The first female vice presidential candidate and a fundraiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton, Geraldine Ferraro, admitted through a device known by psychiatrists as projection that she never would have been named as Walter Mondale’s running mate as part of one of the worst tickets in history if she had not been a woman.

“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position,” Geraldine Ferraro told the Daily Breeze of Torrance, Calif., in an interview published Friday regarding the current Democratic presidential front-runner.

The comment drew such a visible laugh among the therapists and psychiatrists of the world that the planet shifted on its axis about one degree.