“If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn’t be in the race,” she said.

Obama’s win in Mississippi was largely because of a big victory among black voters. According to exit polls cited by the Associated Press and television networks, he won about 90 percent of the black vote, while getting less than a third of the white vote. Blacks accounted for half the Democratic electorate in Mississippi 

Maybe things would have been different had one of Clinton’s high profile mouth pieces not said the only reason Obama got to where he is was because of his skin color and Team Clinton  had not run around  reminding the people of Mississippi where Obama’s ” Place ” is.

Don’t get all defensive…I’m  just saying

 

and while we’re at it…couldn’t the Mouth Piece have come up with some NEW material?

Aren’t the Clinton’s worth the effort?

A Ferraro flashback

 

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 asset in the campaign. President Reagan suggested Tuesday that people don’t ask Jackson tough questions because of his race. And former representative Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that because of his “radical” views, “if Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn’t be in the race.”

Asked about this at a campaign stop in Buffalo, Jackson at first seemed ready to pounce fiercely on his critics. But then he stopped, took a breath, and said quietly, “Millions of Americans have a point of view different from” Ferraro’s.

Discussing the same point in Washington, Jackson said, “We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got North to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I’m making history.”

Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Hillary