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Ohhhh…White liberal Joe Biden’s gonna catch it for calling Barack “He speaks so well!” Obama “clean.”
It’s not that big a deal really (he probably meant clean as in scandal-free), but unfortunately, people (bloggers?) will jump all over it. Some blacks will be offended because Biden’s statement implies that “articulate” and “clean” (hygienically speaking) blacks are unusual.
Obama has been all over the press. Mainstream media have got him running for the presidency in 2008, and he’s the great black hope of white liberals everywhere. Last year — and in 2004 when he ran for the U.S. Senate — I speculated that white folks were fawning over Obama because he was one of those articulate Negroes. His publicist is also responsible for the hype, I’m sure. Obama recently wrote a second book about his life. If I had the money, I’d hire his publicist. 
You may have noticed that I haven’t been covering the Obama hype because, well, it’s hyped. There is nothing special about Obama, as far as I can see. He’s just another infanticide-supporting liberal. But white liberals are convinced he’s the next best thing to the Messiah. And I don’t want to be accused of “player hatin.’”
(Coincidence: I found this link on Memeorandum after I’d written the part about B.O. being the Messiah for white liberals.)
Can’t wait to hear Biden’s groveling, “Well, what had happened was…” apology. More later…
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Update: Commenter Nicole writes:
Biden’s comments are highly offensive to me. It’s not just that he called him bright, articulate, or clean, because any of these words in an appropriate context would be acceptable. However, his statement was:
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
So, it begs the questions:
1. who were the other mainstream African-Americans who inarticulate, dump, dirty, and ugly? (MLK, Malcolm X, Farrakhan, Sharpton, etc.)? I find the first three to be very attractive. I find all four to be articulate. I don’t know much about their hygeine though…I find that the greater problem is that you don’t find whites being categorized in this manner.
Update II: Biden clarifies: “Biden said he ‘really’ regretted the word ‘clean’ was taken out of context. Biden: ‘My mother has an expression clean as a whistle sharp as a tack, that was the context.’”
(Hat tip: Marathon Pundit)
