“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.”

— Joe Biden

Speaking of Presidential candidate Barack Obama Biden Unbound: Lays Into Clinton, Obama, Edwards, The New York Observer, February 1, 2007, 2007-02-01 http://www.observer.com/20070205/20070205_Jason_Horowitz_pageone_newsstory1.html, 2000s

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