Ferraro steps down for telling the truth

From The Washington Post:

Former Democratic vice presidential nominee Geraldine A. Ferraro resigned from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's finance committee yesterday after her suggestion that Sen. Barack Obama is where he is politically because he is black touched off a renewed round of charges that Clinton's allies are injecting race into the campaign.

Ferraro, a former New York congresswoman and the first woman to run on a major-party presidential ticket, did not apologize for her comments but said that she was resigning because "the Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you" and that she would not let that happen.

In an appearance last night before the National Newspaper Publishers Association, which represents more than 200 black community newspapers, Clinton was asked whether she has "done enough" to make it clear that such remarks will not be tolerated.

"I certainly do repudiate it and I regret deeply that it was said," Clinton replied. "Obviously she doesn't speak for the campaign," she said of Ferraro, adding that "she has resigned from being a member of my very large finance committee."

Clinton distanced herself from Ferraro on Tuesday, implicitly linking her comments to those of Samantha Power, an Obama aide who called Clinton a "monster" and then resigned. Clinton said it was "regrettable" that any of her supporters, or Obama's, "say things that veer off into the personal."

Obama said Ferraro's comments were "ridiculous," "wrong-headed" and "divisive," but he stopped short of calling them racist. His campaign's chief strategist, David Axelrod, told reporters on Tuesday in Pennsylvania that the remarks were "offensive" and called on Clinton to dismiss Ferraro from her campaign.

The thing is that what Ferraro said was true. B. Hussein Obama would not be either a Senator or the leading presidential candidate if he were not black. Of course it is equally true that Hillary Clinton would not be a Senator or presidential candidate if she were not married to a detestable adulterer who happened to have been president himself.

So what, exactly, is Ferraro's point? That the Democrat party has finally bottomed out by pushing two incompetent hacks to the forefront whose only qualification is that they represent two of the grievance industry's most favorite victim groups?

I am beginning to think that God either is very angry with the United States or has a very dark sense of humor. The one time in the past hundred years (at least) when the Democrat party actually represents the lesser of the two evils they are moving heaven and earth to prove to the nation that they don't even deserve to be let into the White House to take the guided tour.

McCain better get his money problems resolved quickly and start aggressively campaigning again so that he can shoot himself in the foot a few times. Maybe by delivering one of his patented raving profanity laced tirades at a 9/11 survivor who dares to suggest that it might be a good idea not to take waterboarding off the table. Just enough to remind the public that not only are his national security creds not really that good but that he is also crazy as a shithouse rat.