Ferraro cut loose from Clinton campaign

The Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire reports that the Clinton campaign bid adieu to Geraldine Ferraro today over her ill-considered remarks about Barak Obama;

Obama senior adviser David Axelrod Tuesday pressed the Clinton campaign to separate itself from what he deemed “very, very poorly chosen and offensive” words.

Ferraro herself has not backed down from her remarks. “My comments have been taken so out of context and have been spun by the Obama campaign as racist that it’s doing precisely what they don’t want done — it’s going to the Democratic Party and dividing us even more,” Ferraro said this morning on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

I can see now that there’ll be daily demands from the Obama campaign to the McCain campaign to dismiss staffers during this election season. Everything that’s true is considered offensive -living in DC for 9 years, I have some experience with that eggshell-walking.

Ferraro is the second major Clinton surrogate to be distanced from the campaign over racial remarks. The first was New Hampshire co-chairman Bill Shaheen. Obama’s campaign dropped foreign policy adviser Samantha Power last week after she made disparaging remarks about Clinton.

So I guess the candidate with one staffer left will be declared the winner. Big Dog welcomes Ferraro to our club of folks who offend everyone with every word we speak.

While they’re playing musical staffers, Obama decided to make himself look presidential and hired soldier-poets to make up rhymes for his name on a movie set;

Sen. Barack Obama took to the podium this afternoon at Chicago’s Museum of History in a setting that looked to replicate the East Room of the White House, complete with red carpet and flags for each of the military branches.

Four of the retired officers delivered brief remarks touting the Illinois senator’s judgment and poise. Gen. Merrill “Tony” McPeak offered up a couple of nicknames: “No Shock Barack. No Drama Obama.”

Cute, huh? Everyone knows that only the most effective commanders can write bumperstickers. McPeak, you might remember advised the Dean campaign, then switched to the Kerry campaign and spent the rest of 2004 preaching that “Bush must go“.

Now that he’s campaigning for Obama, we can figure that it wasn’t really Bush that had to go, but all Republicans. McPeak’s claim to fame was redesigning the Air Force uniform – most changes were undone after he retired .

But the setting illustrated the weaknesses facing either Democratic candidate against Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who has made his national security experience the core of his campaign at a time that both Democratic candidates have attacked each other over foreign policy experience and judgment.

In recent weeks, Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York has suggested that her rival may not be qualified to be commander in chief. Pressed to say whether he believed Sen. Clinton was qualified to be commander in chief, Obama answered positively. “Yes, as I believe Sen. McCain is and as I believe I am.”

Yes, because Obama (or Clinton, for that matter) proved himself a leader…how?

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