Biden Starts Presidential Race With Apology Over Obama Remark
Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) — Senator Joe Biden, on the day he officially joined the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, may have diminished his chances by having to apologize for remarks he made about rival Barack Obama
Yesterday the New York Observer quoted Biden as saying of Senator Obama’s presidential candidacy: “You got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.'’
Obama, an Illinois Democrat, said he didn’t take Biden’s remarks personally. “But obviously they were historically inaccurate,'’ Obama said in a statement. “African-American presidential candidates like Jesse Jackson, Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun and Al Sharpton gave a voice to many important issues through their campaigns and no one would call them inarticulate.'’
