“If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn’t be in the race,” she said.
Really. The cite is an April 15, 1988 Washington Post story (byline: Howard Kurtz), available only on Nexis.
Here’s the full context:
Placid of demeanor but pointed in his rhetoric, Jackson struck out repeatedly today against those who suggest his race has been an [...]
(CNN) — Illinois Sen. Barack Obama has won the Texas Democratic caucuses and will get more delegates out of the state than his rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, who won the state’s primary, according to CNN estimates.
Under the Texas Democratic Party’s complex delegate selection plan, Texas voters participated in both a primary and caucuses on March [...]
Obama wins the 30th contest of this election season with Hillary in a distant second with only 14 states won. Not only did Obama gain back the delegates he lost in Ohio, he has padded his lead a little bit more. How Hillary can stand in front of crowds with a striaght face saying that the DNC [...]
Geraldine Ferraro, 1984 VP running mate to Walter Mondale, made some comments yesterday claiming that Barack Obama would not be where he is today if he was not black. Somehow she doesn’t consider this a racist statement and actually played the gender card later in the day saying that the Obama campaign was attacking her [...]
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