He is AWFUL. He also said Jon Edwards doesn't know what he is talking about, and that Clinton's Iraq plan is a catastrophe. He insults African Americans. He trashes other Democratic candidates.  He can't shut up - that WashingtonPost article last week about the other senators on foreign relations having to listen to his monologue was priceless. So, the question is, has there ever been a candidate who was forced out of a race the same day he got in?  The only good news is that if we have to have one idiot in the race, at least is the candidate with the least chance of winning.      

I find Biden to be an easy target. He seems like the well spoken eager to please guy in your class who would alway run for Class president(even if someone else wins).

Having said that, I still gotta come to his defense on the Indian American comment. It was not derogatory. It was just a goofy ass silly comment. I am Indian American and found nothing offensive about it.

As far as the Obama comment, I think the key word is how would you interpret mainstream. Jesse Jackson would qualify as mainstream in the 80s and remember he seemed to be more articulate then than he is now with his mushmouthed interviews lately. Sharpton is certainly cleaned up nicely, though he he won't be considered mainstream.

But goofy ass Biden seems to have forgotten mainstream politicians like Charles Rangel who is bright and articulate and "clean".

But deep inside, you know that's what a lot of whites were thinking when they saw Obama speak in 2004. Seriously. Some of the praise back then seemed a little condescending to blacks.

I am a rhetorical wildman around here, but I am always more cautious about my wording than most of these politicians. Just an observation. I don't know what to make of Biden's comments. Which is not a great thing.

I guess a lot of people in politics instinctively begin using code-speak. And they end up coming off like bigots, who love code-speak. I try to be clear about things, even when I dealing with controversial things -- no -- especially when I dealing with controversial things. I also try to be clear about how certain, or not certain, I am about things.

This coming from the guy who plagiarized speeches when he ran twenty years ago.  Now he perpetuates the view that blacks are inarticulate and dirty.  In 1988 he supported the confederate emblem on the SC flag.  He bragged that his state wasn't a "liberal notheastern state," but was in fact a slave state.  La la la, connect the dots.

This would matter -- except Biden has no chance.

As they say, one's an accident, two's a trend...