Years before Joe Biden got in hot water for describing Barack Obama as “articulate” and “clean” back in the early days of the last presidential campaign, another future vice-presidential nominee was welcoming Herman Cain into Republican prominence with a similar line.Rachel Weiner has a succinct political biography of the man of the moment, Herman Cain, over at the Washington Post. Buried in it is this description of Cain by 1996 Republican VP nominee Jack Kemp, who so impressed with Cain that be put him on a Congressional advisory panel:
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