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I woke up to the NPR report this morning that Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Joseph Biden had shot himself in the rhetorical foot with the following remarks in an interview with The New York Observer: I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. Biden…