{"id":14876,"date":"2008-03-12T17:20:59","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T21:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14876.html"},"modified":"2008-03-12T17:20:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T21:20:59","slug":"after-racially-charged-comments-ferraro-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/after-racially-charged-comments-ferraro-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"After racially-charged comments, Ferraro steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/03\/ferraro_resigns_from_the_clint.php\">This<\/a> was the right call, and the only sensible move for Geraldine Ferraro to make.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Hillary \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t let that happen.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for everything you have done and continue to do to make this a better world for my children and grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>You have my deep admiration and respect.<\/p>\n<p>Gerry<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not exactly a take-responsibility moment for the former VP candidate &#8212; I was expecting, &#8220;My comments, while well-intended, have become a distraction,&#8221; not, &#8220;The Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, another battle in the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14863.html\">umbrage wars<\/a>&#8221; has come to an end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the right call, and the only sensible move for Geraldine Ferraro to make. Dear Hillary \u2013 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}