Where else but at the Huffington Post would PUMA have made a list of “ten chumps who helped elect Barack Obama?” In compiling his list, Erik Ose manages to smear Geraldine Ferraro and a good many other devoted Clinton supporters:
‘“Geraldine Ferraro - The most prominent member of the Nobama Democrats, she gave credibility to the divisive, time-wasting efforts of pro-Hillary deadenders who clung to PUMA, Just Say No Deal, and other faux-grassroots groups after Obama clinched the nomination. Ferraro was forced to step down from her official role with the Clinton campaign in March after claiming, ‘If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position,’ similar to comments she made in 1988 about an earlier black presidential contender (‘If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race’). She reared her head again in May, quoted by the New York Times as saying she might not vote for Obama in the fall, because ‘I think Obama was terribly sexist.’
“Yet by refusing to cede her role as a Hillary surrogate, and tirelessly fanning the fames of party disunity, she helped keep media attention on the myth that there were legions of disaffected Hillary voters whose allegiance was available for harvest by any candidate in a pantsuit. Without Ferraro's efforts to keep the gender pot stirring, Sarah Palin might not have presented such a tempting opportunity for Team McCain to make a play for women voters.”
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So! I fail to see the point, but maybe this is just my dumbness.
ReplyDeleteAre you unable to visualize the truth? That -- by running the best presidential campaign in history -- Obama is an exceptional presidential candidate, that he won fair and square, and -- and this is most important -- what is done is done -- obama is president and needs our support, especially to overcome numerous problems, especially the nascent racism in america, but also a potentially resurgent rightwing activity, last seen trying to destroy the clinton admin?.
Why am I not surprised that you don't get the point, Ray?
ReplyDeleteit's kinda obvious that we're not on the same page.
ReplyDeletenot sure what you're up to, but if it is something that happened during the election, you better get over it, because history has gone on.
now we're confronted with nascent racism and a potentially resurgent rightwing -- oh, and the fact that 52+ millions voted for obama.
i hope that you want obama to succeed!
Nascent racism? How about full-blown sexism and misogyny that remain unabated post-election? See the depraved readers comments by Obama’s online constituency following any blog post or MSM article on Hillary Clinton as possible secretary of state in the Obama Administration.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, Ray, I realize that since he announced his candidacy, any criticism of Barack Obama is considered racist, but some of us who have fought for equal rights for all people for decades (including Bill and Hillary Clinton) aren’t putting up with that nonsense.
One more thing, a recent nationwide poll showed that had Hillary been the Democratic nominee she would have defeated McCain with a wider margin than Obama's.