Ed KOCH's letters on the block, including this *BOOM* from Geraldine FERRARO

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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/dear_mr_mayor_NbThJXuDtUUdUc5Z33dJCO

[font size=5]Ed Koch was a pen pal to history[/font]

May 23, 1991


Dear Ed,

The following is personal and off the record.

I was rather taken aback by our conversation last Friday. I will not discuss my comment about you or the context in which it was made. It’s obviously too late to do that. But I must tell you I was surprised to hear you say that I should have called you to explain it.

During the campaign of 1984 when my world was falling down around me and you took a couple of gratuitous slaps at me, I don’t remember your calling to explain. I honestly don’t recall your trying to reach me a few years ago when you made comments about my political future or lack thereof. More recently when you were on the radio and said you thought I was not qualified in 1984 to be vice president and you never supported my candidacy, I didn’t get a message that you had tried to reach me. And when on Friday during our conversation, you misunderstood and started to attack me when I tried to discuss Al’s voting record, I don’t recall you apologizing.

I am sorry if you were hurt by my comment but if this little incident between us makes you a bit more sensitive to the fact that thoughtless comments can hurt terribly, and if it makes me a bit more cautious of those I call friend, than I have done both of us a favor.

Very truly yours, Geraldine A. Ferraro

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1. Let's hope she learned from Koch's error and gives the President an apology. nt

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2. She's dead...

...no apology will be forthcoming.

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3. That would certainly be scary... n/t

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4. Fair enough. (Thank Zeus for Google.) I was focused on my hating on KOCH.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/us/politics/12campaign.html?_r=0

[font size=5]Ferraro’s Obama Remarks Become Talk of Campaign[/font]


By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE and JULIE BOSMAN
Published: March 12, 2008

PHILADELPHIA — The Democratic presidential contest was jolted Tuesday by accusations surrounding race and sex, set off by remarks from Geraldine A. Ferraro that Senator Barack Obama had received preferential treatment because he is a black man.

Ms. Ferraro, the former congresswoman and vice-presidential candidate who backs Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, told The Daily Breeze, a newspaper in Torrance, Calif.: “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.”

She made the comments last week, but on Tuesday, the Obama camp latched on to them, calling them outrageous and demanding that Mrs. Clinton repudiate them.

In an interview on Tuesday night, Ms. Ferraro defended her comments and said she was furious with the Obama campaign, accusing it of twisting her words.

“Every time that campaign is upset about something, they call it racist,” she said. “I will not be discriminated against because I’m white. If they think they’re going to shut up Geraldine Ferraro with that kind of stuff, they don’t know me.”

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6. she was half right

No way a woman could have risen as fast and as far as he did. I do think Edwards proves that a white man could do so.