Courtesy of Drudge is this report from the New York Observer quoting Joe Biden on Barack Obama.
Mr. Biden is equally skeptical—albeit in a slightly more backhanded way—about Mr. Obama. “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.”
Oh, so I guess Jesse Jackson was dirty and inarticulate. Honestly, did he just refer to an African-American leader (he is, for better or worse) as unclean?
To be fair, Biden could have said worse. Last year he amazed people by telling an Indian-American “In Delaware… you can’t go into a 7-11 or Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”
I guess Biden’s speechwriter didn’t give him the draft that referred to Jackson as a ‘dirty house ni**er’, the Indian-Americans as ‘dots not feathers’ and asked if the Hispanics in attendance ‘had finished mowing his lawn’ yet.
Seriously, if this guy was a Republican, you’d be able to hear the Democrats screaming if you were halfway around the world. This jackass, however, keeps getting a pass. What is the likelihood that Matt Stoller will post on the racism of Joe Biden?
It's one thing for bloggers to point it out, but an entirely different thing for the Party to denounce their own (or even the other guy). When Trent Lott made a comment that was obscurely racist, the Democrats stopped just short of calling him a Klansman. Biden, for the most part, is getting a pass from party leaders. The news reports are full of "he really didn't mean it" and "he's really not like that". They're making excuse after excuse, claiming it was blown out of proportion, and ignoring the fact that this guy has displayed a pattern of this behavior.
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