Cafferty: BET founder brings race back into the race

Submitted by Rick Honcho on Tuesday, 15 April 20085 Comments

The billionaire founder of Black Entertainment Television says Barack Obama wouldn’t be his party’s leading presidential candidate if he was white.

Hillary Clinton supporter Bob Johnson has revived comments previously made by Geraldine Ferraro, telling The Charlotte Observer,

“What I believe Ferraro meant is that if you take a freshman senator from Illinois called ‘Jerry Smith’ and he says I’m going to run for president, would he start off with 90 percent of the black vote? And the answer is, probably not… Geraldine Ferraro said it right. The problem is, Geraldine Ferraro is white. This campaign has such a hair-trigger on anything racial … it is almost impossible for anybody to say anything.”

Ferraro stepped down last month as an adviser to the Clinton campaign after she said something similar.

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lwebb said:

CNN certainly gives far more time to the Clinton campaign than either of the other candidates. I feel when there are three candidates running they should have equal time?
I am a Canadian and am most interested in your election but upset by the bias shown by CNN. CNN seems to find to have Rev Wright on all the time, how about some of Hillary’s faults, is she can lie and that’s all okay? LWebb

- 5 May 2008 at 1:29 pm

dbryao said:

Pat buchanan monday night called michelle obama more than once a GAL wold he call laura bush a gal a gal is considered degatory to a black female

- 25 August 2008 at 10:23 pm

Janet Lambert said:

You are so biased I will never watch CNN news again
YOU prefer the GLOOM & DOOM of the OBama campaign to fair and balanced news. Get a clue! I’m from Illinois and I can tell you he never did anything but get sworn in to office on the Krain not the bible as any real Christaian.
He is just a Chicago gangster who takes money from the poor like the people he worked for. Ask how he went to Harvard and who paid for it I can tell you it was not his grandparents!

- 16 September 2008 at 4:18 pm

Anonymous said:

because the united states dont wont the world to know how dumb plain is

- 24 September 2008 at 4:25 pm

Rick Honcho said:

I am usually a good judge of character, Mr. Anonymous, you need to educate yourself. I hope you do not make this argument around your peers because they may think you are a little slooow. Go get your GED, brother-man.

Rick

- 24 September 2008 at 6:31 pm