After making racially-charged comments about Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, former vice presidential Democratic nominee Geraldine Ferraro stepped down Wednesday as a surrogate and a member of the finance committee for the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY. "She made the decision that she wants to continue talking about this and didn't want to do this in a way that would cause the campaign problems," a Clinton campaign source told ABC News.
The source insisted that the campaign did not ask Ferraro to leave. That does not mean, however, that the Clinton campaign had not asked her to shut up.
Ferraro had caused the Clinton campaign embarrassment and controversy after telling a California newspaper that if Clinton's rival, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, "was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept."
| Spoken by a woman who, had she not been a woman, would never have been a vice presidential candidate. |
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