US news and, in the battle for the Democratic nomination, one of Hillary Clinton’s senior aides has resigned after suggesting that rival Barack Obama might be black.
Geraldine Ferraro – who stood for the vice-presidential nomination in 1984 – gave up her honorary place on Mrs Clinton’s finance committee after saying: "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position” in a Californian newspaper.
Insiders say that Mr Obama responded with astonishment when he read Ms Ferraro’s allegations, and immediately asked his aides for a mirror. Several states which supported his nomination said they really hadn’t noticed his colour at all.
“Do people really come in a range of colours?” said one Mississippi voter we spoke to. “Well I’ll be damned. The things you learn. I wonder what colour I am?”
Mr Obama said he would not respond by stooping to the mud-slinging politics of the gutter, and is said to have flatly rejected proposals from within his camp to tell the American public that Hillary Clinton is a woman.
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