Of course, the Obama team is not taking it as a compliment:
Geraldine Ferraro stepped down today from an honorary post in Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign amid a controversy regarding her comments that Barack Obama wouldn't be succeeding in the presidential race if he weren't black.Given the headaches Ferraro's family financial affairs caused Walter Mondale in 1984, shouldn't the last place for Ferraro be on a finance committee? And by the way, given her claim to fame, shouldn't Ferraro be the last politician on Earth to complain about identity politics?
Ferraro notified Clinton by letter Wednesday that she would no longer serve on Clinton's finance committee as "Honorary New York Leadership Council Chair."
Obama has called Ferraro's comments "ridiculous" and his campaign aides have called on Clinton to denounce the statement.