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Then . . .
‘It’s clear this election they’re having is not going to count for anything.’
-- Hillary Rodham Clinton, in an October 2007 public radio call-in program, on the disputed Michigan primary
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Now . . .
‘If you are a voter from Florida or Michigan, you know that we should count your vote. The nearly 2 1/2 million Americans in those two states who participated in the primary elections are in danger of being excluded from our democratic process, and I think that’s wrong.’
-- Clinton, in a speech this week to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
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Now . . .
‘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.’
-- Geraldine Ferraro, the 1984 Democratic vice presidential nominee and a supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, in an interview last week with the Daily Breeze of Torrance
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Then . . .
Given his ‘radical’ views, ‘if Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn’t be in the race.’
-- Ferraro, in 1988, commenting on Jackson’s run for the Democratic presidential nomination
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