Truth today must be abhorred

This is getting lots of air time today:

Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she disagrees with Geraldine Ferraro, one of her fundraisers and the 1984 vice presidential candidate, for suggesting that Barack Obama only achieved his status in the presidential race because he's black.

In a brief interview with The Associated Press, Clinton was questioned about Ferraro's remarks. The Obama campaign has called on the New York senator to denounce them.

Ferraro told the Daily Breeze of 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."

The newspaper published the interview last Friday.

Clinton said, "I do not agree with that," and later added, "It's regrettable that any of our supporters - on both sides, because we both have this experience - say things that kind of veer off into the personal."

"We ought to keep this on the issues. there are differences between us" on approaches to health care, energy, experience.

Ferraro is a former New York congresswoman and was Walter Mondale's running mate when he was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1984. She has endorsed Clinton and raised money for her campaign.

Obama senior adviser David Axelrod said Ferraro should be removed from her position with the Clinton campaign because of her comments.

"The bottom line is this, when you wink and nod at offensive statements, you're really sending a signal to your supporters that anything goes," Axelrod said in a conference call with reporters on Tuesday.

The "we're in deep dookey" meme continues.  Why is it so damning to state that Obama would be nothing politically if it weren't for his race?  Is it damning to state that Hillary would be nothing politically if it weren't for her marriage to Bill?  This is continued crap of those most stinked up kind.

Geraldine Ferraro's politics I disagree with vehemently.  But hats off to the woman for telling it like it is.  Amazing to me the hide and seek that has to played with as to truth today.  Simply amazing.

Comments

[Morgan K Freeberg]

Ferraro. She motivated me to cast my very first vote. Age 18, there I was, 7:00 a.m. Not so much re-electing Reagan, but voting against Ferraro.

I have a dream.

I have a dream, that one day, the democrat party will throw their support behind someone female who, whatever her politics, whoever she loves and hates, whether she is an atheist or not, whether she believes in globular wormening or not, whether or not she's a card-carrying member of the A.C.L.U., whether she keeps her husband locked up and chained in the basement or whether she bakes cookies and stands by her man --

-- when she speaks, her voicebox puts out soothing, melodic dulcet tones.

CAN THEY DO THIS? In my lifetime, these bitter women who attract all this support from the democrat party can shatter glass every time they open their caustic cakeholes. Ferraro...24 years later, I can't get that sound out of my head. Like a sick chicken. The first vote I ever cast in my life was against her and I couldn't get out early enough in the morning to get it cast. And Hillary is cut from the same cloth. She has that duckbill-resonance YELLING AT ME LIKE I'M A THREE YEAR OLD THAT GOT CAUGHT DRAWING ON THE KITCHEN WALLS ALL THE GODDAMN TIME.

If I spent a week or two trying to find one woman who talks this way, I only have a fifty-fifty chance. If you want me to find three, forget it. But the democrat party can not only find them, it seems to have been applying this as a standard, for generations. If you're female, and you want their support, your voicebox should hurt people.