The LA Times blog and a user at the STLtoday.com Forums found out this very interesting tidbit. Earlier in the week Clinton advisor Geraldine Ferraro remarked that Senator Obama would not be where he is without the benefit of his race. Obama scoffed at the remark and demanded Ferraro resign, which she did. However a look at an interview with the Chicago Tribune on Obama’s own Senate Web site has the following:

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?

Also from the New York Times:

Mr. Obama has pointedly acknowledged that he benefits from his race, noting last year that a new white senator from Illinois would hardly have stirred comparable interest or intrigue. So Mr. Obama has embraced his role, but he has strived to be defined by more than color alone.