1/ From “Ferraro Is Unapologetic for Remarks and Ends Her Role in Clinton Campaign” by Joyce Purnick in today’s NYT:

Speaking from her midtown Manhattan law office shortly after e-mailing the letter [of resignation from Clinton's finance committee], Mrs. Ferraro, a former vice-presidential nominee, said in a characteristic rush of words that she stood by her remarks and repeatedly accused the Obama campaign of deliberate distortion.

“If you point to something that deals with race, you are immediately a racist?” she said over the phone. “Give me a break.”

[...]

Ms. Ferraro made no apologies. “Am I sorry? No, no, no,” she said. “I am sorry there are people who think I am racist.”

2/ From “Ex-Obama aide explains self after ‘monster’ mistake,” John Marshall’s interview with Samantha Power in yesterday’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

Q: What is the biggest lesson you have learned in the aftermath of your controversial comments about Hillary Clinton?

A: Well (pauses)… What is so abhorrent about my comments is not only are they hurtful and hateful; they don’t reflect my real views of Senator Clinton. These are not thoughts I had been having alone in my own home, storing up to vent over these 14 months.

I really just had one of those bad moments when you lose your temper and you say something that sticks. It sticks out there as something associated with Senator Clinton and also with me — all because of me.

What is the lesson? The lesson is that I wish somebody would invent a device that would allow me to go back in time. (Chuckles). People keep saying to me that the lesson is: Don’t say anything off-the-record. But I think the real lesson is don’t say hateful and hurtful things anywhere. I know that sounds too ponderous. You got to keep control of your temper and not let the heat of the campaign…cause those sentiments to bubble up in you.

(Photo of Geraldine Ferraro by Ruth Fremson/New York Times. Photo of Samantha Power by Getty Images.)