Everyone is nailing hillary (rightly, KO's SC was dead on last night) for Geraldine Ferraro's comments and her campaign's(at best) lackluster response to the fiasco. There has been plenty of discussion on what this plays into as far as the seemingly(at least) racist tone to the clinton campaign. I want to focus on how this plays into how this plays into a larger narrative on the judgement vs. experience argument.
We can all recite it from memory now.
Hillary's "experience" told her to vote for the authorization to use force in Iraq.
Hillary's "experience" told her to vote for the Kyl-Lieberman amendment.
Hillary's "experience" says that we should keep propping up Musharrif's joke of an attemt to root the real problem in Northern Pakistan.
Now we know though that Hillary's "experience" tells her that it is OK to play on people's fears on the 3:00 AM phone ad.
Hillary's "experience" told her that letting her surrogates even discuss the issue of race in a campaign that ought to be about the issues and the character quality of the candidates.
Specifically, Hillary's "experience" led her to this joke of a response to Ferraro's comments, to have her new campaign manager suggest that it was Obama's fault that this had turned into an albatross, not the comments themselves. This tepid response that is rank with hipocrisy coming out of the Ohio "Reject and Denounce" crap.
I think it's time to finally say it: not only does Hillary's experience not equate to judgement, She has shown that she has quite poor judgement. I was shocked beyond belief that Ferarro gave the resignation letter of I'm not quitting because I should, I'm quitting because Obama demands that I do(which he didn't, we did). Hillary should have demanded when she saw it that Ferraro rewrite it in the language of an adult, not a two-year old
The comments coming out of clinton's campaign have been childish, remorseless, and have no room in the historic campaigns that Hillary and Barack are running.
Even if you want to argue the merits of this, which is gutter politics at its worst, Hillary would not be where she is today were it not for the fact that her last name happens to be Clinton. I would not be were I was today if it were not for my parents. WHO CARES! He is running for president, he is ahead, DEAL WITH IT! campaign on the issues and if people try to drag the campaign down into the gutter, whether they are a low level staffer, or a former (and the first) female vice presidential nominee.
So again, Shame on you, Hillary Clinton! It is time you ran a campaign that is consistent with your message and values, because this BS is unacceptable.