An associated press story posted 12 minutes ago is titled " Ferraro Remarks on Obama Decried."
Her remarks:
"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position," Geraldine Ferraro told the Daily Breeze of Torrance, Calif., in an interview published Friday. "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."
The team Obama reaction:
"The bottom line is this, when you wink and nod at offensive statements, you're really sending a signal to your supporters that anything goes."
But was the statement "offensive" or untruthful, and more to the point, is this anything that the black press has not already acknowledged?
We will let you make up your own minds, but consider this excerpt form a black Internet site titled "Obama's Success Has Its Limits":
""Obama enjoys his lead in delegates for one main reason: black majority congressional districts. Democrats are proportional so long as losing candidate gets 25% of the vote. But in black majority districts, Obama is winning north of 80%, so he gets them all. He also has big (2 to 1) leads in many low-turnout caucus states.""
Can there be any doubt that Barack Obama will, for example, carry Mississippi because about 70% of registered democrats there are black?
Why can blacks speak openly about what we all know to be true, but not whites?
And since when is the truth so offensive? (Related call to calm down: No, Calling Hillary 'Calculating' Is Not Sexism.)
