Did Ferraro just endorse McCain?

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re: Did Ferraro just endorse McCain?

Mh — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:47:13 GMT

I like it when people say that they want a down-to-earth leader just like them. Even when the people in question are just the opposite.

Sure, Palin's down-to-earth. But she's nothing like me. She doesn't represent me or my beliefs any more than McCain does, nor do the common man airs they put on appeal to my (I would presume) "elitist" tendencies.

I have more in common with Obama's latte-drinking, arugula-eating, Ivy-educated, pensive, collected nature. He, like me, instead of being on the ground, would rather look skyward. I have no doubt that Palin's a strong person.

But I'd rather have someone with more complexity, flexibility of thought, and not beset by a fatal incuriosity in the world leading a country I like to believe in.

re: Did Ferraro just endorse McCain?

Synova — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:44:26 GMT

If you recall, Ferraro was accused of being racist early on for saying that Obama benefited from being black.

I think that made her really mad.

It would not surprise me one bit if she actually did endorse McCain.

re: Did Ferraro just endorse McCain?

kwo — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:27:48 GMT

Nadine said...

"I will definitely not vote for this ticket although I would have loved a strong experienced woman like Hillary on the ticket."

Please. Four years in the Senate, no prior stint in any elected position, eight years as First Lady--this is not experience. What Ferraro said about Obama applies equally well to Sen. Clinton: if she were anything besides Mrs. Bill Clinton she'd have no more shot at the presidency than Nancy Pelosi or Kay Hutchinson.

re: Did Ferraro just endorse McCain?

Bruce — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:36:27 GMT

>>>>Did you know that Palin cut funding for special needs education.<<<<

If your definition of cutting spending for special needs is tripling it from the year before than I would imagine you would want her to "cut funding" every time...Geez. Stop believe everything Olbermann says and do some research on your own.

Oh...maybe you were being sarcastic? Maybe, maybe not...

re: Did Ferraro just endorse McCain?

Real American — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:13:32 GMT

Actions speak louder than words. Obama talks. McCain walks. She'll endorse McCain/Palin.

re: Did Ferraro just endorse McCain?

Canidae — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:53:45 GMT

Julie said:

"I may support limilted abortion rights but I unlike Obama I do not support infanticide."

Ugh... really, you really think he believes killing infants is ok?

Did you know that Palin cut funding for special needs education.

She also demanded that books be banned from the Wasilla library.

And McCain crashed five planes.

Also you can pop popcorn using cell phones...

http://www.factcheck.org

re: Did Ferraro just endorse McCain?

Peter — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:25:48 GMT

So McCain might get the endorsement of Joe Lieberman *and* Geraldine Ferraro? Anyone ask John Edwards who he's supporting? :-)

re: Did Ferraro just endorse McCain?

Tomas Sancio — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:02:52 GMT

The problem with Hillary now is that if Obama wins, she won't be able to run in 2012 and need to wait 8 more years, even if he is not reelected. But if she doesn't put her weight behind him, then she'll have less chance against a McCain reelection because she didn't attack him. Kind of like a real conundrum for Hillary.

It's too bad Obama didn't select her as a VP, although his reason may have been that he didn't want people to think too much about gender nor race. Let's see if this decision proves to be his undoing.

re: Did Ferraro just endorse McCain?

newsgurl — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:13:04 GMT

Honorably retired from reporter/anchor job, I am now allowed to have an opinion and one of them is this: Women actually have a chance to influence the future of a country that is sliding downhill at an increasingly accelerated rate. Please consider the Republican party's performance over the last 8 years, like wasting a surplus and turning it into a huge deficit that YOUR DAUGHTERS and SONS and your grandchildren will have to pay for. George Bush and his hitmen have stirred up even more hatred in the middle east, making hard core enemies that REQUIRES endangering YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS in a fight without end. Do you think Democrats will appoint more people to the Supreme Court who will support big business and big pharma, and who will tell your daughter that if she is raped (one every six minutes in the U.S.) it is God's will and she must live with the consequences? Is it really any woman over a woman as committed to women as Hillary?

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aging cynic — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:57:58 GMT

Getting back to the main subject:

America is a centrist/center-right country. A faux-conservative vs. a historical leftist will be a gut check for us all. Whether smoking and brain aneurisms are more debilitating than Vietcong beatings and melanomas will dissolve into background static. We are still waiting for an example of Obama renouncing the Chicago power structure. Being Richie Daley's lapdog is "change"? Yikes!

re: Did Ferraro just endorse McCain?

Julie — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:27:26 GMT

I voted for Hillary in the primary and I am a registered Democrat. Palin has more experience than Obama and is a very strong woman. Like many women over 40, I will be voting for McCain/Palin. I may support limilted abortion rights but I unlike Obama I do not support infanticide. I think it is Obama that has extreme views on this issue.

re: Did Ferraro just endorse McCain?

Bob Neer — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:13:31 GMT

Great post, David. I would be surprised if Ferraro actually does endorse McCain, but even if she does I think her views reflect only a tiny extremist fringe, and not the overwhelming majority of Clinton supporters. The reasons for this are as explained by Massachusetts state Reps. Khan and Balser in the piece of mine you cited: (1) as Khan said, Senator Clinton and President Clinton have led their supporters into Obama's camp -- with eloquence and reason, in my opinion; and (2) as Balser said more bluntly, "A victory by John McCain would go against everything Hillary Clinton has fought for her entire life." Indeed, those general arguments were the basis for my thesis that this "rift" is a media invention; the three leaders I cited in my piece were examples. I think recent developments in Massachusetts support my conclusion: as Senate President Murray said today, "This is a desperate and cynical attempt to lure women voters and capitalize on the success of Hillary Clinton. ... You can't just pick any woman for the job. They are not interchangeable."

re: Did Ferraro just endorse McCain?

jvp — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:01:03 GMT

Women believe that McCain only chose her because she is a woman. This surprisingly telling at to how we value ourselves, that we would only be picked for our gender. We might be less cynical and consider that she actually brings more to the table than just her gender, and that McCain knows that. We might try to view it from the perspective that once someone was smart and realized a woman, no matter what she believes was worth the risk because she demonstrates many of the qualities that McCain values. Do you think that the other candidates brought anything to the table other than the same refrain. McCain was smart. Call me naive, but cynicism sometimes blinds one to that which is actually positive!

re: Did Ferraro just endorse McCain?

Rob — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:35:23 GMT

I thought I was going to vote for Obama all the way until a couple weeks ago with his choice of Biden as VP. It makes me doubt there actually will be any change, or if he's just full of fluff.

While I initially reacted with bewilderment about Palin's pick, it reminded me about why I originally liked McCain -- he has a proven record of reform, or change. Haven't decided whether her inexperience is too much, but at the least the race just got a little more interesting