Ms. Martin: It was scary last year during the MV7 episode. But it was just a prelude to the ignorance, double standard, and racial intolerance that we have seen during this campaign. I am glad that I had a buffer, because had I just started to see this ugliness I think that I would be more disillusioned than I am now.
I had to cancel my subsrcription to the sopahead blog, they brought me to tears with the ugly and mean things they were saying about Mrs. O.

I feel you on that Vick thing.
I was in Atlanta when that happened and IMO that was a lynching!

I was not a huge Vick fan and rather indifferent to the situation, but I saw hatred that I’d never seen before.

What Geraldine Ferraro, old-school feminists and die-hard HRC female supporters over 50 are trying to do is pull together a group of women who will not vote for Obama in the general election – don’t sleep on this. Some are actually trying to put together a protest campaign.

Are they delusional? Yes. I posted because I cannot believe the height to which this sore loser mentality has soared.

Your comment is incredible.

It paints the full picture of what’s going on here and records perfectly why I’m speechless.

And the Byrd Endorsement though late, I look at it like another SENATOR endorsing Obama. Thats a colleague. I honestly dont think given WVA’s demographics it wouldve made much of a difference.
But the FACT that someone who’s sitting next to both you and your competitor came out for you, I think is big.

Finally,
Listening to Ed Sch. it appears he’s not letting Huckabee off the hook. I dont think we should either. Im sick and tired of the double standard. Let somebody comeout (a barack surrogate) and make a redneck fried possum and mountain dew joke. Not only would it kill BO’s chances of getting that “backard” vote, but the elitist tag would then become his brand name. Even If, Barack didnt say it at all..

This election is historic. The world is watching the coverage intently. I can’t imagine someone sitting in their apartment in the Netherlands or wherever thinking, “I can’t wait to visit WV & KY”. Those two states had all that free advertising and the best they could do was portray themselves as a racist enclave…with Hillary’s help. WV & KY’s public image and tourism will suffer as a result.

As for Ferraro’s comment. She knows this is one for the history books. How will it look for the first viable female candidate to start out with everything going for her, then go down in history with a humiliating defeat.

So, perhaps she and other women are trying to cover up Hillary’s failures by crying sexism while never providing evidence. These women are re-writing history.

Reporters have a responsibility to ask her to elaborate on her statements for the archive. It will be recorded in the History books as “Obama was sexist” and future readers will have to evaluate long after the events have passed. The loser shouldn’t write the narrative.

Further, his endorsement would’ve moved votes in West Virginia–but it would not have moved 41%. Obama may have lost by 29% instead of 38% with Byrd’s endorsement. If he endorsed and the election went that way, his endorsement would now be viewed as “irrelevant,” by the media.

He endorsed six days after his state voted 70-30 the other way. He probably voted for Obama last Tuesday. It’s a valuable endorsement. But Obama still would’ve lost West Virginia even if Byrd had endorsed two weeks ago. It makes sense–it also gives cover to Kentucky politicians (the Lt. Gov. has endorsed Obama) who are undecided but want to back the Democratic Nominee. Byrd is a fine Senator and a fine man. I, for one, appreciate his leadership in the Senate on issues of Iraq, on issues of funding for West Virginia (which helps Maryland too), and his steadfast defense of the Constitution.

He managed to get the FBI and CIA to move parts of their operations to the state and it is likely he is acting on behalf of his constituency now, because when Obama wins, Byrd would prefer that Obama not hold that primary result against the state.

That answer to a trivia question (Geraldine Ferraro) is long past being irrelevant. Her state will be going for Obama in the fall anyhow.

“Ms. Ferraro, who clashed with the Obama campaign about whether she made a racially offensive remark, said she might not either. “I think Obama was terribly sexist,” she said. “

No evidence offered – just the statement!

In addition to the exit poll interviews, John Stewart made them look really, really bad.

Ferraro: I Might Not Vote for Obama

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1984 Democratic veep candidate and Clinton backer tells the NY Times: “I think Obama was terribly sexist.”

Clinton says “Obama can declare himself whatever he wants, but if he doesn’t have the votes, he’s not the nominee.”

Well, sweetie, you don’t have the votes either. And unfortunately for you, Obama has more vote than you. LOL