Source: CNN (CNN) Just over a week after she resigned her post on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign after making controversial comments about Barack Obamas presidential bid, Geraldine Ferraro said she resented being compared the Rev. Full Article at Democratic Underground
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He gave a very good speech on race relations, but he did not address the fact that this man is up there spewing hatred.
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What this man is doing is he is spewing that stuff out to young people, and to younger people than Obama, and putting it in their heads that it's OK to say `Goddamn America' and it's OK to beat up on white people ... You don't preach that from the pulpit.
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To equate what I said with what this racist bigot has said from the pulpit is unbelievable
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nature of race in our society, and we have to break through it
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I think that my campaign has always been built on a confidence in the American people, that we can talk honestly about issues, that we can acknowledge that they're complicated, that we can disagree without being disagreeable…
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Obama acknowledges, with no small irony, that he benefits from his race. If he were white, he once bluntly noted, he would simply be one of nine freshmen senators, almost certainly without a multimillion-dollar book deal and a shred of celebrity. Or would he have been elected at all?
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A blunt, risky speech on race
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On one end of the spectrum, we've heard the implication that my candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action; that it's based solely on the desire of wild- and wide-eyed liberals to purchase racial reconciliation on the cheap ... On the other end, we've heard my former pastor, Jeremiah Wright,...
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What (Wright) is doing is spewing that stuff out to young people and to younger people than Obama and putting it in their heads that its OK to say 'God damn America' and to beat up on white people ... You don't preach that from the pulpit.
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To equate what I said with what this racist bigot has said from the pulpit is unbelievable
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