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What was Joe Biden Thinking?
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01/31/07 11:10 AM ET
On the night before he announced his second presidential bid, Biden gave an interview to The New York Observer and said:
It’s hard to come up with a benign — or even logical — explanation for his comment.
Was Biden dissing Jesse Jackson and Alan Keyes — Afro-Americans who preceded Obama as presidential candidates? Weren’t they all bright, articulate, and clean, too? And was he dissing Obama at the same time by calling him a clean black? Would he describe any other candidate that way?
Whatever he was doing, it looks like he’s still not ready for the big time. He’s jammed his own announcement statement!
Biden’s last presidential campaign crashed in 1988 after he admitted to plagiarizing in law school and to accusations that he was copying speeches and ads from foreign politicians. Since then, he’s developed a fine reputation for his work in foreign affairs. He has a lot to offer and no one would describe him as a racist.
But he clearly doesn’t understand how quickly, in the age of the Internet, a campaign can crash after one dumb comment.
Ask John Kerry. And George Allen. Their political graves are engraved with the epitaphs of their nutty comments.
And speaking of Obama … Recent commentaries comparing him with Bill Clinton and suggesting that it is he, and not Hillary, who is the heir to the New Democrat label that Clinton used in ‘92 underscore the fact that he is a stem cell — he can be whatever he wants.
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American
who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
It’s hard to come up with a benign — or even logical — explanation for his comment.
Was Biden dissing Jesse Jackson and Alan Keyes — Afro-Americans who preceded Obama as presidential candidates? Weren’t they all bright, articulate, and clean, too? And was he dissing Obama at the same time by calling him a clean black? Would he describe any other candidate that way?
Whatever he was doing, it looks like he’s still not ready for the big time. He’s jammed his own announcement statement!
Biden’s last presidential campaign crashed in 1988 after he admitted to plagiarizing in law school and to accusations that he was copying speeches and ads from foreign politicians. Since then, he’s developed a fine reputation for his work in foreign affairs. He has a lot to offer and no one would describe him as a racist.
But he clearly doesn’t understand how quickly, in the age of the Internet, a campaign can crash after one dumb comment.
Ask John Kerry. And George Allen. Their political graves are engraved with the epitaphs of their nutty comments.
And speaking of Obama … Recent commentaries comparing him with Bill Clinton and suggesting that it is he, and not Hillary, who is the heir to the New Democrat label that Clinton used in ‘92 underscore the fact that he is a stem cell — he can be whatever he wants.
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