Ferraro on Crack

Was she a Dixiecrat? Has she switched to Republican in her decades of sabbatical from public view? No, on both counts…in which case, Ms. Ferraro, put the crack pipe down and step away from the microphones. Slowly. I don’t want you to fall and break a hip.

Good God, woman, did you think saying,

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.”

….would win friends and influence people? Would bear out as a moment of honesty? You just happened to say what everyone was thinking? No. No, you didn’t.

Being black in America has never been easy. (Did you happen to see the footage after Hurricane Katrina? Did you happen to see the number of black teen girls that have STDs because their nation is letting them down? Have you seen the poverty numbers broken down by race? How about black inmates in America? Both still hugely disproportionate!)

There were plenty of good white men early on in Democratic race, and you think our country is suddenly giddy for a man of color?

Do you think the KKK shop owner in Laurens, South Carolina is giddy about Reverend Kennedy being in his store?

Do you know where you live?

Do you know what the neocon Republicans have done to this nation in the last 7+ years?

Can you imagine after a Bush and Clinton and Bush that we as a nation might be trying to break a habit and take this country another direction?

Generating a nonsensical, frenzied argument about who has it worse a woman or a black man really misses the fucking point, doesn’t it? (though it is quite Rovian of you)

Wrap you legal brain around that for a moment while disengaging your trap.