I’m mystified about Geraldine’s fixation on Obama’s skin color, too, especially as she touts herself as a civil rights proponent who has done much to assist the African American community. The kindest explanation I can think of is that she’s not well, mentally, and that her problems have influenced her good judgment. Otherwise, she’s just a bitter aging woman who still resents her own political failures and wants to be heard shouting. She’s certainly no help to Hillary’s campaign.

I have to feel for Ferraro being referenced in Obama’s speech (an historical speech that will be read for many generations) and Ferraro is compared by a little more than juxtaposition to Rev. Wright for racism. Geraldine is not a racist and I don’t blame her one bit for how she has been race baited by her objective statement. Everyone is on the band wagon to have a discussion about race, then beats her up for discussing it. Nothing racist in her comment. So many are eager to hear the resentment the blacks harbor, yet the reverse is taboo. Gerladine did also contend that she would not have been the VP candidate had she not been a woman. Let’s give her a break, respect her for her pioneering efforts in equality and feel for the black eye given to her by Obama’s speech that will give a laser beam exposure on Geraldine through the generation than anything else she stood for. Obama’s speech ruined Ferraro’s legacy without being fair enough to include exactly what she said so the generations to come can see if her comments really do compare to Rev. Wrights “GD America”. I feel for her, I truly do.

It’s because if he were white, the liberals would be saying, “We are being suicidal to nominate someone who is ranked as the most liberal member of the senate, to the left of 80% of Americans. His record is anemic, he’s a bumbler when he’s off message, and the general public is repulsed by his anti-American political geneaology. This is McGovern all over again. We’re doomed if he beats Hillary.” But the Obama fans say: “Oh, he’s so inspiring, and so handsome, and makes me feel so good, and promises me everything I’ve always wanted.” It’s a seduction, not a campaign. She bring up the skin color because it has kept him viable as a candidate in liberal circles. She’s trying to get people to “snap out of it” and recognize his political immaturity and lack of executive experience. It reminds me of something I read about a architectural landscape design firm. They found that when they put a water feature in any design proposal, ie. pond, waterfall, pool - that was the design chosen by client, even if the other designs worked better for the rest of property. It got to the point, that, when working with a client, they would take out the water feature so that the client could more rationally examine and analyze the strengths and benefits of each design - then add the water feature back into the final design. Geraldine is simply trying to alert the public to the irrational over-focus on Obama’s main “design feature” that is distracting people from the rest of the landscape. I see prickly pear cactus and some plant-choking ivy that I’m not to happy about.

Why Does Geraldine Ferraro Keep Hammering Away at Barack Obama’s Skin Color? The more interesting question is why does Barack Obama keep hammering away at Barack Obama’s skin color? On the front page of the New York Times Obama said that when he was a young man he was in NYC and would watch white dog owners bring their dogs to black neighborhoods to defecate. I lived in NYC during this time period. I had a dog. I talked to hundreds of dog owners. I never met one who wanted to make a political statement with their dog. Most of them wanted to get out of the horizontal rain and get to work. But now that Obama has alerted me to this white black problem with neighborhoods and dogs, I will be looking for white and / or black people walking through white and / or black neighborhoods doing bad things with their dogs. So much for transcendence.

Why does the Obama campaign only show pictures of him with his fathe and not with his mother? It’s a little cynical of them to portray this guy as a black man when in fact he’s half white.