Defending herself today, Ms. Ferraro opens by saying she's offended by all the emails, phone calls and all the threats she's getting, and she says, "And it's coming out of the Obama campaign."
I seriously doubt that anyone in the Obama campaign is sending Ms. Ferraro threatening emails. What's likely is she's casually conflating anyone who is offended enough to email her in behalf of Obama with the Obama campaign. Now, maybe that's a "silly" mistake or oversight on her part. But only moments later, in the same interview, she's quick to draw distinctions between herself and the Clinton campaign. She does not allow the commentator to call her a surrogate. She suggests that being on Clinton's Finance Committee doesn't mean she's part of the Clinton campaign. She's her own women, a commentator. She says what she wants. So, she gets it both ways. Angry emailers are "from the Obama" campaign, while she, on the Finance Committee, is not part of the Clinton campaign.
Take a look:
Give me a break Geraldine!
This is such Rovian twistaroni that it really ought to be called out.
And though it's been said before, it bears repeating. It's no accident the Clinton campaign is hip deep in Rovian strategy. They're admirers:
The Clintons recognize the skill Rove has brought to politics and admire his craft, if not his ideology. Just days after the November 2004 election, Bill Clinton pulled Rove aside at the dedication of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library in Arkansas. "Hey, you did a marvelous job, it was just marvelous what you did," Clinton told Rove, according to the book "The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008," by John F. Harris and Mark Halperin. "I want to get you down to the library. I want to talk politics with you. You just did an incredible job, and I'd like to really get together with you and I think we could have a great conversation."
From a Washington Post article in August, 2007 that quotes The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008, by John F. Harris and Mark Halperin.