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Is the controversy over Geraldine Ferraro's comments overblown?
  • Alex sums it up

    We (and by we I mean the American media and the American public as a whole) are intensely superficial when it comes to choosing our elected officials --Alex K.

    I would add in each election cycle our intensity of need for the superficial is growing. The electorate is like the guy sitting in his car outside a Quickie Mart, unsuccessfully feeding his needs by desperately eating more and more twinkies.