[Dems2008] What Ferraro said

This sounds an awful lot like it:

Obama acknowledges, with no small irony, that he benefits from his race.

If he were white, he once bluntly noted, he would simply be one of nine freshmen senators, almost certainly without a multimillion-dollar book deal and a shred of celebrity. Or would he have been elected at all?

Fairly lengthy article from 2005:

http://obama.senate.gov/news/050626-when_it_comes_to_race_obama_ma/










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