A Biden Problem Foot in Mouth - ABC News
So, are you suggesting he isn't speaking of Obama, when he says African American? And since you seem to think this is so innocuous, I am sure you have video or audio, of his calling white candidates through the years as clean and articulate, right? And your making a statement about gaffe news does '-t in anyway lessen his words. Above also find an abc article about this 'gaffe'.
Donna Brasile "When I HEARD his comments, I thought Joe Biden was referring to about a bygone era. " "Years ago when white folks referred to black people with an education, they often used words like 'articulate'. To suggest they were different, acceptable."
Are you going to continue to deny what he meant?
Biden s description of Obama draws scrutiny - CNN.com
Come on, Pogo, please.
Dude, how can you POSSIBLY not know that was what Joe Biden said about Barack Obama? Do you live under a large rock and only emerge to post here before going back underground?
Already covered. Try actually
reading the thread...
Again, I'm already well familiar with the quote. I also know the context -- which is carefully avoided around here -- that he's talking about the field of Presidential candidates specifically. Even your video above says that.
What I'm asking is for anyone to point out where the racism in the words is. And that can't be done, ergo the claim is bullshit.
And I'm sorry, somebody calling itself "Gaffe News" and making a YouTube video doesn't make a bullshit point into a real one. It's either real, or it ain't. This one is the latter.
I'm not arrogant enough to sit on the internet and pontificate about "what he meant" but I have never denied what the words
mean. Quite the contrary. Again, he's speaking about the field at the time of candidates in terms of their saleability -- their image. Nor does he at any point say, indicate or imply that "black people are not clean" -- and if he had said or meant that, the statement would have
contradicted itself. Think about it.
Joe Biden's speech is raw, abjectly colloquial and unpretentious. "Working class" if you will. It's evident right in that quote -- "that's storybook, man". He speaks like a baseball announcer. The pretentious part is the rest of y'all trying to foist different values on the speech style than it had when the speaker put it out.
George W. Bush does the same thing. It's a casual colloquial style. Stop trying to pretend it's something else.