Geraldine Ferraro has died

[Joe Biden 2020]

I didn't even know she was sick, but apparantly she's had cancer for the past 12 years.  I must have known it and forgotten it, possibly.

[Liberalrocks]

The better of the two failed woman vice presidential candidates.  RIP.

She'd have been better than Chuck Schumer too.

No question about that !

[Joe Biden 2020]

The better of the two failed woman vice presidential candidates.  RIP.

She'd have been better than Chuck Schumer too.

I agree with that.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

RIP

[J. J.]

RIP.

[Niemeyerite]

RIP, mrs. Ferraro. She wasn't the kind of democrat I'd vote for, but she was a hard-working politician.

[nclib]

Very sad. Ms. Ferraro certainly was a ground-breaking woman. RIP.

[Badger]

RIP. A groundbreaker and classy woman. Not many people know that before becoming a Congresswoman she was a prosecutor in Queens, specializing in prosecuting cases of sexual assault against children. She talked about how those cases kept her up at night, but I think this reflected her admirable mix of compassion and strength.

I actually met Ferraro briefly and shook her hand the day before the 84 election. It was at a campaign rally at Market Square in downtown Pittsburgh. I was a sophomore in high school working on the Mondale campaign and volunteered to help with the event. Her two daughters who appeared on that Pepsi ad she stared in later were both there too and I got a chance to talk to them momentarily. When she was shaking hands I got to tell her: "I know you've been told this before, but please kick their ass!" (A reference to GWB's silly macho post-debate trash talk caught on mike). She laughed and said, "We will" then moved on---knowing full well the next day would be a deluge. Poor woman had probably been told that by countless callow supporters like myself in the previous two weeks, yet still managed to force a laugh to make the teenage political nerd she was dealing with feel special.

RIP Gerry.

[Joe Biden 2020]

RIP. A groundbreaker and classy woman. Not many people know that before becoming a Congresswoman she was a prosecutor in Queens, specializing in prosecuting cases of sexual assault against children. She talked about how those cases kept her up at night, but I think this reflected her admirable mix of compassion and strength.

I actually met Ferraro briefly and shook her hand the day before the 84 election. It was at a campaign rally at Market Square in downtown Pittsburgh. I was a sophomore in high school working on the Mondale campaign and volunteered to help with the event. Her two daughters who appeared on that Pepsi ad she stared in later were both there too and I got a chance to talk to them momentarily. When she was shaking hands I got to tell her: "I know you've been told this before, but please kick their ass!" (A reference to GWB's silly macho post-debate trash talk caught on mike). She laughed and said, "We will" then moved on---knowing full well the next day would be a deluge. Poor woman had probably been told that by countless callow supporters like myself in the previous two weeks, yet still managed to force a laugh to make the teenage political nerd she was dealing with feel special.

RIP Gerry.

Shouldn't that read GHWB?  Dubya was never Vice President.