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March 11, 2008
Beneficiary of Identity Politics Decries Identity Politics
Geraldine Ferraro unleashed.
“I think what America feels about a woman becoming president takes a very secondary place to Obama’s campaign - to a kind of campaign that it would be hard for anyone to run against,” she said. “For one thing, you have the press, which has been uniquely hard on her. It’s been a very sexist media. Some just don’t like her. The others have gotten caught up in the Obama campaign.This puts the Clinton campaign in a fun position. On the one hand, they can't entirely go negative on their own supporter, lest they alienate female voters. On the other...check these exit polls. The Democrats need those votes to win the general election, and this sort of rhetoric won't help them in the unlikely event that Clinton is the nominee.“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. And the country is caught up in the concept.”
This is not a healthy party at the moment. Unity among Democrats is going to be hard to achieve if this continues.
Excellent.
Oh, and this isn't the first time Ferraro has used this line.
Posted by slublog at March 11, 2008 10:59 PM
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Best line about this I've heard came from Michael Graham today, loosely paraphrasing:
Then : "Hey, I'm a black nobody. But I DESERVE Affirmative Action to push me to the head of the line."
Now: "Don't you DARE mention that I'm black and that if I weren't I wouldn't deserve attention."
Posted by: Anna Keppa at March 12, 2008 10:45 PM