Joe Biden's Defining Moments
From 26 years in the Senate to two failed Presidential campaigns, the experiences that forged Obama's Veep nominee
Biden announced he would run for the White House early in the summer of 2005. A year later, in June 2006, he offended Indian-Americans saying, "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." Six months later, on the day he officially announced his presidential run, he offended African-Americans With his much-repeated gaffe about Barack Obama: "the first mainstream African-American [candidate] who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."
—Massimo Calabresi
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