Letters to the Editor
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Alex, there's more to it than that.
I'm relieved that Alex finally posted something about this controversy, although I did find it a little odd that something this potentially damaging and newsworthy was posted after 10PM (and in the middle of Top Chef), especially after the drubbing that Power's mild by comparison comments got from the War Room.
But Ferraro's comments, her history of racially charged comments, and the lack of response from Hillary are much, much worse than Alex presents here.
Ferraro has a history of race baiting comments: On April 15th, 1988, Ferraro said "if Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race."
Ferraro actually made he first comment about Obama being "lucky" that he's black on February 27th on a radio talk show, nearly 3 week ago. I find it hard to believe that no one in Hillary's campaign caught wind of her comments until 3 days ago. Was she encouraged by Hillary's people to keep on commenting or did Hillary's campaign just hope that Ferraro would sanction herself?
Now Ferraro is saying that she deserves an apology, that it's Axelrod's fault that this is even an issue, and she went on Bill O'Reilly to plead her case:
"O'REILLY: I absolutely know they can take you out of context, but do you believe that Barack Obama, if he were a white man, white senator, would not be in the position?
FERRARO: Absolutely"