Ben Smith is now reporting that Clinton has expanded her disagreement with Ferraro’s characterization of Obama.

I said yesterday that I rejected what she said, and I certainly do repudiate it, and regret deeply that it was said. Obviously she doesn’t speak from the campaign, she doesn’t speak for any of my positions, and she has resigned from being a member of my very large finance committee.

Maybe it’s age, but I’m getting cynical enough to believe that both Ferraro’s comments and Clinton’s ernest repudiation of them will help Clinton with certain voters in Pennsylvania for whose benefit it has been claimed that 1) Obama has been afforded racial preference, and 2) anybody who points this out will be vilified as a racist by liberals and the liberal media.

— and everybody knows how powerful they are.