Geraldine Ferraro Says Some More

she surfaced again in the same paper, the Daily Breeze in Torrance, to say that she objected vehemently to Obama's linkage in his speech between her comments and the inflammatory excerpts of sermons by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's longtime pastor.

"To equate what I said with what this racist bigot has said from the pulpit is unbelievable," Ferraro told the paper. "He gave a very good speech on race relations, but he did not address the fact that this man is up there spewing hatred."

Overall, Ferraro said, she thought the speech was "excellent," but she lamented that Obama did not go further in condemning Wright. She surmised that Obama was limited in that regard because he did not want to offend black voters, which she called the base of Obama's support.

"I think they got as far as they could go politically," she said. "They're looking at their base. Their base is African Americans. They're looking at that and they're trying to walk a very thin line. They don't want to offend the African Americans, and this is the way he did it."

Ferraro's fresh remarks may well further stoke the embers, echoing as they do Bill Clinton's comparison of Obama's South Carolina victory in South Carolina to those of Jesse Jackson. It is also arguable on the merits -- African Americans have tilted heavily toward Obama, but Obama has also depended on other demographic groups, such as highly-educated liberals and young voters.

Obama can't seem to draw anybody who is tired of all the lies though. When is being an asshat an asset?