P.U.M.A Power- Geraldine Ferraro Talks About P.U.M.As on ABC…

Sorry, too lazy to transcribe or find the video right now… But here is a partial transcript taken from Newsbusters, Geraldine as usual, makes a great case.

Here are some excerpts:

FERRARO: You know that, that, was a complaint that we heard from a lot of women. But to be quite frank, it wasn’t Hillary who was complaining. It was us. It was, it was me and several others. In fact if you take a look at the Hillary Clinton voters, there are some people there who are called PUMA….Those are the women who turned around and said that the sexism in the press was so bad during the primaries and they’re furious at the DNC, the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean, and Barack Obama for not speaking up against this. And they say there’s this double standard. If racist — if the media had approached Barack Obama in a racist way, everybody would have been screaming and rightly so. With Hillary, not so. And one of the things I mentioned earler when I was on, on GMA, was I said, you know, there was a guy sitting there with a sign saying “iron my shirts.” Why didn’t the media report that? Does that not indicate that there is sexism in this country? [Actually, quite a few media outlets picked it up.]

Had somebody been there with a sign for Barack Obama that said shine my shoes, would there not have been a reporting of that? No double standard. No double standard. And there are those PUMA people are those people who say “we’re not going to vote for Barack Obama. We’re going to vote for John McCain. Or we’re going to write in Hillary, or what we’re going to do is we’re not going to do anything on the top line.” Those, some of those people, maybe John McCain will pick up. But, you know, it is, it is a very bad place to be. And I have to tell you, even Governor Palin thinks that’s whining. A lot of those PUMA people and I will be watching very carefully to make sure that you treat her just like anybody else. Go to her, her qualifications, go to her experience. Go to whatever you want to. But make sure it’s done on a basis where she’s treated like a guy by the media. No sexism. Because we’ll be looking.

As I said, great stuff. Only thing is this, Geraldine, what do you mean by “those PUMA people and I” ? You are A PUMA person So it’s ok, say it with me, “We PUMAs” See, easy, wasn’t it?

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Geraldine Ferraro on Palin…

Geraldine Ferraro, the first Vice-Presidential candidate of a major political party (Dems ‘84) feels that Sarah Palin’s candidacy will draw a lot of Hillary’s supporters who feel that Dean, Obama and the Media gave Hillary (and women) a raw deal in this election cycle to support the McCain/Palin ticket..

Here’s the vid: