Ferraro's Crazy Rants

I support Obama, but Hillary Clinton has every right to stay in the race through the end of the voting. It's called democracy. However, Clinton supporter Geraldine Ferraro should drop out of sight.

Ferraro said that she wouldn't vote for Obama because he is a sexist. Her reasoning? "He has a penis. People with a penis are sexist." Ferraro could not give an example of sexism from Obama or his campaign. The charge makes no sense. Obama has never said that Clinton is weak, not qualified, or should stay in the kitchen. He's stayed above the fray.

On the other hand, it's been well documented that Hillary Clinton has repeatedly made racially insensitive remarks (The King owes his success to LBJ comment, the Obama talks purdy but there's nothing there comment, the he's too ignorant to be commander in chief comment, the "real" hard-working white people like me better comment). But I've never called her a racist. And if there was a person who would call her a racist, it's me. I call everyone a racist. So Ferraro is totally out of line.

However, Ferraro herself is a racist. Earlier, she said that Obama was lucky to be who he is. If he was white, he wouldn't have achieved the same success. I don't know about that, but I know that if he was white, he wouldn't be accused of hiding his "secret black Muslim" identity. It's ironic that Ferraro would stoop to calling Obama a token, when that was the very accusation tossed against her during her 1984 vice presidential run. Just because someone is a good liberal feminist, doesn't mean they're not a vicious racist. Ferraro is case in point.

Ferraro also blamed the media for their sexism. There are sexist media members and Clinton has been a victim of their treatment. They critique her appearance constantly. They talk about whether she can "control" her husband. But asking her tough questions is not sexist. Ferraro makes about as much sense as Jannero Pargo trying to take over Game 7 for the Hornets against the Spurs. None.

Following Ferraro's example, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe has accused Morgan Tsvangirai of racism for "not letting me win the election without having to rig it." He also claimed, "He is also a racist imperialist because he wouldn't let my military intelligence assassinate him. His death directly helps a black man- me! So he is a racist for not dying." Flawless logic.