So Geraldine Ferraro came out to say she was surprised that Obama referenced her in his famous race speech. Really?? While I get her point that her remarks weren’t quite the same as Rev. Wright’s, she still made some very inflammatory statements. She said that Obama’s accomplishments and success in working to become the President of the United States of America are based solely on his skin color. How is that any different than making assumptions that a person’s negative qualities are solely attributable to his or her skin color?

Additionally, let me point out the most asinine statement of all: Ferraro said she was shocked to hear Obama say that he’d heard racist comments from his own white grandmother because “that’s my mother’s generation”. Whaaaaat?? Ferraro was born in 1935. So let’s assume that means her mother was born in 1915. She expects us to believe that she’s shocked to hear white people who came of age during the time of segregation would utter racist sentiments?

Geraldine Ferraro…providing ample fodder for my theory that she was the inspiration for Charlotte Allen’s remarkably idiotic stabs at humor.