The Mental Masturbator

What the Fuck Geraldine Ferraro?

I just read this article about Geraldine Ferraro’s faux-outrage at Obama’s speech. I wasn’t alive when she was vice presidential candidate, but wow, what a bitch. I say this without any intended hyperbole: Geraldine Ferraro is what’s wrong with America. People like her, who express faux-outrage for political purposes disgust me. They have no souls, no morals. What is it she said that’s gotten me so mad? Let’s start with this:

“To equate what I said with what this racist bigot has said from the pulpit is unbelievable,”

First of all, I’m pretty sure he didn’t equate her words to Wright’s words. He equated the reaction to her words to the reaction to Wright’s words. Secondly, and most importantly, dismissing Jeremiah Wright as merely “this racist bigot” is so small and dismissive and exactly the kind of characterization and attitude that Obama was trying to move us past in his speech.

From what I’ve heard of Wright’s sermons, he’s not a racist. He’s a justifiably angry black man who said some inflammatory things. And frankly they’re not even that inflammatory, like “the stuff we have done overseas has now been brought back into our own front yard[re:9/11]. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.” People are really going ape shit over that remark. Yet…it’s true. 9/11 was because of our foreign policy. It was about our troop presence in Muslim lands, specifically Saudi Arabia. I can only hope the people who are freaking out over this line are the same ones who pathetically believe that “they hate us for our freedom” because it would be a shame if reasonable adults got angry over it.

Back to Ferraro, she said “she had ‘no clue’ why Obama would include her in his speech.” Really? You have no idea why he would mention you in his speech about race and politics. Really? This woman is so phony she makes me sick. Also, apparently, “Ferraro also said she could not understand why Obama had called out his own white grandmother for using racial stereotypes that had made him cringe.” Maybe she’s just really stupid, but just for the record he “called out” his grandmother to demonstrate that we all have people in out lives who sometimes say awful things, and to make that point that “I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother.” You can’t disown the people who have been so close to you. Obama is loyal and genuine. Geraldine Ferraro is a bitter phony shell of a woman.

And now for the coup de grâce: what did Ferraro think of the speech?

In sum, however, Ferraro said she thought the speech was “excellent,” and said she understood why Obama could not renounce his association with Wright.

Are you kidding me Geraldine? So you actually liked the speech? And you understand why he couldn’t renounce the Reverend? And the reason you think Obama couldn’t disown Wright is:

“They’re looking at their base. Their base is African-Americans. They’re looking at that and they’re trying to walk a very thin line. They don’t want to offend the African-Americans, and this is the way he did it.”

MOTHERFUCKER