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i am so tired of hearning about rev. Wright. is this what american is about.. why we cant get on with something more important. American people are acting like a bunch of kids , if you dont wont Obama to be the President just come out and say it and stop all the what ever you wont to call it. most of you know that what its all about.

These darn baby boomers, they just don't get it. What she said implied race, he did not compare her to Reverend Wright. He called her out on it.
Get over it, you're racist, you're a feminist and a racist just like a lot of folks. You can't understand race until you see that things you say and imply are racist and divisive.

How can white America say Obama is a racist when he has a white mother. Obama have no control over what his former pastor speak on. Those statements was made by Rev. Wright not Obama.
The Media has taken this out of context. I will continue to support Obama. Why is everyone coming down on Sen. Obama for someone else's view of the world. Those was not his beliefs.
This is just another way for his non-supporters to bring a cloud over his head..
Go Obama!!!!!!!!!!

Beat up white people ... HE NEVER SAID THAT?!?!?!?!

Reverend Wright was speaking in Tongues and Ferraro was speaking tongue in cheek others have also played the game. What's the difference? I think it is dangerous to the fabric of the American nation. It generates hate and hostility. Somethings in this world are sacred and they shouldn't be messed with.

Someone please start ordering pizza's and Meals-on-Wheels for Ms. Ferraro. (Can't believe I supported her way back then...) Push her chair back to the window overlooking the pretty flowers, please. As Jon Stewart said, "finally we have a politician deliver a mature speech on race relations"... Go B.H.O.!

I personally feel that her comments were much more racist than the reverend. He said that Hillary Clinton does not know how it is to be black, which seems to be true. Ferraro, on the other hand, said that Obama would not have been able to put up such a fight for the presidential nomination if it was not for his race. Considering that there have been other African American men that have attempted to run for president quite unsuccessfully, it seems that this can not possibly be the only reason for his success. Especially since he has the support of many young white voters, such as myself, that find his ideals much more important than his race.

I just turned off CNN as Campbell Brown and CNN continue to stoke the Wright issue for ratings. There is no NEWS here. The issue is over. It was sickening to watch Campbell Brown, the very night after Obama spoke, grilling Donna Brazille to try to get her to move beyond Obama's eloquence and truth. Campbell asked – who was Obama speaking to (Blacks, Whites?). Brazille said he was speaking to America. Campbell was so disappointed in the answer – no divison there to exploit.

This election is about one thing and one thing only – unity or division. If we want four more years of 50+1 where we get nothing solved validate what Hate radio is saying. Play into the division – it makes money afterall. If don't want that, if your McCain, Obama or Clinton supporter, talk about the issues.

Geraldine's right. That's all there is to it.

What now, Gerri?? Obama is lying about his grandmother?? And we're supposed to believe YOU, instead?? will you please go away now??

Rev. Wright is a good man who made a mistake. He has done so much good for churches and church members throughout the USA. He was trying to explain a powerful viewpoint that was provocative in nature. If American would listen to the entire sermon they would understand the context. Everyone one I have heard said they had not listened to the entire sermon just the clips, which does nothing but what the Republicans you to hear. Rev. Wright does not hate America. Obama does not hate America. Both do not agree with the Bush Policies. Obama is a sincere man with his own views and many have sat in the church and not agreed with Rev. Wright just like any like any other minister or teacher.

Overall, he is a great minister. What the Democrats and Independent voters are missing is that this was a Right Wing Republican Strategy to sway you. I am glad it works because at least we know how you really feel about OBAMA. You were never with OBAMA and quickly jumped ship. It is just that simple. Obama can pull this country together. It is my personal belief that America does not want to grow or change. When any relationship whether it is business or personal run into conflict demonstrate a positive sign of growth. I believe OBAMA will help the country worldwide if given the chance to move forward with issues on the economy, education, and the Iraq war. He did not want to focus on race but the Media kept delivering polls in racial turns instead of issues. In 2000 and in 2004, the media did not focus on race but issues. This alone will tell you the agenda was to talk about race, which makes America uncomfortable. Democrats must have some backbone and strength. That is why republicans have always seen Democrats as wimps because they don't stick together through thick and thin or support Democrats. They simply run. The Independents are Independents because they like neither group but like to have an easy out when the tough gets going. Obama is intelligent and forward thinking. Clinton and Micatin are the past. It is time for the country to turn the page and move forward with new ideas and new leaders. If I were eighteen years old I would vote for Obama. If I were 25 I would vote for Obama. If I were 35 or 50 I would vote for OBAMA. So if you want to put on blind lens and vote for the Clintons or McCain. It is American and you can do that. That is how Bush got into office twice. So make your choice and take the safe route. Each of us will have to live with that vote just like those folks who voted for Bush and now look were we are today. Bush can be remembered for: American is now bankrupted socially, economically and financially.

Ferraro, I can see why twenty years ago you said "Jesse Jackson was where he was because he was a black man" it hard to say nice things when you look like the "CRYPT KEEPER". GET A LIFE, MAYBE SOME FRIENDS AND YOU'LL FEEL BETTER.

NOW I GET HOW SHE DID NOT BECOME VP WHEN SHE RAN. SHE JUST DOES NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT THINGS MEAN WHEN SHE SAYS THEM (HER STATEMENT) OR WHEN THEY ARE SAID BY OTHERS (OBAMA'S SPEECH). IT'S TRULY PATHETIC. YET WE WONDER WHY THE REST OF THE WORLD LAUGHS AT US!

Oh look Ferarro just like Clinton playing the "VICTIM" ohh – please spare us. Lets take this one step further – Imagine a President who plays the Victim on a Global Scale – Im even more for Obama – and am donating more each day in $ and encouraging people to vote and educating them on the FACTS!

Id also like to add – please tell Campbell Brown that if she keeps up the Obama bashing and questioning she should do the same with Hilary. After all Hilary hasnt come on ANY TV program ANYWHERE! How about having her come out and Play!? If Campbell cant get Hilary to come out – she should knock off the rhetoric toward disecting Obama – its not fair – after all its just skin color. The man is 1/2 white 1/2 black – best of both world as far as Im concerned.

Whats remarkable here is that Obama (white MOther, black father from Kenya) has to heal the wounds of this country – just crazy. The man has more character than the entire bunch in Washington DC will ever have.

As a person who went to college in a third world country, before moving to america, I'm very amazed how Ferraro and the so many called political pundits especially on Fox News could not do an analysis of Obama's speech, better than a 5th grader...this in itself is a bad testimony about American education...any well educated person will tell you in the context, Obama's mention of Ferraro, was not lumping her together with Rev. Wright...but was in reference to the emerging trend where people are afraid of facing the really issues in these primary elections, hence they are jumping at anything said by any official from any of the three camps and running with it for cheap political mileage...he was simply asking us ALL to refrain from such unproductive political games by either being frank and addressing the issue of race or just dealing with the issues that are facing Americans...there is no one out there with good American education, who could see things this way?

Why is this in the "news"? This woman has managed to make a total fool of herself enough times already in the past couple of weeks. Does she crave the spotlight so much?

This is to say a little about what I think about all the people that talk concerning Mr Obama and his speech and yes his not telling his pastor off as everyone seems to think he should have done. I wonder how many would have done what Mr. Obama did . It is much easier to say things than do them. I am wondering why people are not looking at themselves as they should be. Maybe it is time to stop arguing about his Pastor it isn't the Pastor that's going for President. All this talk and these arguments just show us how everybody is in this Country, we are not able to accept the other person's ideas all we can do is bring down , this is being coward and cheap in my opinion. Whatever Mr. Obama does or says will never be right and I still wonder if he should try to change what people think, it seems impossible , but I still have high hopes!!!!

Geraldine Ferraro has no credibility anymore and her ignorance is compounded by the fact that she missed the point. She needs to retire and take Hillary Rodham Clinton with her. I can't believe I supported and respected her at any point. Ferraro really is ignorant and an awful white liberal who believes she is progressive on race but only in her own mind. How disappointing. Initially I was hopeful after Mr Obama's speech but now I see fear and complaceny means it is unlikely to have an conversation.

Ferraro just proved her point. Everything she said was true. You cant say anything in this FREE country without being called a racist. It is reverse discrimination and racism at its best. If Mr. Obama resume was attached to someone else, the public wouldnt have given him the time of day in consideration for the presidency. I will be voting for the most qualifed and experienced person for the job...not a celebrity.

No, you're worse.

Obama 08

Wright spoke out of anger, Ferrero spoke out of racism, They were both wrong, Now Clinton and Ferraro are still friends. Ferraro said she would continue to raise money for Clinton. How come this was played down.

She seems disconnected from reality, and that explains why her short sighted views are only unique to her ill-pattern of thought! She said she was surprised. Of course, she's surprised almost with every event in life. She's so surprised to see a sharp decline in the number of the remaining volatile and corrosive racists like her. As far as she remembers, no one questioned you if you act racist. She made thesame kind of comments years ago, but acording to her own myopic view, the world is "standing sill...things are still thesame..nothing has changed.." she thought! Even after being shown that its not acceptable to say stuff like that!

I think she needs medical attention! Period.

And the fact that she's from the Clinton campaign just explains it all!

Please just get out of sight!

I totally 100% agree with Mrs. Ferraro. What she was referring to has nothing to do with Obama and his reverend. She is not racist and never meant anything to be racist whereas The Reverand is a racist as is the church he represented and Obama needs to deal with his own reasoning of sitting for 20 years in a pew and other activities listening to this here and there.
That is what is wrong. He is trying to say that the average white is racist and he is wrong to even say this statement.

OBAMA'S MISNISTER'S VIEWS ARE EXTREME BUT WHEN IN ANY OF THE CLIPS THE MEDIA PLAYED ENDLESSSLY DID HE SAY HE HATED WHITES, THAT WHITES WERE EVIL, THAT HE ASKED HIS CONGREGATION TO HATE OR SPEAL ILL OF WHITES???

THIS MAN VOICED POLITAL VIEWS. HILLARY HAS NEVER BEEN CALLED THE "N" WOOD, AS A COUNTRY WE AHTED ABROAD. PEOPLE WANT TO DO GREAT HARM TO US. TUSKEGEE EXPERIMENT DID HAPPEN...BLACKS WERE LIED TO AN INJECTED WITH SYPHLLIS SO IT'S EASY FOR THEM TO FEEL THAT MAYBE AIDS STARTED THAT WAY. COPS GUN DOWN BLACK MEN IN THE DOOR WAYS OF THEIR HOMES. THEY ARE PROFILED INCESSANTLY. THE ANGER AND FRUSTRATIONS ARE REAL BUT TO TAKE IT OUT ON OBAMA IS NOT FAIR. I'M WHITE AND UNDECIDED AND HOPE OBAMA'S SPEECH CAUSES PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SEE A BETTER AMERICA LOOK AT THEIR ROLE. I READ ALL THE HATE THAT IS SPEWED IN THESE COMMENTS ALL THE TIME AND IT'S NO DIFFERENT THAN WRIGHT'S. PEOPLE ACTUALLY POST THAT THEY HATE OBAMA EVEN BEFORE ALL THIS. SO WHAT WAS THE REASON THEN. WRIGHT NEVER SAID HE HATED.

Listen CNN, just stop reporting on this poor lady.

She looks stupid. Her reputation is tarnished. Please give her a much needed rest.

She is right about this one

It is oblivious this woman is a surrogate for Hillary. What Ferarro no one was talking about you anymore. Go away....your 5 minutes of fame is gone....

She is so out of touch with reality right now. Her last comment proves it all? It makes completely no sense. She might as well have said "Oh and to add that, chicken noodle soup!"

What the heck is that suppose to mean?

Can Ferraro do anything except get angry? That's the only emotion we ever hear from her about anything. It's time to wake up to present possibilities and stop dwelling on indignities suffered during the late 20th century. HRC as president seems to be the restitution all the Ferraros are demanding. Sorry it's over. We can't afford that.

Ferraro trolls for faux-sympathy.

(At what point did he say her comments were any better or worse than Wright's? I'm pretty sure he said they're BOTH wrong.)

""To equate what I said with what this racist bigot has said from the pulpit is unbelievable,"

Racist bigot?

Wright is a bitter old man who is the victim of white racism - REAL racism, like with dogs and firehoses and Jim Crow.

Ferraro is a typical bigot Northeast catholic (I know the type, since I'm a NE catholic) who resents blacks.

Ferraro is FAR WORSE in my opinion.

I feel sorry for Wright. I wish Ferraro would just shut up.

The remarks of Geraldine Ferraro and Jeremiah Wright need to be taken in their individual and societal context.

She is an acomplished and intelligent white woman, and expressed her bigotry in quiet, soothing, style typical of the restrained tone used in white society.

He is an acomplished and intelligent black man, and expressed his bigotry in loud, abrasive, style typical of the emotional tone used in black churches.

Quiet, loud, soothing, abrasive, restrained, emotional. Both expressed thier bigotry in the style they see as somehow making their statements into something which is not bigotry. They are both wrong.

We need a president who can see this from both sides, who will not fall into this trap, and can lead all of us out of the mess we are in. I think Barack can do that for us – for all of us.

Read his convocation given on September 28, 2007 at Howard University, and you will see what I mean. You can hear both voices talking, but despite the temptation to do so, there is no slide into bigotry.

obama can say on national radio that his grandmother is a typical white person and his pastor can preach racist and hateful remarks......but bill can't say fairy tale and geraldine can't point out that obama is in the position he is because he is black. if you are racist and are white you are racist . if you are racist and black you are a racist the media needs to stop just justifying one campains racist remarks and condeming the other.

POOR THING, SHE A 70 YEAR OLD WHITE WOMAN WHO HAS NEVER HEARD WORSE.....WAS THERE NO TV IN THE 50'S AND 60'S WHEN BLACKS WERE BEATEN AND ATTACKED BY DOGS AT THE HANDS OF POLICE NO LESS. EVEN BAY BUCANNON GAVE HIM PRAISE ON THE SPEECH. YOU'RE JUST A SAD,PATHETIC,DISILLUSIONED OLD LADY. I FEEL SORRY THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE THE EXPERIENCE THAT SHOULD COME WITH YOUR AGE.

I officially believe CNN has stooped to a new low. Is this really newsworthy? If so how did you guys manage to miss reporting on the story of Bill Clinton and Rev. Wright hanging out together at the White House in 1998? Why havent you talked about Gov. Rendell's and Bill Clinton's support of Farrakahn in the late 90's. Report the news CNN, stop dictating it. Didnt your state of Georgia where you are located at already vote?!?!

Ferraro is not very smart: Barack did not compare her to Rev. Wright. She compared the reaction to her comments to the reaction to Rev. Wright's comments.

She presumably is better at reading English than she lets on. Let's hope.

what i can't believe is that she is stating that he mother's generation has used racial remarks...her refusal to even acknowledge this demonstrates her bias towards hillary clinton and her not wanting to applaud Obama's non-partisan speech on race... Obama wasn't comparing her to Rev. Wright...he was just saying that everyone needs to cool the flames, and take a step back... from wha i've heard people say he was actually defending her...

Its obvious Barack Obama is being picked on, and its so unfortunate. Right when you think this country is changing for the better *pow* reality slams the door. Do caucasions understand that they say things to offend different races everyday? Why is it when a caucasion is offended its world news? I am offended evrytime they call obam Black. He's African American (caucasion mother/african father). But just to wrap into a color Black?? That is very offensive. Will that be world news? Probably not. Why don't you see the Media, expecially FOX news is feeding race flames with the one sided race rage. Take a poll on how blacks in america feel about you label Barack as a black man. Call him a white man and see the reaction you get, his mom is white...He is hjust as much WHITE as he is BLACK....

I would say that Obama mentioning Ferraro was to forgive her, not to make equation signs. She has been listening too much to Karl Rove. Come to think of it, she thinks in many ways too much like Karl Rove.

My grandparents' generation made many racial comments, and used racial slurs in front of us children...and I am about the same age as Obama. I don't find that hard to believe at all. And like Obama said, I did not hate my grandfather because he made racial statements. I didn't like that part of him, but I loved the rest of him and to me, that was the more important part. Obama is both white and black, and therefore any statement against black people by his grandmother or white people by his minister would be offensive – yet he obviously saw something more, something worth loving, in both people. That's what makes Obama different from his minister – Obama knows how to forgive, and how to love, how to transcend hatred and try to forge bridges rather than force division. That's what this world NEEDS right now...someone who can lead us away from hatred. Someone who can bring the country together and bring the world together. We have enough hate.

Ms. Ferraro you are correct you are no Rev. Wright. The reality is, you are not honest as Rev Wright was and nothing that was spoken from Rev. Wright was racist. I've listen to that sermon in its entirety. I would suggest that if you are going to make a comparison, please equip yourself with the facts. When Rev. Wright (Right) said what he did about America he did not lie. God is not just the God of America! Please understand that. God is a JUST God and the bible speaks to exactly what Rev. Wright was saying. Listen, and analyze with and open mind you may just learn something.

Is she retarded??? Did she not grasp that Obama was trying to separate her from Rev. Wright's level of divisive comments? This explains why she spent 4 days trying to spin her silly comments while only verifying she was really being racist the whole time. She should have stopped with the 1st comment about Obama, but she is dug deeper into a Pat Buchanan/O'Reilly/Sean Hannity level of bigotry--which Obama correctly called out as categorizing his campaign as "some sort of affirmative action exercise".

Right on Sister!

Hillary 2008!

Who let her escape from the old folks home? They need to come and pick her back up, bingo starts at 3PM. How could an old washed up wanna be vice-president know what is relevant today, go away no one wants your opinion.

The fossil is back. Please sweep her back into her cave. CNN, why don't you give this crap a break. I can barely affford the gas to drive to work. The cost of food is sky rocketing, and jobs have dried up! I am so ashamed that the world continues to see how messed up our society truly is.

Ferraro – go away!!!!

I don't have a problem with what Rev. Wright said because he was not lying about America. He was not preaching hate, he was telling the truth. I am a 34 year Black woman and I've had to endure white people calling me and people I know the "N" word. We've been followed around department stores like we were thieves, we've all been turned away from some jobs because of the color of our skin. One of my cousins went to and graduated from SMU, and she had to deal with racist people on campus. I can't believe that whites are offended by what Rev. Wright said. They haven't had to endure the pain or experience the struggles black people have been, and are still going through. We can have A-plus credit and can't get a loan. In the state of Texas we still can't live in certain neighborhoods because we will get a cross burned in our yards, hit in the face with two-by-fours, have dogs attack us, and get our garages spray painted with racial slurs, and to top it off, have the police tell us to get over it. They haven't had their loved ones stopped by the police because they were "black". They haven't had someone in their family gunned down by the police because they were "black". They haven't had somone in their family lynched because of the color of their skin. What he said is real! I personally feel that "white" America cares about my race when it comes to votes for elections and money for taxes, but other than that, they don't!

she should just stop talking and go away. Nothing she has to say is of interest to a much more evolved society.

I find it difficult to believe Ms. Ferraro cannot believe her remarks can reasonably be equated to what Jeremiah Wright said. They were equally offensive. The minister spoke in anger but at least much of what he said could, by a reasoning person, be seen to have the ring of truth in much of his comment. We must seek to understand anothers point of view. If anyone of us had suffered the prejudice and sanctioned bigotry present in this country for generations how could we not harbor resentment and anger and lash out at the injustice? My mother is from the same generation as Ms Ferraro's and yes I have heard the terms she professes not to have heard. I still here it today in certain parts of this country. Jermiah Wright doesn't speak for Senator Obama. Just as Geraldine Ferraro doesn't speak for Hillary Clinton. Can we all move on to important matters and leave this nonsense in the dust bin?

"In the interview Wednesday, Ferraro said she had 'no clue' why Obama referenced her in the speech. She also expressed surprise the Illinois senator said he had heard his white grandmother utter racist remarks.

'I could not believe that," she said. "That's my mother's generation.'"

LOL, "No Clue"? I'll give a few: Jim Crow Laws; public and televised beatings of women, children, and men by public officials for sitting in restaurants owned by people somehow offended by their shades of skin; lynchings . . . I guess she thought that MLK's dream and Rosa Park's determination were "moot" by that time. What the hell were they thinking? Freedom had already rung from the Birmingham jail in which MLK sat all the way to the seat that Rosa Parks refused to rise from.

I suggest she pick up a modern textbook. Or perhaps if American history books dedicated just a little more than a column on a page to "African" American history, that information would be more readily accessible. Then again, that's just an excuse for my generation – I'm 23 – I'm sure Ferraro had access to first-hand accounts. . . Oh, never mind. . . I forgot. By the time her mother and Barack's grandmother's generation was born, that had been a thing of the past, such that even the use of racially offensive language was no longer.

My grandmother has made racist remarks and she lived in that era. The more I listen to that woman, the more I feel like a moron for paying attention to her. Enough already.

One America !!!!

thats right MRS.FERRARO rev.wright is a hate monger, your just saying it like it is.ready too have the gop 4 another 8 years if you all go with the biggest lie OBAMA 08!!!!!!!!!

I think some of you guys who are calling Geraldine Ferraro a racist should read this part of the same speech that Obama gave: "To wish away the resentments of white Americans, to label them as misguided or even racist, without recognizing they are grounded in legitimate concerns – this too widens the racial divide, and blocks the path to understanding."

Ferraro needs to sit down and take care of herself. She looks awful. Is she well?

I see we have made a CHOICE to continue race talk instead of talking about who should be our next President. Well, I DON"T WANT TO BE DISTRACTED BY FAKE RACE DISCUSSIONS. I want to talk about who should be our next president.

STOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!!!!!!!! BEFORE AMERICA DIES AT IT"S OWN HANDS.

Geraldine Ferraro expressed surprise that there were white females from her mother's generation who were racist?! Seriously? She seriously said that?!

I am trying my best to give you the benefit of the doubt, Ms. Ferraro. You were part of my dreams for an America where we could put aside gender differences and elect you to the second highest office in the land. I supported you then but I just can't understand how you came to be so completely out of touch.

I did some research and the only thing I can find that makes sense of your complete disconnect from reality and your apparent inability to stop talking before you've had the chance to say something even more outrageous, insulting and ignorant than last time is this from the "Bizarro" entry in Wikipedia:

". . .several versions of Bizarro have appeared. . .all of them inversions of Superman. . .with gray or chalk-white skin, a twisted sense of logic which typically manifests as a superficial 'opposite' of anything Superman would do or say and a resultant speech pattern ('I am going to kill you' would mean 'I will save you' in Bizarro speech). Due to . . .imperfections, Bizarro is frequently a foe of Superman. . ."

Here is the saddest part, Ms. Ferraro: You occupy the dead center of Hillary Clinton's electoral demographic. And this is why she will lose.

I guess its hard to swallow-too late damage was done but you know what, campaign is not about all these petty issues-IT IS ABOUT FIXING THE ECONOMY, PUTTING AN END TO THESE WARS AND MAKING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SAFE. THESE ARE THE PRIORITIES. LOOK FOR ANOTHERr VOLUNTEER JOB.'

ughhhh...go away!

Once again America feels the need to pile it on. Has anyone really disected Ms. ferraro's remarks? I read into it truth. What she completely failed to do is explain why Senator Obama has that position. He worked hard, worked thru problems and distractions, kept a positive message throughout this campaign to get where he is and turned his uniqueness into celebrity. If he were white...(see Biden, Edwards, Dodd)...If he were a woman (look into the mirror Hillary)...hmm, maybe Ferraro is correct. It was a very point of fact statement she uttered, and she should be getting credit for her insight and points for her bravery. Not condemnation. Her failure is her alignment with the Clinton campaign-the former "Black Presidents," and the media's insatiable lust to cover any statement and turn it into a gaffe. By the way from his perspective, Reverend Wright's comments weren't totally wrong either. Criticize both for poor adjectives, not for poor reasoning. Your opinion may not be what reality is. Grow some thicker skin America and start trying to understand and learn from different opinions instead of whining about them. Together we can be stronger.

She's absolutely right.
Obama was gracious in defending Wright as not all bad, but to compare Ferraro's one off-hand statement with Wright's lifetime of hate-mongering was absurd. And to compare his Grandmother to Wright was indefensible

This is sad that we have to go back too this. She might as well run for president sense she wants to be in the spot light. I really dont care what some ones rev. said speak of the issues ppl

People just don't like truth – they can't handle the truth – Ferraro said something true in a way that was not politically correct. Obama is lucky to be where he is right now – what has he done to deserve a presidential nomination – absolutely nothing.

Who would want to be lumped in the same category as Jeremiah Wright? I understand why she would be upset about that!
And remember, Ferraro is not Clinton's spiritual leader and Hillary does not go to her to seek counsel when she makes major decisions.

no, comment – can't see arguing with the idiots above me.

My Comment needs no moderation. Neither does Ferraro's comment.

This is borderline ridiculous, she is wrong on so many counts. Another distractions from what is truly important.

Ferraro is nothing like Wright...she made a valid observation. She did not advocate hate in her speeches like Wright did.

Obama made poor judgement in listening and supporting Wright for the past 20 years. Is this the kind of [non] judgement we want in our commander in chief.

Scary if Obama wins the nomination.

This whole issue about race and racism is so explosive, I don't think anybody wins. Seriously, no one wins by pointing fingers. The voters do not deserve to focus on the issue of racism. We should move to alter the discourse to make the Media focus on the issues that matter most, like the issues that the candidates discuss at Town Hall meetings.

This is totally out of hand... We might as well just admit defeat as Dems now if this is where this is headed.

Truth hurts.... If any other candidate would have run for President with the pathetic resume Obama has ... they would not be in the race at this point ...

Geraldine was right...

Hagel is right we DO need a new political party!! You Obama folks are just down right ugly in your comments, manners – the list goes on. Yuk!!!

Boy, this woman is out to lunch.

A lady that will not let the mainstream media dictate what she can say....Words,,,Just Words.....

Good for you Ferrara,
Obama is a good man but he was reaching when he compared her remarks to Rev. Wright. There is no comparison. As a Catholic and minority I too heard angry words from my priest against the war and the injustice of immigrants but again, there is no comparison to the anger displayed by Rev. Wright.

She's back?? Now I am totally convinced that her remarks and subsequent behaviour is all a part of Hillary's conscious efforts to use subconscious bias to her advantage. Stop with the White woman in distress ploy, already! It's shameful and actually turning progressive thinking women against Hillary!

Could this be another attempt to continue the story and continue to try to hurt Obama's campaign? Remember, it is not about the people, it's about winning. I know that if Clinton wins or is given the nomination, I will vote but it will be the first time not for a democratic nominee.

Geraldine, your ill-advised statement doesn't make you a racist, just like Obama said in his speech. Now, go sit down somewhere. Your 15 minutes of fame is over! You may not be a racist but you sure are becoming annoying. Give it a rest, lady.

so I suppose remarks made by Pat Robertson and Jerry Farwell are ok? They even have there own TV shows, but it's ok that children listen to them, right? They have been "spewing" hatred for years and provided support and money to numerous presidents over the years, but that's ok?...we'll overlook them?

Wow,
So now that Obama is moving on from this unfair media creation of a story, the clinton supporters are doing their darndest to keep it in the news and CNN Is falling all over itself to oblige them.

It's funny how there used to be responsible standards for journalism. These days it seems that those who deliver the most extreme opinions, right or wrong, control the coverage.

He NEVER said it was okay to "beat up on white people". In fact he message was just the opposite. This lady is a piece of work.

Let's put this behind us and go forward with more pressing issues. Obama made a fabulous speach, from his heart and based on his experiences. That is more than most politicians do and it was a courageous thing to do but now it's over and we need to move forward. We also need to start trying to unite the democratic party instead of pulling it apart.

She's right – when she says that she doesn't have a clue. She can't believe racism from her mother's generation? What kind of nonsense is that?

It seems CNN and other media need some news to carry. I can advise them that they are so many news in the US about foreclosure, job losses and increase in unemployment filling instead of putting up sound bites from Geraldine.

Clinton News Network (CNN) can get over it, and move on to something we care about....we dont care about these sound bites.

Please vanish, we are very tired of you

Geraldine – Yay to you for still telling it like it is, and not how they wanna pretend it is. You GO, girl, and don't stop!

Ferraro is Right. Obama is Wrong!

You are absolutely correct Geraldine. He even through his Grandmother under the car to be elected. He's the one who will do anything. Wake up America!

The last sentence of this article is baffling. Is the woman senile?

Very angry person.

L-O-S-E-R

Truly unbelievable. The hole she's digging keeps getting deeper and deeper.

I truly wish Ferraro – and many others – would listen more carefully to Obama's speech before leaping to verbal (and keyboard) action. It is really tiresome that so many readers and listeners seem to have the attention span of one sound byte, and fly off the handle to generate scandal and gossip, without reviewing the whole context.

In this speech, Obama was clearly dismissing the activities of those who condemn Wright and Ferraro for small sound bytes taken out of context. He was not condemning Ferraro at all. He was showing how his own supporters can make this mistake as well as others can.

I also wish that we could have access to the 30 years of Pastor Wright's preaching to judge for ourselves where these 30 seconds of bad-mouthing fit in a lifetime of preaching. I for one am going to seek out Pastor Wrights books of sermons, just as I did Obama's books after I first heard him speek after Iowa.

Go away, you're old news. Stop attempting to spotlight yourself.

Ferraro, forget about Obama. He is not worthing mentioning. He has been sitting 20 years in a church with an anti-America pastor. When Americans question him, he plays political spin and talk about race and make American agree with him. Obama thought Americans are blined fools.

Use your brain not emotion, Obama supporters!

GF is on the money with what she said above

Good for her – She will not be shamed or verbally

Re the beat up – next post – but that one may not get through

GF you have the first amendment right – and all of your political career on your side as you defend yourself (albeit your earlier comments were crudely worded)

Good for you Ferraro!!

why is anyone even giving this woman a voice? i wish there were a charge or penalty for being stupid

Were ALL of the above comments from the Obama camp?

Sure looks like a planned effort.

Whatever!!! Oh now your the victim... Shut up!!

Wow, both Ferraro and Wright are not helping, they need to get lost

I think she is WORSE!!!!!!!!!!!

I actually agree with this uselesss once-wanta-have-been............... Guess that makes me a racist too.

I'll never ever vote for Democratic party, in fact if Hillary is the nominee I'll definitaly vote for McCain, I supported Hillary until the "super Tuesday" but when she start playing unfair game I switched to Obama.

Fine CNN if you don't want to post my comment. Go head and post the ones filled with rage and hate. My goodness.

This is sad....stop it! Put a sock in it.

GOOD FOR HER!

People should be so courageous as to call a spade when they see one.

No she no Jeremiah Wright because she should have know better and even taken a more higher approach. I don' t know why these folks even get media attention or air time.

Please just go away and solve some real issues in this country.

ferraro or what ever your name is .What point are you trying to prove

She is definetly seeing and hearing things that are just not there. Geraldine is still in denial that she, herself is racist.

Oh We all know ..you are a Clinton supporter and you talk sensless sometimes...just like Hillary

Your Right..OBAMA is WRONG

Wright is wrong and Ferraro's comments are no where near as bad as that hate spewing so-called preacher. Obama has less experience than my 3 year old at anything that is important and needed for running our country.

McCain in 08

Who cares what Ferraro has to say. This is the same idiot who couldn't even win her own district when she ran on the ticket with Mondale in '84. In fact they lost 49 out of 50 states. She is just as useless now as she was then.

Geraldine Ferraro, go away you wrinkled up old income tax crook!

The Obama campaign and the media is disgusting to compare her with Wright.

Mr Wright's words and body language are DISGUSTING!

It's amazing that some people aren't aware when enough is enough. Geraldine just admit that you were wrong & move forward. I guess that's too much like right!!! Repeat after me.... YES WE CAN!!!

We need to ask ourselves if Senator's Clinton pastor used such language and if Senator Clinton appointed him to her campaign would the media and the American people be so understanding! I very much doubt it.

Geraldine Ferraro is an honest, upright citizen of the United States who has served her country as a congress woman and candidate for Vice-President of the United States. So this is directed to Obama and his supporters: To compare her and her statements to that of the hate mongering preacher is ludicrous.

Ferraro obviously missed the point of the speech. She only cares about herself.

You tell'em Gerry! I'm so glad this has come out now!

Can't wait till the other tapes show up and Obama twitches.

Why are all the posts Obama supporters. Rev Wright is 100% worse than Ferraro. This kind of talk does not belong in Church and everything is not white people's fault.

Wow. What a clueless bonehead.

Fantasy land, the pastor only said what was true and so did Ferraro. Hate speak ain't just what ya don't want to hear.

CNN is a disgraceful network. Fox news is becoming more credible than you guys. What's next? Hire Sean Hannity?

Rev. Wright, Sharpton, Jackson – all of them are stuck in the 1960's. They are the ones that like using the race card all of the time, stirring up the crowds, just like the 60's, fun times. It is financially to their benefit to do so, otherwise what else do they have to offer anyone. Open your eyes.

All Ferraro has done is ensured that I will never vote for a Democrat if Obama doesn't win. Of course, since Hillary is a Republican now, I guess that choice will be made for all of us if she gets her way.

She is absolutely ridiculous. You'd have to be patently stupid to be unable to realize the point Obama was making.

Judging from the obvious spin of her comments, it's rather obvious that she never really left the Clinton campaign after all.

Some people apparently cannot read. I am sick of this campaign. At one point, it actually seemed that we might have a decent battle between two good candidates. Remember the enthusiasm?? No more. And sorry to say, Hillary Clinton started it all, with help from hubby, because she can't stand the thought that she might lose. Well, she might get the nomination in the end, but what about November? Talk about a phyrric victory.

You tell 'em Geraldine! Wright is a racist bigot preaching hate from the pulpit. GO HILLARY!!!!

Geraldine Ferraro has every right to stand up for herself.
Obama should not have put her or his grandmother in the
speech at all.
It was just another way to insult people for his benifit

Yeah for Ms Ferraro speaking up, not being afraid to go against Barack!

Mr Obama plays the race card more than the Clintons and he can because he is black and white. I agree with Ms Ferraro's comments, but I don't agree that Rev Wright's comments–and i further think that Barack showed very poor judgement in his close relationship with this pastor.

Clinton should leave or concede because of a 1% difference in delegates? No way-she doesn't know the word "quit" and that is why she will be the democratic nominee.

American's are intelligent & this "poor judgement issue" may cost him this election...

good for you Geralldine, hats off to you for telling it like it is. I have never seen so many thin skinned people be so nasty and being blinded by smooth talk. What messed up generation that believes only what they want to hear!

Unfortunately – "Telling it like it is" is not the thing to do when discussing Obama. Upsets too many people who can't "handle the truth!"

I think a bigot is a bigot and hatred is hatred. It does not matter to what degree.

Ms Ferraro was right then... and shes right now... No-Bama camp seems busy in Hillarry Hatred response on this post...
Put same effort to understand "why should you elect such hate-preaching president"..????

good grief

Ferraro is right about ONE thing: she has "no clue"

I would think it pretty self evident that she is a bitter, nasty person. Why must she continue to convince me that winning is the only thing that matters to the Clinton camp?

Please tell me one official Obama supporter that called Ms. Ferraro racist.

The campaign official statement and every surrogate said what she said is ridiculous and it is. They said the Clinton team has a pattern of personal attacks and they do!

Prove it that his campaign or surrogates called anyone a racist.

Geraldine is a good example of what's wrong with the Democratic Party.

Her arrogance and insistance that there is only one way to take her comments is a narrow-mindend view point that pervades the Dem. party.

What! Hillary started her healthcare efforts fifteen years ago and has not accomplised or made any progress? Talk about slow and ineffective Lord we will all be dead before she figures it out if EVER she does.

Obama .Go find yourself a church and become a preacher. You will make a better preacher. You already had twenty yrs. experience.You are not qualified to be a leader of our country.Are country is in bad enough shape as it is.We dont need you to make it worst. With your smooth talking and firey ways,you could take up where Wright got off.If not iam sure you could open up your own church with Rezko and make your uncle Jeremiah proud. America needs a real leader.Go HRC.

It is a shame that our country has come to what it has. All the racial things about Obama, Clintons husband and the bad moral standards that he represented in the white house, and McCain. he shows no enthusiasm what so ever. I take this to be because he was a POW, but what is our country coming to. We really have no one to choose from in this election. Alot of people really look up to Hillary because she stood by her man. She enabled him to be and do morally wrong and act indecent. Our governors, senators, and presidents have no morals, so what makes them think they can run our nation? Bill Clinton is no better than a child predator, he just happened to choose women, and that makes it okey. And our children are suppose to learn from this and have them to look up to, I think not

Perhaps Geraldine is hoping for a Clinton/Ferraro ticket in the fall

Give it a break , you already had your hay-day in politics.

Come on Ferraro you are completely misreading what he said, the point was that we need to stop jumping all over these gaffes and reading more into them than is there. My God you should be thankful that he came in and tried to restore your good name!!

First Rule of Holes: when you in one, quit digging!

Wow, we just tested this forum, 4 of us on different computers(school library) posted comments basically agreeing with Ferraros comments and none of the were posted. Then we posted anti-hillary commenst and sure enough they were posted. We know that this will not be posted but seriously at least TRY and be fair.

wHy are my posts not posted? can't stand facts?

Good for Ferraro!

Lady.
Get lost.

I guess it makes sense that the Obama supporter's rhetoric is very similar to the Rev. Wright.

As Hillary and Obama bloody each other up, I am amazed as events unfold. The Democratic Party is so devisive. This is why it is on a downward spiral. All of these events will feed into a McCain win in November. I'm glad to be Republican!

She is back...A-G-A-I-N

This is how Clinton is planning to win...LOL

What Ferraro said has some basis in reality while Wright's speech advocated hatred for America. Where is the similarity?

I think Obama and his team had it out for her on day one. She did not make a racist remark......they turned it into a racist remark. I agree with her, a pastor teaching hate..... I guess he thought that would unite his flock. Obama is a product of pastor Wright no matter how Obama spins it now.....too late.

Ferraro is far worse than Rev Wright. She's a racist, bigot, who's done nothing for the betterment of anyone, except herself. She can't even recognize how out of touch she is. She should do us all a favor and either apologize for her stupidity, or shut up.

CNN, I have just about had it with you. I found a website the provides honestly, open, non-baised, not-hate-filled commentary where people with college degrees can openly and fairly discuss issues of the day. This website (CNN) is full of itself and is perpertrating those who are ignorant, uneducated or just plain stupid. Goodbye and good riddance. I will not visit this site again.

Can someone please stop The Daily Breeze from interviewing this woman? All they are doing is giving a platform to a perfectly out of date public figure whose inane remarks are simply contemptible.

Once again, Ms. Congeniality speaks! Is there anything Ferarro isn't angry about? She seems to be angry most about not being in the press anymore. The fact that she was instrumental in raising the whole race issue makes it all that much more humorous that she is so upset. And I dare say she's not really upset that Obama mentioned her – if he hadn't, she'd have vanished back into obscurity, where she might do less harm.

I laugh every time I read a comment by an Obama supporter. Any critique of their man is greeted with hate and rage and I'm sure they all cry themselves asleep from the fetal position.

Obama brings his grandmother into the discussion. What a guy!!!

Ferraro sends us the other side of the coin.

Obama certainly knows what the good Rev. Wright is all about.

Ferraro is correct.

What planet is this lady from anyway???? I don't get it...

She was useless as a VP running mate. It appears she's gone downhill from being useless as a VP candidate to becoming damaging as a surrogate. Hmmm, I wonder what the next step is for her?

Geraldine Ferraro.

Please SHUT UP!!!

Right on? Did you even watch Obama's speech? He actually stood up for Ferraro, so it is very odd that she sits here and continues to attack him. There is racism in this country, and if she thinks otherwise then it is a very good thing she didn't become VP, being as far out of touch as she is.

ahah stop digging old woman!

What did Ferraro say that resembles Wrigh's speech?

Obama will not be president. Period.
Right on Geraldine!

Where is Jesse Jackson to comment on Wright?

Enough is Enough! This is why Ferraro is no longer part of the Clinton Campaign. She doesn't know when to shut up.

She needs to leave things alone...............enough is enough already.

She'll change her tune after the nomination............

I wish these people would stop it...Its over...lets move on....people are dying in an unnecessary war , our economy is flip-flop, no healthcare, high gasoline...there are bigger issues to discuss. Our nation is a crisis. Lets not major on the minors.

Brian from NYC, I know you and you are a republican that is going to vote for Mccain in november, so be quiet and go back to your dirty place.

ENOUGH-
You so boldly tell another American to 'go away'... I see you are being molded by your mentor, Mr. Obama. He wants MI and FL voters to go away. News flash... Hillary is here to stay and she will WIN as she should.

Really? Ferraro, I hate to break it to you but you are a racist. Plain and simple. And I am not even voting Democrat in this election. GO AWAY.

What's this? She's surprised that someone in her "mother's generation" would utter a racially disparaging remark???
I agree with Ms. Ferarro when she stated that, "...she has no clue."

Yes you are, oldie

I actually feel a little embarrased to know that she was the democrat's VP nominee. How can she be so ignorant?

Ferraro is correct.

She's in touch about as much as Hillary. She expressed astonishment that there is still prejudice and racism in this country?

And she had an official post in Clinton's campaign? Was a VP nominee?

SCARY..

This is just a site for the Obama attack dogs. CNN has lost all its fairness and journalistic integrity to bar factual and reasonable posts when all the filthy name calling posts are aired right away.

Ferraro, no you cannot be Jeremiah.

I would more compare you to Hillary: A bigot, manipulative, racist and divisive person.

boy, you stupid people are playing right into the republican hands. Can you not see that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Once again proving that wisdom is not necessarily acquired with age.

Give the lady a Razzie Award.

You go girl !!

Obama is just another politician.

Correction Geraldine was talking facts.

Can someone PLEASE have enough courage to restore dignity and honor to the election by shutting these surrogates up? It's killing the the candidates' campaigns!

Obama 08

Well...it doesn't matter what Obama said, Jerry; it's all about what you said. If the shoe fits, wear it.

Ferraro its time to turn the page with American people. Go away with your comments, you are not better than Jeremiah Wright. Obama is trying to tell people like you that we cannot continue to live in early 60's

Ferarro is DELUSIONAL.
What is she talking about her "mother's generation" not being racist. I mean, the further back you go, the worse it gets!

How long is this moderation to be?

I can see why Ferraro would be upset. What she said was in no way close to what Reverend Wright said and I think her point was taken out of context. That's the problem with race in this election. There can't be any open, honest discussion with the any reference to race or color or one is accused of being "racist," "divisive." If we can't discuss these issues without one becoming defensive or combative, we'll never move forward. Ferraro's comment was no more racist than it was sexist, using herself as an example.

Oh My God!!! With all due respect, Barack never compared Geraldine Ferraro's comments to those he rejected from Reverand Wright. If you haven't already, EVERYONE, young and old, black and white, should watch Obama's speech. Ferraro is trying to spin this to the lowest common denominators in our society. Whether you support Obama or not, his speech was one of the most straight-foward speech on race I've ever seen (and it was not pandering to either blacks, whites, or hispanics).

I think every negative remark on the internet is coming from members of obama's church, there is no way american's be so ignorant. By the way Old comes in every color, and if you guys that are making the age remarks. Hope that God blesses you too live a healthy, properous long life. I bet you guys have old parents are grandparents. This is the only country in the world that does not have respect for the aged. I get so upset when I hear or read remarks like that. I love older people no matter what color they are, and most of them have more wisdom in the tip of their fingernails than most people. So there..chew on that!

Look at what one can become after a generation of divisive and racism-feuled politics. That's more than enough to remind me not to go back to those years. No, she is not a racist. But, she is just as ignorant. That's her problem.

They couldn't find anything relevant to wrong with obama so they had to dig up video from his pastor. I wonder if Clinton or McCain's pastors' have been so scrutinized. I am so proud of Obama for having the guts to speak out against the obvious smear campaign. It is true that that Clinton's camp opened this door for the race card to be played. Obama was trying to keep his campaign focused on relevant issues to America. Clinton's camp has resorted to desperate tactics to confuse voters and redirect attention on this trivial bs! I hope Obama brings up the multitudes in CLinton's and McCain's closets...starting with their spouses (Bill and Cindy).

This woman is just looking for media attention, how come you don't believe a woman from your generation is capable of racial remarks, while you are still currently doing so, the denial of the existence of racism is racism itself, not that i agree with pastor Wright's outburst hell no! he took America and Obama candidacy many miles behind yes, but as for you Mrs VP elect maybe you should visit a rehab coz obviously you are on something.

Sorry to say Geraldine but like my mother who is of your generation you are most often as not clueless on the race issue (never had to deal with it). So please, confine your uninformed comments to that little voice in your head and not the public forum thank you...

Senator Obama never said it was ok to beat up on anyone. I think Ms. Ferrarro should have read or listened to his speech before she commented.

Senator Obama said he didn't believe the race card had been played by the Clinton campaign but by some of her supporters. I don't know how anyone can find fault with the speech he gave. It was long overdue.

I wonder if she will stand by her word and vote for whoever the nominee is as she claimed before being forced off the campaign?

She must be senile to think that all of us "young generation" people are that gullible to listen to the first person that comes talking. And I don't think I heard Mr. Wright ever give anyone permission to "beat up on white people." This lady is delusional!

Why did my first post needs any moderation? The facts posted there can't be disputed.. This site has become just a bashing site for the Obama gang.

Please Madam....Let it rest.

Obama supporters are gettin mighty desperate! ALL this anger???? All this lashing out at a pretty innocent Geraldine Ferraro? I suppose you're going to blame her for Obama's downfall, because that's what you all do best - blame others instead of facing the fact that Barack's only downfall is Barack. Bye bye Obama!

Ferraro said nothing insulting, Bill Clinton said nothing racist, Obamanites see the race card as the gateway to the presidency over apologies for slavery.

Wow! she really enjoys the attention but I guess who doesn't...
Move one please...

oh please! how much credibility does she have if she CANT BELIEVE that grandparents... people who live during LEGALLY MANDATED SEGREGATION... couldn't have racist ideas...?

She is off her rocker...

I agree with Zina, Obama was complimenting her. As far as her Mother's generation, I believe Ms Ferraro's mother must live on another planet if she didn't experience racism. How much longer must this go on before we can get back to the ISSUES?

Just goes to show how far the truth can be streched to fit your aganda. I agree with Mrs. Ferraro.

She is still mad about 1984. Jesse Jackson should have been the VP nominee. She knows it. And she is still angry. She needs to go to a home!!!

It looks like posts based on facts do not have much chances to be aired. All the attacking and name-calling posts are displayed. My friends have warned me about factual posts are not allowed but I refuse to believe them. It looks like I am have a little taste of the same biased and undemocratic monitering.

She absolutely right – with everything she has said! I agree....

Go Hillary!!!!!

How is that cringing feeling now Obama?

Don't pay too much attention on Obama's speech. He just gave the speech to distract American's attention on questionable pastor and trying to make you agree with him about the race issues long exist in America. His speech is for political popurse only, otherwise he would gave a month earlier or a year earlier.

Obama is not worth mentioning in the news. He is a corrupted Chicago politician.

Amazing isn't it? Here we have a rejected politician who broached the issue of race, complaining that she is being compared to another individual who equally plays the race card. Politics as usual.

why is the media even talking to her????

Another closet Republican. Stop being such a "TOOL".

Go lay back down now Geraldine. He was not comparing you to Wright. He simply made reference to the fact that some people had dismissed you for your remarks. Stop trying to draw attention to yourself.

Reverend Wright is the only "shameless" person in this campaign, and Obama is sitting right next to him. Geraldine is a decent human being who would never spew such vile hatred.

Keep fighting back Geraldine!!! The comparison was ridiculous.

I am disgusted now by both Obama and Clinton. I used to support both, and couldn't decide on which one just yet, but now I'm voting Republican!

Comparing Ferraro to Wright by Obama is shameless act. Obama is compared to Dr. King or JFK just by giving few speeches. He may get nomination, but wait till general election. He hasn't seen mother of attacks yet. Can you trust a person who listens and absorbs this poisonous speeches for the last 20 years as your president?

Good grief, Geraldine! It's not about YOU. Please shut up. No one cares what you have to say anymore.

x- I'm not sure that she is playing...

Such hate from the Obama 'people' – or it must be misplaced anger.

PS – I guess that comment makes me a racist.

Bottom line is, there is no place of racial slurs in a new america.

Oh my god, why won't you go away. This woman is crazy!!

Boy, I can't believe how the Obama supporters like to slam people! You get after the Clinton supporters slamming people, but you guys are 100 times worse!!

Thank God she lost her attempt to become VP. She is a mean-spirited woman, who most people thankfully realize, is missing something upstairs! She is rather scary!

What is the most disgusting thing in the entire messed up election is that 3 million voters are disenfranchised. The fact that Obama wants this to happen so he doesn't lose speaks to exactly who he is - a big fraud. He is against democracy and I wouldn't vote for him ever.

WAY TO GO GERALDINE!!!

Don't let the hate-filled Obama kiddies push you around. Even they know you're in the right, but they're just too stubborn and ignorant to admit it.

DON'T LET THEM SILENCE YOU!!!

She must have Narcisistic Personality Disorder or something, otherwise why she has to take everything as personal attack against her?

She has every right to be angry. There is no comparison, in truth. But politicians who try to defend the indefensible and try to please everyone do not care about the truth. That he also tries to suppress the Michigan and Florida votes is another crystal clear action that makes him eminently unfit to hold the highest political office in the land. Get used to Madame President.

GO Gerri. You are helping Obama every time you speak. Keep it up!

Obama should reject all of his supporters that spew this violent dialog. There is no room for reconciliation at this point when the left is sounding just like the right ,while "eating their young!" You are the same people threatening super delegates and sending threatening emails to anyone you disagree with over an election. LOOK AT YOURSELVES!!!!!!!!!!!

why is my comment not shown?

You are coming off as a very bittter person Geraldine. It is time you turn off the rhetoric and realize you are doing absolutely nothing positive for the party you supposedly love. GIVE IT A REST!

Your mother's generation was the worst. If you were perfectly honest, you too have said thing that you wouldn't want people of other races to hear, but you would have to be honest and I am not quite sure any of you Clinton supporters are honest.

Go away Ferraro! You are not helping HRC. Unless HRC asks you to speak on her behalf, SHUT-UP!

Don't cry Obamabots. He will will learn with more time how to use better judgement.

Good for Ferraro. Obama needs to realize the damage he has caused and step down NOW.

Ferraro has no credibilty to speak on this issue.

She is as much of a bigot as Wright.

Here we go again. Another long list of juvenile and predictably spiteful comments from Senator Obama's supporters. It is truly pathetic that they have to immediately attack any and every article that doesn't fit with their mindset. . Well, I gues that's easier than analysing, reasoning and being informed.

Obama admitted that he is a liar. That's all that his "race" speech accomplished this week.

Hillary or McCain '08

For those of you saying she's worse than Wright, you are DELUSIONAL!!!

There is nothing she has said that's remotely close to what Wright said. She was stating facts – like them or not – and Wright was spreading hatred towards whites and America.

Obamabites – get a clue.

You Ferraro, are no Nixon. At least he had a chance of winning by using coded words.

Ferraro just should've kept her mouth shut. It's clear that Hillary and her campaign are desperate. They are doing all they can to ensure that John McCain wins in November. Hillary would rather punish the nation and have us endure another 4 years of Republican rule than allow Barack the opportunity to fix the mess that Bush has created.

wow why are most of Obama supporters jerks?

Ferraro is right!! He wouldn't be there if he were white.

Go Gerry, tell it like it is. Transparency and truth is what the election should be about. Hillary and Gerry are transparent and truthful people.

Barack, join the party and tell the truth!

She's brutal.

I think she is totally right!

Obama/Ferraro 2008!! Two racists, no waiting!

Obama what do you mean FORMER PASTOR, Wright is still your pastor, he is still a supporting clergy of your church and an active member. Please give us a break, just because he retired does not mean he is not your pastor. He is and that's the fact. Get over yourself Senator.

Good Grief! Please just drop all this racial issues and get to the real ones like the ECONOMY and THE WAR....

Obama 08

OMG! CNN is this really news worthy????

I remember years and years ago getting a call from "The Friends of Geraldine Ferraro", a group trying to get donations to bail her out of her difficulties. My response, as a Democrat, was, "I didn't know she had any friends." Well, that response still applies today. Just shut up and go away, will you?

I think she is worst than the pastor because the pastor can claim reason for his anger for making these stupid comments….what about her???? My God….the more the woman opens her mouth the more she scares the’ll of me…

She is surprised that her MOTHER'S generation made racist comments? How old is she? How old does that make her mother? That had to be 90 years ago! No racism in the past 90 years?
Also, Obama was saying that she didn't deserve all of that negative attention. Sheesh!

Resolved. People see, hear, and think what they want despite what is said or done by others.

"'I could not believe that," she said. "That's my mother's generation.'"

This insultingly fallacious statement proves that Ferraro's role in this campaign is (still) to pander to other closet racists.

Obama and the Obamaniacs are trying to attack out of desperation.

But let me tell you that peple are smart and will not tolerate a bigot like Wright and his 20 year follower Obama.

Hillary America is with you, because we truly care about our nation and do not allow ourselves to be brainwashed by JUST WORDS...

Hillary for President!

This lady needs to STOP!!! Just dig yourself a hole and dissapear!!! Senile at its best!!!

She is way out of line. He went overboard with some of his otherwise justified anger at the longstanding mistreatment of black people in this country, but overall he seems to have led a good life of usefulness to others. She, on the other hand, seems to be from another planet, and full of anger that I don't even understand. Sad to see her continue to melt down this way.

Oh boy! We Democrats are in trouble. This is only going to help to continue the divide between the Hillary and Obama camps. Again, Hillary and Obama need to tell all of thier so-called friends to shut up!

So she says there was no racism in her mothers age. I guess all those fire hoses turned on the black people was a figment of our imagination, Huh?

You do understand that Clinton, Obama, and Ferraro are all democrats?

This is so much fun. Liberal Democrats don't need need to be beaten by anyone else. With all the infighting that you do, you will only defeat yourself.

The really funny part about all this is Geraldine is about as far left as you can get. Moveon.org should love her, and yet people are on here telling her to get lost. The Democrats and their infighting is a bigger sideshow than Brittany and her travails. Still it is all funny and I thank you for the huge belly laughs you provide me with each day.

Ferraro has never heard anyone of the her mother's generation make a racist remark? What planet has she been living on?!

Even white Americans who were not for segregation expressed biased or prejudiced remarks from time to time. But not her mother! Oh no!

Not again......please go away. I want real issues CNN.

Ferraro obviously doesn't have a clue. For one thing, she has been a national figure for decades. Wright wouldn't get any attention at all, except that he happened to have a famous person in his congregation. When you're on the national stage, and speaking on behalf of a presidential campaign, you should expect that what you say is going to have more consequence.

for all those that blaimed the clinton camp for the rev. wrights videos you should read yall
• McCain staffer suspended for circulating Obama pastor video

so stop blaiming clinton for everything. Ferraro just needs to sit back and be quite at this point.

But Clinton does have more experience. As a first lady she was a lawyer. Not alot of first ladies had her education back ground. So when her husband was playing she was busy being Com. in chief. So she does have the experience....

one other thing did anyone take a look at obamas endorsement on his page yesterday? he got an endorsement from the new black panthers..........

I just read some of the comments1 Wow..there are certainly a lot of discrimanatory remarks toward older white women. Why is theresuch hatred for women who have worked all their lives to make the world a better place- especially for some really stupid ingrates?

Unbelievable! This woman does not know when to SHUT UP!!

CLINTON OR OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT!!!

Obama lied. Enough is enough!

Have I missed something, or has cnn endorsed obama...I watch cnn for many hours daily and the majority of time all I hear or see is obama. Am I missing something?

Joe S.
Land O lakes, Fl

This Pastor thing is going past riciculous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Ranting Reverend Wright won't go away in the Nation's collective consciousness, and nothing Obama or his supporters say will change that. The opportunity to personally denounce the man as well as his words is lost forever for Obama, who must have known this guy was the weak link in his chain of hope and "New Politics".

This chick is incredible. How in the hell does she know what happened with Obama's grandmother and for the record....isnt her mothers generation the generation of the worst race riots in this country's history? The age of separate but equal?

The arrogance of this woman is absolutely incredible!

What Ferraro stated about Obama was FACT and certainly not Racist. The Obama Camp needs to re-examine its standards and honesty, especially in light of the Jeremiah Wright Sermons that Obama sat and listened to for 20 years. PLEASE! Do we now see a 'double standards' emerging in this campaign?

The Obama camp is full of idiots, they contradict everyting Obama says. It is time to say goodbye to Wright and Obama.

It was a new low for Obama to compare Ferraro to Jeremiah Wright. I don't blame her for being pissed off about it. And Obama's comments about his grandmother were just freaking weird.

This woman needs to shut up already.

Talk about spewing hatred.....

No Lady your not!!! Your one of the Old School, and the most Needed I might add.... In a Country of Obama's promise of change ,

for two Dimes.

Obama is pathetic and a racist.

Get a grip Geraldine, Obama was not slamming you, nor was he drawing any kind of comparison between you and Mr Wright. If you read his statement with an open mind, you will note that he was infact stating that you did not harbor any deep seated racial feelings. No matter what, you said what you said, and millions perceived you were being racial in your statements. In corporate America, you would have been fired and potentially sued for your comments as I have seen many fired and sued for saying a lot less.

Thank you Obama for disenfranchising voters. You believe in bringing together RED states and BLUE states. I guess Michigan and Florida must be purple to you. Your campaign did not agree with the Michigan proposal and was asked for an alternative proposal and you went SILENT. Just like you did when you sat in church and Reverend Wright preached his hatred.

GO HILLARY GO!

She is absolutely right. Where do you begin comparing the 2. Only the blind-sided Barack supporters on here think it is the same thing.

Open your eyes.

ONLY HILLARY, '08

Hey "Right On":

You should brush up on your history!

While you're at it check out what Rev. Wrights church does for their community of all nationalites. I betcha it runs circles around your church if you have one!

I completely agree with her statements here. It is hard to compare what she has said to what Rev. Wright has said..

These are dirty politics.

That this woman is SO defensive about a remark she made and probably wishes she hadn't said out loud simply underlines her huge ego and inability to say, "I'm sorry."

Sad. . .so sad!

The return of another divisive Clinton surrogate. This is becoming a soap opera

BO's are insane!

Where is their sense of decency?

Talk about spewing hatred.

Don't any of these people work for a living.

They seem to surfing the blogs just to spew.

If you change churches everytime you are OFFENDED by what the Pastor says..... YOU will NOT attend ANY church for very long !!!!

you mean your generation?

You comments! I have never, never sent in before and you said mine was a duplicate. Not so.

Another divisive Clinton returns. This is becoming a soap opera.

Right on, Ms Ferro! i am so sick of all the hatred that is allowed to spew forth from some black people and everyone says it is okay because they suffered in the past. IT IS IN THE PAST, let's move on. i am tired of people electing a pres just because they are trendy! Look where that got us!

Nobody cares about what you have to say Geraldine Ferraro. You said what you said and that is the end of it. Please do the American people a favor, stop opening your mouth to make stupid comments.

I don't like any of it, but frankly, everything she has said so far is true.

Geraldine,

I guess she has a problem is hearing too. She still playing the Surrogate Role for Hillary and Bill Clinton.

That's NOT what he said.....Listen to the speech again!!!!
How many people have heard their FRIENDS, FAMILY, PASTORS,CO-WORKERS..... say MANY things they did NOT agree with? How many people have have the GUTS to speak up?

She's crazy! Why can she not believe that white women here age could possibly be racist?! I wish we could all (no matter who we support) listen to Obama's speech and understand that there is definitely racial issues in this country, yet we need to get beyond them. And more importantly, she needs to DISAPPEAR!

She is right. And Obama's grandma is also different from his mentor. It is just sad that Obama had to drag them into his speech to save his career.

It is also pathetic for most news outlets to label the speech as a landmark for conversation about race. Such conversation is 6 months too late. No matter how wonderfully he delivered, this speech was plainly a political move to spin why he stayed with his mentor for 20 years without UNITING the pastor with America. Did you get the answer? I didn't.

She is so out of touch...She really needs to just go away.

Shut up and go away. You actually held public office...educated? However, you cannot see that his statement was not a comparison, but a listing of factual events as they related to race? Dag, she is dumb, dumb, dumb. My mother used to say guilt points to itself. Shut up and go away!

I tried to send Geraldine an email to tell her how I feel about these comments of hers, but she has cancelled her email account. That should have been her first clue that she was being stupid.

Geraldine is 100% correct. Obama should apologize. He will never be President of the U.S. now. Obama is tearing the Democratic party apart, inflaming a war of the sexes, and setting back race relations 30 years.

Ferraro said she had "no clue" why Obama referenced her in the speech.

Really?

He gave a speech on race and discrimination and you had said he was only doing well because of the color of his skin.

what truely started out to be a nice speach went in a different direction and i call it playing the race card.......involving former sen ferraro and his poor grandmother......never explained why he sat in this church for 20 years.... i sure hope his grandmother wasnt watching.......

I can just see Hillary cringe after she heard what this crazy woman has said.

Hillary probably wispered to somebody "can we shut her up please"

Ferraro's comments, while provocative and less than politically correct are accurate.

Obama's race is a factor in the race and anyone who doesn't acknowledge it is either blind or is not paying attention.

Wright's comments are not only provacative and less than politically correct but also inciting.

Inciting anger into an already heated debate.

I do believe Wright did more to damage Obama's presidential campaign than Ferraro did to damage Hillary's presidential campaign.

NO, keep talking Ferraro. That way, people will know that you and HRC are behind this foolishness.

So many obama supporters here full of hate.

wow, change you believe. Give me a break.

oh brother. geraldine ferraro believes herself to be an angel. as if her remarks were not at the very least controversial.

someone needs to tell her to get off her pulpit, because her remarks were definitely racist in tone.

you're no victim here either. not owning up to your comments in the least is just arrogant and condescending.

LET IT GO PLEASE...

Wow, Ferraro just won't go away. She likes being the Grand Wizard and is probably pissed that her name was immortalized in a historical by non other than Obama. She "is" the white grandmother that fears blacks and spews derogatory racists remarks in the presence of her grand children. Cringe...

This race thing is not going away for Obama. He will have a tough time if he gets to the general election. If Clinton blows him out in Pennsylvania – wins by more than 15% – he is definitely going to have a tough time.

CNN.com, I believe the reverend's name is Wright, not "White". You've made this "mistake" a few times today.

Ferraro says she has "no clue." Well, yeah. That's the point.

It's kind of a genius strategy, really, the way HRC's campaign panders to the ignorant. They're too ignorant to realize how they're being played! Give the rest of us some credit, though.

Keep it up Gerr your only helping Obama! And what's with the last inreference to Obama's grandmother. Why would she be surprised that someone from her mother's generation said racial remarks. Gerr is what 100.

Shame on you Ferraro (Clinton) for trying to magnify this situation after that wonderful speech! SHAME ON YOU!

Bit

Mrs. Ferraro, with all my respect!
Everithing sugest that you ware write on!
Obama is one big manipulator!

She is correct. Her racist comments were not as racist. Don't we all feel better about her comments now?

Go Ferraro! Thank you lady, you helped bring Obama the fool down for the liar, sexist, bigot that he is!

Can anyone explain what she means at the end, commenting on what Obama said about her grandmom? Does she know that woman? Is she saying that in her mother's generation there was no racial bigotry? I'm baffled.

Ferraro should get on the phone and tell hillary, she's not going to do this anymore.

WHAT! YOU AGAIN! You may not be a Jeremiah Wright, but you are getting closer every day. Go back to your cave.

Just another Clinton Camp idiot – Go Obama!!!

Stop playing dumb, Ferraro.

Go AWAY Geraldine. You're as bad as the Senator you support. Neither of you know when to leave. and what is this Daily Breeze shill?

Wow, Ferraro, you are incredible. Feigning surprise over overt racism? Maybe she's just incredulous that people actually express their bigotry out loud and not hidden behind some silly claim of reverse racism and affirmative action.

Ferraro, take my advice: BE QUIET.

I agree 100% and Ferrero was just another victim of the Obama slam machine that turns everything said into a racist comment. Perhaps they can only do that because of where they have come from and by whom he has been influenced by but it simply is just not right.

Next time it happens, and there is that type of misplaced 'anger' as Senator Obama would have us think of it – I hope the person being victimized will nail the Obama Camp for their misplaced and prejudicial racial twist!

I lost all respect for Senator Obama with his twisted words....I cannot recall Ferraro every looking at our country as the GD USA or the US KKK A, or ever spewing some hatred as Reverend Wright does. It is Obama's way trying to compare apples to oranges. He is a word manipulator and will be a full manipulator if he gets the nomination.

Wake up America and see Senator Obama for what he is – and not what he says!

what does Ferraro mean that she does not believe that Barraks grandmother said something racist ??? ... She says it was her mothers generation . Does she mean that the generation was pristine pure and not racist ....what world is she living in ...she should go back and check the history books !!!!

As has been said, the number one rule of holes is: When you are in one, stop digging! Some one give her The Rules of Holes.

Dear Geraldine,

He did not compare you to Rev. Wright. He said that focusing on you and other distractions is not what the American people want from the presidential candidates. We want to hear about solutions to the war and the horrific economy. And it's true. So stop with the accusations. If you want to help Hillary then talk about health care, talk about fixing the ecomony. Talk about anything but yourself and the Obama campaign. Unless you want to make John McCain president. Which you're well on the way to doing.

Thank you.

Are you kidding me??? This woman planned on running for Vice President at one point but doesn't believe that a white woman from ' her mother's generation' is capable of saying something prejudice against blacks??? WOW. Whatever drugs Ms. Ferraro is on, somebody get me some quick! Goes to show how out of touch with reality the old political war horses are with the actual conditions of America's race relations. That's why it's time for CHANGE.

OBAMA '08'!!!!!

She is worst than Wright, and it proves that Hillary and Ferraro is in the same camp say one thing and do the next. It proves that theirs allot of bigots still out there pandering to blacks to get votes when it suits them and when blacks beat them by being above the fray they use race to insinuate that Oh that person is black don't forget it. Wright was more open, Hillary, Bill and Ferraro are more overst about their racist-bigoted rants! AMERICA DOES NEED A 3RD PARTY AND OBAMA SHOULD BOLT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NOW AND SET UP A 3RD PARTY. I AM SURE IF HE RUNS WITH GORE OR HAGEL HE WILL WIN!

HOPE AND REALIZATION THERE IS ANOTHER WAY....I am hoping OBAMA back out and let Hillary have the Democratic nod and then he go and run as a candidate on a new ticket. It will be so easy to get on the ballot in every state!

Former VP Candidate Ferraro. GOOD BYE. GO way.

Good Job

Not again........please go away.

COULD WE PLEASE GIVE IT A REST ALREADY WITH THE REMARKS ABOUT RACISM FROM BOTH THE OBAMA AND THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN!!!!!!!!!! we need to just move on and discuss the real issues!!!!

Ohh just shut up and go away already Ferraro. I know this is the most attention anyone has ever given you since 1984, but your fifteen minutes is up. So just shut up and go back into obscurity.

Ferraro is pathetic.

Another old, out of touch, white woman who can't believe there is white on black racism. Just stick your head in the sand and let the rational people speak.

Obama's speech must have made an impact otherwise Hillary's staff wouldn't be trying to destroy it.

SHE'S NO JEREMIAH WRIGHT BECAUSE HE IS UPSET ABOUT PAST EXPERIENCES. SHE IS WORSE THAN JEREMIAH WITH BECAUSE SHE HAS NO EXCUSE.

He mentioned you because your comments were RACIST Ferraro... you just said it more politely... same thing.

He is there because people like him, not because of his RACE... That is a RACIST comment.

It is almost as saying he is not qualified but people are standing behind him because he is black, as a black person I can tell you that is NOT why I am standing behind him. I don't like Hillary and her politics and Edwards is out, so he is the better candidate in my opinion. Nothing to do with his race.

You don't gain EXPERIENCE by being 1st lady.

It would be best for Ms Ferraro to take a long vacation away from the media.

Please, someone take this woman back to the nursing home. She's lost, wandering around and telling anyone who'll listen she's not racists, just 'cuz she points out blacks have it so easy when running for pres.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks and she's not worth the attention the media is giving her.

When did he ever say it was ok to beat up on white people?

I find her last statement a little odd. Not believing her mother's generation would have racist feelings. Um, they were the ones that went thru the civil rights era. My mom has said racist remarks before so Im not surprised at all.

There is nothing comparable about these two individuals and it's absurd to try find a common link.

No – you're far worse.

Go home, no one is interested in what you have to say any more.

I am in no way defending Rev Wright, but he NEVER said that it was okay to "beat up on white people" as Ms. Ferraro insists. Barack mentioned her in his speech to say that she did not deserve the negative treatment she received. Learn how to take a compliment, ma'am!!

Obama '08

Ferraro and Clinton are shameless! The wedge they are driving in the Democratic party will last for years, maybe decades to come.

exactly.

Why won;t she just disappear. No one cares what you have to say. And no you aren't Mr. Wright. Mr. Wright has helped more people in his life then you have yours.

She's BAA-ACCK!!!!!