Ferraro leaves Clinton campaign after remarks over Obama's race

by Amy Judd | March 12, 2008 at 04:13 pm
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Geraldine Ferraro, a member of Hillary Clinton's finance committee, stepped down today after a controversy errupted over her comments that Barack Obama would not be getting as far in the Presidential race as he is, if he wasn't black.

Ferraro notified Clinton by letter that she would no longer serve on Clinton's finance committee as "Honorary New York Leadership Council Chair." She wrote that the Obama campaign "is attacking me to hurt you."

Earlier Wednesday, Obama dismissed Ferraro's remarks as "ridiculous," and his campaign aides have demanded Clinton denounce her assertions.

"I think they were wrong-headed," he said at a Chicago news conference. "The notion that it is a great advantage to me to be an African American named Barack Obama and pursue the presidency, I think, is not a view that has been commonly shared by the general public."

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