Biden: Obama is first "CLEAN" African American

[besie0]

You should look up Neil Degrasse Tyson or Will Smith. A rapper that does not use swearwords and keeps his interviews and songs fun.

[GOOSEMAN1980]

im pretty sure hes saying that obama is clean as in has no dirt for anyone to dig up.im black too and i hear racist shit every day but you guys just sound stupid.

[ekajeht]

In other words Biden thinks obama isn't like all the other dirty niggers !

[sewagner504]

And STILL two years later the Republicans and Tea Party members are the racist ones! How do people not see what is really going on? The racist politician is the one that assumes a black person is poor, unintelligent and unable to care for himself without government assistance. Democrats were and are the true racists.

[WhitePlumeMountain]

You liberals need to remeber where you left your piles of bull crap so you don't keep tripping over them. You might get hurt.

[Vertigo2903]

lol

[EmperorEmpanada]

Both.

[Onesagestudent]

Retarded, by first, I think he was referring to the first real African American presidential candidate that could be, and was, elected. He is retarded, but I am not sure if he is racist.

[AyeSkyeTech]

well, it's a Backhanded Compliment! I guess for those voters who were on the fence about whether or not if they wanted to vote for Obama (for tokenism racial reasons), got their seal of approval from the mindset of a "clean, bright, articulate, and nice-looking" white man.

i guess he was speaking to the individual.



[AyeSkyeTech]

but biden is obama's lap dog.

[MrsKette]

@102LBC Agreed: neither one of the statements would have been true. Yet, to Biden it seems all other American blacks are inarticulate, stupid, dirty and bad looking. One more try: "I mean, you got the first sort of mainstream 24 year-old who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." Someone who made such a statement would certainly have a very low opinion of 24 year-olds.

[MrsKette]

@102LBC Let's make a small change and you tell me what you call this: "I mean, you got the first sort of mainstream woman who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking girl. I mean, that's a storybook, man." Try this one: "I mean, you got the first sort of mainstream Hispanic who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man" What say you?

[MrsKette]

I beleive Liberals are racist. They like to accuse Conservatives of racism, because that is their tactic: attack viciously and continuously. If Libs were not racist, why would they believe blacks (NO, not "African-Americans"!) need help to be able to accomplish anything?! How more racist can one be?

[vignesh199222]

calling them african american in the first place is racist ....just call them americans if they have been your country for ever.

[pcheeto]

turn off obama's teleprompter and he sounds like an idiot too!

[Rompcom]

@102LBC - Distorting is pretty much what you did to make Biden's remarks innocuous.

[BobbieandSteveDooley]

He's nice looking because he's half white!

Dark skin, talks black, big ugly flat nose.....no president here!

[Rompcom]

@102LBC - I can do that too. The late Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) once wrote, "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side (he wants to protect black people and not put them in harms way) ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again (He loves America), than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels (he doesn't approve of outlaw biker gangs) , a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."

[bcspace]

Obama certainly isn't mainstream. Neither is Biden and most other Democrats.

[kevgiv]

Biden can say this crap and rise to be the vice president but James Watt was forced to resign in the eighties! and I don't even want to talk about Harry Reid. These people are allowed to be racist and the media doesn't bat ,much of an eye, but when Rick Santorum calls the president a black man...can you say double standard boys and girls?

[frogsoda]

1:20 It's pretty sad when Obama has to point to Jesse Jackson as proof of Biden's being "Historically Inaccurate". AND he had "Hours" to think about it.

[chunkyaids24]

im not going to give an opinion on the video until i know what the interviewers question was, could have been taken out of context, but by the looks of it, it is a racist comment

[DelbyC]

I see alot of people bitching about imagine if so so (insert your right-winger) said this or someone with political ties to the left. I mean come on, that "what if" comment is weaker than ever and having that process exposes exactly what your sentiments towards statements like this truly is. Now as for my opinion i don't think that his intention was how the vids producer interpreted but then again i'm not African American. I do however think this demonstrates our country's obsession w/ language.

[ryangi5]

@DelbyC First off you miss the point in responding to how any Republican would be treated if they said something so awful. Mainstream media is so loaded with liberals who care more about advancing liberalism than they do about journalistic ethics. Second, you say the vid failed to capture his true intent. So is Biden a benevolent, patronizing racist? Explain to me how a better intentioned racist makes it any better. Third, why do you have to be African-American to properly interpret Biden?

[ryangi5]

@ryangi5 Fourth, you say you can't properly interpret it b/c your not an African-America, but in the video you have the statement released by Obama who also condemned the racist comments. Fifth, you say we are obsessed with language. What on earth are you talking about, and why does that excuse overt racism? Liberals will make up stuff and lie about Republicans so they can call them racist. Yet whenever a liberal is blatantly racist, liberals come up with the most nonsensical defenses for them.

[DelbyC]

this" it's like a hot potato blame game. Why not look at things like this in another manner , is it just the words, whats behind it ? how would someone else besides people with my common belives think about this comment ? Why ? I don't know dude, i think we're stuck as a nation right now, culturally, politically etc.. I think we have to take a hard look at who we are and Accept who we are ( not tolerate it, as it's so popularily taught). "Tolerating someone is the first step to hating them."

[DelbyC]

behind their comments. That goes for Liberals or Republicans. I do think Bidens choice of words are extremely poor, but it does not automatically make him a racist. I bring up the fact that i'm not African American b/c of well, it's a racial comment about an African American and my believe in that in comments of race perspective matters. I believe ones disposion ( i.e. former experience w/ bigotry) towards racism is a big factor in your interpretations of others words used to describe

[DelbyC]

I disagree, this is is not as overt as you say it is. I will agree that overall the media ( movies,tv,magazines etc..) does have a majority liberal personnel, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they religiously push their ideoliges, for example like FOX news. And you cannot tell me that anyone and i mean anyone that watches this video will interpret it as bantley racist, what we do is nick pick at flash words or phrases w/o ever really considering what the persons true sentiments or context

[DelbyC]

characteristics and gneralizations of YOU'RE race. Lastly, i do agree with you that would it have been a Republican it probably would have been made more of a big deal, but i think that's just b/c Republicans, historically have always been an easier target for criticism, when it comes to racially charged comments. And my point was that American culture has become lazy in self-examination, i find it stupid that the first thing that people go to is "hey what if it was the other guy that said

[BurnBeforeEating]

The left had to make up quotes from Rush Limbaugh (yes they actually did that) to keep him from buying a football team, but a Dem says this and he gets chosen, by the guy he's talking about, to be vice-president

[bigtexansfan]

@BurnBeforeEating - Bullshit! No one had to make up anything about Lush Limpbaugh. He did say that NFL football resemble a fight between the bloods and crips without the weapons, he did tell an Black caller to get the bone out of her nose, hid did put "Barack The Magic Negro" on blast on his program. So you false equivalency is total bullshit.

[drbayoms]

@bigtexansfan

Well said!

[BurnBeforeEating]

Can you imagine if Palin said this? Or if a republican senator was a former klansman like Byrd, God rest his soul? Or if Mitch McConnel (since he's our Harry Reid) said that Obama doesn't speak in a "negro dialect"? We'd never hear the end of it! But this guy says it, and he gets to be vice president.

[Mike62075]

Did you ever notice that Democrats get away with making racist comments, but Republicans never would? They would crucify Rush if he were to say something like that.

[parish32]

@Mike62075 Read the book; Negrophilia: From Slave Block to Pedestal - America's Racial Obsession by Erik Rush... and you will understand why. .. .. Dr. Ron Paul For President 2012.... Join The Revolution. I Have. : )

[TankSwift]

Yes the first MAINSTREAM, as in on T.V, AFRICAN AMERICAN who doesn't sound like an idiot.

And he is right.

[getthefactsnow]

So you are saying that that all other african americans on TV (before obama) sound like idiots?......

[TankSwift]

Yes.

[ACOLLEGECONSERVATIVE]

@TankSwift hahhaha you moron

[222mowmow]

@TankSwift What about Bill Cosby, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, even Michael Jordan. There are plenty of clean, articulate, and bright.

[ventralfins]

Imagine if Sarah Palin said the same thing... the media would skewer her! Biden is an idiot!

[drbayoms]

@ventralfins

Exactly! Liberals try their best to side-step his bigoted comment. But you would have watched non stop coverage on MSNBC or CNN if that moose hunting idiot Palin had said the same thing. Bottom line, Biden made an ass of himself (yet again). He also made an ass of Obama and blacks also. Look at the number of blacks who defended Biden and Harry Reid. Call it for what it was.....regardless.

[AbuBakerSmith]

Biden better be clean Obama is "CLEAN" because Biden is gonna have his head buried firmly in the crack of Obama's ASS for at least the next four years.

[Robintheneuroman]

You are an in idiot!

He was talking about the first main stream African American who was running for president.

And the fact that he was clean and good looking are in context of his political record and appeal, and are nothing to do with his race.

Any attempt to suggest otherwise is just a false pretense in which you can extol the racist virtues you harbor, through the medium of careful editing!

[rdbn25]

Interesting, but if this was said by a Conserative or a reporter in the Ny Post i some how believe you would be singing a different tune.

[ariaane]

My thoughts exactly. And I am black.

[getthefactsnow]

if that was what he meant, why did he not say it like that? And how come Barak Obama himself understood it to be otherwise?

Racist?.. how do you know i'm not a member of a minority race?

[JFreedom28]

@getthefactsnow "Racist?.. how do you know i'm not a member of a minority race?" Ummm...since when is it not possible for minorities to be racist? Did you really just say that?