Biden: "first mainstream African-American who is articulate"

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

The New York Observer
JASON HOROWITZ
1/31/07
Biden Unbound: Lays Into Clinton, Obama, Edwards
https://web.archive.org/web/20070204023534/https://thepoliticker.observer.com/20070205_Jason_Horowitz_pageone_newsstory1.html

ABC
JAKE TAPPER
1/31/07
A Biden Problem: Foot in Mouth
https://web.archive.org/web/20080827211803/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2838420

CNN
Xuan Thai and Ted Barrett
2/1/07
Biden's description of Obama draws scrutiny
https://web.archive.org/web/20070202013542/https://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/31/biden.obama/

NYT
ADAM NAGOURNEY
2/1/07
Biden Unwraps ’08 Bid With an Oops!
https://web.archive.org/web/20150605034444/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/us/politics/01biden.html

NYT
RACHEL L. SWARNS
2/1/07
So Far, Obama Can’t Take Black Vote for Granted
https://web.archive.org/web/20150605034917/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/us/politics/02obama.html

NYT
LYNETTE CLEMETSON
2/4/07
The Racial Politics of Speaking Well
https://web.archive.org/web/20110826075224/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/weekinreview/04clemetson.html

CBS
Jonathan Chait
2/5/07
Drop Out, Biden
https://web.archive.org/web/20220830201334/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/drop-out-biden/