Dear Hillary –
I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself and you can continue to speak for yourself about what is at stake in this campaign.
The Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you.
I won't let that happen.
Thank you for everything you have done and continue to do to make this a better world for my children and grandchildren.
You have my deep admiration and respect.
Gerry
What a god damn joke. It's pretty obvious there's going to be no apology for these comments at all, from Ferraro or the campaign. Just to rub everyone's nose in it, she only resigned today after again - for the third straight day - doing the rounds in the mainstream media and repeating and defending the remarks again and again
The entire premise behind what she's saying is laughably false. Clinton was the one getting overwhelming support from black voters prior to her campaign's decision to run a southern strategy. Obama has never made this about race or run on identity politics, while every other day I hear Hillary or one of her supporters talking up the idea of electing our first female president. Obama has run on the issues and on his charisma and terrific oratory, while Clinton has been throwing dirt and trying to cast Obama as Al Sharpton
Hillary is running against a black guy named Barack Hussein Obama who pulled himself to this position by his own bootstraps, while she would be nowhere without nepotism. Obama has crushed her in lily-white states all over the country, and she dares ask why there's a racial divide in the deep south, a divide her own campaign is largely responsible for?
Let me be clear - if Obama was a white man with a white name and the same amount of political talent, Hillary would have been referring to him as "Mr President" for the last four or eight years. To suggest this is some sort of affirmative action hire is vile beyond words
