She is accurate about Obama.

She knows Obama is a phony, but she should be smart enough not to let them use the race card.

The fact is that when it comes to choice of black man and woman, man wins!

By the way, it is not nice for Jack to use the Silician family photo.

You can be called racist too.

I wonder if Obama will demand that Clinton denounce AND reject the support of Ferraro, just like he had to with Farrakhan at the debate. That blew up in Hillary's face. :)

To refer to Ferraro's gangster background is "racist"? Sorry, too far a stretch, even for Hillary.

It's amazing what a poorly run ship the Clinton campaign is. Leaking, rumormongering, infighting, bickering, weeping; the feuding with Mark Penn, the unontrollable Bill, the waffling with Ferraro, the whinging about not being treated fairly and on and on and on. What a wreck.

McCain is going to beat her.

Gotta give Geraldine several "Atta Girls" for volunteering to Bomb Toss for Hillary.

Desperate times call for drastic action.

I think this was totally orchestrated by the Clinton campaign.

1. Clinton was losing black voters to Obama.

2. She gets Geraldine (or Geraldine offers) to say this publicly.

3. Clinton gets to "apologize" to black voters and win some back.

It is not like she called him a Chimp, over and over.

I remember when Geraldine was in Portland back in '84 running against "The Great Communicator" and she came off very rough around the edges, however, she did call a spade a spade!(No race card intended)

It's at least interesting to note that the most offensive charges, the ones with the most dire consequences to the person making them (Hillary is a "monster", Obama is "lucky to be black"), are the ones with a ring of truth to them.

And now that Geraldine "took one for the team", she will probably get a cabinet position, maybe even Vice President.

I'm more worried about McCain appointing John Hagee to something, or even consulting him on policy, or about Obama appointing Dorothy Tillman to a post than I am about Ferraro.

The one thing that tee'd me off in 2004 was how campaign surrogates engaged in various forms of scorched Earth character assassination of the opponent, and the nominee would not absolutely denounce those activities with convincing clarity ("Swift Boating" is the term that comes to mind).

To me, this behavior is indicative of the "politics as usual" I want to see changed. And the politicians (and pundits for that matter) continue to be blind to this perspective.

I used to feel that I would vote for any Democratic candidate over the Republican candidate. Not so much any more. Abstention is now an option on the table for me if Clinton manages to figure out a win.

That photo was my first out-loud laugh of the day (and we need all the laughs we can get; so sue me!)

Frankly, I thought Ferraro's 15 minutes were up a long time ago, but comparing her to vile hate-monger Farrakhan is ridiculous (and a logical fallacy). All the same, her statement was ridiculous, too. If Obama weren't black, then, um, he'd be somebody else, so what's your point? Okay, I know what her point was, but it was still a stupid thing to say.

Leave the gun; take the cannoli.

Pretty damned funny Meg.

"not racist":
"I'm voting for Obama because I want to see a black man in the White House".

"racist":
"Obama's race has a lot to do with his position in the White House contest.

what nonsense, on all sides.

Ronald Reagan was black? Anyway, it makes sense for Ferraro to do the hit job on Obama. I doubt that national voters remember Walter Mondale, much less Ferraro.

HMLA (and Meg),
Bush shouldn't take offense to being called a chimp, after all, he doesn't believe in evolution, right? No harm, no foul.

he doesn't believe in evolution, right?

I think he believes in it; he just isn't involved in it.

Pogo was ahead of his time..

Pfftt... the Dems have been playing "identity politics" for years. Now it has come back to bite them in the a**.