Via the NYT: Biden Unwraps His Bid for ’08 With an Oops!:
Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, who announced his candidacy on Wednesday with the hope that he could ride his foreign policy expertise into contention for the Democratic nomination, instead spent the day struggling to explain his description of Senator Barack Obama, the Illinois Democrat running for president, as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
Others have already parsed the sentence, but I will simply say that it is clear the Biden simply isn’t built for a lengthy national campaign. Given all that time and all those cameras, Heaven only knows what he might say.
As Jake Tapper of ABC News put it (or, at least, his headline writer): A Biden Problem: Foot in Mouth.
Indeed, below the fold are some other examples.
And there is of course the gem about 7-11s and Indians:
Here’s a weird one in which he identifies his state as a slave-state, which he seems to mean to be evidence that he could win the South Carolina primary:
And this is just amusing, if not a tad odd:
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February 1st, 2007 at 8:18 am
Biden: Obama Clean, Articulate, Bright African-American
Joe Biden is set to launch his second run for the presidency today but it will likely be overshadowed by some candid comments made in an interview with Jason Horowitz of the New York Observer.
Most noteworthy is what he says about Barack Obama: “I m…