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Declare candidacy, open mouth, insert foot

January 31, 2007 5:34 PM

Senior political correspondent Jake Tapper blogs:

That loquacious chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who launched his presidential campaign today -- Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del. -- may be experiencing an ailment not entirely unknown to him: foot in mouth disease.

Biden is today taking some heat for comments he made to the New York Observer, in which he says of a rival for the nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."

Immediately the conservative media establishment -- Rush Limbaugh, the Drudge Report, bloggers -- publicly pounced for what seemed to many to be insensitive if not racist. And, notably, Obama himself didn't do much to knock the story down.

Continue reading on Jake's Political Punch blog.

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