Letters to the Editor
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@AKA - In answer to your question...
Dear AKA,
In one way, you are absolutely correct. Never did the words “Senator Obama got where he is today thanks to affirmative action” pass her lips. She did not say “affirmative action” and “Senator Obama” in the same sentence. So, kudos, you’ve scored.
Now, if you’re willing to stop playing coyly disingenuous for a nonce, please read these quotes and tell me what they have in common:
- "If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race.” - April 15, 1988, Washington Post.
- "I think what America feels about a woman becoming president takes a very secondary place to Obama's campaign - to a kind of campaign that it would be hard for anyone to run against. For one thing, you have the press, which has been uniquely hard on her. It's been a very sexist media. Some just don't like her. The others have gotten caught up in the Obama campaign.
"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept." – March 7, 2008
- "I was talking about historic candidacies and what I started off by saying (was that) if you go back to 1984 and look at my historic candidacy, which I had just talked about all these things, in 1984 if my name was Gerard Ferraro instead of Geraldine Ferraro, I would have never been chosen as a vice presidential candidate. It had nothing to do with my qualification.” – March 12, 2008
And no, you may not answer by telling me they were all said by Congresswoman Ferraro. There’s something more.
It’s interesting to me that last week I was asking you for a substantive answer to a question, and you blithely ducked it. So, like your candidate, you seem to exist in a “do as I say, not as I do” reality. Good for you. Much easier when you hold others to a higher standard than you hold yourself.