Joe Biden's Trent Lott moment ( No not the one today)

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Google is full of Joe Biden yukking it up when it comes to race. This is just one.

26 days after Democrats win the mid-terms, Joe Biden exhorts the Republican party to “get back up.” Then, Biden (D-Hair Club for Men) claims that, just because the country voted Democrats back into power, that doesn’t mean the country really endorsed them. And then, Biden uses South Carolina’s pro-slavery past as a “humorous” talking point, to pander to Republicans who think viewing South Carolina’s Articles of Secession is the ideal way to celebrate a white Christmas. Even for testing the waters in a Southern state with an early 2008 primary, this is beyond absurd. And oh—this was all before a Republican audience, who lapped it up:

Biden charms local GOP
The speaker was U.S. Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, a likely candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

This Yankee senator quickly disarmed his conservative audience, many of whom came expecting partisan attacks on President Bush and Republicans in general. …

“America needs, and I need, for the Republican Party to get back up,” said.

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“The mid-term election may have been a rejection of the policies of this administration,” Biden said. “But it was not an embrace of the Democratic program or the Democratic Party. We’re in a state of flux right now and have a lot of problems that need to be resolved.”

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Biden was on a roll.

Delaware, he noted, was a “slave state that fought beside the North. That’s only because we couldn’t figure out how to get to the South. There were a couple of states in the way.”

The crowd loved it.
http://www.correntewire.com/joe_bidens_trent_lott_moment