Geraldine Ferraro speaks up about Palin. (UK Times) Unbelievable.

Oh wow.

Sarah Palin is ...."liberated without preaching women’s liberation".......... "cutting across some of the entrenched positions in America’s culture wars." ???

From The Times
September 5, 2008




http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4677831.ece

I hope she does a Lieberman. What a moron.

when I said she was a complete inhuman asshat. I wonder where the supporters are now?

uguu

Oh, well, I don't need to hear her whining any more at this point.

someone should remind her of what she used to stand for...

old is not in the same league as "racist".

Old is an accurate description, racist is an epithet...

Just sauin'

it's condescending........ just saying. :eyes:

Age-ist is just as bad as racist, in my view.

Ferraro is stupid to say what she did.

n/t

:spray:

And btw, she helped Hillary lose this year. I know that sounds bad, but she seems to be supporting McCain. Based on history, that will mean every single campaign she's been connected to since 1984 has lost.

Does she have any idea what she sounds like? :eyes:

You are DONE, you despicable hag.

Ferraro's anger over Hillary losing the primary to Obama is clouding her judgement.

She went after Jesse year ago too

Fuck you, Geraldine.


You're no liberal.

Has anyone ever sat down and explained this to her? Why is this a talking point of hers?

Palin is willing to destroy the path to equality for all women - for her own political gain. By denying that fact Ferraro is giving Palin a pass because she's a female. This is the very definition of sexism.

Its exposing the phony Democrats.

The diehard Republicans in Dem clothing DLC'ers are pissed that Hillary wasnt the nominee.

After Bush the same corrupt corporate cronies expected to maintain most of their influence with her in office.

Now they're trapped like drowning rats, and they are pissed that Obama could become the President.

pointed out that Ferraro was dog-whistling memes that were quite ugly once one got around to unpacking them?

Well, any takers want to argue with me now? :shrug:

that we can throw Gerry Ferraro and Joe Lieberman out of the Democratic Party? I mean tell them they're unwelcome and have to register to vote as something other than a Democrat?

Please?

At least Lieberman probably realizes he's a traitor.

ZOMG!!! What a wind of change in Washington if a super conservative, anti-choice, anti-environment whack job gets the job of veep -again!!! But no-it is so different this time because she has breasts and a vagina! Crude identity politics at its worst.

I call bullshit. The racism in this election has been much uglier than any sexism. Clinton hasn't been called affirmative action or a Muslim. IMO, the racist legacy and discrimination has been much worse. White women weren't hunted lime animals from their villages, shipped across the world, and sold like cattle. White women weren't lynched for looking at a person of different color. I'm sorry, but if you are comparing histories, then blacks probably deserve this more.

As a white male, I'm an asshole and a privileged class from birth, so feel free to flame away.

been a Senator if her husband hadn't cheated on her.

Actually, a prominent Democrats said that. And more. As opposed to some random idiot at a rally. Ferraro is a fool.

:wtf:

It's more like "liberated without supporting one iota of women's liberation".

So it seems to me that Ferraro is only saying kind things about Palin because she's a woman. Ferraro has become a major sexist. Palin may be a female, she may consider herself liberated, but she supports none of the agenda that women have fought for so hard to achieve. Apparently, you only need to have a vagina to get Ferraro's support, even if your ideas are from the middle ages.

She's an old, embittered, racist shrew. Shrivel up and die already.

as a list of accomplishments, I think you've left yourself open to criticism of those aspects of your life, within reason.

They don't say father of seven children and place sport here dad, John McCain!

Palin and McCain set up their own double standard as far as I'm concerned.

with Trader Joe. She doesn't cares about women's rights.

She's a symbol for failure.

remember that two of our VP choices were Ferraro and Lieberman.

Most of the sexism came from the Right, not Obama, or any other Democrat.

And those two losers with the "Iron My Shirt" stunt in New Hampshire were egged on by a DJ. They had no connection to any campaign.

All but a few of the Hillary supporters have since grown up and moved on. Ferraro would do well to ask herself what is more important: her hurt feelings from the primary campaign, or whether or not all women will have the right to choose in the future.

And will do or say anything to make sure it happens. Well fuck her. She's done.

to take away the rights that we fought so hard for, that so many HAVE fought for... and are still fighting for, according to Gerry. AM I getting this straight?

Disgusting.

feminism has advocated for over the past forty-plus years?

she knows the Supreme Ct is up for grabs,she fully understands what at stake

The negative backfire reaction would have been obvious. I am sure it was some dumb Republicans just trying to stir things up -- "Operation Chaos" types.

The queen? Yeah, there you go. A fine example of a strong woman who worked her way up. :sarcasm:

trying to hurt Obama just because she disgraced herself out of the 2008 campaign

The U.S. Supreme Court is at stake and, depending on who makes the nominations for the upcoming empty slots, it will affect the nation for many years. The basic interpretation of our Constitution is at stake, including the zone of privacy concept by which Roe v. Wade was determined.

Ferraro apparently doesn't see that this is not just about Obama and that much more is at stake than immediately meets the eye.

Lieberman?? Are they both so bitter that they weren't elected when they ran as VP that they turn on the party? I truly can't understand this at all and I'm horrified that I once voted for the tickets they were on.

Ferraro has clearly lost it. Someone needs to duct tape her mouth shut permanently.

I think it's about they never had the mojo, the right timing, the "it" factor. They were in the right place at the wrong time.

Jessee Jackson is another...

They are past their due dates in politics and they need to move on.

But in this case I'll make an exception.

"Cutting across some of the the entrenched positions in the culture war?"

What the fuck are you talking about!?

Where has this woman been for the past twenty years, and could she please go back there?

She should just shut up or become a Rep along with LIEberman.

Are you telling me that you honestly believe that there have been no racist remarks made about Obama, that have gone unchecked during this election? Because that's the way her statement would be true.

She's right that "Iron My shirt" is sexist (though she doesn't seem to recognize, or aknowledge, that it was a publicity stunt and not an Obama supporter). But the statement she made, as a whole, is wrong, because Obama has faced racist attacks that have gone unchecked, as well.

1. "Iron my Shirt" was sexist. It did not cause the tumult in the media the way a poster reading "Shine my Shoes" would have at an Obama rally. She is RIGHT about that.

2. You state that the "Iron My Shirt" was a publicity stunt. Do you have proof of that?

3. I'd like some examples of racism that went unchecked, especially large events. From what I saw, the Clintons were being accused of racism for innocuous remarks. I remember when HRC pointed out that President Johnson was necessary for Civil Rights legislation to be passed, everyone accused her of racism. But what she said was absolutely true: LBJ went out and twisted arms in Congress to get the 1964 Civil Rights act to pass. While the NAACP and MLK deserve a great deal of credit, LBJ was the closer; he was in the position to get the law passed and he did. That is not racist, that's history.

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/01/07/video-the-obligatory-iron-my-shirt-post/

Scroll down a bit.

MPK

Plenty of us spoke up at the time, supporters and non-supporters.

She's playing "identity politics" here...for the person not the issues. Shame she's now turned into a one-issue, low information voter.

you knew she was unglued. I figured she'd say any and everything she wanted that was offensive because media people are still scrambling to hear what her opinion was.

She already told me everything I needed to know in the primary.

Who knew outliers like Libermann and Ferraro would bring Democrats together?


Before the primary, Republicans said Hillary could bring Republicans together. Now McCain has given us more of the far right wing of his party to make us forget why we were arguing in the first place. All we know is they do not deserve chief dog catcher much like the mantle for world domination.

By promising to keep black people out of white neighborhoods


http://talk.nycsubway.org/perl/read?subtalk=185286">http://talk.nycsubway.org/perl/read?subtalk=185286

The site the story is posted on is not authoritative, it's a volunteer-run site not affiliated with the MTA. I've been searching the NY Times archives from 1976-1979, the time the person at your link said Ferraro was marching to stop the Montauk line from stopping in Queens. In fact, there are no articles at all when I searched under "Ferraro AND subway," "Ferraro AND Queens," "Ferraro AND LIRR." Neither could I find any reports on possible subway expansions through Queens. It strikes me as very strange that the NYT wouldn't report on subway expansion plans, neighborhood opposition to such plans (to such an extent that the plans were thwarted), or that a Democrat running for U.S. Congress was a part of subway use suppression.

If anyone has any concrete links to this story, I'd love to see 'em. Given Ferraro's recent behavior--and the fact that she won her Congressional seat in part by describing herself as "a small 'c' conservative"--I don't doubt she's racist. But spreading unsubstantiated rumors? It just doesn't help the discussion or this board.

Welcome to DU.


Edited to say: Oops! I wasn't talking to you, sfexpat! I meant to respond to the post you were responding to. :blush:

She's still speaking through the anger of the treatment Clinton received, but a male candidate with an unwed, pregnant, teen daughter would very much be subject to scrutiny.

When Howard Dean's kid got busted for breaking into that country club and swiping booze, the media was all over it.

What a self-righteous fool/tool.

to the 21st century. then turn her lasers on Palin. A gal can hope...

Although I have a suspicion as to whether Hillary/Bill approve her and Harold Wolfson's messages (he
told Politico the other day that the attacks on Palin ARE sexist. WTF??

Christ on a trailer hitch, woman, will you just register as a fucking Repuke and be done with it?

The Iron My Shirt guys were employees of a shock jock radio show. It was a stunt. It doesn't need "study"

MPK

Ferraro, Lieberman, and to a much lesser extent Edwards (as he's not a traitorous asshat towards party ideals) have all blown up in our face this year.

joined our party. Ferraro is very comfortable with setting womens rights back so that defines her really right there. Especailly after Hillary's finestspeech of her whole career to support our party to the next century.

Palin is "liberated" if you consider that she chooses to both work and have a family - in some ways more liberated than many women on this site who condemn/judge a woman for working while raising a family.

oy!


"Issues such as how a largely liberal media dealt with a Republican woman were, said Ms Ferraro, among those that needed to be studied properly once the election was over."