Is Air America announcer Randi Rhodes wrong when she says that Hillary would rather McCain win the presidency than Obama; thus giving her a shot in 2012? It certainly seems that the Goldwater Girl is reverting to form.
Obama fury over Clinton backer Ferraro’s race remark
Tue Mar 11, 1:07 PM ET
Barack Obama’s White House campaign lashed out in fury Tuesday after a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter attributed his stunning march through US politics to his race.
Obama aide Susan Rice called for Clinton to fire Geraldine Ferraro, the only woman yet to run on a major party’s presidential ticket, after her comments Friday to a Los Angeles newspaper.
“That’s a really outrageous and offensive comment,” Rice said on MSNBC television after Ferraro, who sits on Clinton’s finance committee, had said: “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.”
“It is the sort of comment that we have heard repeatedly, I’m afraid, from some of the Clinton surrogates,” said Rice, Obama’s leading adviser on foreign policy.
She said Ferraro’s remarks were “far worse” than those of another foreign policy aide, Samantha Power, who was forced to resign from the Obama campaign last week for calling Clinton a “monster.”
“I think if Senator Clinton is serious about putting an end to statements that have racial implications, that diminish Barack Obama because he’s an African-American man, then she ought to really repudiate this comment and make it clear that there’s no place in her campaign for people who will say this kind of thing,” Rice said.
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