Press Blasts Biden for Saying What Every White Person Thinks:

Sorry, Jesse Jackson, but "clean" and "handsome" aren't words that white folks, especially males, immediately think of when you come to mind as a presidential candidate, either past or present. Barack Obama has got the lock on that. He's pure Hollywood and the closest thing to star image power that's come along in the Democratic Party since JFK.

In case you haven't heard, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware kicked off his 2008 presidential campaign yesterday by planting his foot squarely in his mouth. If his molars had been goal posts, he'd have won the Super Bowl. Biden, in critiquing his Democratic competition described Obama as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”

The press, naturally, is having a field day watching Biden try to extract that foot. Did he mean all black candidates are "non mainstream"? "Not bright"? "Not clean"? "Not nice-looking"? Sounds like some racist views buried beneath the surface.

But come on, folks, this is exactly what every American thinks when they see and hear Obama. Had Gen. Colin Powell accepted a presidential nomination when the Republicans were trying to talk him into it, this topic wouldn't be coming up now. But it has. As the kids say, deal with it.