Biden: ‘How Was Your Week?’

ABC News’ Teddy Davis reports: While speaking to a Democratic presidential candidates’ forum in Washington, D.C., Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., once again offered public regret for the controversial interview which embroiled his first day as a presidential candidate.

"How was your week?" Biden asked when he took the stage at the D.N.C.’s winter meeting in Washington, D.C. "Ha, ha, ha, it’s been a hell of a week."

"I want to say I truly regret that words I spoke offended people I admire," Biden continued. "I’m humbled that so many of those same people, as well as you in this room, viewed those words through the prism of my history and my heart. For that I’ll be forever grateful."

In an interview with the New York Observer’s Jason Horowitz about Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Biden said, "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man."

Obama responded to Biden’s comments by calling them "historically inaccurate."

"I didn’t take Senator Biden’s comments personally," Obama said in a written statement, "but obviously they were historically inaccurate. African-American presidential candidates like Jesse Jackson, Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Al Sharpton gave a voice to many important issues through their campaigns, and no one would call them inarticulate."

Once he got into the substance of his remarks, Biden touted his plan to "stop the sectarian cycle of revenge in Iraq" by separating the combatants and giving them a "political way forward."