skippy the bush kangaroo

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

ferraro stands by her words but not her candidate

geraldine "the devil made me do it" ferraro stood by her words, insisting what she said was the truth and wasn't racist. but she dropped out of the clinton campaign anyway. cnn:

geraldine ferraro has stepped down from her role as a member of hillary clinton's finance committee.

in a letter to clinton obtained by cnn's suzanne malveaux — who spoke with the former vice presidential candidate shortly after she sent it to clinton — ferraro said she is stepping down so, "i can speak for myself and you can continue to speak for yourself about what is at stake in this campaign."

in a phone conversation with malveaux, ferraro said she was not asked to step down by senator clinton or her campaign.
ferraro insists her words were taken out of context. latimes:

"my comments have been taken so out of context and been spun by the obama campaign as racist," she said today on abc's "good morning america." "that, you know, is doing precisely what they don't want done -- it's going to [divide] the democratic party and dividing us even more."
she went on to insist "i said, 'niggardly!' d - l - y! look it up!"

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1 Comments:

Actually, out of context is better. The more "in context" it gets, the worse it is.
commented by Blogger jiminy jilliker, 11:31 PM PDT  

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