I am proud of Geraldine Ferarro ! She spoke out and told the truth Notice even the title of the

[saracat]

article is sexist, proving her point!


Geraldine Ferarro lets her emotions do the talking
By Jim Farber Staff Writer
Article Launched: 03/07/2008 07:52:09 AM PST


As the only woman ever to be selected by a major political party for the position of vice president of the United States, Geraldine Ferraro is uniquely suited to comment on the political events of the day.

An outspoken advocate for women's issues and a staunch supporter of presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, Ferraro will offer her views on the state of the nation and the race for the White House at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Armstrong Theatre of the Torrance Cultural Arts Center Theatre in Torrance. The program is part of the American Perspectives series.

Speaking by phone from her New York law office, the 72-year-old former Democratic congresswoman outlined the themes that will dominate her talk. She also offered pointed observations

Former Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro will speak in Torrance Sunday. regarding the Barack Obama juggernaut and what she sees as a sexist media bias against the candidate of her choice.
"I will probably start with a personal account, drawing attention to the historic firsts of both these candidacies in our party, and point out specific, significant differences between Hillary's campaign and mine," said Ferraro.

"I will discuss what I think's been going on in her campaign and the role of the media, which has been far larger than anything I've seen before. And I'll get into what this bides for the future. I may also speak about the superdelegates, since I was involved with their creation."

Born in 1935, Ferraro was a teacher, a lawyer and member of the Queens County District Attorney's office prior to


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being elected to the U.S. Congress in 1978, representing New York's 9th District. But it was the presidential campaign of 1984 that thrust her into the national spotlight, when Ferraro was chosen to be Walter Mondale's running mate. The campaign lost in a landslide to Ronald Reagan.
After two failed attempts to gain a seat in the United States Senate, Ferraro was appointed ambassador to the United Nations Committee on Human Rights during the Clinton administration. From 1996 to 1998 she appeared as co-host of the political television show "Crossfire." Currently, Ferraro is a senior managing director of the Global Consulting Group, a corporate public relations firm.

Despite suffering from multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer that limits her energy, Ferraro said she is committed to keeping up an active speaking schedule and doing everything she can to help the Clinton campaign.

"I'm on Hillary's finance committee. I've done a fundraiser for her here at my firm. And I went and worked the phone banks before Super Tuesday. I have to tell you, this is a very emotional campaign for me," Ferraro said.

When the subject turned to Obama, Clinton's rival for the Democratic Party nomination, Ferraro's comments took on a decidedly bitter edge.

"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.

"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." Ferraro does not buy the notion of Obama as the great reconciler.

"I was reading an article that said young Republicans are out there campaigning for Obama because they believe he's going to be able to put an end to partisanship," Ferraro said, clearly annoyed. "Dear God! Anyone that has worked in the Congress knows that for over 200 years this country has had partisanship - that's the way our country is."

As our conversation came to an end, Ferraro said of her upcoming talk in Torrance, "It's going to be very up to date. It's going to be my version of the inside story."

[zabet]

1. She is absolutely right,

poltical correctness aside. If the
media had not feared the racist label
so much, the Obama mania may have never
happened. The media was caught at an
inopportune time with this election
coverage coming on the heels of the Imus
fiasco. Just take a look at GDP, I have
been called racist more times than I can
count and I am anything but. Racism is
out there but there are also those that
search for it with a huge magnifying glass.

[libbygurl]

2. Amen.

Thank goodness for people like G. Ferraro, who are unafraid to speak the truth. Unlike this wimpy media, who can do bandwagon-jumping with Olympian skill, but produce scant journalistic stories other than the lazy, sensationalist 'gotcha' kind.

[rodeodance]

4. The title of the article --is not good. People out there have been tearing her

apart. See thread below.

[rodeodance]

3. There is a long thread out there --here:

Lots of comments--many calling her racist.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5008021&mesg_id=5008021

[libbygurl]

5. Not surprising. That's the first thing they'd say-'RACIST!'

Babies!

[Justyce]

6. Shouting 'racist' over every single thing

the Obama supporters don't like is going to hurt us in the GE if he wins the nomination. Sure wish they could see that.

[UALRBSofL]

11. Justyce, I have tried to explain that to them

But it's like they have this blind faith. Anyway, Ferraro is right in her statements, but, the Obama supporters are slamming Hillary for Ferraro's statements and how it will effect the voting today in Mississippi.

[rodeodance]

7. Here is another thread just starting---*****

Forum Name General Discussion: Primaries
Topic subject Today will be a very bad day for the Hillary camp: the Ferraro story is breaking
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5017732#5017732
5017732, Today will be a very bad day for the Hillary camp: the Ferraro story is breaking
Posted by wndycty on Tue Mar-11-08 08:43 AM

Jake Tapper (ABC) is reporting on it.

Joe Scarborough and Mika just asked Susan Rice about it and she condemned it.

The Clinton camp is distancing itself from the comments.

MSNBC is going to have Clinton surrogate Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Shutlz on to comment about on it (it should be noted she demanded Samantha Powers resignation).

This has yet to break in Black media and when it does there will be a major uproar.

The media probably has not found the YouTube audio (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqL_sm0J8jc ) yet and when it does it will play it in heavy rotation.

Even though we were talking about it yesterday, the majority of the media wasn't and they will want to turn to stir up controversy and that will not be good for camp Clinton.

[LadyVT]

8. Yes, she is stating the truth here.

[Sadie5]

9. Racism has been brought up many times

by the BOers. If they can't make their point any other way then racism is a handy tool.

[susankh4]

10. I am behind Ms. Ferraro on this...

Her candor is one of the benefits of being a "crone." You get to a certain age and you can go ahead and speak your mind.... I look forward to that!