Geraldine Ferraro has left Sen. Hillary Clinton's camp after widespread criticism of her comments on Barack Obama's success as of late. However Ferraro, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1984, refused to apologize for claiming that Obama essentially is getting a race-based, affirmative-action break at the expense of Clinton. "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position," Ferraro previously told a California newspaper.

"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 hurt you. I won't let that happen," Ferraro wrote Clinton announcing her resignation, according to CNN.

Bill Clinton also managed to goof after the South Carolina primary, which Obama won handily. The former President said that Jesse Jackson also won South Carolina when he ran for president in 1984 and 1988, which irritated some Obama supporters because it alludes that Obama's skin color is somewhat more important than his personal competences.

"I want to put that in context. You know I am sorry if anyone was offended. It was certainly not meant in any way to be offensive," an apologetic Hillary Clinton said last night. "We can be proud of both Jesse Jackson and Senator Obama."

Meanwhile, two prominent black pastors on Wednesday said that African Americans might stay home for the presidential ballot if Clinton wins the Democratic nomination. Rev. Eugene Rivers of the Azusa Christian Community church in Boston, one of the country's leading Pentecostal ministers, blasted suggestions that Obama should run on the same ticket as Clinton as a vice president. "Blacks aren't going to sit back while the winning candidate is told to sit at the back of the bus," he said.

Race also surfaced as an issue in other comments and discussions across the nation. It seems that as the presidential race gets closer to resolution, Obama's race gets more polarizing that one would have expected. Overall, Obama seems at least as intriguing as Arnold Schwarzenegger was when he ran for Governor. He is different, and people are willing to experiment with a candidate that might bring a fresh influx of ideas and actions and I think that this, and not race, brings him votes.