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...there’s no reason that you can’t do it again,” Harris said. “I definitely expect big things of myself, and I’m sure my teammates do, too. We all have to step up to replace a guy of Brian’s stature.”—Staff writer Caleb W. Peiffer can be reached at cpeiffer@fas.harvard.edu...
...then came Joe Biden. On Wednesday, announcing his run for President, he praised his Senate colleague and presidential rival Barack Obama as "articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," and declared that this was a first for African American presidential candidates. The Rev. Al Sharpton, who ran for president in 2004, informed Biden, who called to apologize, that he takes a bath every day. Sharpton is good at moments like this. He manages to declare himself available for compensatory pandering, without pretending that he doesn't get the joke. But generally, the first thing that happens when...
...question about Gavin Newsom has always been 'Is this guy ready for prime time?'" says Chris Nolan, editor and founder of Spot-On.com, an independent political website. She adds: "Having gotten himself to the national stage as something of daredevil with the same-sex marriage platform - is he able to stay there and maintain a public persona that gives depth to that? I think that his behavior answers that question in the negative...
...biracial identity has helped Obama build a sizable following in middle America, it's also opened a gap for others to question his authenticity as a black man. In calling Obama the "first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," the implication was that the black people who are regularly seen by whites - or at least those who aspire to the highest office in the land - are none of these things. But give Biden credit - at least he acknowledged Obama's identity...
...loyalty to The People in a way that "bad blacks" never have to. Obama, for his part, settled this debate some time ago. "If I'm outside your building trying to catch a cab," he told Charlie Rose, "they're not saying, 'Oh, there's a mixed race guy.'" Obama understands what all blacks, including myself, know all too well - that Amadou Diallo's foreign ancestry could not prevent his wallet from morphing into a gun in the eyes of the police...