More Old Politics
Geraldine Ferraro resigned from Hillary Clinton’s finance committee yesterday. She said she “wanted to get this off the news.” She said this during a live interview on the NBC Nightly News. It was only one of a series of TV appearances on Wednesday. She wants to “get this off the news?” For some reason, I don’t believe her.
She says her remarks that “if Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position” are divisive only because the Obama campaign has “played this type of a race card.”
They’ve got it right on Daily Kos:
[T]he Clinton campaign is in no hurry to stem the bleeding. Clearly, they’ve made a calculated decision that this is good politics in certain parts of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky, so why put the brakes on it?
What I hope is that this year something fundamental has changed in our politics. What I hope is that the divisive techniques that have succeeded in so many past elections will fail because voters in all fifty states — Democrats, Republicans and Independents alike — will smack the practitioners down and say “Enough!”
