Biden time until the next gaffe
Well, that could’ve gone better.
Biden - never known for keeping quiet - took potshots at his fellow Democratic Presidential contenders Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama, the last whom he called “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.�
Well, hard to say where to start on that one. Obama responded, “I didn’t take Senator Biden’s comments personally, but obviously they were historically inaccurate. African-American presidential candidates like Jesse Jackson, Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun and Al Sharpton gave a voice to many important issues through their campaigns, and no one would call them inarticulate.�
And as luck would have it, Biden was scheduled to appear on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart� tonight, and, of course, you know what he had to discuss.
“Well, yeah, sure – well, no, I don’t want to talk about it,� an at least seemingly good-humored Biden told Stewart. Of Clinton’s plan for Iraq, Biden said, “I think it’s a very bad idea.� Edwards’ Iraq strategy, he added, was “similarly, in my view, unworkable.�
“You’ve been practicing tact, haven’t you?� Stewart asked.
The most nettlesome and ill-advised comment, of course, was the one about Obama. Biden said, “Let me tell you something. I spoke to Barack today…�
“I bet you did,� Stewart responded.
“What I was attempting to be, but not artfully, was complimentary,� Biden explained/spun. “The word that got me in trouble was ‘clean,’ and by that, I meant fresh. He’s got new ideas, he’s the new guy on the block.�
And so what did his first day as a Presidential candidate teach him? “It reminded me, welcome back to Presidential politics,� Biden said.
Biden ran unsuccessfully to become the Democratic Presidential candidate in 1988, until that campaign was torpedoed by charges of plagiarism. His original words don’t seem to serve him so well, either.
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David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place.
And we have yet another candidate for rehab! He can room with Isaiah Washington, who also suffers from the foot-in-mouth disease.