Joe Biden Says Obama Is the First Mainstream African-American Who Is Clean & Articulate

New York Observer (January 31st, 2007)

Joe Biden says that Barack Obama is the first articulate, bright and clean African-American to enter mainstream politics.

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The Biden Tapes - New York Observer (January 31st, 2007):
https://observer.com/2007/01/the-biden-tapes/

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https://observer.com/2007/02/biden-unbound-lays-into-clinton-obama-edwards/
https://web.archive.org/web/20070204023534/https://thepoliticker.observer.com/20070205_Jason_Horowitz_pageone_newsstory1.html

"Senator Joseph R. Biden of Delaware, who announced his candidacy on Wednesday with the hope that he could ride his foreign policy expertise into contention for the Democratic nomination, instead spent the day struggling to explain his description of Senator Barack Obama, the Illinois Democrat running for president, as 'the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.'"
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/washington/02cnd-biden.html

"In the article published Wednesday, Biden is quoted evaluating presidential rivals Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, former Sen. John Edwards, D-North Carolina, and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois."
https://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/31/biden.obama/

"'When I heard his comments I thought Joe Biden was referring to a bygone era,' said Donna Brazile, the former campaign manager for Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign and a prominent African-American political consultant...Democratic observers shook their heads at the latest example of how Biden's garrulousness often gets him into trouble...This is not the first accusation of racial insensitivity Biden has faced. In June 2006, C-SPAN caught him speaking to an Indian-American man, saying: 'In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.'...Biden ran for president 20 years ago and saw his campaign consumed by scandal after senior aides to campaign rival Mike Dukakis, the former governor of Massachusetts, made sure reporters saw that Biden had plagiarized a campaign speech from Neil Kinnock, then the leader of the British Labor Party. Biden had mentioned Kinnock in previous deliveries of that speech, though not in the one distributed to the press."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2838420&page=1