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Carol Platt Liebau: A "Clean" Slate?
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
... , Joe Biden seems to be the flavor of the day when it comes to the Dem veepstakes. Given that he's seen within the Democrat ranks as a foreign policy solon, it may well make sense, given Russia's invasion of Georgia and other ominous international developments. But it seems to me that a Biden pick does nothing so much as highlight the weakness of the Democrat bench when it comes to foreign policy. After all, Biden is remarkably gaffe-prone -- remember his description of Barack as "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking ...
If It's Biden For VP, Get Ready For More Talk About Race
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... More famously, and even more damaging, Biden kicked off his presidential campaign in early 2007 by describing Barack Obama in highly inelegant, loaded racial terms. "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden told the New York Observer. "I mean, that's a storybook, man." ...
Joe Biden is Obama VP Pick?
Blue Star Chronicles —
... Cheney gets kissed.
PETRAEUS: Senator, the vice president was in Iraq just a couple weeks after that, and he also had a very warm reception.
BIDEN: Did he get kissed? Get a kiss?
PETRAEUS: I believe he did get kissed when he was there.
BIDEN: I just want to know whether he got kissed, that’s all.
Or maybe he was already trying to decide if he wanted the job.
At least Obama picked someone who thinks he’s clean and articulate. That’s important in a vice president.
“I ...
The dude a-Biden
The Reaction —
... I think it's somewhat ironic that Biden was Obama's choice, because the one big flaw he has, running his mouth off, is what got Obama noticed nationally in the first place. Remember this juicy little tidbit? ...
"Biden can be counted upon to play the role of house dissenter and septic."
Althouse —
I'm amused by a typo in TNR. (John pointed that out.) Biden is poisoning politics! He's not clean! ...
Obama-Biden Racism Problem
GayPatriot —
... Biden describing Barack Obama’s candidacy: “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” Biden said. ...
And Obama’s VP Pick is…Oh My Dear Lord.
The Sundries Shack —
... Did Obama completely forget the whole episode where Biden spent the week apologizing for calling him “articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy”? Or when Biden ...
Joe Biden: The ‘Articulate’ and ‘Clean’ Man’s Choice
La Shawn Barber's Corner —
... A journalist asked what he thought of his opponent (Biden announced his candidacy for president early last year), and this is what he said: ...
Meet Joe Biden
Feministing —
... The few ripples of major news that Biden made during the primary were mostly about his gaffes. As you may recall, he's the one who referred to Obama as "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." There's a lot more where that came from, including a ...
If I Were a Headline Writer
The Corner on National Review Online —
[image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] [image] Saturday, August 23, 2008 [image] If I Were a Headline Writer [John J. Miller] Articulate, Bright, Clean One Chooses Serial Plagiarist 08/23 10:51 AM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2008. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us This page loaded in 0.005184 seconds. ...
What Biden Means
Open Left - Front Page —
... The Bad: He is one of the most arrogant and conceited people in Washington - one of the jokes in D.C. when I was there is that Biden uses the term "I" more than anyone else. Because of this self-importance, he consequently shoots his mouth off in ways that can undermine progressives. For example, he has made insulting racial comments about African Americans and ...
David Sirota: What Biden Means
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The Bad: He is one of the most arrogant and conceited people in Washington - one of the jokes in D.C. when I was there is that Biden uses the term "I" more than anyone else. Because of this self-importance, he consequently shoots his mouth off in ways that can undermine progressives. For example, he has made insulting racial comments about African Americans and ...
Scott Shrake: Jobama? Or Obiden? Either Way They're on Fire
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... with Tipper back in '00, but Biden pulls it off. You believe him, and it also reinforces his humanity and his manliness, which latter is actually off the charts in this speech. Seriously. There is some testosterone on this stage! But then he gooffes up (another doozy) by adding "She also has a doctorate degree, which is a problem." What do you mean, Joe? Cringe. Reminds me of Clean-gate. ...
Flattery will get you everywhere
Neptunus Lex —
... “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.” — Delaware Senator Joe Biden ...
Biden's "I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do" rant ends with by a plea for a Democratic leader with oratorical powers.
Althouse —
... Did Biden inspire Obama back in in 1987-88? Maybe Biden knew he did, and he was thinking about that — thinking about himself — when he enthused awkwardly about "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." ...
Biden As Barry’s VP: Actually, A Fantastic Choice
Stop The ACLU —
... . This way, Barry can remain articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. Anything that keeps the eyes focused off Barry’s negatives is a positive for Barry. That anything is Joe Biden. So, the best thing to do is mostly ignore Biden. When he goes on the attack, do not address the responses to Joe, but back to Barry. Consider ...
Biden As Barry’s VP: Actually, A Fantastic Choice
Pirate's Cove —
... Barry and his character issues, his lack of advertised substance and policy (we know what he really stands for, but, that will not make it into the mainstream media), gaffes Barry makes, and his inexperience. Joe can get out there and attack, attack, attack, while Barry sits back and plays Mr. Lovable Hope and Change without getting his hands dirty.
Even the AP climbed out of their liberal tree house made of Arugula to notice that Biden fills the attack role. This way, Barry can remain articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. ...
Barack: “My Muslim Faith”
Say Anything —
... The left is always trumpeting this guy’s articulate prowess while degenerating Bush for his lack of verbal eloquence, and yet Obama makes the kind of gaffes that rival anything Bush has ever said. ...
Which is more racist?
Jim Treacher's Blog That Is on the Internet —
Which is more racist? Pointing out that Obama is articulate ? Or pointing out that he's not ? Posted by Jim Treacher at September 17, 2008 10:02 PM
The Courage of their Convictions
Neptunus Lex —
... Mr. Obama replied. “I recognize that there are students here who have differences in terms of military policy, but the notion that young people here at Columbia aren’t offered a choice or an option in participating in military service is a mistake.” The same students who had so lustily booed Mr. McCain, reported the New York Times, were “largely silent” when Mr. Obama gave the same answer.
Probably has something to do with Obama being articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.
Hands Off Palin
The Next Right —
... Even if one concedes that these are not entirely apples-to-apples comparisons, it's willful blindness to suggest that Sarah Palin hasn't been given the short end of the stick in entirely relevant experience comparisons with Obama and in temperament comparisons with Biden. Biden has a longstanding reputation as a less-than-Presidential hothead who's used racially-tinged code language to describe his running mate -- and not a peep from the media and our conservative emissaries to the Times editorial board. ...
Voting McCain Doesn’t Make You Racist – It Means You’re Too Stupid to Know You’re Racist
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Calling an African American ‘articulate' makes you an unconscious racist? Congratulations Joe Biden, you're a racist! I wonder if Joe will be voting for McCain/Palin. ...
Making the World Safe for Marxism
American Thinker —
... "capitalism." It is a Marxist term that just means letting people buy and sell what they want at the prices they want -- or what Adam Smith called "the system of perfect liberty.") Of course, Barack Obama has not even begun his Rule yet. It's possible, I suppose, that the Obama we'll get in the Oval Office is the Obama we saw in his campaign ads -- good old American nice -- a "mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy" as Joe Biden said . Then again, here are a few parting thoughts from the horses' mouths:"It was usually an ...
Harry Reid on Roland Burris: "He obviously is a very engaging, extremely nice man. He presents himself well."
Althouse —
... Rush Limbaugh, just now, ridiculing the Democrats' racial attitudes, likened that quote to Joe Biden's famous assessment of Barack Obama: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." ...
Letting the Capitalism Out of the Bag
Hit & Run —
... and Government Sponsored Enterprises Subcommittee—basically, he's in charge of everything that has gone utterly FUBAR in recent months: "This happens because capitalism keeps trying to destroy itself, by getting out of the bag we put it in to control it." So says Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.), who is the number Democrat on the House Banking Committee, right under Barney Frank (D-Mass.). Biden bonus: In the same interview, Kanjorski called the president "articulate." ...
“Seared Conscience” Is Just The Phrase I Was Seeking
Six Meat Buffet —
Way back in the early days of this blog, I confessed that I was an Alan Keyes voter in the 2000 primary. His recent comments on the Obamessiah just reminded me why I did so.
Did I mention that Keyes happens to be clean and articulate?
Just as with Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, and now to a slightly lesser degree, Rush Limbaugh, to the intellectual elite of the Republican party and the big shots of the “conservative” blogosphere, it’s not cool to ...
Weekend Opinionator: Obama's Communication Breakdown
Opinionator —
... pork-rind eater, gives a befuddled look at a grocery-store scanner and will never shake the reputation as being out of touch with the common man; Dan Quayle, scion of a newspaper family, misspells the name of a common nightshade at a school spelling bee and his cements his reputation as an airhead; George W. Bush … well, one doesn’t know where to start with George W. Bush, but pretzels come to mind . It seems that only Vice President Joe Biden has managed to gaffe himself up the career ladder. Besides, minor stuff often contains hints at the ...
Guest Post from Jon Weinberg: Another Biden Faux-Pas?
The Washington Note —
... True, Vice President Biden is infamous for his many verbal faux-pas, but this slip-up does not even approach the severity of those past. In fact, it may not be much of a slip-up at all. ...
Now I'm PO'ed
JustOneMinute —
... adding to the political lexicon. Say what? What happened to the bright, articulate (and clean!) guy promised to us by Vice-President Joe Biden. Obama's pursuit of authenticity is troubling - if he really hopes to bond with the lefty bloggers he will need to drop an F-bomb or two. Per sentence. Posted by Tom Maguire on August 21, 2009 | ...
Could Obama Have Survived Appointment In Another Administration?
Discriminations —
... of Stanley Kurtz, the fate of this radical, mysterious, bright, articulate (even “articulate and bright and clean and ... nice-looking”) black Ivy League law school graduate might well have met the same fate as the eerily similar Guinier and Jones. ...
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: August and September Couples of the Month
Above the Law —
... 1. Caroline Nyenke and LaRue Robinson
(Buy them a glass beverage bottle.)
The Case:
- Lawyer marries future doctor. These lovebirds met as undergraduates at Cornell. The groom received a JD from Columbia in May; he's scheduled to start at Mayer Brown in January. The bride will begin medical school at the University of Illinois later this month.
- Vice President Biden would probably call this an articulate-looking picture. We just think they're cute-cute-cute!
The Case ...
NBC's Todd: 'Clean White Suit' Obama a Victim of High Expectations for His Goodness
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... One Democratic strategist said that part of the President's problem is simply his own expectations. Some of the rhetoric he said on the campaign trail made it seem as if he was coming into office in a clean white suit. So now any speck of mud -- like raising money from Wall Street donors -- shows up a lot clearer than if he came in just as another politician wearing just another gray suit.
(Didn't Joe Biden get in trouble back in 2007 for describing Obama as “clean”?)
Minutes after Todd, NBC Nightly News viewers ...
