Ferraro: No, I Won't Apologize

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The fallout from Geraldine Ferraro's racially divisive comments about Barack Obama continues. While Hillary Clinton has distanced herself from Ferraro's remark, she has rejected calls to dump Ferraro from her campaign.

Ferraro effectively has told Obama, "You're not the boss of me." In an interview on Fox News, she said: "Every time this comes up, every time there is something to - some opportunity to play the race card - and this is being done by David Axelrod, who knows better, he's his (Obama's) campaign manager - every time they have an opportunity to do it, they do it. They did it against Bill Clinton, and it worked. They shut him up. They did it against (Pennsylvania Gov.) Ed Rendell, it didn't work. And now they're doing it against me."

Ferraro added: "I'm sorry. I said nothing negative. I care about the black vote in this country. I am absolutely thrilled by the historic campaign, and I really don't think this is right that they should attack me."

Filed Under: Democrats, Barack Obama, 2008 President

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