And G*d Please help us all if we ever have to bear witness to another Keith Olbermann on air self immolation. His yesterday whiney lil girl cryfest, over Hillary's 'inaction' (regards Geraldine). Was scarily painful. Truly some nasty video there folks [proof of a parallel universe (Private Idaho) increases by the day].

Ferraro? Sh*t, back in the day, when still a sapling lib. And had just voted for her for Veep. Was actually a little bit miffed, that one week after the election. Was subjected to her peddling Pepsi on the tube.

You knew the race card was gonna get played, and you knew who by. But is Ferraro's comment off base?
Think on it now; Postulate a white Candidate with Obama's stated list of qualifications, in either party. Would such a person be a front running in the race now, were they not a person of color?

Which is not to say that Hillary Clinton is not similar in her being under-qualified for the position she now has, much less the one she seeks. She's in the position she's in because of the gender factor. And yes, because she's merely a proxy for her erstwhile husband.... a point which the feminst left is lothe to admit even to itself.

In the end, what we have here is two intractable forces, looking for any excuse they can to take offense at the other, and willing to play the race card, or the sexist card, as needed. Welcome to the Democratic party of today. It's like I said elsewhere recently;

Identity politics is of course, by its very nature, racist, sexist, etc. The real fun comes from watching its adherents try to avoid that basic fact.

Certainly, identity politics is at the center of what the Democrat party is all about. Oh... and as I say, it's not all about sex or race... they do have to have a certain mindset... they'd not be interested in Shelby Steele, or Condi Rice. I guess they're just racist, huh? Or maybe this is simply a way to keep your opponant on the defensive?

The reason there is no discussion on this issue is that it has been put off limits (censored through the intimidation weapon called PC))by those very folks that want to keep the black community down -liberal Democrats and black race baiters who all gain power while the community suffers real damage with the destruction of their families and their culture by the big government providers.

Ferraro was also running around in '88 saying virtually the exact same thing about Jesse Jackson:
Ferraro Flashback

Interesting stuff, that.

The Democratic Party has always looked at blacks as the poor sister of their party, one who had no choice but to go along, because otherwise, who is going to stand up for them?

Condescension... that has been the underlying sentiment of every one of the "Clinton's" "racist" remarks. It is not so much that they are "racist" (in the "Strom Thurmond" sense of the word) but racist in the "it took a PRESIDENT to get it done" thereby implying (without ever saying it) that a black man could never be President.

Geraldine Ferraro is another closet racist posing as a "progressive" (like so many others I have known) (Hey... it feels GOOD to vote for the black man) But let one uppity N***A have the gall to actually run for the most powerful position in American politics(and be winning)... And, well, "He would not be here if he wasn't black." (c'mon guys.... When was the last time a black man had the upper hand? Go to court some bored evening... and see who goes to jail, and who not... for the same offenses)

As though Hillary wouldn't be here if she hadn't had the foresight to be married to a serial philanderer?

Say what you want about Barack Obama (Yes, his "blackness" has played a role.... (I wonder why nobody has mentioned his "whiteness")(the fact that this is ignored only shows how "racist" America remains) and his positions.

He is where he is, because of who he is. No more, no less. That is America, is it not? Once upon a time, I thought this was a conservative value. Hell, I thought this was an American value.

Maybe not.

Lets look at the recent candidates (I'm going to exclude president's and VPs because getting them to that level puts them in a whole new category).

H. Clinton
8 years US senate

Obama
7 years state representative
4 years US senate

McCain
4 years US House
22 years US senate

Kerry
19 years US senate

G. W. Bush
6 years state governor

Dole
27 years US senate

W. Clinton
2 years state attorney general
12 years state governor

Dukakis
8 years state representative
10 years state governor

Reagan
8 years state governor

Carter
4 years state senate
4 years state governor

JFK
6 years US house
8 years US senate

So the least legislative experience to get the nod (and win) is JFK with 14 years at the national level. Executive experience seems to be higher rated (e.g. Bush and Carter).

The bottom line is given that both H. Clinton and Obama only have legislative elected experience, whichever one gets the nod will have the least legislative elected experience in the modern era. That doesn't disqualify them, but it does raise the question why they seem to be able to cut in line.

For Hillary, the answer is obviously her husband. The closest that anyone has ever tried to do this is E. Dole. She had 16 years of federal executive branch experience to go with husband's recognition (and failed to get the nod).

For Obama, I can't think of anyone who has risen this fast in the legislative branch at the national level. Edwards comes close (6 years US senate) but then he didn't get the nod.

So something is setting Obama apart. His rhetorical talents are certainly part of that. But do you really see no possibility that his race had anything to do with his faster than normal rise at the national level?

See Lincoln, Abraham. Who didn’t even have a Senate seat — he lost that race.

Of course, he was the nominee of a fledgling party, running eighty years before the television era, and won in a four-way election.

"Obama is not a woman, nor a white man. He's who he is. To say that if he were different, things would be different is to say nothing at all. As a white woman, maybe he would have led a military coup and established himself dictator. Who knows!? Hell, if he were a slightly less inspiring speaker, or had an off-night at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, he wouldn't be in this position either. Similarly, if Hillary Clinton were a black man, it's unlikely that she would have been a national political figure for the past 15 years, as it's unlikely that she would have married another man from Arkansas, and unlikely that the country would have put an interracial, same sex couple in the White House. But so what? This is an election, not Marvel's "What If?" series."

"If in 1984 my name was Gerard Ferraro instead of Geraldine Ferraro, I would never have been the nominee for VP," she said.

Can anyone imagine an unknown white state legislator making his first run for national office being asked to be the keynote speaker for a national political convention? Or being in the lead for his party’s presidential nomination after only three years in the Senate? Really?

See Lincoln, Abraham. Who didn't even have a Senate seat--he lost that race. No, just a lowly House Rep, he was.