Case in point. Today, Joe Biden decided, fuck this exploratory committee nonsense -- he's going to straight out declare his intentions to run for Presidents. Five points for verve and style, Mr. Biden, and minus seventeen-hundred for substance:
Mr. Biden is equally skeptical—albeit in a slightly more backhanded way—about Mr. Obama. “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”Awesome! Well done, Mr. Biden, especially in the use of the word "clean." Perhaps Obama can use that as a tagline for his campaign: "Vote Barack! He's not nearly as dirty as those other black people. Like, you know, Frederick Douglas. And Martin Luther King, Jr."
But—and the “but” was clearly inevitable—he doubts whether American voters are going to elect “a one-term, a guy who has served for four years in the Senate,” and added: “I don’t recall hearing a word from Barack about a plan or a tactic.”
Here's a guess. Joe Biden has macaca'ed himself right out of the gate. From here, his presidential ambitions with sputter, eventually die, and he will buy a yacht to share with Ted Kennedy and Gary Hart. They can name it "So Close, Yet So Far."
ETA: When I reported this to my brother, he responded, "That's not -that- racist." Is this something about which reasonable people can disagree?
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It's racist. And you're right to single out 'clean' as the smoking gun. I was pretty shocked. I suppose he meant Clean in the antithesis-of-Nixon way, but it's still bigotry: the ascribing of a universal fault to a single group, pretty much exclusively. What about all the book-cooking white folks? Or the rich gentiles? Or the promiscuous nonqueers?
Anyway, hope you're well in Brooklyn and dealing with the cold. It's pretty nice here in Britain. More later in an e-mail.
Love,
Little Adam
it def points to some kind of latent racism.
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