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I don't even know if I should be linking this but what the hell. I felt bad for Rachel Maddow in this. I think she was trying to respect someone who's an icon to a lot of women. Ferraro actually goes so far as to say that Obama's Annie Oakley riff and the "dirt off your shoulder" move was sexist. We're getting to the point where some folks are just claiming disrespect because they lost. I know there's a lot of theorizing out there about this hurting Obama's ability to pull the votes of women. I'd be more likely to believe that were it not for the fact that one of the great tragedies of modern feminism is its inability to really get a hold on a broad swath of American women. I no more buy that Geraldine Ferraro represents American women, than I buy that Al Sharpton represents American blacks, or that John Hagee represents all church-goers. Anyway, one of the good things about watching this is it dispersed any anger I hold toward Ferraro. She's just a nut, and for the past twenty years she's been ignored. Here is her fifteen minutes, and she's milking it for all its worth. I wish her the best. As I've said before, she is not the future.