Harwood: Biden's Racially-Insensitive Gaffes 'Actually a Strength'

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[Bender2]

I tell ya, Condi... when Barack and I get elected, you got your pick of any 7-11 in the country to run as you see fit.

[TornadoAlley3]

“Just Biden Time”

[xtinct]

Been waiting for liberals to liberate the rest of us from "political correct". (Not that I needed liberating... :o) I believe in the 1st Amendment.)

So, we've had several Blacks (e.g. Whoopi Goldberg) who have explained to us that it's ok for Blacks to use the *n* word but not ok for Whites to use the word. It's ok for Black rappers to use many offensive words but not ok for Whites to use those same words.

Now, we're finding out that Joe Biden's obviously racial put downs are ok... because he's a limosine liberal.

Control freaks ... one and all...

While I don't use the * n * I will use the following on these maniacs --> b*tch a@@ punks one and all.

[ChildOfThe60s]

It is very, very telling that the lib pundits are out this quickly covering over Biden’s gaffes. It says they are very worried about his mouth. Already making apologies and excuses for things he has yet to say.

[Enchante]

WOW, so are conservatives now allowed to be “politically incorrect” according to sycophantic Demagogues suck-ups like Harwood??? No, I didn’t think so.....

But Biden is not “politically incorrect” in any interesting ways, i.e., he does not use blunt language to reveal any important truths - he just reveals his own swollen ego.

[Enchante]

Biden defending his plagiarism during college, "...if I had intended to cheat, would I have been so stupid?"

Do we really need to answer that, Joe?

[moose2004]

John Harwood calmly predicted Walter Mondale would handily beat Norm Coleman in 2002, and he repeated that often. Hey John, you couldn’t have been more wrong.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

they’ve chosen the two most arrogant of the limousine democrat elite, both of whom pose as working folks.

Yeah, but I'll bet Biden knows where to get him a huntin' license.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

You know the old software programmer's excuse: "that's not a bug. That's a feature!" John Harwood of CNBC/NYT came up with a political variation on the theme this morning to buff up Joe Biden. Biden's gaffes, including the racially-insensitive ones, are actually . . . "a strength."

Bug.

Comes from the old mainframe days when computers utilized electro mechanical relays instead of modern day transistors to perform computation.

A bug would get trapped between a relay's contacts thus preventing electric conduction.

[vetvetdoug]

Silk purse, sows ear....

[gov_bean_ counter]

Have to agree. There is nothing that Biden brings that will help Obama in he swing states. Biden’s strength is in the areas of the country generally considered to be a lock for Obie.