That was over quick

Joe Biden, a man for which this blog has little love, pretty much George Allened his way out of Presidential contention (IMHO – no big loss). In a combative interview in the New York Observer, Biden threw haymakers at most of the other top tier Democratic candidates. Clinton and Edwards both take hits but Biden really steps in it with his comments regarding Barak Obama.

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.”

And with that, so ends any chance Biden had to win the nomination - as though your average black guy is an ugly, filthy savage, with a bone through his nose. Comments like that are not exactly going to fire up the African-American base; at least, not in way that is going to help. I can hear Al Sharpton starting his rhetorical engine from here...

Hat tip to TMP.