CNN is reporting that Geraldine Ferraro has stepped down from her post in the Clinton campaign. The CNN story quotes remarks by Ferraro and Ronald Reagan as reported in a 1988 Washington Post article. According to the Post Ferraro’s remarks then about Jackson were very similar to her remarks yesterday about Obama, and Reagan claimed that the press “did not ask Jackson tough questions because of his race.”

Clinton’s reply when questioned about Ferraro’s remarks echoed her reply to CBS reporters about remarks by her Texas supporter, Adelfa Callejo: “People get to express their opinions.”

— unless the people in question are Barack Obama and Louis Farrakhan, and Clinton has an opportunity to score some points against anti-Semitism.