Posted on 01/10/2010 2:10:28 PM PST by mdittmar
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Joe Biden planned to spend Wednesday focusing on his official announcement that he was running for president, but the Delaware Democrat instead found himself defending remarks he made to the New York Observer about his Democratic opponents.
In the article published Wednesday, Biden is quoted evaluating presidential rivals Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, former Sen. John Edwards, D-North Carolina, and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois. His remarks about Obama, the only African-American serving in the Senate, drew the most scrutiny.
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Celebrate Diversity - of Democrat race slurs! [Mark Steyn]
Re the hygienic light-skinned Negro, more hilarious behind-the-scenes banter from the Diversity Enforcers on the Democratic Party plantation. The First Black President explains his thinking:
The day after Iowa, [Bill Clinton] phoned Kennedy and pressed for an endorsement, making the case for his wife. But Bill then went on, belittling Obama in a manner that deeply offended Kennedy. Recounting the conversation later to a friend, Teddy fumed that Clinton had said, A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.
Well, Ted maybe...
Can't wait for Bill on the first gay president:
A few years ago, this guy would have been doing John Edwards' hair...
Steyn nails it as always. Racism today is about politics. It has little to do with prejudice and inequality.
The only time you see outrage is when it fits the political motives of the self-appointed “racism police” aka liberal democrats.
Would the clean and articulate light skinned negro bring some coffee to Joe, Harry and Bubba.
Please.
Without any other context to clarify that maybe Bill was just referring to the fact that 0bowdown's only prior job experience was scooping ice cream.
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