'Reexamining the Ferraro fracas'

From Salon's War Room (emphasis added).

[One] reason I held off on coverage is that I think this whole thing has been overblown, mostly by the media but also to some degree by the Obama campaign. You can't begrudge the Obama campaign wanting a positive news cycle and a scalp of its own, considering what happened last week after former Obama advisor Samantha Power called Hillary Clinton a "monster" and that got overblown. Politics is politics, and it's refreshing that one unnamed Obama advisor was willing to admit that when he or she said to the Politico, "The [Clinton campaign has] had a really good run recently. This [Ferraro comment] was an opportunity for us to turn the tide back on them. It's an opportunity for them to have some bad press here." But there are going to be a lot of these spats, coming from both sides, over the next six weeks. It's gone under the radar, because the Obama camp dealt with it in a much faster, better manner, but the Obama campaign faced a similar problem this week when a member of its LGBT leadership team had to resign because of disparaging remarks he made about the Clintons. Dealing with two of these things every week for at least the next six weeks is going to get old very quickly, and it's likely that only a few of the incidents will actually lead to the end of the world.

Moreover, this latest controversy has left me wondering if some of the critics have lost their sense of proportion about the campaign. . . .