Leave a Comment

Audio: Biden Calls Obama "Articulate" "Bright" and "Clean" African-American
The Next Right — This is the audio that is sure to come back to haunt Joe Biden in the coming days...   Here's some of what they were saying about this at the time (via James Joyner). Kos: Really, if we live in a just world, this will be the end of Joe Biden’s political career. Atrios: The are more and less charitable readings of what Biden said, but there’s no way to read it which doesn’t reflect very poorly on Biden. Josh Marshall: I think at this point you ...

So Fresh, So Clean
Weekly Standard Blog — Patrick Ruffini provides the audio of Biden's infamous statement that Barack Obama is "the first sort of mainstream African-American [presidential candidate] who is articulate and bright and clean, and a nice-looking guy." Ruffini also dredges up this priceless quote in response to Biden's, um, inarticulateness, from Markos Moulitsas: "Really, if we live in a just world, this will be the end of Joe Biden’s political career."