Ferraro resigns from Clinton’s finance committee
The media swarm and pressure from Obama’s spokespeople and other supporters worked:
Wednesday open thread
Having a busy afternoon. Will be back later tonight to catch up.
Was Gerry Ferraro right or wrong?
I see the dust-up over Geraldine Ferraro’s controversial remarks about Obama and race continues today, with Ben Smith at The Politico quoting comments she made during Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential run that sound just like what she said yesterday. Ferraro is not backing down from what she said and suggested in a follow-up interview with the Torrance Daily Breeze that the criticism of her remarks about BO is happening because she’s white.
The Mississippi primary (FINAL UPDATE: THE DELEGATE COUNT)
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Gerry Ferraro throws Clinton campaign in hot water over ‘controversial’ remark about race
1984 Democrat Vice Presidential candidate and current Clinton campaign finance committee member Geraldine Ferraro has given the Clinton campaign a headache it didn’t need going into today’s MS primary with remarks she made to the Torrance Daily Breeze which suggested that BO wouldn’t be where he is today in the Dem race for the nomination if he weren’t black: