Reply #64: Faux outrage. Not news. GF has said same about herself.

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This is manufactured outrage for today, maybe to help somehow in Mississippi. GF has said similar things repeated in interviews, usually discussing that aspect of her being selected as the first woman on the ticket of one of the major parties.

If Geraldine Ferraro had described chance or luck using a phrase like "right place at the right time", would people be reacting the same? She has discussed the aspects of luck or timing in numerous interviews over the last twenty years, long before Obama came on the scene. Many have noted that Obama, like Bill Clinton, had been lucky in his "choices" of enemies and opponents. Making such an observation does diminish that they were prepared to act when they saw the opportunity. Unless you believe that everything is pre-ordained (e.g. part of God's detailed plan for mankind) and you have no ability to change it, then you have to accept that luck or chance or timing play an important part in one's life.

Limiting this to "big" things, Ferraro's statement is so trivially obvious that I see no rational counter-argument. Would Obama be a senator if the Ryan sex scandal had not removed Ryan from the race? Would Obama have been a serious candidate in 1984, 1988, or 2000? Would Bill Clinton have been elected in 1992 without Perot? Probably not, but who can really know.