FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa.— Barack Obama's campaign charged Tuesday that Geraldine Ferraro, a key supporter of Hillary Clinton, acted in a racist way when she recently suggested Obama achieved his place in the Democratic presidential race because he is black.
"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position," the Democratic nominee for vice president in 1984 told the Daily Breeze of Torrance, Calif., in an interview published Friday. "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."
Because we all know how lucky you have to be to be a black man in this country.
"It's regrettable that any of our supporters on both sides—because we both have this experience—say things that kind of veer off into the personal," the New York senator said.
Uh-huh. And how quickly did the Obama aide who called Senator Clinton "a monster" resign?
"First of all left me say I'm sorry people thought it was racist," said the former congresswoman from New York....
"I got up and the question was asked, 'Why do you think Barack Obama is in the place he is today?' with all these candidates, with all these delegates and stuff. And I said in large part because he is black."
Why would anyone think that was racist?
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