Fresh off being branded as a racist for her comments about Barack Obama, Geraldine Ferraro returned to the more progressive-friendly confines of bashing Clarence Thomas in a speech yesterday in Rhode Island :

"Take a look and think about Justice Thurgood Marshall," said Ferraro, referring to the first black judge to sit on the high court, "who drew on his life experiences as an African-American and as a civil-rights activist to write some of the greatest civil-rights decisions of the sixties and of the entire century."

Then she said that she did not think Thomas showed the same "sensitivity" as Marshall.

Thomas, Ferraro said, acts as a rubber stamp for conservative Justice Antonin Scalia and "votes against affirmative action, which got him into Yale."

Sounds an awful lot like Ferraro is saying Thomas is lucky to be black and sitting on the Court because of his race. Of course, this comment will elicit no complaints from the left - and may in fact win Ms. Ferraro a few points with her progressive pals since few things are more well accepted among the liberal elite than bashing Clarence Thomas.