2008's First Gaffe

It is official, Joe Biden has the first major gaffe of the 2008 presidential campaign:

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," he said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."

This doesn't bode well for Biden, considering that this is his first day. However, I'm not going to trash the guy for this. I'll let other people do that. It just sounds to me like he was trying to be complimentary and his mouth got ahead of his brain.