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Level -> RE: It`s Joe Biden (8/23/2008 3:19:19 AM)
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McCain is already running ads showing Biden saying Obama isn't ready, and showing Biden saying he'd be proud to run with McCain.
And, of course, we'll see plenty of reminders of how easily Biden's foot fits in his mouth:
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Biden is taking some heat for comments he made to the New York Observer, in which he said of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., a rival for the nomination: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
This is not the first accusation of racial insensitivity Biden has faced. In June 2006, C-SPAN caught him speaking to an Indian-American man, saying: "In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking." (You can see the Youtube video of that here.)
Last November at a Rotary Club meeting in Columbia, S.C., Biden joked about the state's Confederate history, saying that his home state of Delaware was "a slave state that fought beside the North." He added, "that's only because we couldn't figure out how to get to the South, there were a couple of other states in the way."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=2838420&page=1
Beyond that, I think he's a decent enough guy.
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