Re: “They’re attacking me because I’m white”

Dillon and Sebastian posted on Geraldine Ferraro’s race-based slight of Obama today — and her inexplicable reiteration and defense of it later on.

I agree with Sebastian’s comment that it doesn’t look like the Clinton campaign sent Ferraro out there to make these remarks.

But it’s become another stunning example of how the Clintons work to polarize.   Notice the bizarre responses from camp Clinton today:  First, Wolfson says simply, “we disagree” with Ferraro; when pushed more, Clinton herself said the comment was “regrettable” but that both sides’ supporters have made overly personal comments; then, even more strangely, campaign manager Maggie Williams accuses Obama of playing the race card for calling out the comment; and finally — and most comically — when asked again later why why the Clinton campaign hadn’t simply rejected  Ferraro’s comments, Wolfson said they have ”made clear” that they do.

Huh?

What’s interesting is Wolfson’s use of past tense in saying the campaign “made clear” it rejected the comments — when of course it never did.  Hillary mildly distanced herself from them, and her campaign manager went on the attack to accuse Obama of interjecting race.  This way they succeed in fomenting the idea that Obama’s the one playing up race, all the while winking to whites who secretly (or openly) agree with Ferraro, and then when pressed with the comments head on, they say they “rejected them.”  I seriously wonder if, in the coming days (because I don’t think this will immediately go away), we will ever hear Hillary reject the comments in the present tense.  I doubt it.  It’s a strategy of fomenting racial resentment while painting anyone who calls out their game as inventing controversy, since they “made clear they rejected the comments.” 

The strategy is toxic.  I seriously hope superdelegates are recognizing the huge risks in letting this race go on, and are planning their move.  Between the “McCain’s more qualified” hit and now this, they can’t think this is going to end well.