Wed 21 Feb 2007
Maher on Biden: don’t knock the guy who gets Iraq because of one-second brainfart
Posted by shelbinator under File this
There’s more to being smart than just not misspeaking. The world is a complicated place. … Which is why for this next election, we need to pick the smartest candidate, not the dullest one who simply never had a verbal gaffe and said a wrong word or phrase.
A couple of weeks ago, Senator Joe Biden hit the ground flopping when he described Barack Obama as articulate and clean. But if you think he’s a racist, then you’re not really thinking, you’re just playing Gotcha. Yes, the remark was cringe-worthy - it always is when someone old and out of touch says something creepy - even a Chinaman knows that.
However, when it comes to the most important ISSUE of the day, last year, Joe Biden was out ahead on calling for an Iraq broken into three countries - and that is what’s going to happen, no matter how much surging George Bush does. And I say fine, so what if Iraq gets broken up, it’s a made up country anyway, there’s only been an Iraq since 1932 - it’s 7 years younger than Paul Newman.
So, the guy who got this right, he can’t run, because we’re a very sensitive people, and he said a black man was clean, and we care more about a one second verbal brain-fart than we do about who has the right answers.
From the HuffPo by way of Biden’s blog.
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February 21st, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Hey, as long as Biden isn’t all amped up in favor of killing those Mohammedans, I don’t care whose hygiene he notices.
It does matter to me if my President misspeaks like this. By the time the next election is over, I will have spent 8 years cringing the nightly news. It’s like watching The Office, except it’s real and it’s my government. This next time, I want someone smarter, more socially aware, and more eloquent.
February 21st, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Hey, did you read about the baseball caps that were printed the same day that he made the infamous comment? The hats are imprinted with the message, “OBAMA ‘08–ARTICULATE AND CLEAN.”
February 21st, 2007 at 10:18 pm
TK, normally he’s quite articulate — sometimes overly articulate to the point of loquacious and even bloviating, but like Maher points out, he’s goddamn smart, and we’re going to need that to repair the damage Bush has done. Plus, it’s the same kind of no-shit off the cuff talking that sometimes gets Joe in trouble that will also be refreshingly frank when it comes to things like, I dunno, pointing out to Khamenei and Rafsanjani that they need to cut Ahmadinejad loose and think rationally about their strategic position.
Betsy, I’m still counting on Ebony and Ivory to unite on an amazingly refreshing (so fresh ‘n’ so clean clean) ticket. Obama’s got him some New Domestic Politics and Biden will wield the New Diplomacy. Articulate, Clean, and Unwittingly Funny.