I just want to make some points that I think are very important in this context.

1. Clinton/Obama supporters online are not part of either campaign. Period. That seems obvious, but it needs to be repeated because some people just don't seem to get that difference.

2. Hillary Clinton is not a racist. Barack Obama is not a misogynist. That is just common sense.

3. Barack Obama and has never claimed that Hillary Clinton is a racist. Some people here seem to imply that with their hateful statements, but it is just a fact that he never claimed anything like that, nor did his campaign. In the particular incident we are talking about right now, his campaign was enraged by the alleged double standards that apply within the Clinton campaign, comparing its reaction now to the reaction to the "monster" comment by Samantha Powers. If that is throwing the race card, then I don't what throwing the race card means anymore.

4. Geraldine Ferraro should know much better. Apparently, she doesn't. That's why she should be removed from any post she has in the Clinton campaign, immediately. First, her remarks are utterly stupid and misinformed. How many Black US Senators do we have? And how many women? Got my point already? If not, read again. Secondly - and I give her that she might not be aware of this herself - but her remarks are at the least racially insensitive. They bring up this affirmative action cliche that so many Blacks in a position of power are fighting against. That, somehow, they had an easier time getting to where they are, even though the contrary is still a reality in the US. And it is just a fact that this cliche is still very much alive with low-income White Democrats in rural parts of states like Ohio and Pennsylvania. And they just happen to be the demographics that have/will put Clinton over the top in these states. It is thus - whether intended or not - a dog-whistle of the worst kind. That doesn't imply that Ferraro is a racist. She is most probably not, but her remarks are very ill-advised by all accounts, independently of whether she is a racist or not. Can we agree on that?

5. I'm getting really tired os some of the memes pushed here by some candidate supporters. And frankly, I mean mostly Clinton supporters. But I might be blind to the other side of the story due to my own preferences, I give you that. What really annoys me is when people start spreading rumors and blatant lies and act as if they were facts. In the current context, what really pisses me off is when people put the blame for the current racial controversies on Sen. Obama's shoulders by saying that he played the race card. They don't seem to find it necessary to proof that or even give a quote, they just claim it. That doesn't help. It makes you look small.