Race vs. gender fight could hurt Democratic Party's chance

0 Comments | USA TODAY, March, 2008

Former congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro can make all the personal attacks on Barack Obama she wants, but she should remember that she was chosen to be Walter Mondale's running mate in 1984 because she was a woman. Some might also argue that Mondale's selection was also a way to spice up a losing presidential campaign in a bad Democratic year.

Ferraro recently told a small California newspaper: "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position." She took heat for her comments and later quit her honorary post on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign ("Ferraro quits Clinton camp," News, Thursday).

I won't be voting for Obama, but I also don't think he should let comments about race, especially from folks within his own political party, take him down....