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Article: Biden gaffes leave Democrats with mixed emotions ; Some worry about missteps in Palin debate
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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CAMPAIGN 2008
WASHINGTON - Joe Biden began his remarks to the National Jewish
Democratic Council last week with a joke about how Jews like to
argue.
The Yeshiva crew team, he said, sent a spy to Cambridge find out
why the Harvard rowers always beat them. The informant called his
coach from alongside the river. "He said, `They've got eight guys
rowing and only one yelling!"' he said, to laughter.
Biden can get away with this sort of mild ethnic humor - he is a
four-decade veteran of political banter, an Irish Catholic from
working class Scranton, Pa., and a politician who sometimes runs a
little hot. Trudy Mason, a Democratic activist from New York, said
his warmth nicely balances Obama's ...