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Clinton Addresses Ferraro Resignation
March 12, 2008 8:36 PM
ABC News' Eloise Harper reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton received some tough questions from the National Newspapers Publishers Association in Washington -- ranging in subject from former President’s Clinton’s comments about Jesse Jackson to Geraldine Ferraro. For the first time, Clinton addressed Ferraro's departure from her campaign.
“I said yesterday that I rejected what she said, and I certainly do repudiate it," Clinton said. "I regret deeply that it was said. Obviously, she doesn’t speak for the campaign, she doesn’t speak for any of my positions. And she has resigned from being a member of my very large finance committee.”
Clinton spoke in a relaxed and somber tone as she fielded questions from this African American publishers association.
Clinton was told that her husband’s comments about Jesse Jackson were offensive to the African American community and she was asked how she would re-build ties.
“Well, I want to put that in context," she said. "I am sorry if anyone was offended it was not meant in any way to be offensive.”
Clinton added, “I think that we can be proud of both Jesse Jackson and Sen. Obama. People who go into the arena deserve our appreciation because it is not easy being in public life and, especially, running for president. So I think that from the historical context ,the fact that we are all out there and running is very significant. That doesn’t take away from anybody who came before or what we are doing today.”
March 12, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (65)
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This woman is just UNREAL!! Does she think she is fooling anyone, except her supporters? Her campaign has made a habit of sending surrogates out to do their dirty work--this was simply another example. I would not give her my vote to be dogcatcher and certainly not to be the President of the United States! She will DO ANYTHING, SAY ANYTHING, DESTROY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND SET RACE RELATIONS BACK 100 YEARS if at the end of the day, she gets her way and STEALS THE PRESIDENCY!!! She and her campaign are disgusting!
Posted by: J.L. | Mar 12, 2008 8:48:34 PM
To think that Texas and Ohio could have ended this mess a week ago... Hillary Clinton is not the best choice for the democratic party in '08 and to vote for her now is to want the democrats to lose in November. Why TX and OH democrats couldn't see that is beyond me.
Posted by: dem in chicago | Mar 12, 2008 8:59:26 PM
You're right, dem. Now it's up to the PA democrats.
BTW, Barack won the caucuses in TX and, thus, more delegates than HRC.
Posted by: jac13 | Mar 12, 2008 9:09:13 PM
Ferraro is right that we need to address real issues. The media is wrong for quoting her out of context by not showing the content of the speech preceding the statements. This is an obvious media bias for Obama. Ferror is a human rights activist of 40 years. Obama should have been wise enough to watch the whole speech or at least read the transcript instead of assuming the media coverage was in context. Ferraro resigned and Clinton did damage control just the same as Obama did damage control after Powers who was personally insulting Clinton.
Ferraro is not a racist and Obama owes her an apology. Clinton is also not a racist and has been a human rights activist for many years also. They both have documented records and awards for their work. But he is too immature to consider the entire statement or the records of both these woman that has lead to his ability to become a Senator and a candidate for President. He should be thanking them for all the work they have done on behalf of his race and equal rights.
How will he deal with other cultures and foreign leaders who will undoubtedly make actual personal attacks on him? Will he whine and cry like a baby and bomb them out of his immature anger? Will he fail to listen to what other leaders propose in their entirety making things just as bad or worse as Bush has done? His inability to deal with this in a calm, rational, mature manner is very telling of the fear that many Americans have about his claim to leadership. It is not surprising that so many people are stating they will vote for McCain if he is the nominee without Clinton on the ticket because she will be able to prevent him from making rash judgement calls without considering all the facts.
Posted by: DCVoter | Mar 12, 2008 9:11:19 PM
No Gerri comments were not out of line and she is correct it’s time someone spoke up, there is a perception out there that you should not question anything about Obama, if you mention his past there are problems, use his middle name another problem, put a photo of him it has to be of a certain hue if its too dark you are playing the race card, at every turn there is some nonsensical issue over what you question or what you say about Obama. You have to all stay quiet or be blamed for stirring the race pot.
This man is running for the nominee of the POTUS, and every American black, white, blue or brown has a right to question anything that they are not comfortable with or speak about it. For years we have ridicule our own President called him all kind of names from idiot to dumb, he has been made fun of on every talk show, SNL , stand up comedy show, and we all sit back and get a kick out of it.
Now all of a sudden with Obama we must put on kid gloves not to offend him or the AA, nonsense. When AA comic ridicule Bush in their shows do anyone come out and say respect the man and his office? When Obama’s pastor as I saw on a clip tonight on FOX gesticulates a sexual action to show his congregation what Bill did to Monica and now he is doing the same thing to AA did anyone talk about it, was that not insulting and distasteful also? When Obama’s wife said Hillary cannot even hold he man how can she run the WH what that not an offensive statement that needed the same uproar from all the upright citizens of this land?
I am very happy that someone had the guts to call it as they see it, to say enough is enough. Look at all the comments about Hillary and what wrong is she committing? Should she have to take all that humiliation because she is running against a AA for the democrat nominee position, if she was running against Edwards would it be any different or the rhetoric softer? It is disgustful what is going on, and it sure does not show this election in a good light, if this is the tone that one will get once a AA is running for president, why in heavens name would anyone one to experience this kind of abuse again, or why would any voter want to witness what is going on here ever again.
Posted by: SJ | Mar 12, 2008 9:12:09 PM
Well Dem,
Its because OH voters especially, kinda have the same sentiments Ferraro spoke about. And the Limbaugh dummies ruined TX. Either way, she looses around May 20th with Oregon.
Posted by: ROB | Mar 12, 2008 9:14:15 PM
Obama did not win the delegates from the TX caucus yet. The TX SOS said the votes are still being counted and the processes being investigated and they expect some results by March 29. But the caucus delegates are not relevant because the people of TX voted in the primary and that is what reflects the will of the voters... Clinton hands down. The TX caucus system was designed to control the TX electorate by overriding their primary choice with a limited few caucusing. If you are from TX like myself, you know the details behind why they have both.
Posted by: DCVoter | Mar 12, 2008 9:14:55 PM
Let's hope that the people in PA are smarter than the ones I have to live with here in Texas. The Latino vote put her over the top here but NO ONE said anything ugly about that! But now she is trying to use the fact that the Latinos support her to get the Super Delegates to give it to her! She said they would not support Obama...IF I were Latino? I don't think I would appreciate ANYONE stating how I would vote! She needs to go away and really think about where she took a wrong turn in the road to the White House and wound up a Republican candidate.
Posted by: Brian | Mar 12, 2008 9:21:14 PM
The latino voters support Clinton because of all the work she has done for human rights and their community. Latino voters are not swayed by race... their primary concerns are the economy, immigration, and support for the troops. She has righted many wrongs that were done by the Bush administration to the latino section of the military deployed from TX and returned there without adequate medical care. There was no racial issue involved. Their vote was based on them believing she is the best candidate on the issues that are important to them.
Posted by: DCVoter | Mar 12, 2008 9:25:33 PM
the racist side of the democrat party is showing itself now. who would have beleived it woudl be the Clintons and Elite Dems? And now we are faced with being known as the party of corruption, this is about 16 dems now that heve been involved in sex and money scandals, I hate to see what the Clintons are going to be investigated for, they sure are hiding something on their taxes and the 2000 documents they were supposed to release.
Posted by: Steve | Mar 12, 2008 9:35:02 PM
DC Voter: Bill Clinton helped to set up the caucus sytem. It worked for him. Hillary should ask him about it. Furthermore, in my area Northeast San Antonio, eight precincts were all in one area. Nobody left during the 2-1/2 wait. There was no unpleasantness since most of us talked about family, work, etc. since we had all voted in the primaries and our cards checked that we had done so. Packets with precinct numbers were handed out - not with Clinton or Obama labels on them as some have claimed caused a problem to indicate that they do not live in Texas or just rumor mongering. If you had particular problems in your area, then you need to contact the Texas DNC leader to present them or a local official. And, there is some question around here about whether a lot of people who voted in the primary are actually US citizens or just residents and that is a felony offense! I would prefer that every voter in Texas be verified as being a US citizen. I strongly suspect that the results would be very interesting!
Posted by: KiwiTricia | Mar 12, 2008 9:35:26 PM
I Believe the only reason Hillary is a REAL contender is, she's Bill Clinton wife. Without Bill political connections, she would be no where. I also believe that's the reason she stayed with Bill after his affairSSS.
Posted by: False!!! | Mar 12, 2008 9:44:13 PM
Obama DID win the Texas caucas, He recieved 9 more delegates then she. In the Texas primary she recieved 6 monre delegates. He won Texas by 3 delegates. Check CNN.
Posted by: Vanessa | Mar 12, 2008 9:47:03 PM
Kiwi - I am glad you had a good experience. I spoke with my friends and relatives in Dallas and Houston and Austin and the Austin caucuses went ok but the Houston and Dallas ones were big problems. They mentioned some of the same discrepancies noted in the news and many of the problems were caught on video by voters with cell phones and blackberries. I am sure the TX SOS will sort things out eventually.
However, while you may think Bill Clinton had a hand in the caucus design which I am not disputing, that is not the disparity I am referring to. Areas with more registered democrats get a disproportionate number of delegates. Tom Delay and his cronies illegally redistricted TX to reduce the impact of the growing hispanic electorate. Supreme court rulings have already determined that and as far as I could see on the map, it has not been changed back yet. Not a big surprise since the Reps are still in control of the Gov and legislature there. The end result is that most of south and west TX are unfairly represented in elections including the primaries and caucuses because their areas were redistricted based on registered Republicans. The hispanic voting bloc turnout was so large it reduced the impact of the black voting bloc enough to put Clinton over the top. However, the win is more significant than the delegate apportioning shows due to the above.
Any state that holds open primaries and caucuses (like TX) have had their primaries and caucuses tainted by the Republican vote. While Rush wants to take credit for the Clinton win, the analysts have already looked at the result and it was not in favor of Clinton. The cross over republicans participating in the TX dem primaries and caucuses accounted for 9% of the vote. Most of them voted for Obama not Clinton. Reason? Their goal is to keep the dems fighting and that means do what you have to do to keep the races close. It was clear that Clinton would likely win Texas so they tainted it in Obama's favor as much as possible.
The polls are showing the national shift to Clinton.. she gained 2 more points today although statistically it is stil within the margin of error so it is considered a dead heat at the moment. Prior to TX, that wasnt the case. Clinton still has the momentum in spite of all the "election fixing" by past and present actions of the RNC and its voters.
Posted by: DCVoter | Mar 12, 2008 9:55:05 PM
It's sure nice to see all the racists and sexists in the democratic party on full display. If John McCain backs into the Presidency this fall; the Democrats will have no one else to blame but themselves. But then again you couldn't even beat Bush a second time. With incompetents like Pelosi and Reid as leadship it's no wonder why. The only way Bush and his cronies can succeed is in a vacuum that they themselves have created; And the whole country has to suffer beacuse of them. And on that record of "Accomplishment" they want four years n the White House. The only thing more implausible than a Bush 3rd term; Is a Hilliary 1st. (Or is it 3rd since she was there for all his successes but NONE of his failures.... PLEASE) Give me a Break!!! Hilliary and McCain/Bush are ALL THE SAME!!!
Posted by: cba | Mar 12, 2008 9:58:31 PM
Steve hold your breath. LOL. Clinton is not hiding anything on her taxes. When she reveals them that will knock Obama's claim that there's anything incriminating out the window. So take some breaths man.
Obama ain't gotta clue about how to run this country. He just gives poetry readings. His speeches sound boring now and frankly, afterawhile they ain't that good.
Obama better watch out. He is looking to disenfranchise the voters of FL and MI. What kind of American is that? I hope FL and MI and OH an PA will not go out and vote for Obama if he is the nominee. He's acting like the doesn't need those states, well we'll see come November.
If Obama is so presidential I wonder why superdelegates like Al Gore, Richardson, John Edwards aren't endorsing him. He's int he lead right? They should all be flocking to him, BUT they ain't. They're holding out for Hillary. She might be behind but people still believe in her and knows that she is the better candidate. If she can win PA that's it for Obama. It doesn't matter how many delegates he wins, all that matters is who wins the important states. And that's Hillary by a landslide.
Posted by: takea | Mar 12, 2008 9:59:32 PM
Vanessa - the MSM only projects delegates. The official allocations of delegates have not been made for many states. Try reading news once in a while instead of just blogs or the latest guesses by the media as to who they "think" is ahead in the count. The last state convention is June 29 and all the pledged delegates will not be allocated officially until then. Anything can happen until then.
Posted by: DCVoter | Mar 12, 2008 10:00:01 PM
Vanessa - the TX caucus isn't finished counting the votes nor are they finished allocating delegates. Get your facts straight girl. Hillary won Texas. Primaries take precedence. Caucuses are not democratic and not representative of actual votes.
Posted by: craft | Mar 12, 2008 10:04:22 PM
I am embarrassed, because I gave Bill Clinton the honorary title of being the First Black President.
I honestly thought in my heart, that he understood the plight of African-American.
I truly thought it from the bottom of my heart.
Wow, I feel duped.
Posted by: Jack | Mar 12, 2008 10:12:43 PM
Jack... don't think Obama is going to look out for you. He hasn't once thanked the black community for voting for him... haha. He's only bringing up race when he needs it like in Mississippi. Obama's got his own agenda for being president, and it's not looking for blacks.
I hope Hillary runs independent or has her own ticket in the November - that will destroy Obama from getting the presidency.
Posted by: thetruth | Mar 12, 2008 10:16:48 PM
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