Another lawmaker makes bigotted remarks.....

[zagoshe]

Of course it is funny that Fenian ******* and company haven't stumbled all over themselves to start a thread and bash bigotry and hate speech when it is one of their own.....

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/


Of course, that's different!!! It is just different!!!!

 

[GB-Hack]

No it's not, it's just foofery of the highest order.

The Clinton campaign has decided it's going to drag this thing into the mud. This is just the latest example.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Gerry Ferraro lost her credibility in its entirety a long, long time ago . . .

 

[Ace]

I would condemn whoever is being bigoted if I could only understand that story.

 

[Lugnuts]

It's good to see Obama taking the offensive.

 

[D-Backs Hack]

If Ferraro were a Republican, CNN would be all over it.

 

[Big Chee]

It amazes me how some people came up with the idea that blackness has somehow been beneficial to blacks acquiring power.

Where is their point of reference?

 

[zagoshe]

If she were a white male and a Republican all of the cable news networks would have been slobbering all day about this.

 

[Fudgie the Whale]

It amazes me how some people came up with the idea that blackness has somehow been beneficial to blacks acquiring power.

Where is their point of reference?

You know, it's all those black CEOs, black Senators and black bosses that all of us have had over the years.

If she were a white male and a Republican all of the cable news networks would have been slobbering all day about this.

Yeah, but she's not. So what's your point?

 

[alleyallen]

If this is the direction that Hillary, or her supporters, have gone, it shows just how frightened and desperate they are.

 

[Ashy Larry]

It amazes me how some people came up with the idea that blackness has somehow been beneficial to blacks acquiring power.

Where is their point of reference?

boxing.

 

[Big Chee]

If she were a white male and a Republican all of the cable news networks would have been slobbering all day about this.

I agree

 

[bigpern23]

I find the remark offensive and, obviously, the people at CNN.com at least saw it as offensive enough to warrant a blog entry.

I think the thing that keeps this from being a bigger story than it is being portrayed (right now at least, it could still catch some legs), is that it's the kind of political mudslinging we're used to seeing in a presidential campaign and it's directed solely at the one person. Obama.

The Oklahoma rep called gays (which make up what, roughly 10 percent of the population?) a bigger threat than terrorists. Both are bigoted. Both are offensive. And neither have any place in the political discourse of this country. But surely you can see how one is more inflammatory than the other, right?

 

[alleyallen]

But surely you can see how one is more inflammatory than the other, right?

I can see it. And don't call me Shirley.

 

[Big Chee]

It amazes me how some people came up with the idea that blackness has somehow been beneficial to blacks acquiring power.

Where is their point of reference?

You know, it's all those black CEOs, black Senators and black bosses that all of us have had over the years.

LOL.

Seriously though, I think some people carry a twisted belief of blacks who fought for the god given right of human equality means they've fought for some higher degree of power at the expense of others when doing so.

How else can they justify their off kilter beliefs?

 

[Armchair_QB]

I find the remark offensive and, obviously, the people at CNN.com at least saw it as offensive enough to warrant a blog entry.

I think the thing that keeps this from being a bigger story than it is being portrayed (right now at least, it could still catch some legs), is that it's the kind of political mudslinging we're used to seeing in a presidential campaign and it's directed solely at the one person. Obama.

The Oklahoma rep called gays (which make up what, roughly 10 percent of the population?) a bigger threat than terrorists. Both are bigoted. Both are offensive. And neither have any place in the political discourse of this country. But surely you can see how one is more inflammatory than the other, right?

Geraldine Ferraro, a former VP candidate just said Barack Obama isn't qualified to be president because he's black and you don't think that's a big story? Uh, ok.

 

[alleyallen]

I find the remark offensive and, obviously, the people at CNN.com at least saw it as offensive enough to warrant a blog entry.

I think the thing that keeps this from being a bigger story than it is being portrayed (right now at least, it could still catch some legs), is that it's the kind of political mudslinging we're used to seeing in a presidential campaign and it's directed solely at the one person. Obama.

The Oklahoma rep called gays (which make up what, roughly 10 percent of the population?) a bigger threat than terrorists. Both are bigoted. Both are offensive. And neither have any place in the political discourse of this country. But surely you can see how one is more inflammatory than the other, right?

Geraldine Ferraro, a former VP candidate just said Barack Obama isn't qualified to be president because he's black and you don't think that's a big story? Uh, ok.

Dude, he didn't say he thought it wasn't a big story. Please, read it again.

 

[Big Chee]

I find the remark offensive and, obviously, the people at CNN.com at least saw it as offensive enough to warrant a blog entry.

I think the thing that keeps this from being a bigger story than it is being portrayed (right now at least, it could still catch some legs), is that it's the kind of political mudslinging we're used to seeing in a presidential campaign and it's directed solely at the one person. Obama.

The Oklahoma rep called gays (which make up what, roughly 10 percent of the population?) a bigger threat than terrorists. Both are bigoted. Both are offensive. And neither have any place in the political discourse of this country. But surely you can see how one is more inflammatory than the other, right?

Why are you jockeying one wrongdoing against the other?

What do you get out of that outside of putting one over the other?

 

[zagoshe]

I find the remark offensive and, obviously, the people at CNN.com at least saw it as offensive enough to warrant a blog entry.

I think the thing that keeps this from being a bigger story than it is being portrayed (right now at least, it could still catch some legs), is that it's the kind of political mudslinging we're used to seeing in a presidential campaign and it's directed solely at the one person. Obama.

The Oklahoma rep called gays (which make up what, roughly 10 percent of the population?) a bigger threat than terrorists. Both are bigoted. Both are offensive. And neither have any place in the political discourse of this country. But surely you can see how one is more inflammatory than the other, right?

Oh, I see, so if the rep from Oklahoma referred to, oh I don't know, Barney Frank, as "that Fag congressman from Mass." it would not have been worthy of nearly as big of a stink because she only insulted one homosexual person as opposed to a whole bunch?

All I know is this -- if Trent Lott or Rick Santorum said the only reason Obama is where he is is because he's black -- the pinheads at CNN and MSNBC would have cancelled all programming today and had 24-hour wall-to-wall coverage, complete with cutaways for reaction to every black neighborhood in America.

It is a ridiculous double standard.

But there is no bias in the media.....

 

[Pastor]

I find the remark offensive and, obviously, the people at CNN.com at least saw it as offensive enough to warrant a blog entry.

I think the thing that keeps this from being a bigger story than it is being portrayed (right now at least, it could still catch some legs), is that it's the kind of political mudslinging we're used to seeing in a presidential campaign and it's directed solely at the one person. Obama.

The Oklahoma rep called gays (which make up what, roughly 10 percent of the population?) a bigger threat than terrorists. Both are bigoted. Both are offensive. And neither have any place in the political discourse of this country. But surely you can see how one is more inflammatory than the other, right?

Geraldine Ferraro, a former VP candidate just said Barack Obama isn't qualified to be president because he's black and you don't think that's a big story? Uh, ok.

That isn't what she said at all.

What she actually said was that the man isn't qualified to be president. The only reason he has been able to get this far is because he is black. People are looking over his lack of qualifications solely based on the fact that he is black.

I think her comments are crap, but that is what she is saying.