[AGL] another one from my funny friend in florida Byron Marshall

[Michael Eisenstadt]

 "I'm a member of the DIL - Democratic Idiot's League", Ferraro boldly
declares

  Reuters

  FERRARO AN IDIOT

  "I'm an idiot," former vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro
boldly said today, "and the entire Clinton camp is a bunch of idiots. Our
closest affinity is with the idiots in the White House."

  Throwing her name with gusto into the Democratic Idiot's League, or DIL,
Geraldine Ferraro said she wanted to demonstrate that the American people
knew what they were doing in not picking her to be vice-president.

  She also stated afterwards that she is completely in agreement with the
strategy of the Clintons  (Willyum and Hillary, running for the Democratic
Party's nomination for President) - which is to destroy the Democratic
Party.

  "This party will be completely what's for when Willyum and Hillary are
through with it," she said.

  DON'T QUOTE ME

  Ferraro objected to the response to her remarks that "black people are
only good for washing my car."

  Ferraro told ABC's "Good Morning America" this morning that "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."

  She stated that the Obama campaign was at fault.

  "The Obama campaign is who is dividing the party," she said. "They divided
the party by running Obama for President when Hillary is the obvious
candidate," she added, nodding her head vigorously.

  "The Obama people are uppity, is what it is," said Ferraro.

  DIL PICKLE

  Ferraro ignited the flap by telling a California newspaper that "if Obama
was a white man, he would not be in this position."

  "And if he was a woman 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,"
Ferraro said.

  Ferraro told ABC she was "absolutely not" sorry for what she said.

  "I believe that," she added.

  TEARFUL EMOTION

  "My concern," she said, visibly showing "emotion", swallowing deeply and
wiping away a  tear, "has been over how I've been treated as well and hurt,
absolutely hurt by how they have taken this thing and spun it to imply that
in any way, any way I am racist," she said.

  "I was just calling a spade a spade," she added with a smirk.

  "What's racist about telling black people that if they won't vote for
Hillary, they deserve to lose the vote?"

  "If they can't get with the groove, they deserve to be at the back of the
bus," she stated forthrightly.

  'SLICE AND DICE'

  When asked about Ferraro's remarks, Obama told ABC that being an "African
American man named Barack Obama" was not the quickest path to becoming U.S.
president. If nominated and then elected, Obama would be the first black
U.S. president.

  "Anybody who knows the history of this country I think would not take too
seriously the notion that this has been a huge advantage, but I don't think
it's disadvantaged either," Obama said.

  On NBC's "Today" show, Obama said: "Part of what Geraldine Ferraro is
doing, and I respect the fact that she was a trailblazer, is to participate
in the kind of slice and dice politics that's about race and about gender
and about this and that and that's what Americans are tired of because they
recognize that when we divide ourselves in that way, we can't solve
problems."

  THERE THEY GO AGAIN

  Ferraro is a former U.S. representative from New York state, which is
presently reeling from the news that its Democratic Governer, and prominent
Hillary supporter, is a member of a prostitution ring. Ferraro and her
presidential running mate Walter Mondale lost in 1984 in a landslide to
Republican Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, the current president's
father.

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