Ezra blames all the gaffes:
[This week], Biden angered Jewish groups by referring to shady lenders as “shylocks.” Then he called Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew “the wisest man in the Orient.” Biden has history of this kind of thing. In 2006, he said, “you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.” In 2007, he called Obama “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” Biden, New York Magazine snarked, “is your accidentally racist grandma.” …
[T]hese comments keep exposing a cultural gulf between Biden and the party he seeks to lead. Biden is an old-school, white, male politician in a party that’s increasingly young, multicultural, and female. One of the biggest frustration for Team Biden is that their boss has become something of a joke on the internet — and that’s partly because the people driving opinion online are young and very sensitive to the particular kind of gaffes Biden keeps making.
The latest:
In the middle of a Friday morning speech championing women’s issues, Vice President Joe Biden offered warm words for a senator who resigned amid a sexual harassment scandal [Bob Packwood].
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