For what it's worth, at least he's "clean and nice looking"!

"I deeply regret any offense my remark in the New York Observer might have caused anyone. That was not my intent and I expressed that to Sen. Obama."

That was US presidential hopeful Senator Joe Biden's comment after his earlier statement on Senator Obama:

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."