tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050620890310827676.post5422535491505143969..comments2023-08-21T10:07:58.051-04:00Comments on Daily AntiKos: Obama's Bank Executive Grandmother Passes AwayFundyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11919458872326059183noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050620890310827676.post-77749154017905233512008-11-04T12:27:00.000-05:002008-11-04T12:27:00.000-05:00WHAT ANONYMOUS LEFT OUT:http://elections.foxnews.c...WHAT ANONYMOUS LEFT OUT:<BR/><BR/>http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/03/21/ferraro-offended-by-comparison-to-pastor-wright/<BR/><BR/><B>Obama Calls Grandmother 'Typical White Person'</B> in Radio Interview<BR/><BR/>Barack Obama called his grandmother a "typical white person" in a radio interview on Thursday, raising eyebrows among some of his critics only days after he sought to bridge racial division in a major campaign speech.<BR/><BR/>FOXNews.com<BR/><BR/>Friday, March 21, 2008<BR/><BR/>Barack Obama called his grandmother a "typical white person" in a radio interview on Thursday, raising eyebrows among some of his critics only days after he sought to bridge racial division in a major campaign speech.<BR/><BR/>Obama had pointed to his mother's mother in his speech Tuesday as an example of someone who harbored fears of blacks based on racial prejudice. The Illinois senator revisited his relationship with his grandmother on Thursday in an interview on 610 WIP, Philadelphia Sports Radio.<BR/><BR/>He denied his grandmother held hatred toward blacks, but described her as a "typical white person."<BR/><BR/>"The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity -- she doesn't," he said. "But she is a typical white person who, you know, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, there is a reaction. That has been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way."<BR/><BR/>On Tuesday, Obama described his grandmother as a woman who was at times fearful of black men.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Geraldine Ferraro complained that Obama had lumped her in with his controversial pastor, whom she called a "racist bigot."<BR/><BR/>Obama mentioned the 1984 vice presidential candidate on Tuesday in his speech on race and his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., whose heated, anti-U.S. sermons raised questions about the company Obama keeps.<BR/><BR/>"To equate what I said with what this racist bigot has said from the pulpit is unbelievable," Ferraro told the Los Angeles newspaper, The Daily Breeze, on Wednesday. "He gave a very good speech on race relations, but he did not address the fact that this man is up there spewing hatred."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050620890310827676.post-47805137308658742782008-11-03T22:48:00.000-05:002008-11-03T22:48:00.000-05:00I really wish you made a lick of sense.I really wish you made a lick of sense.Fundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11919458872326059183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050620890310827676.post-45503410244080962572008-11-03T22:40:00.000-05:002008-11-03T22:40:00.000-05:00I love it. He doesn't try to use her to his advant...I love it. He doesn't try to use her to his advantage and you imply there was a problem with that.<BR/><BR/>However, what he did say about her:<BR/><BR/>..."a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed her by on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."<BR/><BR/>Seems to me he was being pretty honest there, unlike McCainarthy/PutinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com