Wednesday Night Live
Posted: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 8:01 PM by Countdown
Not since the British Prime Minister decided against committing his own troops to the escalation of U-S forces in Iraq... has President Bush lost as significant an ally in that conflict.
Not since a Senator from Virginia called a member of his opponent's staff "Macaca" has a comment about race so dominated a political campaign.
Our fifth story on the Countdown: The Bush administration managing to alienate its most passionate supporter of the president's plan for Iraq -- Senator John McCain -- by failing to give him information that he hd requested.
And on a parallel track... what Senator Joe Biden had to say about Iraq today on this, his first day as an official candidate for the White House... all but drowned out... by the unfortunate description he gave of his African-American opponent -- Senator Barack Obama.
Biden, giving in to his self-admitted tendency to bloviate, having launched his bid for the White House by declaring his candidacy on the web this morning.
Comments made the old fashioned way -- to a newspaper reporter -- stealing all of his thunder.
“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.”
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