OH NO SHE DIDN'T!!! Geraldine Ferraro was the first U.S. Female Vice Presidential Candidate, when she ran with Walter Mondale. In that general election they were trounced by Ronald Regan and only won one state. What Geraldine Ferraro is trying to say in offensive terms is that she was a "token", basicly the Democrats at that time were trying to make a statement by choosing a woman. She now says Democrats are making a similar statement with Hillary a woman and Barack Obama as an African American, both running for president. Obama officials aren't having it and they are not having Hillary's wink and nod to the statements.
Former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro on Wednesday stood by her comment that Democrat Barack Obama is only where he is because he is black and said the reaction by his campaign was dividing the party.
"My comments have been taken so out of context and have been spun by the Obama campaign as racist that it's doing precisely what they don't want done -- it's going to the Democratic Party and dividing us even more," Ferraro said in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America."
Ferraro, the Democratic vice presidential candidate in 1984 and the only woman ever nominated by a major party for either of the top two U.S. political offices, ignited a flap by telling a California newspaper that "if Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position."
"And if he was a woman 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," Ferraro said.