Reply #46: I think it would have been a compliment

[Qanisqineq]

if he would have left off the "first" and the "who is". If he had said something more along the lines of: "Obama is articulate, bright, clean, nice-looking, and African-American," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man." I do think that is more along what Biden was trying to say although I don't really understand the whole "clean" part. I mean... he could be using "articulate" because Bush is definitely not. It's not like all white politicians are articulate.

Ah hell, I don't know. Even my make-over of his sentence doesn't sound all that great. It pisses me off that Biden uses this stereotype but in some ways I think it just came out wrong. All I can say is that the sentence was stupid but I don't know his feelings or beliefs behind it so I should just shut up. It isn't for me to say how offensive it was. I wasn't going to vote for him to be the democratic candidate anyway. The only thing I really like about him is I think he sounds like the Smuckers man.