Geraldine Ferraro Resigns, But Why?

 I have not weighed in as of yet, nor did I intend to, on Geraldine Ferraro’s supposed racist comments, but this is just too juicy to pass up any longer. This is what the former vice presidential candidate had to say:

“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman of any color 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.”

 This was naturally perceived by the politically correct left, and by opportunistic people on the right, to be racially motivated. After all, she made almost these same exact comments about Jesse Jackson many years earlier. She has a history here.

 Has anybody stopped to ask the question “could this be true?” Let’s be honest here, Barack Obama has no qualifications to be president, so why is he so popular? He became a United States senator just three years ago, and halfway through his term he has abandoned his duties to the senate to run for a job he is clearly not ready for. Yet he continues to build momentum. Why? It can’t be his record, he has none. He abstained, or voted present to all of the controversial bills that he faced so that he would not be on record.

 Obama is an empty suit with no plan, just rhetoric. He says nothing, but he says it well. So there must be something that he has in his favor. Could it possibly be that if he was just another white man running for president he would already have pulled out of the race? I find this extremely plausible. Surely Dodd, Biden, Edwards, and Kucinich were far more qualified than he, yet they are long gone. Why?

 So why then must a person resign for saying something that they believe to be true? That is where I wanted to focus this post. Why should a person have to resign for saying anything? Do we not have the right to free speech? We used to, but the Democrats have pushed this whole political correctness bullshit down our throats for about twenty years now. Somehow over the course of the last twenty years we have become a society that allows free speech, but only as long as it doesn’t offend anybody. How free is that for free speech? It doesn’t seem so free to me.

 Political correctness was designed by liberals to limit free speech to speech that is non offensive, but who is to decide what is offensive? By limiting what someone can say by limiting all offensive speech, we create this supposed Utopian country where speech is controlled under the guise of political correctness. The problems we are no longer allowed to talk about have not been solved, they are just hidden because we can’t talk about them.

 Republicans have long been stereotyped as being bigoted and sexist, now one of the left’s own is falling prey to the political correctness mindthink of the left, and it is not going over well. How can this happen to the party that supposedly cares so much about political correctness?

 The left has sensitised Americans to the point that nobody knows what is acceptable anymore. The Clinton campaign is trying desperately to attack Obama, yet they are scared to death that they will be branded as racists for attacking him. Liberals are falling into the politically correct trap that they themselves have been setting for all of these years.

 Liberals never dreamed that political correctness would come back to haunt them, after all they are the ones who promise black voters that they will take care of them. They promise minorities the world and deliver nothing. Yet minorities keep voting for Democrats, and Democrats keep failing them. But they keep promising them they will take care of them. Democrats love minorities, that is a fact, however they like their minorities poor and dependent on government for survival. Just search the liberal blogs about Condi Rice and you will see some of the most despicable comments about this successful black woman that you can imagine. Barack Obama is a minority, but he is a successful minority, he threatens them because he does not need them.

 This is why they are having so many problems with Obama. Hillary Clinton’s campaign has done it’s best to keep reminding voters that Obama is black.

 Democrats are attacking each other over this. Keith Oberman said that Hillary was acting like Barack was the Democrat and she was the Republican because her campaign is now percieved as racist. How ignorant, and stereotypical is that comment? And how downright insulting is that type of comment to conservatives? That is what conservatives have been dealing with all these years. 

 They are falling into their own trap. For so long Republicans have had to apologise for benign statements that have been made, now Democrats are beginning to understand also how much of a restriction on free speech they have made.

 Was what Ferraro said racist? Was a simple question worth her resignation? Was it the truth? All of these are viable questions, but nobody dares to ask them. Why? Because political correctness denies us the right to ask such questions.

 Is this right? Not in my opinion, but as they say, what comes around goes around. And it has finally come around, it is too fun to watch.

 Ferraro is a victim of the political correct mindset that she and other liberals have fostered over the years.

 By the way, if Hillary wasn’t a woman, would she still be in the race?