Biden his time  Rich Galen  2/2/2007 11:08:19 AM - Rich Galen
Joe Biden is a US Senator from Delaware. He has never been
anything BUT a US Senator from Delaware. He is, according to his
official bio, "currently serving his 6th term."  Joe Biden was
elected when he was not yet 30 (although he had turned 30 by the
time the Senate convened in 1973). He will be 65 this November.
He is not new at this.  That is why his statement, the other
day, about Barak Obama was so astonishing. If you were absent
from the Earth this week, Biden said, in an interview of Obama's
run for the Presidency:   Someone, in effect, Joe Biden would be
happy to have dinner with. Not at the country club, of course,
but certainly in a public restaurant. In Washington, DC. Where
there are plenty of clean African-Americans.  Even assuming
Biden meant "clean" as in "clean slate" that still doesn't say
much for his cultural sensitivity. But it says volumes about the
way he thinks of two other pretty well-known African-American
former candidate