What a lovely start to Black History Month...

[melissaagray]

Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden in reference to 2008 presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama

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[developer]

And thus Joe Biden ends the shortest presidential run of the 2008 election.

[gyzki]

The "first mainstream African-American [presidential candidate] who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."

Apart from the whole inappropriateness of the remark, it's not even true. Or which of those adjectives didn't apply to Jesse Jackson?

[futurenurselady]

Ditto, even if the word clean was supposed to refer to not having a history of drig use (which W and Bill Clinton can't even say for themselves).

[herooftheage]

Or for that matter, Shirley Chisholm? Other than the guy part, of course.

[richenza]

My favorite response to this came from Al Sharpton, who (shortly after the remarks) had Joe Biden on his radio show. Al Sharpton opened by informing Biden that he showers every day thank-you-very-much.