Early candidate for quote of the year
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 — In an era of meticulous political choreography, the staging of the kickoff for this presidential candidacy could hardly have gone worse.
Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, who announced his candidacy on Wednesday with the hope that he could ride his foreign policy expertise into contention for the Democratic nomination, instead spent the day struggling to explain his description of Senator Barack Obama, the Illinois Democrat running for president, as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, who announced his candidacy on Wednesday with the hope that he could ride his foreign policy expertise into contention for the Democratic nomination, instead spent the day struggling to explain his description of Senator Barack Obama, the Illinois Democrat running for president, as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
posted by S Goldsmith at 2/01/2007 01:18:00 PM
5 Comments:
At least he didn't call him a macaca.
I don't know, Logan. Macaca was easier to spin as an accident rather than a racist outburst. There arent many ways to spin “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
Why the fuck would that have even crossed his mind? Ever?!
I was half joking Sam :)
I wonder how Sen. Carol Moseley Braun feels about all this!
adding to the idiocy is that obama is only african-american in the sense that he is american and his dad is from kenya and mom is from kansas.
i guess what i'm saying is that there still hasn't been a mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.
Especially clean.
Way to go Biden!
by the way i hate this damn visual verification thing
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