Posted on 01/31/2007 11:54:54 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Biden Camp Dismisses 'Clean' Remark
By JAKE TAPPER
January 31, 2007— Senator Joe Biden, D-Dela., the loquacious chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who launched his presidential campaign on Wednesday may be experiencing an ailment not entirely unknown to him: foot in mouth disease.
Instead of media attention for his experience or expertise on Iraq, Biden is today taking some heat for comments he made to the New York Observer, in which he says of a rival for the nomination Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden told the newspaper. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."
Immediately the conservative media establishment - Rush Limbaugh, the Drudge Report, bloggers - publically pounced. At Townhall.com, Mary Katherine Ham wrote: "A clean black man? The first black guy on the American political scene who can both shower regularly and speak properly? Is that really what Biden thinks? If a Republican had said this, we'd have a national outpouring of grief over the residual ignorance and racial insensitivity in our country, and the guy would be in sensitivity training until around about the time John Kerry is elected president."
Obama Responds
And notably, Obama himself didn't do much to knock the story down. Asked about the comments at a press conference this afternoon, Obama said "You'd have to ask Senator Clinton, uh, Senator Biden what he was thinking," initially stumbling by mentioning the name of the Democratic frontrunner for the nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. "I don't spend too much time worrying about what folks are talking about during a campaign season."
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Meow!
Yet more proof, if more be needed, that Joe Biden is just about the dumbest man in the US Senate.
Oh Hillary ain't gonna like that.
That was a great response by Obama. LOL
While the liberal media establishment -- ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, The New York Slimes, the Washington comPost, etc -- focused instead on Henry (Nostildamos) Waxman's investigative hearings on climate change.
Biden meant "clean" in that he doesn't have as much of that rancid, sticky, putrid Democrat Politician scum all over him as Clinton, Biden and others.
LOL!
Then why is Hillary on your mind when it was Biden who said it? Are you assuming that Hillary is putting out the talk about you being a muslim and just figured it was another smear by her team?
Say what you want about Obama---the guy has a damn fine sense of humor.
I guess we all look alike to him!
Now will someone ask Hillary about Obama's Freudian slip?
He must mean Obama hasn't shaken down companies for cash like Jesse and Rev Al. If not, does he mean he isn't physically dirty? Who knows, it came from Biden. He can just say he got that from another source.
....what say you Rev Al? Have you NOT been a contender for the Presidency in the past?
Let's hear your take on this one or maybe we could get the Right Rhyming Rev Jackson on the line.
It's just that Biden is known for plagiarism, so maybe it is easy to assume that Hillary said the same thing first. Or something like that.
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