Over at Knitting Liberally, my wife (Snow White Of The Left, as "Majority Report" fans may recall, but blogging as knittingliberal) tears into Geraldine Ferraro and her racial comment: "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position ... He happens to be very lucky to be who he is."

Knittingliberal details exactly how "lucky" African-Americans are in our society, ending with a call to Sen. Clinton: "I call on you to "Reject and Denounce" this offensive, and factually insane statement."

I had chastised the Clintons for race-baiting earlier in the campaign.

But it does not appear Ferraro's comment was a planned part on any attempt to limit Obama's appeal because of his race. Clinton and her team are not trying to defend it or explain it in anyway.

However, Clinton has not implemented her own "reject and denounce" standard, shrugging off demands to remove Ferraro from her campaign, even as Ferraro is digging her own hole deeper with her defiance.

On Friday, when Clinton demanded the head of Samantha Power -- after Power's effusive apology -- I wrote: "One of Clinton's main arguments is that she's the better fighter. This is not skilled fighting. This is petty and lame."

Maybe I looked dumb after Power resigned. But I stand by the statement. And now, that lameness is more evident.

Why?

Because as Clinton has been up against the wall and implemented the "kitchen sink," her team has ham-handedly sought to attack Obama on any little opening possible -- without any thought as to how it would play a few days later.

She set up the silly "reject and denounce" bar when Obama's denunciation of an unsolicited supporter was somehow not good enough, without worrying about what it would mean going forward to have set such a standard.

She has already gotten Power's ouster and David Shuster's suspension over less. Yet she is only going to politely disagree with Fox News contributor, ">oil company board member, lobbyist and fundraiser Geraldine Ferraro.

She tried to simultaneously say Obama isn't ready to commander-in-chief, and also more than ready to be V.P. and a heartbeat away. I said on CNN Sunday, "That talking point doesn't hold up over time, but I bet you it's going to be dropped eventually." And so it has.

Further, she has now framed the eventual contest with McCain in completely the wrong way. It's not just that she is saying McCain has an advantage over Obama.

It's that she has framed the contest as one of length of national security resume. McCain wins that argument with either Obama or Clinton.

And that's not the argument. The argument is who has the right foreign policy vision and approach to keep the nation secure.

In her desperation to win, she is not thinking a few months, or even a few days, ahead.

Yes, she is a fighter. She is fighting. But she is not fighting well. This is not reassuring evidence of how she would perform in the fall.