The XX Factor: What women really think.

Sex vs. Race, Part X

Here is Geraldine Ferraro defending herself against Barack Obama's accusations. His base is African-Americans? What is it with this generation of American feminists? All she left out was "articulate."

Overall, Ferraro said, she thought the speech was "excellent," but she lamented that Obama did not go further in condemning Jeremiah Wright. She surmised that Obama was limited in that regard because he did not want to offend black voters, whom she called the base of Obama's support.

"I think they got as far as they could go politically," she said. "They're looking at their base. Their base is African-Americans. They're looking at that and they're trying to walk a very thin line. They don't want to offend the African-Americans, and this is the way he did it."