Ferraro Says Obama Being Black Got Him This Far

It seems that the Obama campaign wants to force her to resign because of what she said:

Ferraro, who sits on Clinton's finance committee and has spoken at her
rallies, sparked the firestorm when she was quoted by a California newspaper
as saying: "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this
position."

That is one of the main problems with the Democrats it seems. Everything seems to stem from race in their thinking. Obama got to this position because he is a good speaker, he actually inspires people, and he might actually win the Presidency because he is a fresh face and not just more of the same like Hillary.

I have to agree with her though when she says that if Obama was a generic white male candidate (John Edwards) then he wouldn't have gotten the *Democratic* nod over Hillary. The Dems have always been the "color-conscious party" instead of the "color-blind" party.

The Dems always seem to make race and issue by repeatedly calling Obama the "black candidate" over and over again. I can tell by looking at a picture of him that he might be a "black candidate" the Dems do not need to point it out over-and-over again. Americans have seen a black person run for other sorts of office before.

However, I would be willing to bet even-money that only the media would be talking about their race if Condoleezza Rice or Colin Powell ran on the Republican ticket. Republicans would be talking about Rice and Powells conservative bonafides and whether they would be electable with the "Bush-deficit" hanging over them. Race would be about the last thing on Republican's minds in a discussion of a Rice or Powell candidacy.

After all, the Republican party has been a pro-black party since its inception in 1854. It was the Democrats who were the Segregationists (George Wallace,) the Klu Klux Klan members (Robert Byrd,) and voted in the Jim Crow laws (Plessy v. Ferguson.) If not for Nixon's "Southern Strategy" blacks would still have a Republican majority to this day.