Geraldine Ferraro Dies

Geraldine Ferraro, the first female Vice Presidential candidate on a major party ticket, has passed away at age 75 of complications from blood cancer. Ferraro, the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1984, was a New York Congresswoman when she was picked by Walter Mondale to be his ticket-mate. They went on to lose in a landslide to the Reagan/Bush ticket.

Ferraro not only took pride in the fact that she was the first woman, but was also the first Italian-American to be on a major party presidential ticket. Speaking for both her gender and heritage, she began her 1984 convention acceptance speech,

"My name is Geraldine Ferraro. I stand before you to proclaim tonight: America is the land where dreams can come true for all of us."

Rest in peace.

Class Vs. Ass

To put a cap (for today anyway) on the Geraldine Ferraro mess, read how someone with humor and grace responds to an ass (see picture, left).

We're counting down the hours until tonight's Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC to see Keith's Special Comment on the Clinton campaign. Last night, he exhibited the anger we and other progressives are feeling at the increasingly shabby, win-at-any-cost, break-any-rule, smear-by-surrogate campaign being run by the Clintonistas. What will it take for the grownups in the Democratic Party to take these putzes out of their sandbox and confiscate their mud pies? At what point do they recognize that not one, but many lines have already been crossed by these hacks?

UPDATE:Watch or read Keith's comment tonight, courtesy of Crooks and Liars.

Uh, Geraldine? Go Away, And Don't Come Back

Geraldine Ferraro's recent statement that "if Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. . .he happens to be very lucky to be who he is" was breathtakingly stupid, and the Clinton team issued a weak statement of regret. Yeah Geraldine, being an young African American with the name "Barack Hussein Obama" is a sure lock in this country for political stardom. Geraldine, a Fux News political "analyst", has been all over the Rethug channel, explaining herself.

Regretably, doubling down on stupid, Ferraro stuffed her other foot in her mouth with a defiant rejoinder:

"Racism works in two different directions. I really think they're attacking me because I'm white. How's that?"

How's that, Geraldine? Well, that's S-T-U-P-I-D. Now, go away and don't come back.