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The Risks of Umbrage
During a day’s worth of high-octane umbrage-taking over Geraldine
Ferraro’s comments about Barack Obama, Ferraro herself was unrepentant.
“If it makes David [Axelrod] happy I would get off the
finance committee. But I’m telling David that I will raise money for Hillary. And
if Barack Obama is the candidate, he shouldn’t really antagonize people like
me. Because he’s going to come to me and ask me to raise money for Barack Obama,
and I would do it for him too, if he stops doing this kind of horrendous attacks
at me.”
She has a point. There’s a risk in all this How dare you! perception warfare that
you alienate Democrats who would otherwise be glad to help out. Of course, for Obama, a sympathy vote now is worth as much or more than a dollar later.
About Christopher Beam
- Christopher Beam is a Slate political reporter.
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