Ferraro Wants an Apology

No, really.

Ferraro said she has a 40-year history of opposing discrimination of all kinds, including race, and that she was outraged at criticism of her remarks by David Axelrod, Obama's chief media strategist, because he knows her and her record.

"David Axelrod, his campaign manager, has chose to spin this as a racist comment because everytime anybody makes a comment about race who is white — he did it with Bill Clinton, he was successful; he did it with (Pennsylvania governor and Clinton supporter) Ed Rendell, he was less successful; and he is certainly not going to be successful with me," Ferraro told CBS' "The Early Show." "He should have called me up ... He knows I'm not racist."

Seriously? The perpetrator of one of the most egregious race-baiting plays in recent national-level politics is outraged to be called out for it? Well, I'm no David Axelrod, I'm just someone who, at 7 years old, was thrilled to have a woman nominated for vice president. But I'll say it: If Geraldine Ferraro is not personally a racist, she's doing a damned good impression of one. Racist, racist, racist.

And while, per her resignation letter, Ferraro has no intention of refraining from further race-baiting remarks, she's still attempting to blackmail the Obama campaign into that apology she wants:

Ferraro, for her part, told Fox News that "if it makes David [Axelrod] happy, I would get off the [Clinton] finance committee."

But, she added, referring to Axelrod, "He shouldn't really antagonize people like me." If Obama is nominated, Axelrod "is going to come to me and ask me to raise money for Barack Obama, and I will do it for him, too, if he stops doing this kind of horrendous attack."

I've got news for Geraldine Ferraro: Your ideas about campaign finance are almost as out of date as your ideas about race. In February, Barack Obama had nearly three-quarters of a million donors, and with 500,000 contributions already this month, he doesn't need supposed big fundraisers like you to keep him solvent. ("Supposed" because it seems Ferraro had some trouble repaying her debts from her 1998 Senate campaign.) So I doubt they'll be groveling for help, especially after the lavish well-poisoning you're engaging in.