Geraldine Ferraro: Kamikazi Pilot or Suicide Bomber for Hillary 08?

[stratomagi]

Personally I think this could be a brilliant, albeit disgusting, strategy that the Clinton Campaign is using. Its quite possible that it was a conscious decision to send Ferraro out to the wolves to defend really indefensible and mind boggling statements. It doesn't matter that Obama himself really is taking the higher ground on this because we all know when the dust settles from this a lot of people really sketchy with the facts are gonna draw familiar lines to connect the dots. People are going to really think Obama is the one injecting race and crying fowl, because to some people (and we all know a few people like this) will find it TYPICAL. It will end up being another thing a black person gets away with because of the "special privilege" of being black. The more she's in the press being criticized the more peoples prejudiced assumptions will come out of the closet. Once again, if true, totally disgusting, but freaking BRILLIANT!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Yes.

Race-baiting might work for Republicans. Now that Clinton's courting the white racist vote in rural Pennsylvania, I don't think it will help to much. Most of them vote republican any way, and it's a closed primary. Of course, she's already lost. And I don't think it will help much with the superdelegate race.

At this point, Clinton needs to start worrying about her legacy. And her legacy's in some deep shit.

[islandmkl]

2. "in many gardens, the seeds that are sowed are not the crops that are reaped"...

it is too early to judge what all the ramifications/fallout this scorched earth policy will yield....

"...many times the seeds are not those of the sweet corn that will nourish many, but the spiny bramble that only serves to injure those that must pluck it from the garden."

[KittyWampus]

3. yes, that's what she'd doing. And it will work in PA. Clinton will get double digit win

But has already lost the nomination.

[stratomagi]

5. I live here in Pittsburgh

I know the people who will do exactly what i mentioned in the OP.

[Steeler1623]

4. Reminds me of Bob Kerrey's "Hussein/madrassa" forays

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

6. Her comments were made February 27 to a paper no one has heard of in a state that already voted

There is no way the comments were strategic. Ferraro was commenting on a race that was over. (On Feb 27 the conventional wisdom was that Obama would sweep Ohio and Texas, and Clinton would concede March 5th. I remember it like it was only weeks ago...)

The comments were published nine days after the interview.

If anyone wanted Ferraro's comments out there, the comments would have been made to some media outlet that actually distributes information widely, and in a timely manner.

And the decision to pitch a fit on the day of the MS primary was an Obama campaign decision.

[Steeler1623]

7. That wasn't the conventional wisdom- she was leading Ohio in the polls then

[mrreowwr_kittty]

9. Bullshit. She was ahead in the polls in both states. Ohio by double digits.

The "conventional wisdom" was that Clinton couldn't win by a big enough margin to catch up to Obama. You know what? The conventional wisdom was right about that.

[earthlover]

8. Obama must take the high ground on this.

If Obama were to go to hard on Ferrarro, he would play into the hands of the meme. He would make himself LOOK like the BLACK candidate. Making him look like the BLACK candidate instead of the mainstream is the primary goal of the Ferrarro meme.

Obama needs to use his surrogates to make his points here. And they need to call Ferrarro out.

It is really disgusting on so many levels this racial realpolitic on the part of the Hillary campaign.

Obama will still probably be the nominee. However, with the DEMOCRATIC candidate raising these racial memes it will just make any racial politics the Republicans try in november all the more effective. Actually, I have read some Republican strategists worried that they cannot use race as an issue without it backfiring. Well...thanks Hillary....maybe now they will be able to be more successful.

The Hillary campaign is really hurting our chances in November with the skortched earth.

[applegrove]

10. I just think Ferraro was being stupid.