain’t never been called a ni@@er. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person.”
(my first post is in moderation… whatever that is)
Unreal…Bring it on….
BIG BIG Mistake by Obama..
CHICAGO — Barack Obama’s controversial pastor and the church he’s served for 36 years may be in hot water over statements he has made from the pulpit in support of the Illinois senator’s run for the White House.
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. preaches that he follows the righteous path, but when it comes to the federal tax law, his Trinity United Church of Christ may have crossed the line.
Wright praised Obama from the pulpit on Jan. 13 in what was billed as his final sermon at the Chicago church.
“There is a man here who can take this country in a new direction,” Wright said during his sermon, according to recordings obtained by FOX News.
It was not the first time Wright appeared to endorse Obama, who was baptized at Trinity United, has been an active member of the church for two decades and receives spiritual mentorship from Wright.
The title of Obama’s second book, “The Audacity of Hope,” was taken from a sermon by Wright.
During a Christmas sermon, Wright tried to compare Obama’s upbringing to Jesus at the hands of the Romans.
“Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people,” Wright said. “Hillary would never know that.
“Hillary ain’t never been called a n******. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person.”
In his Jan. 13 sermon, Wright said:
“Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain’t! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty.”
FOX News purchased the video recordings of Wright’s sermons from the church.
“It’s pretty clear an indirect endorsement of Barack Obama — that’s not something you’re supposed to do according to the tax code,” said Andrew Walsh, a professor at Trinity College who specializes in religion in politics.
The tax code bans churches from participating in or intervening in a political campaign. Violations can result in the loss of a church’s tax exempt status.
The Obama campaign issued a statement in response to FOX News’ inquiries about Wright’s sermons.
“Senator Obama has said repeatedly that personal attacks such as this have no place in this campaign or our politics, whether they’re offered from a platform at a rally or the pulpit of a church,” said Bill Burton, a campaign spokesman.
“Senator Obama does not think of the pastor of his church in political terms. Like a member of his family, there are things he says with which Senator Obama deeply disagrees.”
Click here to visit Trinity United Church of Christ Web site.
Obama defended Wright’s longtime activism for blacks in America last week at a campaign event in Ohio.
“Jeremiah Wright … has said some things that are considered controversial because he’s considered that part of his social gospel,” Obama said.
The Internal Revenue Service wouldn’t comment on whether it is looking into potential tax violations at Trinity United. The church declined to make Wright available for an interview.
Congregant Dwight Hopkins, a professor of Theology at the University of Chicago, said there is no basis for the IRS to go after the church.
“From the church side they will say it’s theology,” said. “If it wasn’t a senator running for president and it wasn’t his church, then I think we could say all kinds of things.”
The IRS has written dozens of letters warning churches against political advocacy from the pulpit. Yet it has revoked a church’s tax-exempt status only twice in the last half-century.
Walsh said it’s not typical for the IRS to enforce the rules.
“There’s a tension here between the desires of the religious leaders to say important things in the public marketplace and the IRS rules, and so most of the time, the IRS does not enforce these rules,” Walsh said.
The public scrutiny of these sermons comes in the wake of last month’s revelation by the head of the United Church of Christ that the IRS is investigation a speech Obama gave at the denomination’s national conference last year in Connecticut.
In a certified letter, Marsha Ramirez, IRS director, EO Examinations, wrote:
“Our concerns are based on articles posted on several Web sites including the church’s which state the United States Presidential Candidate Senator Barack Obama addressed nearly 10,000 church members gathered at the United Church of Christ’s biennial General Synod at the Hartford Civic Center, on June 23, 2007. In addition, 40 Obama volunteers staffed campaign tables outside the center to promote his campaign.”
The church and the Obama campaign have denied that any inappropriate political advocacy occurred during this speech.
Wright’s sermons often address themes of white supremacy and black repression, and critics have called them racially divisive.
Some remarks attributed to Wright that have been posted on the Internet and cited in press accounts include:
“Fact number one: We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college.
“Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run.
“We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional killers. … We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. … We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. … We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means.
“And … And … And! God! Has got! To be sick! Of this shit!”
Click here to hear an audio clip of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. WARNING: Contains offensive language.
Once Wright’s remarks were widely publicized last year, Obama backed out of his plans for his pastor to speak at his Feb. 10 presidential announcement.
Obama met Wright after college while working with local churches in Chicago to tackle problems of drug abuse and unemployment in inner-city neighborhoods. Wright preached an Afrocentric theology that interpreted the Bible through shared suffering of African Americans
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Barack Obama’s Controversial Pastor Puts Church In Hot Water
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
By Jeff Goldblatt
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Trinity United Church of Christ/Religion News Service
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., senior pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, March 2005.
CHICAGO — Barack Obama’s controversial pastor and the church he’s served for 36 years may be in hot water over statements he has made from the pulpit in support of the Illinois senator’s run for the White House.
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. preaches that he follows the righteous path, but when it comes to the federal tax law, his Trinity United Church of Christ may have crossed the line.
Wright praised Obama from the pulpit on Jan. 13 in what was billed as his final sermon at the Chicago church.
“There is a man here who can take this country in a new direction,” Wright said during his sermon, according to recordings obtained by FOX News.
It was not the first time Wright appeared to endorse Obama, who was baptized at Trinity United, has been an active member of the church for two decades and receives spiritual mentorship from Wright.
The title of Obama’s second book, “The Audacity of Hope,” was taken from a sermon by Wright.
During a Christmas sermon, Wright tried to compare Obama’s upbringing to Jesus at the hands of the Romans.
“Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people,” Wright said. “Hillary would never know that.
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As Obama Talks Religion, Questions Surround His Controversial Pastor “Hillary ain’t never been called a n******. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person.”
In his Jan. 13 sermon, Wright said:
“Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain’t! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty.”
FOX News purchased the video recordings of Wright’s sermons from the church.
“It’s pretty clear an indirect endorsement of Barack Obama — that’s not something you’re supposed to do according to the tax code,” said Andrew Walsh, a professor at Trinity College who specializes in religion in politics.
The tax code bans churches from participating in or intervening in a political campaign. Violations can result in the loss of a church’s tax exempt status.
The Obama campaign issued a statement in response to FOX News’ inquiries about Wright’s sermons.
“Senator Obama has said repeatedly that personal attacks such as this have no place in this campaign or our politics, whether they’re offered from a platform at a rally or the pulpit of a church,” said Bill Burton, a campaign spokesman.
“Senator Obama does not think of the pastor of his church in political terms. Like a member of his family, there are things he says with which Senator Obama deeply disagrees.”
Click here to visit Trinity United Church of Christ Web site.
Obama defended Wright’s longtime activism for blacks in America last week at a campaign event in Ohio.
“Jeremiah Wright … has said some things that are considered controversial because he’s considered that part of his social gospel,” Obama said.
The Internal Revenue Service wouldn’t comment on whether it is looking into potential tax violations at Trinity United. The church declined to make Wright available for an interview.
Congregant Dwight Hopkins, a professor of Theology at the University of Chicago, said there is no basis for the IRS to go after the church.
“From the church side they will say it’s theology,” said. “If it wasn’t a senator running for president and it wasn’t his church, then I think we could say all kinds of things.”
The IRS has written dozens of letters warning churches against political advocacy from the pulpit. Yet it has revoked a church’s tax-exempt status only twice in the last half-century.
Walsh said it’s not typical for the IRS to enforce the rules.
“There’s a tension here between the desires of the religious leaders to say important things in the public marketplace and the IRS rules, and so most of the time, the IRS does not enforce these rules,” Walsh said.
The public scrutiny of these sermons comes in the wake of last month’s revelation by the head of the United Church of Christ that the IRS is investigation a speech Obama gave at the denomination’s national conference last year in Connecticut.
In a certified letter, Marsha Ramirez, IRS director, EO Examinations, wrote:
“Our concerns are based on articles posted on several Web sites including the church’s which state the United States Presidential Candidate Senator Barack Obama addressed nearly 10,000 church members gathered at the United Church of Christ’s biennial General Synod at the Hartford Civic Center, on June 23, 2007. In addition, 40 Obama volunteers staffed campaign tables outside the center to promote his campaign.”
The church and the Obama campaign have denied that any inappropriate political advocacy occurred during this speech.
Wright’s sermons often address themes of white supremacy and black repression, and critics have called them racially divisive.
Some remarks attributed to Wright that have been posted on the Internet and cited in press accounts include:
“Fact number one: We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college.
“Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run.
“We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional killers. … We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. … We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. … We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means.
“And … And … And! God! Has got! To be sick! Of this shit!”
Click here to hear an audio clip of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. WARNING: Contains offensive language.
Once Wright’s remarks were widely publicized last year, Obama backed out of his plans for his pastor to speak at his Feb. 10 presidential announcement.
Obama met Wright after college while working with local churches in Chicago to tackle problems of drug abuse and unemployment in inner-city neighborhoods. Wright preached an Afrocentric theology that interpreted the Bible through shared suffering of African Americans.
For Obama, this experience was a spiritual turning point. He has written that he had been exposed to various faiths during his life but never formally adopted one until after meeting Wright.
“Inside the thousands of churches across the city, I imagined the stories of ordinary black people merging with the stories of David and Goliath, Moses and Pharaoh, the Christians in the lion’s den, Ezekiel’s field of dry bones,” he wrote in his memoir, “Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.”
“Those stories — of survival, and freedom, and hope — became our story, my story.”
Thanks Keith Olbermann
Thank you the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr
And John McCain thanks you both !!
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No, but she was called a monster. I’m tired of the Obama supporters spin on every single thing.
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No, but she was called a monster. I’m tired of the Obama supporters spin on every single thing.
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Let’s see if Obama denounces or rejects his statement.
WARNING: Contains offensive language.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfNEfEBYIZs
are you guys talking about his church’s website?
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No, but she was called a monster. I’m tired of the Obama supporters spin on every single thing.
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Let’s see if Obama denounces or rejects his statement.
He should denounce it in Mississippi
Thanks Sheila !!
My comment on YouTube:
Holly Shit !!!
What’s next? a car bomber for Obama??
Your Welcome Duck
I was like when I was watching it OMG!!!!
I thought it was funny Obama said HE USED to be his pastor…HMMMMMMMMMMM USED TO….
BigHeadDC Tip time !!
I think being a Muslim would be a little easier to spin… Unreal.
I cannot believe the way Barack Obama campaign is insulting core democratic party leaders. That so arrogant. In fact I think he has got very arrogant like he is a God. Im a democrat, but if Obama gets the nominee I will be voting John Mccain.
I’ll be writing in for Senator Clinton.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6XtEY4nc-4&feature=related
Ferror should step down. Her comments were insulting to Obama and insulting to the people that voted for him. She has done the right thing in stepping down.
What about the “monster” comment by Samantha Powers’ from Obama’s camp. He did the respectable thing and kicked her to the curb immediately; it’s only fair that Clinton should do the same when someone in her wing misspeaks…. and misspeak she did.
If some fundraiser from Obama’s team came out and said the only reason Clinton is in the position that she’s in (Presidential nominee with credibility) was because her husbands’ position (and affair) you people would FLIP OUT although I wouldn’t doubt that there is truth to that.
The sad thing is that the campaigns don’t made headlines for important things… Only this bickering back and forth and borderline tabloid material makes the press.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRg4ZfWYJvM&feature=related