If you’re saying that OW overreacted to Biden’s saying stupid things, I agree. Do you have any point here beyond that? Because other commenters already have said that, and OW has said, Sen. Biden says stupid things sometime, but he doesn’t have the mountains of stupidity Palin does.

McCain knows that the religious fanatics in the right wing of the GOP are whackjobs. But he picked one to be his running mate because he cares for nobody but himself. In his judgment, he thought it would help his chances. That judgment as usual was deeply flawed, but his motivation was even more damning.

I didn’t call Joe Biden a racist. Maybe you should ask the person who did.

Good luck getting an answer.

With “clean and articulate,” the most negative reading is that Biden was pointing out that Obama is a new phenomenon in national Democratic politics as a black candidate (which he is; before this, African American grads of Harvard were represented in presidential politics by… Alan Keyes). However, Obama is typical of a new generation of politicians who have been afforded access to elite institutions as their predecessors had not, and who have built their bases on a broader coalition than their predecessors could.

With the 7/11 comment, Biden was pointing out how phenomenally successful Indians from Gujarat and Punjab have been as entrepreneurs in the U.S. even when they don’t start with much money or education, to the point that they seem to dominate whole service sectors (I read several years ago that 1/3 of all hotels and motels in the U.S. are owned by people with the last name Patel). It’s stereotyping along the same lines as the person who knows my family is from Andhra and assumes I am great at math and science and will become a doctor or engineer. (Which like many stereotypes has a little basis in truth: my dad, uncle-in-law, little sister, second cousin, second-cousin-in-law are all doctors; my older sister, uncle and multiple cousins by blood and marriage trained in computer science.) It is very different from stereotyping Indians as stingy, dishonest, unpatriotic or “unAmerican.” It is very different from the George Allan move of assuming that a guy with brown skin — who actually was born, raised and going to school in VA — needs to be “welcomed to America.”

So is Biden bad at giving compliments to people of color? Sure. Does he go around describing them as unAmerican? No. I think in the matchup against much of the GOP these days, that’s a win for Biden.

Another one, racist or just plain dumb, or both, you decide. Another one from googling Biden Delaware slave state so you can choose on your own.

I’m honestly surprised you and Bruce needed examples of this guy’s other racist remarks. I just assume you’re well-informed about the guys you are voting for. It concerns me almost as the video of the girl today who thinks Obama will pay for her gas and mortgage bills, or the Obama supporters who when asked if they were ok with Obama’s choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate, they said, ‘Yes’.

Scary stuff, S-e-a-n. But hey, it’s really the hip thing to vote for this guy.

That would be “Duros”. Spelled S-E-A-N.

And you’re the one who made the statement. You’re the one who has to provide support. It isn’t up to anyone else to find sufficient support to convince themselves you have a point. Nice try.

Weak, Duros. Not at all. Takes two seconds to google Biden and racism and then copy and paste it here. I figure Bruce can do the same thing, then he can choose which of the hundreds of sources he’d rather read. If I choose one for him, then of course the ad hominems come back as a response.

I love America, and I despise those who questioned my patriotism over the past eight years for wanting some simple questions answered. I’ll be back in America in a few years, and if Obama is elected I know it can be a beacon for decency again. I love my country, and I’m so proud of the fact that people are leaning towards a change in Washington.

If you aren’t already working for the GOTV effort, please call or e-mail a few friends about what a great opportunity we have as Americans to elect Barack Obama to the presidency. Remind them that McCain is a close friend of Bush, and he offers no change. He is angry, and he is erratic. He has selected a VP nominee who is in no way shape or form qualified to take over if disaster strikes.

Let’s take our country back on November 4th! Let’s make it great again!

Translated Dennis: I’m too lazy to attempt to provide support for anything I say.

But when Angry Johnny does it, it’s Mavericky!

Give it a rest, Dennis. Biden says dumb stuff sometimes. The difference he knows it.

“More of the slash and burn, say-anything, do-anything politics that’s calculated to divide and distract; to tear us apart instead of bringing us together,” Obama told 25,000 in Des Moines.

The Illinois senator said he admired a presidential candidate who said in 2000, “I will not take the low road to the highest office in this land.”

“Those words were spoken eight years ago by my opponent, John McCain,” Obama said. “But the high road didn’t lead him to the White House then, so this time, he decided to take a different route.”

Parthy, you’re an honest broker, but you don’t give the same consideration to things Glenn Reynolds says. Not here, and not at Instaputz.

Except that’s not what he said, Sean. And Joe Biden has made more than that one racist comment, and far more than one or two stupid ones, to be sure. As to the stupid ones, I guess the number is not so important to overall stupidity as long as he speaks in complete sentences.

Neither can George Bush, Jr. Palin just wasn’t born into royalty.

Well, of course! Everyone knows you should never learn new facts and then modify your view. Why, that would require learning and judgment, and those things are dangerous and un-American.