Declare it a Disaster [UPDATED]
The Democratic Party is not a train wreck.
It is a train smashing into a full school bus at a crossing, when that train is carrying chlorine gas, and the train derails, and piles into a densely packed residential neighborhood (which includes a pet store—kittens on special), and then bursts into a fireball the size of the Astrodome, melting the rails with its heat and belching choking black smoke for miles around, from which fall scalding drops of hydrochloric acid.
On a Monday.
Geraldine Ferraro defended her controversial comment that Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign was successful because he was black, telling an interviewer Tuesday that she was being attacked because she was white.
“Any time anybody does anything that in any way pulls this campaign down and says, ‘Let’s address reality and the problems we’re facing in this world,’ you’re accused of being racist, so you have to shut up,” she told the Daily Breeze of Torrance, California. “Racism works in two different directions. I really think they’re attacking me because I’m white. How’s that?”
In another interview Tuesday, she compared Obama’s situation to her own 24 years ago, when she was the first female candidate for vice president.
She told a FOX News interviewer, “I got up and the question was asked, ‘Why do you think Barack Obama is in the place he is today” as the party’s delegate front-runner?
“I said in large measure, because he is black. I said, Let me also say in 1984 — and if I have said it once, I have said it 20, 60, 100 times — in 1984, if my name was Gerard Ferraro instead of Geraldine Ferraro, I would never have been the nominee for vice president,” she said.
In her first interview with Daily Breeze, published late last week, Ferraro said, “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman, 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.”
She also said Hillary Clinton had been the victim of a “sexist media.”
Did I mention the highway bridge abutment? The one holding up half a traffic-choked freeway? You never heard such screaming.
UPDATE
As Michelle notes, the “sexist media” can’t get enough of this bag (my word).
Also like a train wreck.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
March 12, 2008 @ 10:34 am
It is a train smashing into a full school bus at a crossing, when that train is carrying chlorine gas, and the train derails, and piles into a densely packed residential neighborhood (which includes a pet store—kittens on special), and then bursts into a fireball the size of the Astrodome, melting the rails with its heat and belching choking black smoke for miles around, from which fall scalding drops of hydrochloric acid.
You are a genius, BTL.
- Aggie
Mike Roth said,
March 14, 2008 @ 11:09 pm
…and no one heard it, would it be news?