Geraldine Ferraro Calls Patterson “Lucky”

Immediately after stepping aside from her role in the Clinton campaign so she could continue to express herself freely, Geraldine Ferraro has called David Patterson, Elliot Spitzer’s replacement as Governor of New York, lucky to be both black and a blind man. Speaking to a reporter for the “Stars and Bars Shopper”, a small Florida panhandle weekly, Ms. Ferraro is quoted as saying, “I mean, black and blind both! How lucky can you get? It’s the only reason a guy like that is now governor of New York. If he had 20/20 vision and was white, he’d probably be stuck being an airline pilot.” Asked to amplify her remarks, Ferraro would say only that “If Mr. Patterson had been gay, it would have been like hitting the trifecta”.
Ms. Ferraro denied that her remarks were either racist or insensitive, citing as evidence her collection of Stevie Wonder recordings and her own history of personal handicaps. “Don’t try to say that I am lacking in sympathy for the less fortunate. As I have shown on many occasions, I myself am both tone-deaf and short-sighted”. Ferraro emphasized that she was no longer speaking as an official in the Clinton Campaign. “It’s my foot and my mouth. I’ll put ‘em where I please.”. A Clinton representative, asked to comment on Ms. Ferraro’s decision to step down, expressed regret that she would no longer assist with the campaign. “Geraldine helped Walter Mondale to win Minnesota in the 1984 presidential race, and later he went on to be ambassador to Japan. We were hoping that she could be at least as useful to us this time around”.