Democrat Senator Joe Biden of Delaware has been known to shoot off his mouth to his own detriment. But like other well-known Democrat blowhards, little real harm has been done to the veteran lawmaker over the years, since the Left-leaning Big Media pays little heed to his foot-in-mouth disease.

Recently, Senator Biden sat down with The New York Observer to blast his soon-to-be-competition in the Democrat-for-president sweepstakes, and Joe’s mouth (and foot) did not disappoint. Hillary Clinton received the first broadside from Biden, who may wish to avoid Fort Marcy Park after this blast.

“Everyone in the world knows her,” he said. “Her husband has used every single legitimate tool in his behalf to lock people in, shut people down. Legitimate. And she can’t break out of 30 percent for a choice for Democrats? Where do you want to be? Do you want to be in a place where 100 percent of the Democrats know you? They’ve looked at you for the last three years. And four out of 10 is the max you can get?”

Ouch. Biden reserves his choicest terms for Barack Obama, however, and manages to reveal a bit more of himself than he perhaps intended. It seems the old plantation attitude still thrives among our “inclusive” Democrat friends.

Mr. Biden is equally skeptical—albeit in a slightly more backhanded way—about Mr. Obama. “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

As we all know, blacks in America are dirty, stupid, inarticulate, and ugly. Obama apparently rose enough above this standard to attract comment from Biden. Perhaps Joe might even consider allowing Obama off the plantation as a reward for his cleanliness.

But—and the “but” was clearly inevitable—he doubts whether American voters are going to elect “a one-term, a guy who has served for four years in the Senate,” and added: “I don’t recall hearing a word from Barack about a plan or a tactic.”

Perhaps not. But Senator Biden is not the only one capable of making odd statements. Back on the Liberal Plantation, Senator Obama proves he can hold forth with the best of them.

“The arguments of liberals are more often grounded in reason and fact,” the Illinois Democrat wrote in “The Audacity of Hope,” a memoir published last year.

Of course, Senator. We have all experienced several years of considerable Democrat “reason and fact” during the Bush presidency. And regardless of Joe Biden’s opinion of him, Senator Obama is not quite what he pretends to be in public.

Obama has a 95 percent liberal rating from Americans for Democratic Reform, a liberal advocacy group that ranks all members of Congress. Yet he is often portrayed as a centrist.

“His record is liberal, and his rhetoric is moderate,” explained Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.

Get ready America. Presidential election aspirations are shifting political theater into high gear, and we already have a little racism, detachment from reality, and Hillary’s own special brand of angry centrism to choose from for our amusement. It only gets better from here.