Girl Can't Help It

If we identify the candidate with the person, and the surrogates for performing surrogate duties, and the day to day of how Hillary Clinton has run her campaign or, if indeed it's being run by others and she's just the star or the product then how it manifests her "brand values" to the world at large, one starts asking questions about how to characterize it.

Is her campaign either blindingly optimistic, Machiavellian, or some sort of scam?

Is it out-of-control narcissistic?

Is it banking on victimization?

Is it suicidal?

All of these questions coalesced around one-time Democratic Vice Presidential nominee, Geraldine Ferraro, and her inject of race into the discourse, under the banner of some form of grievance in older women voters, those who bore the front line battles of the emergent feminist movement.

There's no question that the United States of America are overdue for a female President. This year I'd like it to be House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, after the historic first double impeachment of Cheney and Bush. But Sen. Clinton has not proven herself, on the campaign trail, as particularly worthy or suited to this office. She has not united -- she has divided. And either let or strategically used her surrogates do it for her.

Per Josh Marshall, Geraldine Ferraro, in her own words and appearances:



Ferraro finally quits, but unlike Samantha Powers, who quit the Obama campaign after referring to Hillary as a "monster" in an overseas paper, she doesn't even think of apologizing, doesn't take any responsibility for what she's saying or how she's perceived, instead going on rightwing Bill O'Reilly's show and demanding an apology herself. And this isn't the first time she's blown the racist dogwhistle.

On Kos fetalposition asks the question, "Geraldine Ferraro: Dispicable Racist or Batshit Crazy?"

It's all really a generational thing. Pat Buchanan doesn't get it, but young feminists Rachel Maddow and Keli Goff do.

Now Clinton's off in another one of her Sybil-like personalities and apologized three times in one setting to black voters. But it's many weeks too late to be trying to set Bill Clinton's racial slur/victimization words right after Obama won the South Carolina Primary in "context," especially with the Republican-lite slurs that have followed. No matter how SNL may try and spin it, the die is cast:



It's come to the point that women themselves are starting to ask the most serious question of all:

Is the Hillary Clinton campaign on the verge of setting back the feminist movement a generation or two?