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On January 31, 2007, Senator Joe Biden, then a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in the 2008 election, said this about fellow candidate Senator Barack Obama.
“I mean, you got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” — Joe Biden
When called out on his comment, Biden explained, “This is a guy who’s come along in a way that’s captured the imagination of the country in a way that no one else has. That was the point of everything I was saying.”
Barack Obama responded to Biden’s comments:
“I didn’t take Sen. 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…
