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...Ferraro Fireworks...
...NEWS Hillary Clinton supporter Geraldine Ferraro, the 1984 vice-presidential candidate, said of Barack Obama's success, "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position." Obama's camp went into overdrive, accusing Ferraro (and Clinton) of playing the race card...
...RESPONSE Ferraro seemed ready to escalate the race debate, firing back with, "I really think they're attacking me because I'm white." Ultimately, though, Ferraro quit Clinton's finance committee...
...unsettling return to the Reagan Era—still the cause of some mourning in America—viewers of major news programs were treated to the reappearance of 72-year-old Geraldine Ferraro, former congresswoman and the second barrel on the souped-up Daisy Air Rifle that was the 1984 Mondale presidential ticket. Ferraro was defending her claims made in that bastion of political reporting, Torrance, Calif.’s “The Daily Breeze,” that Barack Obama’s political success is tied in some way to the fact that he?...
...Obama's win - his second in four days - came at the end of a day of cross-campaign finger-pointing following comments by the party's 1984 vice presidential nominee, Geraldine Ferraro, a Clinton supporter who suggested that Obama's front-runner status owed more to his race than his talent or effort. Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod accused the Clinton campaign of quietly countenancing such divisive comments; later in the day, Hillary Clinton called Ferraro's comments "regrettable." Obama called Ferraro's remarks "absurd...