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There little you can do, with words, more hurtful than to tell a person of color who has achieved that it was merely a matter of special preference. It's not just patently untrue, in the case of Obama and others. It's to dismiss all the difficulties involved in making it past the racism that is still so obvious effective. This more than doubles the offense. And if the author is hoping that this is not what Ferraro meant to do, he gives no evidence for that.
He must also be incredibly dismissive of people's common sense assessments of racist views, which I have always found quite apt. (The stakes are high, when it comes to detecting racism.) So this is an attempt to argue against what is clear to almost everyone (but an biased advocate of the Clinton campaign). Ferraro's comment and subsequent comments are racist on their face.
