Ongoing war of words between Clinton and Obama camps was further hoted up when Geraldine Ferraro, the 1984 Democratic nominee for vice president, spat unpleasant comment on Obama.

Geraldine Ferraro virtually ignited the smoldering Obama camp last week when a California newspaper quoted her stating that Obama wouldn't be a contender if he were a white man or a woman of any color.   

"He happens to be very lucky who he is. The country is ‘caught up in the concept’ of the first African-American president,” said Ferraro a newspaper in California.

Geraldine Ferraro, who supports Sen. Hillary Clinton and raises money for her, is under severe fire for her objectionable comment on Sen. Barack Obama.     

Obama adviser Susan Rice yesterday morning on MSNBC called Ferraro’s comment "outrageous and offensive" and demanded apology from Clinton camp.

Rice, who herself spurred trouble for her candidate saying that neither he nor Clinton is ready to answer the proverbial middle-of-the-night phone call in the White House, stated that it was far worse than Harvard professor Samantha Power’s dubbing Clinton a "monster" – the comment that resulted in Power's stepping down on Friday.

On the Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania, Obama said, “I don't think Geraldine Ferraro's comments have any place in our politics or in the Democratic Party. They are divisive. I think anybody who understands the history of this country knows they are patently absurd. And I would expect that the same way those comments don't have a place in my campaign, they shouldn't have a place in Senator Clinton's either."

Reacting shrewdly and quickly, Clinton campaign derided Ferraro's racially tinged comment. Denouncing Ferraro's statement, Clinton said, "It is regrettable that any of our supporters on both sides - because we've both had that experience - say things that kind of veer off into the personal. We ought to keep this on the issues. There are differences between us. There are differences between our approaches on healthcare, on energy, on our experience, on our results that we've produced for people. That's what this campaign should be about."

However, Clinton’s words couldn't satisfy Obama supporters. Obama Campaign spokesman Bill Burton said, "With Senator Clinton's refusal to denounce or reject Ms. Ferraro, she has once again proven that her campaign gets to live by its own rules and its own double standard, and will only decry offensive comments when it's politically advantageous to Senator Clinton."

Seeing the intensity of the issue, Geraldine Ferraro, last night, came forward on the Fox News Channel to say, "I'm sorry people thought it was racist."