Posted on 10/25/2007 1:08:08 PM PDT by seanmerc
In an interview with The Washington Post's editorial board, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) asserted that he is more prepared to be president than any other candidate, disputed the notion that governors are better suited for the White House than senators and warned that Pakistan is a potentially bigger threat than Iran.
Biden also stumbled through a discourse on race and education, leaving the impression that he believes one reason that so many District of Columbia schools fail is the city's high minority population. His campaign quickly issued a statement saying he meant to indicate that the disadvantages were based on economic status, not race.
After a lengthy critique of Bush administration education policies, Biden attempted to explain why some schools perform better than others -- in Iowa, for instance, compared with the District. "There's less than 1 percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than 4 or 5 percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with," Biden said. He went on to discuss the importance of parental involvement in reading to children and how "half this education gap exists before the kid steps foot in the classroom."
The Biden campaign moved quickly to clarify the senator's remarks in a statement: "This was not a race-based distinction, but a discussion of the problems kids face who don't have the same socio-economic support system (and all that implies -- nutrition, pre K, etc.) entering grade school and the impact of those disadvantages on outcomes."
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"The bottom line is that no one in the country knows me."
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If a GOP’er said this he would be done.
Yes we do!
You just happened to expose the REAL person you are -
a liberal elitist that views people RACIALLY.
Biden Accidently Tells Truth
.....“District of Columbia schools fail is the city’s high minority population.”....
Well, now we know they know but mostly lie about it.
You’re right. He has experience with this kind of sentiment. Isn’t he the one who had a clause in a real estate contract about who could or couldn’t be allowed to buy his property? That was clearly racist?
Nice to know how you really feeeeeeeel, Joe. Elitist, condescending pig.................
Economic status???, DC spends over $14K a year of taxpayer money per student. They may lack for certain things, but money is not one of them.
“Sonny Boy” Biden is running above his pay grade.
Nothing hurts a politician more than telling the truth.
The great society, the demoncraps, and $6 trillion in welfare. Did I leave anyone out?
Ah yes, these color-blind liberals.
It’s purely coincidence they live in lily-white neighborhoods and send their kids to lily-white schools.
There’s not a racist bone in their open-minded bodies.
How about 70% of them have no father at home. Fifty years ago, black kids in DC and elsewhere did just fine in public schools that focused on education, not feel-good political correctness. Those kids were even poorer than today but they had a father at home who made them go to school and made them do their lessons. Now, after 40 years of Great Society family destruction thanks to clowns like Biden, we can't even manage to teach kids how to read. Thanks a lot Joe.
Biden is easily the most intelligent and gracious of any of the candidates for the Democrat nomination. I realize that is like being the most virtuous hooker in the whorehouse, but it is true.
Can we come live on your plantation, Joe ?
As is typical with every time Biden speaks, the rules are:
1. Open Mouth, Insert Foot.
2. Repeat
And there was no truth to what he said?
Some truths are not allowed to be verbalized under any circumstances by the moonbats apparently controlling everything politically.
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