Clinton Responds (Mildly) to Ferraro Race Comments

Why do you consider eye witness reportage to be opinions? Because if you have to accept these eye witness accounts, it would mean you would have to accept that Hillary Clinton has, at a minimum, exaggerated her claims at experience and that would undermine much of her campaign construction. Better by far to try to discount anyone who doesn't speak the Clinton line.

On the Balkan bit, there are NUMEROUS sources who discount Hillary's dramatic accounts. These are people who were on the trip with her. I doubt this is opinion.

Fact is fact unless you need to spin it into a web that looks much more impressive than it really is. And the Clinton campaign has, apparently, been spinning overtime.

Kl: Now you are starting to sound like Obama on NAFTA. I was for it before I was against it. Sounds like John Kerry is having too much infulence on Obama's policy. That kind of logic is what lost Mr. Kerry the election.

Look - he's an Obama supporter, so what do you think he's going to say?

Hmmmmm... I am so shocked!

She has obviously not already been Commander in Chief, and she is not claming to have been. But she has had a lot more experience than Barak...

Like it or not, it's reality...

(I'm sorry I'm getting silly... because this is all getting silly...)

Russell- there is a difference between refuse and scheduling conflict. The media is controlled by no one.

I find the longer this process is drawn out and all the attention that it gets, people are going to say more and more things to get on the front page. For example, all of a sudden Ferraro is in the front page and now Sinbad is using it to get the spotlight on him. And everyone is just eating it up!!

2025 for PRESIDENT 08 ( I don't see anyone with that goal reached yet)

Jillian,

Don't you bother to read any posts that don't praise your candidate? Haven't you read any of the news articles that have been posted that are objective and factual yet call into question the integrity and honesty of your candidate?

She can't step in front of the world and claim to have vast experience--which she does--on the wing and prayer that no one really challenges her. And when you start looking for the truth, the truth is that Hillary Clinton is taking proximity for experience.

Your candidate is an empty suit, demanding credentials where none are due. And if she hyper exaggerates in areas that can be factually dismissed, what else is she lying about?

And her constant, negative, below the belt attacks on Obama, with that ongoing whine whenever he attempts to set the record straight that he isn't living up to his promise to play fair....my goodness. What on earth does she bring to the oval office besides ego?

The Democrats have let this thing get way to personal. Ferraro's comments are ones made in frustration, exposing a deep resentment she has developed for Obama.

Kl: Now you are becoming illogical in you reasoning. If Hillary refused to speak at the NAACP convention for any reason other that death it would ruin her. The media would be obsessed with it and no excuse would satisfy you or the media. As Bob Dole says "you know it, I know it, and the american people know it."

Look SuzeQ and Kitty too:

You are just quoting people's opinions, my guy won three prestigious awards, and yours had to share one with him.

It's a he said-he said, and I'm going with the smarter guy who's won more awards.

And if you have not smarts nor sense of humor, 'tis all the more shame...

Jillian- I don't think that Clinton is evil or racist. I think that maybe some of the comments that are being made are by people who had or have no intention of voting for Clinton regardless of what is said by her or someone within her campaign. Yes! people should look at the issues and one of the issues that we are discussing is the statement made by someone who represents Hillary and is working within her campaign.

Russell- here's the discernment: Hillary committed to speak at this engagement- right? If another entity had contacted Hillary and asked her to speak at a time that would have conflicted w/ that speaking engagement, there would have been a scheduling conflict. That's the discernment. As far as getting away with something, Hillary doesn't answer to Obama or the media.

kl - I just wish for once people would just look at the facts straight and make intelligent assessments on the issues before jumping to conclusions that result in slandering and bashing when it's not necessary.

Calling Clinton evil and a racist and so on is just stupid and ignorant. And why are there some one here so adamant about Clinton firing Ferraro? Did she tell lies? Did she say something wrong? Isn't she entitled to her opinion? I didn't find anything racist about it. I guess for black it hits home harder than for white people - and I admit perhaps white people are not as sensitive to this. But I hear people say Oh because of this now I will never go vote if Hillary is the nominee. Huh? We are electing the president of the US. We have a job as citizens to go out and vote. The argument that some are making makes no sense.

Kl: How do you discern one from the other: One simply says that he or she has a scheduling conflict but they really don't want to attend. No I do not think the media or the Obama people would let her get away with that.

Dave C:

I agree with you - "this woman is unbelievable"....

She is not to be believed.

So does she only renounce, or does she reject Ferraro's support?

This woman is UNbelievable...

russell- there's a big difference between a scheduling conflict and a refusal to speak. I can't speak for anyone else, but if I extended an invite to any candidate and the simply could not attend I would be okay with that. If they refused, I would take a closer look at that individual.

Kl: If the NAACP as it always does extends an invitation to all canidates to come and speak to its members and Hillary Clinton refused because of a scheduleing conflict. I do not think you would be so generous in your reasoning. I think that there would be outrage in the black community and in the media that she sunbbed them. No I think it would cause her irreparable harm and frankly I think it should.

Hillary Clinton had no direct role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland and is a "wee bit silly" for exaggerating the part she played, according to Lord Trimble of Lisnagarvey, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former First Minister of the province.

"I don’t know there was much she did apart from accompanying Bill [Clinton] going around," he said. Her recent statements about being deeply involved were merely "the sort of thing people put in their canvassing leaflets" during elections. "She visited when things were happening, saw what was going on, she can certainly say it was part of her experience. I don’t want to rain on the thing for her but being a cheerleader for something is slightly different from being a principal player."

Lord Trimble shared the Nobel Peace Prize with John Hume, leader of the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party, in 1998. Conall McDevitt, an SDLP negotiator and aide to Mr Hume during the talks, said: "There would have been no contact with her either in person or on the phone. I was with Hume regularly during calls in the months leading up to the Good Friday Agreement when he was taking calls from the White House and they were invariably coming from the president."

Steven King, a negotiator with Lord Trimble’s Ulster Unionist Party, argued that Mrs Clinton might even have helped delay the chances of peace. "She was invited along to some pre-arranged meetings but I don’t think she exactly brought anybody together that hadn’t been brought together already," he said. Mrs Clinton was "a cheerleader for the Irish republican side of the argument", he added.

"She really lost all credibility when on Bill Clinton’s last visit to Northern Ireland [in December 2000] when she hugged and kissed [Sinn Fein leaders] Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness."

Jillian- are you really tired of it? Tune it out.

I'm tired of how every time a white person makes a intelligent assessment about something relating to Obama's heritage as a black man he/she is marked a racist, and all hell breaks loose. Common! Al Sharpton get's on the news and the whole situation and blown out of proportion when really there was nothing racist or racial about it at all. Stop whining. I think this again is to just deflect from the real issues at hand. Just accept the facts of the matter and move on. Stop bashing Hillary and listen to the issues.