Barack Obama’s campaign is calling on Hillary Clinton to fire Geraldine Ferraro after she credited the Illinois senator’s stunning rise to his race.

Ferraro, the former Congresswoman and Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1984, sits on Hillary Clinton’s finance committee and is a supporter who has served as a surrogate speaker on the New York Senator’s behalf.

Today, she said that: “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position, and if he was a woman - of any color - 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.”

Geraldine Ferraro said Hillary Clinton had suffered because the press “has been uniquely hard on her. It’s been a very sexist media. Some just don’t like her. The others have gotten caught up in the Obama campaign.”

This Democratic race is getting uglier by the day, and Hillary’s half-assed reactions to incendiary remarks about Obama are telling.

Perhaps she should both reject and denounce them!

Obama’s top strategist, David Axelrod, told reporters that the comments are part of an “insidious pattern that needs to be addressed… When you wink and nod at offensive statements you are really sending a signal that anything goes.”

Barack Obama later condemned the Geraldine Ferraro remarks himself.

“I don’t think Geraldine Ferraro’s comments have any place in our politics or in the Democratic Party. They are divisive,” he told the Allentown Morning News. “I think anybody who understands the history of this country knows they are patently absurd. And I would expect that the same way those comments don’t have a place in my campaign, they shouldn’t have a place in Senator Clinton’s, either.”

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