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There are tons of people of darker complection that pretend to be white: Colin Powell, and Coni are other examples in politics alone.

Ture. Also Wayne Brady in entertainment. Boy, he's awfully clean.

I have to say when I first thought about this I cringed at "articulate" well before I ever got to "clean". I"articulate/well-spoken" is the classic sterotype that is always introduced when people hear a black person speak in public, like they expect a politician to speak like a rapper or something.

It was a poorly constructed comment and, while I'm sure it was based on the same internal prejudices many people have, I find it hard to believe it was mean-spirited. Biden is an idiot, but not a racist. You can't compare that to someone like Byrd, who was in the Klan, or Thurmond, who was an outspoken opponent of the Civil Rights Movement. Nice false dilemma, though.

Yeah, but he's not really all that entertaining anymore...not since the original runs of "Whose Line is it Anyway".

He's working on that Perry Como tribute album.

His cover of 'tuti-fruiti' should be a smash hit.

It didn't go down that way because he wasn't talking about some regular run of the mill pompous white man. He clearly intended in the way of a proud white papa praising his all grownz up black adopted brother.





RAWL! His statement is his statement, plainly read.

1.) you got the first mainstream African-American

2.) he is articulate

3.) he is bright

4.) he is clean

5.) he is a nice-looking guy

He is obviously WoWed by Obama being the first African-American to possess White Man qualities. How can you take it any other way? And if you *can* take it any other way how do explain the fact that Biden *himself* was out there apologizing?

Dude, I was making an obvious Bush joke there, not leading into a dicussion of the oratory skills of black politicans. Way to ruin it.

I'm still outraged that you didn't think I knew what the Immaculate Conception meant.

I still don't

I took his comment to mean that for the first time there's a potentially viable black candidate.

I mean, Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan were great women; but let's face it, neither of them had a chance in hell.

I took his comment to mean that for the first time there's a potentially viable black candidate.


Come now, to think he'd forget Allen Keys is rather naive.

Way to use logic there Joph...you know that doesn't fly on the web. People may actually begin to think for themselves if you do that!

He could pause for a year, and it still wouldn't change every characterising adjective word being racist references not usually expected from a black man, or ever seen before from a black man. That statement is latently loaded with racism no matter how you slice or pause.



False. See above statement. But good. This is exactly the apologist hypocricy that is being exposed from Jesse Jackson, from Obama himself, and from *you people*. :P

I'm not a pubbbie either, Libertarian ftw, but I like to rip both of the mainstream sides. But voting for Biden for president isn't the issue. The issue is him resigning his Senate seat forthwith with haste. That there aren't equal fair and balanced hoopla calls for him to do so is hypocritical, and extremely damaging to the credibility of any true instances of racism that he, they, or you may choose to take up as an issue in the future.

Edited, Feb 1st 2007 2:21pm by MonxDoT

Biden should resign his Senate seat immediately. That their are not calls for Biden to resign his Senate seat immediately destroys the credibility of the Congressional Black Caucus, Jesse Jackson, the liberal media, Borat Osama, the Democratic Party, and you people. The race card just got that much weaker. And those people just got that much more hypocritical.

I suppose requiring that every politician who gaffes must resign forthwith is one way to ensure small government, stupid as it is.