VP Biden's comment:
Biden (from a conservative website)
“In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7/11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.”
Biden explains what he meant.
It seems as though he was trying to say that there's a large influx of Indian immigrants who own businesses. Here in Denver, we have a neighborhood dubbed "Saudi Aurora" because of the neighborhood...even though it's (now mostly) Lebanese and Iranian restaurants. *shrug*
Also, no one seemed to care but the news media.
Biden wasn't drawing cartoons. He made a (not funny nor offensive) joke that was blown out of proportion back in 2003. Unlike *some* political parties, Biden does not have a history of supporting racist and biogted policies against non-'white' Americans.
Next!
Secretary of State Clinton: She had bad parsing, but I think I know what she meant...The same list you published is on 20000 conservative websites.
ST. LOUIS — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton apologized for joking that Mahatma Gandhi used to run a gas station in St. Louis, saying it was “a lame attempt at humor."
The New York Democrat made the remark at a fund-raiser Saturday. During an event here for Senate candidate Nancy Farmer, Clinton introduced a quote from Gandhi by saying, “He ran a gas station down in St. Louis.”
After laughter from many in the crowd of at least 200 subsided, the former first lady continued, “No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.” In a nod to Farmer’s underdog status against Republican Sen. Kit Bond, Clinton quoted the Indian independence leader as saying: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
She was saying you can come from nothing and rise to government official. Okay. Some jobs are stereotypes. Hispanics and construction. Indians and gas stations. Vietnamese and their AMAZING PEDICURES. (Sorry. Every one else sucks.) Chinese laundry. Jews and banks. She made a lame joke.
No doubt about it, Hollings
sure does bloviate. And yes, the NAACP called for his retirement.
Hollings spokesman, Andy Brack, said the senator was joking when he made the statement to reporters. "If we can't make a joke every now and then," said Brack, "then our country is in pretty bad shape."
Gibson, who was far from amused, said "I was insulted and experienced a bit of rage when I initially read it ... The man has to be mentally sick to continue to make these kinds of statements."
Over the past several years, Hollings has stepped on the toes of minorities on different occasions by making racially insensitive statements including his most recent statement made during a meeting with South Carolina and Georgia reporters.
According to the Greensville News, Hollings, when criticizing the treatment of textiles by new global trading rules being negotiated in Geneva, said: "Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva."
Hollings was Dem Lite most days (he's retired in 2005) even if he did endorse Jesse Jackson. Note his age and the fact he served for an eternity next to Strom Thurmond. He's not likely to have much tact.
He also advocated for education reform, feeding the hungry people in his state, and voted for the re authorization of the Voting Rights Act. He voted against Thurgood Marshall and for Clarence Thomas, suggesting it was a matter of philosophy.
Anyway, making a racist remark doesn't automatically make you racist. It means you can be a moron sometimes.
The cartoon in question was racist and carried weight because it was not meant to be a light hearted joke, nor was it meant to be done in passing. It was a picture that showed Obama as an ape, his family as an ape, and dare I say outline his unAmerican "Kenyan" roots? 
Mike Wallace was a journalist on
60 Minutes. Eh?
O Donna Brazille, you prominent African American woman in the Democratic Party, I do have a love/hate relationship with you. Don't take it personally; you just really trashed Gov. Dean in the 04 primary. Ahem, she said:
"Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy. They'd rather take pictures with black children than feed them" - Donna Brazille
--which is true, so where's the uproar?
She said Republicans would rather take pictures with black people then actually help black people.
Senator Diane Watson, a delegate for H. Clinton, on Barack Obama:
"He's married to a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn't want to be black."
She's criticizing Barack Obama's polished ethnic pride and talking down to black Americans. That's between those two. Not us. Just like Alan Keyes and Obama, Bill Cosby and the African American young, etc. etc.
So...anyway...the Republicans have a history of bigotry, racism, homophobia, misogyny...of course the logical conclusion for most is, "God, she is a racist jerk!" when seeing that article.
