What Biden gaffe? There's no gaffe.

Listen to the actual audio of Biden's 'gaffe.' There's a big difference between the actual audio and how its been transcripted.

Audio link: http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=463858485

How is the transcript incorrect?

between "african american" and "who".

because it implies that Jesse Jackson wasn't clean or something, or Al Sharpton, and it just in general sounds like he has an attitude against African Americans. Senator Biden has a history of this stuff, so it's not out of the realm of possibility, it in fact it doesn't make this extremely likely.

by people of a certain age. Whadaya think?

as much as I can't stand Biden, he's not a racist.

:shrug:

How is this like that?

Since we eat our own young here on a daily basis.

Accountable for their words and actions.

Biden screwed up. He put no thought into his words before he opened his mouth. I've noticed many people trying to spin his comments but I haven't found anyone who wasn't honestly surprised and offended by what he said before they sat down and thought about what he might have meant.

http://www.observer.com/20070205/20070205_Jason_Horowitz_pageone_newsstory1.html

“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.”

Which is how he said it. That's a big difference.

"you've got the first, sort of - mainstream African American (big pause) who is articulate and bright"

The constrast between Obama and Jesse and Sharpton is not that Obama is the first who is articulate and bright, but he is the first who is mainstream. The rest is description of Obama more than it is contrast with Jesse and Sharpton.

Obama is a 'storybook candidate' who also does not stir things up like Jesse or Al by speaking truth to power,

But I did just get this email:

"Today, Senator Barack Obama from Illinois introduced the Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Act to ensure civil and criminal penalties for those who engage in voter suppression through disinformation and dirty tricks.

Click here to contact both your senators and ask them to cosponsor Sen. Obama’s Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Act.

If passed, Sen. Obama’s bill would do the following for ALL federal elections starting in 2008:

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Biden exposes the "I'm not a racist" racism. What Biden is really saying is that Obama doesn't remind people that he is Black, therefore he is mainstream.

Biden's statement reveals the not so attrative underbelly to race relations in the US. You can be Black and rise to positions of power as long as you don't rock the boat for whites--don't deliver speeches in the cadence of Black preachers, don't go out of your way to address AA issues, and by all means don't dress/groom in an afro-centric manner.

The statement by Biden was ugly, and I am disapointed that there are some DUers who don't get it.

God, I knew that the assassination of Dr. King was evil, but the depths of that evil are still being revealed.

It's not a gaffe; he meant every word he said.

Both Sharpton and Jesse Jackson do have a bit of baggage.

'Edward's House' topic for the week.

Listening to the audio, (I just got home so I hadn't even read a transcript) I saw nothing to knee-jerk at. As much as I'm not a huge fan of Biden, I still feel for him for the depth of attacks on his character that he's going to have to endure in the coming weeks due to this much ado about nothing controversy.

I think Biden's comments were one more slip of the tongue that create embarrassment for the party in general. After all the time he has spent in office, on television, being interviewed he should know better to watch what he says and HOW he says it.

And think of all of our money he hasn't given to the credit card companies yet!

you can look it up

move high enough up their food chains and they're all the same few people.

Including yours truly. You can't go 10 feet in Delaware without running into someone who works in the banking industry or is related to someone working for the banking industry. You'll find that other senators have the same type of voting trends when it comes to one of the top employer of their state including Mary Landrieu and the Oil Industry, Blanche Lincoln and Wal-Mart.

So you're saying Joe shouldn't support all of us who work for the Credit/Banking industry?

the "bankruptcy" bill and the steady deregulation of banking in this country are outrageous