After all, not only is this guy an actual Muslim, he's inexperienced! He's only been on the City Council for 6 or 7 months while his GOP opponent ("a first-term state representative") has apparently been in the Legislature for over a year.

Obviously, the Republican has passed the "large legislative body" test, while the Democrat has not.

Meanwhile, Geraldine Ferraro stated that Carson got where he is only because he's younger than Elrod.

Since you're catching up on things that were temporarily on the back burner because of the Spitzer mess, might we expect to see a thread started on Geraldine Ferraro's comments?

In particular I'd like to know if Hillary Clinton has denounced, renounced, or rejected those comments.

Also, have those (three?) members of Congress who called for Samantha Power's firing also demanded that Ferraro be fired?

Thanks in advance for answering.

I've never thought much of the Don Johnson (ancient cultural reference) 2-days' stubble look either - and not just because my beard grows like a chia pet sprinkled with Roundup - but PLEASE don't hold up Timmeh as an example of anything that journalists should emulate.

For the sake of argument, I'll agree that the Texas process was not equitable, nor was it fair. How long ago was the process set up and approved by the Texas and/or national Party? I don't know the answer, but I imagine it was at least six months or a year ago, probably longer. Who would've been more likely to have ANY influence on the design/approval of the process: Clinton or Obama?

Is Obama supposed to NOT try to win if the process, which he had no hand in creating, happens to favor him? Should he have ordered the campaign to keep his supporters out of the caucus if they began to outnumber Hillary's? Would THAT be equitable and fair?

BTW, although I'm an Obama supporter like BryanS, who(m?) you were responding to, I'm not related to or connected with him. You can tell us apart because there's no "S" in my name, and he spells "Brian" incorrectly.

"Alex K

Since you're catching up on things that were temporarily on the back burner because of the Spitzer mess, might we expect to see a thread started on Geraldine Ferraro's comments?

In particular I'd like to know if Hillary Clinton has denounced, renounced, or rejected those comments.

Also, have those (three?) members of Congress who called for Samantha Power's firing also demanded that Ferraro be fired?

Thanks in advance for answering.

-- Brian Lupiani Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:21 PM"

Since then, Ferraro has reportedly resigned, though you wouldn't know it in the War Room if it wasn't for pubius maximus' comment above. Thanks, pm.

Here's an excerpt from a pre-resignation AP article on Yahoo news:

""Part of what I think Geraldine Ferraro is doing, and I respect the fact that she was a trailblazer, is to participate in the kind of slice and dice politics that's about race and about gender and about this and that, and that's what Americans are tired of because they recognize that when we divide ourselves in that way we can't solve problems," Obama said on NBC's "Today" show.

Later, at a news conference in Chicago, Obama said he did not think Ferraro's comments were racist.

"I think that her comments were ridiculous. I think they were wrong-headed," he said. "The notion that it is a great advantage to me to be an African American named Barack Obama and pursue the presidency, I think, is not a view that has been commonly shared by the general public.""

Class act. Of course, some Hillary supporters will say he obviously doesn't have the balls to be more forceful and fight dirty like the GOP will - and other Hillary supporters will say he's just too mean and is again injecting race into the campaign and playing the victim.

Great minds think alike, though mine doesn't know how to indent a paragraph.

Also, it was South Carolina where the Bushies spread the "illegitimate black child" rumor about McCain.

Also also, I don't think Clinton has to "condemn" Ferraro's remarks. She does have to denounce AND reject them, though.

In other news, Randi Rhodes of Air America has said that Clinton's campaign is the Blond Ambition Tour. Although Ms Rhodes is not connected to Obama's campaign, I imagine Hillary will be calling for him to denounce, etc., her comments.

The point is, if Alex or some other War Lord would start even one thread on Ferraro (which by my count would be one-third the number about Samantha Power, and ONE-SEVENTH the number about Spitzer), we could post our "race-baiting" comments there.

As to how "completely insane and dishonest a GOP water carrier is", don't you think that's self-evident?

BTW, how would you categorize Obama's response? Would it have been stronger and more dignified if he had said "Shame on you, Geraldine Ferraro!"?

Why hasn't Alex started a Ferraro thread? I'll admit to being denser than most of you, but I haven't really seen an inordinate amount of bias from him either way. So I really don't understand why her statements and the reactions to them have ONLY been mentioned by us.

How about starting a thread on Geraldine Ferraro's comments and the reactions to them? Alex wasn't able to get to it before he left for the day, but I'm sure it's on his "to do" list somewhere.

Thanks a bunch!

Stewsburntmonkey @ 05:19 PM:

"Really the only reason people come here is for the comments."

It's the Kansas O'Flaherty-izing of Salon! Her influence continues even from the comics graveyard!