Após ter feito comentários racial-carregados sobre o sensor. Barack Obama, D-Ill., nominee democrático presidencial vice anterior Geraldine Ferraro pisou abaixo quarta-feira como um surrogate e um membro do comitê de finanças para a campanha presidencial do sensor. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.

“Fêz a decisão que quer continuar falando sobre esta e não a quis fazer isto em uma maneira que causasse os problemas da campanha,” uma notícia dita fonte do ABC da campanha de Clinton.

A fonte insistiu que a campanha não pediu Ferraro para sair.

Isso não significa, entretanto, que a campanha de Clinton não tinha pedido que fechasse acima.

Ferraro caused the Clinton campaign embarrassment and controversy after telling a California newspaper that if Clinton’s rival, Obama, “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.”

Read Ferraro’s newspaper interview here.

Instead of backing down, Ferraro took to the airwaves to insist there was nothing offensive or wrong about what she’d said, keeping a story alive that fed into a narrative in which quotes from various Clinton campaign surrogates were used to portray the Clinton campaign as race-baiting.

While refraining from calling the comments “racist,” Obama, Wednesday, accused Ferraro of conducting “slice and dice” politics.

“I think that her comments were ridiculous. I think they were wrong-headed,” he said. “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.”

Obama’s campaign, however, called for the Clinton campaign to fire her.

After speaking to Ann Lewis, a senior adviser to the campaign, Ferraro, 72, Wednesday sent an e-mail to Clinton, saying:

“Dear Hillary —

“I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself and you can continue to speak for yourself about what is at stake in this campaign. The Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you. I won’t let that happen. Thank you for everything you have done and continue to do to make this a better world for my children and grandchildren. You have my deep admiration and respect.

“Gerry”

Ferraro, the previous Honorary New York Leadership Council chair for the Clinton campaign, had pledged to continue raising money for Clinton, even if she were to leave the campaign.

Ferraro could not be immediately reached by ABC News for comment. Just this morning, she stood by her controversial comments suggesting Obama wouldn’t be succeeding in the Democratic nomination battle if he weren’t black.

“I am sorry that people think this was a racist comment,” Ferraro said in an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer on “Good Morning America” Wednesday.

At the time, she declined to apologize directly for the firestorm she created with her comments.

Ferraro, the 1984 Democratic vice presidential candidate, told Sawyer she was “absolutely not” sorry for what she’d said, suggesting she had tried to pay Obama a compliment.

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