Defending herself today, Ms. Ferraro opens by saying she's offended by all the emails, phone calls and all the threats she's getting, and she says, "And it's coming out of the Obama campaign."
I seriously doubt that anyone in the Obama campaign is sending Ms. Ferraro threatening emails. What's likely is she's casually conflating anyone who is offended enough to email her in behalf of Obama with the Obama campaign. Now, maybe that's a "silly" mistake or oversight on her part. But only moments later, in the same interview, she's quick to draw distinctions between herself and the Clinton campaign. She does not allow the commentator to call her a surrogate. She suggests that being on Clinton's Finance Committee doesn't mean she's part of the Clinton campaign. She's her own women, a commentator. She says what she wants. So, she gets it both ways. Angry emailers are "from the Obama" campaign, while she, on the Finance Committee, is not part of the Clinton campaign.
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