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To: twmoore who wrote (97906)	2/1/2007 2:14:01 AM
From: SiouxPal	Respond to of 362604

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To: twmoore who wrote (97906)	2/1/2007 2:20:12 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362604

Blogtalk: Biden Fallout thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com By Michael McElroy January 31, 2007, 7:13 pm Who would have thought that Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware could so set the blogosphere ablaze? His interview with The New York Observer — in which he used an unfortunate combination of the words “clean,” “articulate” and “first African-American candidate” to describe Senator Barak Obama of Illinois — has become the leading story on many political blogs. The conservative Redstate wondered what would have happened had a Republican said those things. “Only one slight problem … that wasn’t a Republican. It was the senior senator from Delaware and Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden. I’m sure the outrage train is just running a little behind schedule.” Some left-leaning blogs however, did criticize the senator. Atrios saw harsh consequences. “Volumes could be written about all that was wrong with what Biden said about Obama, but I believe we’ve just witnessed the shortest presidential run in history.” Talking Points Memo, responding to reader posts that a missing comma in the transcript may have changed the meaning of Mr. Biden’s words, said: “Even with the comma it’s really condescending bordering on racist. And it would still probably mean that Biden’s mouth presents a clear and present danger to Democratic electoral prospects no matter what he meant.” Mr. Biden also criticized Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, also his competition for the Democratic nomination. James Wolcott, writing for Vanity Fair under the headline, ‘Obama: He’s no Funky Negro’, said comma or no, “it doesn’t excuse the dismissive, patronizing manner with which he backhands Clinton, Obama and Edwards, two of whom are his Senate colleagues.” “He’s not even in the first inning of his presidential candidacy and he’s disparaging fellow Democrats as neophytes and lightweights instead of accenting his own qualities; he sounds jealous, a petty platform from which to launch oneself.”