Ferraro responds to Obama

Fox News:

Geraldine Ferraro complained Thursday about Barack Obama lumping her in with his controversial pastor, whom she called a “racist bigot.”

Obama mentioned Ferraro 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 the Democratic presidential candidate keeps.

“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.”

Ferraro, who left Hillary Clinton’s campaign finance team after saying Obama wouldn’t be where he is if he were white, said she had “no clue” why Obama included her in his speech. She said Obama’s relationship with Wright raises questions about his judgment.

“What this man is doing is he is spewing that stuff out to young people, and to younger people than Obama, and putting it in their heads that it’s OK to say ‘God damn America’ and it’s OK to beat up on white people,” she said. “You don’t preach that from the pulpit.”

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Ferraro is right. The attempted comparison also reflects poorly on Obama's judgment. If he can't tell the difference between what Ferraro said about the opportunities Obama had because he was black and the racist hatred of Wright then he is not paying attention. One was arguing a debatable point and the other was issuing hate speech. There is a difference.