Geraldine Ferraro on Obamamania

ABC: Clinton-backer Ferraro: Obama Where He Is Because He’s Black by Jake Tapper

Clinton campaign finance committee member, former vice presidential candidate, and former Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, D-NY, told the Daily Breeze of Torrance, Ca., that, “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.”

Ferraro neglected to mention party affiliation.

Republican Bobby Jindal of Louisiana became the nation’s first Indian governor, and he was nearly ignored by the national media.

Or Michael Steele? He is black and Republican and the media coverage he received was revolting and racist.

Remember former NFL player Lynn Swann? He ran for governor in Pennsylvania as a Republican (but lost).

How did the media react to Condi Rice and Colin Powell? Their appointments as first ever black Secretaries of State (in Rice’s case, the first black female) didn’t get the coverage that Obama gets. Rice was smeared often for working under a Republican and being black (!).

Liberals nearly derailed Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s appointment to the Supreme Court.

So maybe the media adores Obama for being (half) black, but if he was Republican, you would not have heard of him.