"Democratic Party divisions deepen as Obama parades military support," by Patrick Martin, is an example of the media's complicity, and even leadership, in the arena of racism. This article purports to explain the fall out from Geraldine Ferraro's statements about Barack Obama, without using one word spoken by Geraldine Ferraro. Perhaps because the writer knew that, Geraldine Ferraro's words, would indict her.

Geraldine Ferraro words, "if Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color), he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is," might dissuade the reader from the writer's conclusion that, pointing out the repetitious nature of racial comments by the Clintons and their surrogates, Is "(resorting) to inciting racial polarization." Instead, they might find the perpetrator of racial polarization to be the person shielded by accolades, "former congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, the 1984 Democratic vice-presidential candidate and a prominent Clinton fundraiser."

Unlike the kid gloves the writer uses when applying words to the Clinton Campaign, when it comes to Barack, he gratuitously contributes inflammatory words like "resorting," which brings to mind improper conduct, of the worst kind; and "inciting," a word that generally accompanies "riot." These words were applied to Barack, the victim of identity politics, because he dared to demand that the Clintons stop defining him by his race.

The article goes on to say that it is an "obvious fact" that "Obama’s campaign owes much to his identity as the first African-American candidate with a real chance to win the presidency." like there's some being or entity called "first African-American candidate with a real chance to win the presidency." Missing the real fact that, Barack Obama achieved the status of first African-American candidate with a real chance to win the presidency.

Then the writer blithely accepts Geraldine Ferraro's comparison of Barack Obama's "success, to her own selection as Walter Mondale’s running mate in 1984, due mainly to her gender, not her position as a relatively obscure congresswoman." This comparison negates two critical points. Barack Obama was not selected, as Geraldine Ferraro was. His success is the product of winning primaries, something Geraldine Ferraro never had to do. The only thing Barack Obama's candidacy has in common with Geraldine Ferraro's is, that the media attempted to reduce both of them, to racial and gender caricatures.

Geraldine Ferraro's words encouraged the idea that Barack Obama is nothing more than a black person who got lucky due to affirmative action. Likewise, images of Geraldine Ferraro in curlers, throwing pots and pans at her husband, were used to encourage voters to conclude, she's only a woman. How ironic that the one time victim, has become the voice, for the same identity politics, that derailed her candidacy —

The writer goes on to describe Hillary's reckless and disloyal endorsement of the Republican candidate for the presidency, over Barack Obama as, "effectively blackmailing super delegates with the prospect of a split, over national security issues, if Obama is nominated." But instead of holding her accountable for that, he implicates Barack's campaign as "making it's own none-too-subtle threat that black voters will stay home if Clinton is nominated," when Barack's campaign as made no such suggestion, and Barack has explicitly said, that he would support Hillary, even though, according to him, he can see no indication that she would do the same.

Finally, while the writer chose to leave out Geraldine Ferraro’s inflammatory words, even though they were the foundation of the story, he included the angry words of African-Americans, that were not germane to the story. "A virtual race war, politically," and "Blacks aren’t going to sit back while the winning candidate is told to sit at the back of the bus," are used to keep the racial fires roaring, while creating the false impression that Barack’s campaign is the only side at fault, even though the African Americans quoted, don't represent Barack’s campaign, and the only racially inflammatory words were spoken by Geraldine Ferraro, a representative of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

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