Ferraro Resigns From Campaign She Claimed Couldn't Fire Her

CNN has Ferraro's unrepentant "resignation letter"

Dear Hillary –

I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself and you can continue to speak for yourself about what is at stake in this campaign.

The Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you.

I won't let that happen...

I used quotation marks around "resignation letter" because Ferraro had continued to insist as recently as yesterday that she wasn't part of the Clinton campaign:

Ferraro said the Clinton campaign cannot fire her because she is not an adviser.

"It's impossible to fire somebody who's not involved with it," she said.

If it's impossible to be fired because you don't work for the campaign, how can you resign?  

If one can think of resignation letters on a continuum of repentant to defiant, this one definitely falls less on the "gee, I'm sorry" side of the continuum and more on the "screw those jerks who are making me step down" side.  She continues to speak the language of a persecuted victim.  And her promise to continue to speak out—should we expect more cozy chats with her adoring ally Bill O'Reilly?--suggests she will continue to spew her theory that there's a hierarchy of persecution that should determine our presidential nominee, and that the near-certainty that Barack Obama will earn the Democratic nomination is tainted, according to Ferraro, because he's Black and Hillary Clinton is a woman.  

Hillary Clinton should not passively allow herself to benefit from Ferraro's race-baiting.  Look what Clinton herself said in the February 26th debate about Barack Obama in her attempt to associate him with a  race-baiter with whom Obama had never been associated and whom he had repeatedly denounced:  

No. I'm just saying that you asked specifically if he would reject it. And there's a difference between denouncing and rejecting. And I think when it comes to this sort of, you know, inflammatory -- I have no doubt that everything that Barack just said is absolutely sincere. But I just think, we've got to be even stronger. We cannot let anyone in any way say these things because of the implications that they have, which can be so far-reaching.

Senator Clinton, you can no longer simply state that it's "regrettable that any of our supporters on both sides say things that veer off into the personal."  It's to for you to personally "reject and denounce" the race-baiting statements of Geraldine Ferraro.  Your failure to do so will make it look like you hope to benefit from the attempts of your allies to create racial divisions and exploit fear.