So, regarding Biden's gaffe(s), blogger E beat me to the inevitable punch. Well, everybody in the universe beat me to the punch. Regardless, it's always interesting to see how missteps like the Obama comment end up getting spun: at first, Biden's people insisted, strangely, that the words speak for themselves, and offered this by way of clarification, which is patently nonsensical. Also, there was some chatter about an excised comma that would have absolved him of sin. But no amount of re-editing changes the fact that Biden is a man who labors under the most antiquated notions of race and society, and as Atrios puts it, "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." Nice. Then news came that Biden said that he was in fact quoted accurately, but we're all apparently too hysterical to see him for the enlightened person that he is.
Most interesting to me, though, is that on tonight's Daily Show, Joe's big and redundant declaration for the presidency was marred by yet further verbal acrobatics/half-hearted mea culpas, when he said that he shouldn't have said "clean" but "fresh." And this all leads me to my point. Is Andre 3000 writing Biden's extemporaneous rants or what? Ain't nobody dope as Barack Obama/He's dressed so fresh and so clean? Don't you think he's so sexy/He's dressed so fresh and so clean?
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