I hate to be thought of as endorsing racial language, but did everyone get really upset when Joe Biden used similar verbiage?

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/j...Biden.-j7g.htm

http://articles.cnn.com/2007-01-31/p..._s=PM:POLITICS

Racist?
 

I think you may be agreeing with me on this one, Richie.

Biden's full quote was...

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."

That's racist?

Biden wound up apologizing to his critics who asserted that his statement was racist. The critics were his political opponents, of course. Too bad he succumbed to political correctness. I wouldn't have.

Had if seen it the response would be the same....at leash from me

If you want to split hairs. Obama is not black. Obama is not white. He is in-between.
What is your definition? Just curious, that's all.

Colored probably not racist but certainly derogatory and offensive which is why you wrote it. To use the term colored conjures up images of the times when there were signs pointing out "white" areas from the "colored" areas. Without the historical background it probably is not offensive but I have a feeling you used it to be offensive.

I will explain it to you
 

It is inappropriate to use the term "colored kid". It is a mild form of segregating by race.

Now I will explain something else. The guy before Obama screwed things up so bad that we may lose Medicare.

This is one of
 

if not the most ridiculous posts I have ever read on this forum.

Please give more thought to your responses
 

Do you think that those politicians really believe in what they are voting for or are they just doing as they are told?

With an eye on 2016
 

Andrew Cuomo of New York or Jim Webb of Virginia
vs.
some corporate stooge that is pliable and dumb

Well Said
 

I just finished "The Price of Loyalty" an audio book about Paul O'Neil Bush's first Secretary of the Treasury. Your comment sums up the book perfectly.

Again
 

You criticize and mock people instead of posting anything meaningful. You sir, have some kind of deficiency that impairs you to give logical or reasonable responses. You must be real fun to live with.chilout

If any Republican refered to Obama as the 1st African American "Anything", he would have been excoriated. But THE FIRST nice looking articulate African American?

You're a bit screwy on this one VK. In fact, very screwy.

Do you mean do they believe the total concept, or are they just doing what their constituents elected them to do? If that's what you call be "told" what to do, I want lots more of that.

Yes, that is racist. It is implying that all African-Americans are not good looking and are not articulate. You cannot see that????

is that what that implied? Think of the mainstream African-Americans of the time. The good-looking and articulate Jesse Jackson? The good-looking and articulate Al Sharpton?

I don't think it was meant to be racist. I think it was meant to be complementary.