![]() He has experience issues, but if George Bush can learn to run the country, so can this guy.” I’m not saying he isn’t qualified, never did I say that. “Why is his candidacy historic? Can you give me another reason why it is an historic campaign? Why are we afraid to say this? I am absolutely stunned by this whole thing. The same, she said, is true of the Obama candidacy. “In 1984 if my name had been Gerald Ferraro, not Geraldine, I would never have gotten nominated,” she said. Obama’s campaign and her own selection as vice president on Walter F. Ferraro, a former congresswoman from Queens, said that in her remarks in Torrance she was drawing a parallel between the historic nature of Mr. Clinton’s supporters of being racist, saying, “I would defy anybody to look through the record over the last year and a half, or the last year and couple months, and find one instance in which I have said some criticism is racially based.” “I don’t think she intended them in that way.” He dismissed her suggestions that he or his advisers have accused Mrs. “I’m always hesitant to throw around words like ‘racist,’ ” he said. Obama, at a news conference in Chicago, was asked whether he interpreted Ms. But what she said was plainly wrong and divisive.” I’ve known Gerry for a long time, and I don’t believe that. Axelrod, responding in an e-mail message Wednesday night, said, “I never suggested that. And the country is caught up in the concept.” He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And if he was a woman of any color, he would not be in this position. The Daily Breeze, a newspaper in Torrance, reported that she said: “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. Ferraro made the comments that touched off the latest exchange of Democratic brickbats after she gave a paid speech last week to the Torrance Cultural Center in Torrance, Calif. “If you point to something that deals with race, you are immediately a racist?” she said over the phone. ![]() Ferraro, a former vice-presidential nominee, said in a characteristic rush of words that she stood by her remarks and repeatedly accused the Obama campaign of deliberate distortion. Speaking from her midtown Manhattan law office shortly after e-mailing the letter, Mrs. The Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you. “I am stepping down from your finance committee,” she wrote, “so I can speak for myself and you can continue to speak for yourself about what’s at stake in this campaign. Clinton had not discussed the matter directly, will continue to support the senator. ![]()
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