""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.""
Monday, March 17, 2008
Ferraro in Context
The news media have been very careful to "disappear" one of the telling comments uttered by Geraldine Ferraro recently to Jim Farber of The Daily Breeze. And that has to do with the way the press has been uniquely hard on Senator Clinton. Considering the context, this adds a bit of a different take as to the point Ferraro was attempting to make. Indeed, compare the treatment of Obama by the media to that of Clinton - and it's apparent that there is something unique in the way they go after her, but give him a free ride. I have to agree that there is a lot of truth in what Ferraro had to say.
