How did you first become an Obama supporter?

[Rowdyboy]

30. My partner and I started out for Clinton mainly out of loyalty to Bill but were always intrigued by

Obama.

Then in the sping of 2008 Geraldine Ferraro made some very hateful comment that made it easy to switch over top Obama.....From wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Ferraro

In March 2008 she gave an interview with the Daily Breeze in which she said: "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."[175][178][179] Ferraro justified the statements by referring to her own run for vice president. Echoing a statement she wrote about herself in 1988,[30] Ferraro said that "I was talking about historic candidacies and what I started off by saying (was that) if you go back to 1984 and look at my historic candidacy, which I had just talked about all these things, in 1984, if my name was Gerard Ferraro instead of Geraldine Ferraro, I would have never been chosen as a vice-presidential candidate. It had nothing to do with my qualification."[175] Her comments resonated with some older white women, but generated an immediate backlash elsewhere.[180] There was strong criticism and charges of racism from many supporters of Obama[181] and Obama called them "patently absurd".[176] Clinton publicly expressed disagreement with Ferraro's remarks, while Ferraro vehemently denied she was a racist.[175] Again speaking to the Breeze, Ferraro responded to the attacks by saying: "I really think they're attacking me because I'm white. How's that?"[176][182] Ferraro resigned from Clinton's finance committee on March 12, 2008, two days after the firestorm began, saying that she didn't want the Obama camp to use her comments to hurt Clinton's campaign.[183]

Ferraro continued to engage the issue and criticize the Obama campaign via her position as a Fox News Channel contributor.[184][185][186] By early April, Ferraro said people were deluging her with negative comments and trying to get her removed from one of the boards she was on: "This has been the worst three weeks of my life."[186] Ferraro stated in mid-May 2008 that Clinton had "raised this whole woman candidate thing to a whole different level than when I ran".[187] She thought Obama had behaved in a sexist manner and that she might not vote for him.[187]



I still hope Hillary runs and wins in 2016 but sadly I lost all respect for Rep Ferraro when I read the story. A very sad end to a once impressive career.