During a speech in 1984 she was talking about Obama? And that's in the first paragraph. Too many agreed with her statement but overall not that many. I know I don't.

42% of Democrats felt her statement was racist. THAT'S the story.

The Media want to stick with the Ferraro issue!! why they didn't stick whit Mc. Cain, Ethics issues?? All they want are negatives for the Democratic party!! all issues that affect the republicans , are treated as a none issue!!

whether or not one agrees with her (Ferraro's) comments is completely secondary to the fact that such what if scenerios are totally irrelevant and if she does not understand the negative impact such comments generate, she is indeed a worse politician than I gave her credit for .

The Democrats have shown the world that they are indeed the party that panders to race and gender and any other group that they think will get them elected.

The pander party - WHERE IS THE INTEGRITY

THESE PEOPLE CAN"T EVEN RUN THEIR OWN PRIMARY - HOW CAN THEY RUN OUR COUNTRY?

This is a case of "The emporer has no cloths" Obamas supporters see him as a black man when in fact he is 1/2 black and wasn't even raised black, this seems to be a case of denial of the the facts so that one race can claim Obama as one of theirs when in fact he should be seen as of mixed race but not certainly one or the other.

It's hard separate how people feel about this issue from who they are supporting for president. That's just the way humans work.

What would be realy interesting is to hear some focus group responses from Clinton supporters who feel Ferraro's comments were racist and Obama supporters who don't.

Look for the brazen attempt at opinion manipulations. Watch the graph BEFORE she speaks. She was getting a majority favorable opinion BEFORE she said a single word.

How unprofessional of FOX news to even show such a thing on mainstream media.

Hillary Clinton cheerleader Geraldine Ferraro is a flaming idiot and should be ignored.

How does Barack Obama have an unfair advantage because he's black?

Is it because of all the death threats he receives?

Is it because there have been absolutely ZERO black Presidents in our history?

Does it help him that his name is Barack Hussein Obama?....NO!

There's still a huge racist undertone in this country, all one has to do is read the comments section here in the Swamp everyday to see that.

I don't care what color or gender our next President is, I don't care how old they are, I don't care if they have green skin, I don't care what their pastor might or might not have said and I don't care what their name is.

I do care that we elect a President who does a good job of being the President for all of the American people and not a President who sits in the office and acts as if he is President of his own political party and not anyone else as Republican President George W Bush has done the last seven years.

We as a country have some serious problems that we need to overcome and all of this other peripheral stuff is just a bunch of BS.

I am going to write in Geraldine Ferraro's name for President. She is the only political figure in the public forum who is not terrorized by the politically correct maxim, "Thou shalt never notice race, unless you are a minority."

Senator Obama is Irish/American so why is Ferraro calling him a black man? Of course her comments were racist and insulting. We do not want Clinton corruption back in DC; we do not want into Iran with Clinton McCain. But Ferraro insists we "got caught up in the concept". What concept? We white people want a boy toy in DC? Hillary is so vain glory in her lust for power she forgets we, the people do not like her. We remember, not just Bill's scandals but her own.

Geraldine is a broken piano. She failed to achieve anything significant in her life. So she can rave & rant against Obama, since a feminist like her can not fathom Hilary's birth-right to be lost in the face of a rookie challenger like Obama.

The gushing anger of Geraldine, another Clintonites is nothing but denial of perpetual sinking of their dream!

Geraldine echos same etho as Bill tried in North Carolina, comparing Obama's win is nothing but another Jesse Jackson! Clintons campaign trying hard to box in Obama in a racial cohort to achieve their goal.

History will judge, the whole Clintons campaign is the worst ever Democrats has seen!

The truth is finally starting to come out and the "truth will set you free. America, wake up and smell the coffee. OB not on the level on this or much else it seems. He only speaks the truth when he gets caught. How much more is lingering out there to be uncovered on him and he uses Ms. Ferraro's comments to distract us from the truth. Our country needs "US" to stand-up for her now. Our future lingers in the balance of the impending primaries & general election. We need a President to restore our standing at home and abroad. We need Hillary, not inexperience & a questionable past, or Sen. more of the same, McCain.

She stunk as a candidate years ago and America saw it then, so nothings changed.
She's bitter about it and likes to hear her own voice. Wow! She's on the NEWS!
Whoopie!

Dump her and let's get on with the real issues with people who count,....

48% it wasn 't racist. HOw about asking whether it's crybaby crapola? 72% would probably be the result.
So--you can be as sexist and disrespectful of accomplished women so long as they're not of color is the real learnign to take from this.
Amazing.
A poll right now means nothing. We don't take the popular vote to select the prez. We do it statewide, by the electoral college. And this will cost the Obamites big time. What a shame we don't still have John Edwards in the mix.

If you are black, it is expected that you highlight racial issues and display great pride in your race.

On the other hand. if you are white you have to pretend that different races don't exist.

Would Obama be where he is if he did not get 92% of the black vote?

If I were Geraldine Ferraro, after a gaffe like that I would work twice as hard to show that I am not a racist. And not by supporting a political candidate, but by doing something with no political benefit. As one who grew up in the age of segregation, I have heard many comments like hers--always with an unpleasant overtone. She shouldn't leave her legacy this way. It would be a sad way to go out.

There are two hallmarks of prejudice. First, that it applies stereotypes rather than specifics in inferring a conclusion. Any review of Obama's past would make it clear his achievements were substantial and made despite race, not because of it. Second, that it is made by someone who fervently believes every word. The fact that Ferraro seems convinced by her own argument is only an indication that her prejudice is real, not that it's justified. If one wants to determine if Obama has succeeded because of race, look at his achievements. They are substantial, including a brilliant book that he wrote, and were not facilitated by race. As for the negative slurs against him by Clinton surrogates, again, just look at the record to see if he has ever espoused any of the points of view he is accused of, either in religious orientation or racial biigotry, and the facts will show the truth.
It's ironic that Hillary Clinton should choose to throw accusations of bias at Obama, where they are inappropriate, but at the same time showcase as her most important achievement the fact that she was married to a successful man, which is totally irrelevant. She's better than that.

It's funny how when someone like obama rises to the top of the stack, people want to see him as mixed, but when they stay at the bottom and say they are black thats all good. The truth about his race is this: Obama is a black man.
Growing up, no one would have treated him as though he was mixed. And if you never knew about his mother you would assume is a black man. So often in america race is defined by what you look like not what you are. If you want to get technical with obama you should be as technical with every other black person in america and just admit that all african-americans are mixed. If michelle obama is mixed. She's definitely not pure African. You don't get brown skin from only black people mating with each other, Duh.

It amuses me to no end to listen to white people discuss race in percentages that total more than 100%. I'm sorry to tell everyone this. Genes have no race. Race is a construct of the phenotypes of genes and the imaginary groups people put themselves in. Not every single gene from your father and mother are passed down generation to generation.

So just because your mother is 25% italian, 25% greek, 25% turkish, 25% french, and your father is 25% this and that and something else. Doesnt make you all those things. It doesnt even mean you have all those genes.

And just because you look white doesnt mean you're only european. And just because you have dark skin doesn't mean you are not european. Get over the race issue and get over yourselves.

Ferraro's comments were racist, period. Those Democrats who don't think that they were need to either wise up quick, or go join the Republican Party, like the Dixiecrats did in the '60s.

In related news, 90% of the 45% were people over the age of 50, who are angry about affirmative action ... wake up people .. or you'll get McCain or McClinton ...

BUSH-CLINTON-CLINTON-BUSH-BUSH-?-?

wake up.

hahhahaha

Fox News doing a focus group....Hilarious!! I wonder which side they will lean.

Black people claim Barack Obama BECAUSE white people, are the ones who deem us, if we have 1 drop of Black blood, we are Black, and thus Barack is Black! IF you didn't know Barack's mother was white, he would be any one of "them" to you all, so please stop with the selective; he's as white as he's Black nonsense.

This is RIDICULOUS. You can't say something BLATANTLY RACIST and then blame others for misrepresenting a clearly worded statement such as "because he's black". That's racist, whether the statement is true or not.

And then to threaten at the end that you would boycott fundraising since you're so offended by the logical response is absurd.

Somebody smack this woman.

Hillary has lost the nomination on Feb 5, all she has is the sewer and Kitchen sink...I’m just sorry she went that route... but she can come back to good grace with a Al Gore concession statement.

Ferraro has no reason to apologize. She spoke her mind. The Obama campaign should be careful about trying to muzzle free speech. Iwatched pundits today, and some are ready to give Obama a pass on Wright. I hope the media will be as tough on Wright as it is on Ms. Ferraro whose comments pale in comparison to him. Ms. Clinton surely can't be blamed for this one. I noticed a black pundit continuously trying to turn the conversation about Wright to the Clinton campaign. It was pathetic.

Geraldine was saying the truth. Barak is only a token first black candidate.

Interesting...there needs to be some education here. Ever since slavery times, if you had ONE drop of black in you, you were considered African-American. Yes he is biracial and so are my children, but they relate more to "African-American" experience because everyone keeps reminding them that they are not white enough. It's not surprising that he identifies more with African-American.

There's a difference between having a conversation about race and making a racist comment. Ferraro's was clearly racist as she was giving speculative information.

If she had said that exit polls show that blacks are voting for Obama, that would not have been racist.

Ferraro and Wright are tethered together to a post of the past.

The shallow wake of controversy churned up this week over statements by Jeremiah Wright and Geraldine Ferarro have a common engine that's running on fumes. Both come from, and spoke from, a political and personal perspective born of each's own experience. That experience is their shared one of a generational bond. Having come of age in the era of the struggle for, and against, civil rights, they see the world through race -colored glasses. To be sure, Wright's talk is more plainly inflammatory than that of Ferraro's. Ferarro's statements, though meant to be more politically correct were somehow more pathetic, since she seemed self-righteously unable to recognize the irony of her words. Both are stuck in the now faded print of a history chapter in which issues of black and white, were...well, more black and white. The African Americans of Wright's generation sang 'we shall overcome'; The white America of Ferarro's generation was the object of that anthem. This is not to suggest that Ferarro's politics were prejudiced during her day. To the contrary, she was a symbol of the progressive stance of her party. But she, and he both, more instinctively see race as relevant than do younger Americans.


I am now firmly ensconced in middle age, and as a white male of that vintage, I hardly represent the view of a "new" , post-racial generation. Yet, I sense a lot of Wright and Ferraro lingering (or smoldering) in many folks separated from me by a mere decade of extra age. It shows up even in statements by some highly regarded statesmen of their generation, those who should "know better". Ed Rendell states that Obama can't win in Pennsylvania because Lynn Swann didn't fare well here. What Lynn Swann and Barak Obama have in common, other than the color of their skin, is unfathomable- it is certainly not their politics. Bill Clinton, the most silver tongued diplomat of them all was perhaps the most astonishingly monochromatic in his apparently innocent equation of Barak Obama to Jesse Jackson. These are the "progressive" politicians of the past who are in some ways ironically stuck stuck there in their view of today's elections. They have been willing, and apparently eager, to analyze the elections on the basis of race, not because they are bigots, but because the politics of race was so much more relevant during their day in the political sun. I am inclined to believe that those writers who proclaim that Ferarro was just speaking the truth are, likewise, from a generation that sees race as more relevant than do their younger journalistic peers.

Am I so naive as to think that race has become irrelevant? No, but one can not but see, and be heartened to see, that its relevance has been greatly diminished given the plain facts of this year's primaries. The electorate of today's millennium, thankfully, don't live in a black and white world in the way that these elder statesmen once did. There are, no doubt, parts of the country were the cultural divide is as great as ever, and this has more to do with economics than with race; but to define a presidential candidate by his race is an anachronistic exercise to many of today's new voters, as the votes plainly tell.

No doubt, in another ten years, I'll be stuck on an issue or point of view, that is of little relevance to my child, and of none to hers. The present is never perfect, and sometimes too easily forgets its precedents, but the politics of race are finally and fortunately fading to a thing of the past.

I totally agree with Ferraro's comments on senator Obama. It has nothing to do with racial issues, it is just her freedom of speech, and what she thinks "what if..." god people always over-react stupidly to something they don't agree with and say things that aren't true about the issue. DUMB!

Good for you Geraldine Ferraro for saying what you believe and think!

Locally from the people that i've spoken to about this they all agree with her. Had he not been who he is and spoken at the 04 convention he wouldn't have been noticed for years. Where's his experience? Whats his voting record? He has way too many NV (not voted) for me to decide on him. Same holds true for Billary, without her lying cheating husband she would be nothing more than another ambulance chaser. And what has she done since her miraculous senate win? Wake up America, throw ALL of the candidates out...BOTH PARTIES....and start again with someone who REALLY cares about US and this country.

btw, who spends over a hundred million dollars for a job that pays 400k a yr.?

There's a difference between racism and prejudice. Please get it right. Mrs. Ferraro's remark wasn't racist.

During two races, 1992 and 1998, for senator from New York State, Geraldine Ferraro was subjected to bitter attacks minor even spuriously taking advantage of her Italian name to imply mob connections from opponents Elisabeth Holtzman, Robert Abrams, Mark Green and Charles Schumer through surrogate Liberal Party head Ray Harding. She lost both races unfairly, in my opinion. Ironically, the only opposing candidate to treat her with respect, as she admitted at the time was an Afro-American, the Rev. Al Sharpton.

People, the Democratic Party seeks out future "stars" and future leaders, hence his invitation to the 2004 convention. I swear, and you are the people who are given the right to vote, geeeez.

The thrust of what Geraldine had to say was that Obama's other qualities are only secondary to his race.

That's pretty weak.

Is his race a quality that will swing votes? Yes, they'll swing for and against. Would Hillary be where she is without her marriage? Very debatable. Would GWB be president without the Bush Dynasty? Doubtful.

Every politician has a connection or something that gets them notice. It's what they say when their noticed that matters.

Yes Ms Ferraro, Obama is where he is today because he's black. I'm sure he became the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review because he was black. I'm sure he graduated with high honors and a 3.89 average from HARVARD because he was black. I'm sure he got elected to the Illinois Senate because he was black, and yes, he only got elected to the US Senate because he's black. Hell...he raised $55 million in February....that's right, you guessed it....because he's black.

Such idiocy should be illegal, and for Ms Ferraro to compare her being PICKED to be a running mate in 1984, to the excellent presidential campaign that Obama has run so far, built from the ground up, is patently ABSURD.

Ms Ferraro...go away and STFU.

they poll for fox. she's on fox. they watch fox. and anyone wonders why they agree with her?

has water stopped being wet?

Farraro's comments were just stupid. They did however fit in nicely with the narrative that Clinton is running a racist campaign. Clinton didn't even fire her, and waited a long time for Farraro to resign. If Clinton were much of a leader, Obama wouldn't have had much of a chance.

the the logic follows that and Hillary wouldn't be in the position she is in now if she wasn't a female. Her gender has nothing to do with my opinion of her and I've never said to myself, "hey great, let's vote for the black dude." The fact is Hillary wouldn't be where she is if she wasn't married to a former president. Take away her 16 years as first lady of Arkansas and the U.S. What has she accomplished? You can't count her senate run because she won only because of her name recognition. Really, what has she accomplished outside of her years as first lady. That's 11 years worth of what?

Would Bill Clinton been elected twice if he didn't garner about 85% of the Black vote? Would the Democratic party ever win any election with at least 85% of the Black vote? You people like to have it both ways; don't you all? When Black folks voting as a block serves your purpose it's ok, but when it serves our purpose, boo hoo.

Ferraro is on the FOX payroll. Check out youtube. You will find how they compose their "focus groups" are people still watching Fox? Ever since I stopped my blood pressure has gone done! Give it a try!

Obama has run a tremendous campaign and he is winning because of it. Obama is here on his own merits more than Hillary is. She is here because she is married to Bill. Even with all that name recognition she is not going to win. Sadly she knows this and is trying pull Obama down because if she is not going win she would rather see McCain. Finally in 1992 what was the reason for the 46 year Bill winning. Was is because he had affairs and that gave him an advantage.