From the Boston Globe.

In the dim corners of the nascent 2008 presidential campaign, Joe Biden must be kicking himself even more than before.It was as if Obama reveled in precisely the words that fellow candidate Biden harpooned himself with two weeks ago. Biden said Obama is “articulate and bright and clean.” Those comments sparked a debate about unconscious stereotypes about white people still being shocked in the year 2007 that educated black people can speak, take baths, or aren’t running off with your purse.More…