If the quote in a California newspaper is accurate, Geraldine Ferraro exhibited a monumental lack of judgment and will undoubtedly soon be thrown under the Clinton campaign bus.
The latest controversy ripped between the two campaigns as primary voters in Mississippi cast their ballots in the latest installment of the dramatic Democratic White House race, with Obama tipped for another victory.
Ferraro, who sits on Clinton's finance committee and has spoken at her rallies, sparked the firestorm when she was quoted by a California newspaper as saying: "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position."
Obama, the first African-American with a viable shot at the White House, called the remark by the Democrats' 1984 vice presidential nominee "patently absurd."
"I don't think that Geraldine Ferraro's comments have any place in our politics or the Democratic Party," he told Pennsylvania newspaper The Morning Call.
His campaign clamored for Ferraro's head, noting the swift resignation of an Obama aide last week after her remark that Clinton was a "monster" sparked howls of outrage from the New York senator's team.
At the rate staffers are dropping, the entire campaign staff of both candidates will fit comfortably in a phone booth by the time the convention rolls around. Assuming Ferraro resigns, of course. I'm a little stunned by how badly both campaigns are behaving at the moment. The absolute recklessness of some of the comments by staffers is, I suspect, a result of the staff's frustration over the deadlock – and the lack of a clear path to victory by either candidate. And so, the ugliest aspects of all the identity politics is all coming out at once.
Fun to watch, isn't it?
Best mud-wrestling match ever!