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Holy shit! Is Geraldine Ferrarro singlehandedly destroying the Hillary Clinton campaign AS WE SPEAK and we're too distracted by the Spitzer saga to notice? Nah, we're probably too distracted by the Spitzer saga. But...my sources in the leftist blogger community say that Ferrarro's statement to The Daily Breeze that Barack Obama wouldn't be in the race if he weren't a black man — remeniscient of her 1988 comment that Jesse Jackson wouldn't be in the race if he weren't a black man — has a lot of people REALLY REALLY ANGRY. A Latina political blogger has emailed an angry message to the vaunted Hillary Latino outreach committee. Keith Olbermann is going to do a special skewer-session about it tonight. Me, I'm still in the "dumbfounded" stage.) But I'll say this: her statement didn't actually surprise me. A story: one of my best friends is an ardent Hillary supporter mostly, she confessed to me the other night, because her best friend in high school was a light-skinned black man. "He got voted to lead everything. He'll always be more successful than me. Everyone loves a light-skinned black guy!" she said. I laughed. More »
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