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Democrat Game Rules May Change
March 11, 2008

No, this is not about the Democratic Party rule that deletes two of the 50 states from the upcoming party convention. This is about the contestant rules I wrote about in my March 9 blog.

Now that the Obama “campaign” has crucified a trusted advisor for being honest (as required by the rules), it is Clinton’s turn to stage a crucifixion. As if by design, a unique opportunity has presented itself.

Remember Geraldine Ferraro. Most people won’t, but she was actually the Democratic Party’s vice-presidential nominee in 1984. Her nomination to that status effectively killed that year’s Democratic Party quest for the presidency. Walter Mondale built the Democratic Party coffin and Ferraro hammered in the nails.

Ferraro is now spending time bilking people out of their hard-earned money to pay for Hillary Clinton’s contest entry fees. Go figure. Not that Ferraro is very successful at fund raising. If she were, Hillary would not have had to contribute personal funds to her own campaign a few weeks ago. Apparently Ferraro is about as successful at fund raising as she was in marching the Democratic Party to victory in 1984.

Ferraro offered herself up for crucifixion on Friday when she said publicly, “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.”

As expected, a senior Obama campaign advisor called on Hillary Clinton to “repudiate” Ferraro’s comments. Hillary could crucify Ferraro either by dismissing her from the campaign finance committee or with an appropriately worded response to Ferraro’s comments. But will she? I don’t think so.

After all; Ferraro has raised a few pennies for the Hillary boondoggle, but how would it look if Hillary fired at another woman? That would not endear her to her female supporters. Votes are at stake here. The only way to handle this situation is to change the rules of the game.

OK. from now on we stop crucifying supporters and staffers who become emotional about the competition. We will relinquish that role to Al Sharpton. Come on Al, where are you? Someone uttered a sentence with the word “black” in it and you are strangely silent. Are you ill?

As fate would have it though, Ferraro, like Power is absolutely correct in her assessment of a candidate. Obama would NOT be where he is now if he lived in a different color skin. He would never have garnered the attention of the press if he wasn’t black. His message (whatever that is) would never have received airtime. Imagine a white candidate with no credible experience and no intelligent position on any major issue announcing a run for the presidency. We would all have a good laugh and go about our business. It might not even be worth a good laugh.

But Americans love entertainment and what could be more entertaining. Here we have running for president an older white woman who claims everybody is ganging up on her because she’s a woman, and an inexperienced, well-spoken and intelligent black man with no agenda except to “make history.”

This is the stuff successful sit-coms on television are made of. Remarkably, this show even stayed on the air during the writers strike. In this sitcom game show, neither candidate has the courage or honesty to take on the other candidate, so they both assign that task to staffers and supporters who can then be crucified for doing exactly what they were expected to do.

I suppose this television sitcom will be cancelled about the time of the Democratic Party convention and we will all move on to the business of electing the white male Democrat candidate for president, McCain. This game show is losing more and more viewers every day because the cast members are poor actors and totally unbelievable.

But what of Ferraro? It gets more and more interesting. She is definitely honest but also divisive. Criticism of her comments about Obama motivated her to respond that she is being criticized for her remarks because she is white. Wow, another Hillary. I'm waiting for Ferraro to cry on national television.

Ferraro then implied if Obama defeated Clinton in the party selection game she would not raise money to support his race for the presidency against McCain if he continued to criticize her. Don't you just love politics?

Get this Geraldine; “If Hillary was a man, she would not be in this position. And if she was black, she would not be in this position. She happens to be very lucky to be who she is. And the country is caught up in the concept.” Damned if it doesn’t fit both of the Democratic Party losers running for president.

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