racial stereotypes

This is the audio that is sure to come back to haunt Joe Biden in the coming days...

Here's some of what they were saying about this at the time (via James Joyner).

Kos:

Really, if we live in a just world, this will be the end of Joe Biden’s political career.

Atrios:

The are more and less charitable readings of what Biden said, but there’s no way to read it which doesn’t reflect very poorly on Biden.

Josh Marshall:

I think at this point you have to say that Biden suffers from what one might with real generosity call chronic racial grandpaism. That is to say, the penchant for making comments that are not only racially offensive but also extremely silly.