An upcoming book chronicling the relationship between Barack Obama and Joe Biden reveals that the ‘bromance’ the two grew to share during the White House years has fizzled in the post-White House years, according to “Barack and Joe: The Making of an Extraordinary Partnership.”
Written by the Washington Post‘s nonfiction editor, Steven Levingston, Barack and Joe sheds light on trials and tribulations between the two very different politicians, which may explain Obama’s refusal to endorse Biden’s 2020 bid for the White House, according to the Daily Mail.
The obvious answer is that Obama worked with the guy for eight years and knows he’s a gaffe-prone, gropey, hair-sniffing racist with political baggage - but feel free to continue reading.
Happy 55th, Barack! A brother to me, a best friend forever. pic.twitter.com/uNsxouTKOO
— VP Biden (Archived) (@VP44) August 4, 2016
While the two men did develop a strong affection for one another, there were times Biden drove Obama over the edge as the book reveals a younger Obama once rolled his eyes at Biden’s constant babbling, sending a note to his adviser saying: ‘Shoot. Me. Now.’
And it was a political embarrassment for Biden when Obama failed to step up and support his former vice president in both the 2016 and 2020 presidential races. -Daily Mail
In 2016, Joe was passed over in favor of Hillary Clinton - as Obama was reportedly more concerned about what a GOP victory would mean for his doomed health care program, among other things.
“Joe, despite his many virtues, was just another white guy, one in a long line of American presidents — hardly the symbol of the Teutonic change that Obama hoped would mark his place in the history books,” writes Levingston.
“Barack had placed his bet on Hillary, the one he believed would confirm his revolutionary stamp on American’s political culture - the first black president passing the baton to the first woman president.”
As far as the 2020 election, Obama said in January 2019 that Democratic party leadership needed “new blood.”
Biden, meanwhile, said he doesn’t want Obama’s endorsement - stating that “Whoever wins the nomination should win it on their own merits,” after Obama declined to support him.
That said, Obama has met with other potential presidential candidates, including Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke, prior to Biden’s decision to run.
What had been an unprecedented closeness between a president and vice president had changed.
‘Now they were two high profile politicians considering their own futures‘ — and no longer brothers in arms they once were.
In the beginning, ‘from a gaffe-meister, Biden had shaped himself into a conscientious, well informed partner to the president emerging as the heart to Obama’s brain’, write the authors.
Biden always had his eye on the Oval Office and made a promise to his son, Beau, when he was dying of brain cancer in 2015, that he would try for a third run for the presidency despite his lousy track record. -Daily Mail
The rest of the Daily Mail‘s article - along with Levingston’s book - rattles off Obama and Biden’s on-again / off-again trials and tribulations, such as the time Biden said of Obama “I mean you got the first sort of mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” to which Obama noted that there had been prior black presidential candidates - all of whom were (arguably) articulate - Jesse Jackson, Shirley Chisholm and Al Sharpton.
When Obama picked Biden as his running mate, he said “I love this guy and he’s got heart.”
Now, Biden has nothing but problems - and there’s no sign of Obama’s aforementioned love for him.
via zerohedge
Both men are sick and disgusting. Neither had a real job, ever. American voters are idiots.
How true! They both are perverted and push the USA towards the New World Order dominance.
One of the main foundations of this country (America, for those who have forgotten), is its very deep roots in (Judeo)Christianity. Obama turned to be a muslim sympathizer even though he claimed to be a Christian (in a Church of Anti-Americanism). Hillary started out as (I think) a Methodist but wound up with Tim Kaine as her VP, a man who had long supported CAIR and other Islamic causes. She would now probably be called an Alinsky-God worshipper. Both Biden and Trump seem to accept the Christian standards of morality and worship, although Biden is conflicted on the abortion issue. Christianity and Islam are incompatible, because Islam defines it so, and the future of America depends on its remaining Christian. But Trump alone, of all the candidates, was a successful businessman, and what this country needs right now is a business-minded Christian President. As election time approaches, Trump should start a series of talks, like FDR’s fireside chats, on Twitter, Radio, and TV, in which he reminds us of these basic principles.
I totally agree with all the thoughts conveyed here. I want to focus on Hillary being raised as a Methodist. One can go to church and even do all the right things normally, let alone go to perversion as Hillary has, and not be known by God and rejected from Heaven “depart, for I NEVER knew you.” Knowledge of God and Jesus and traditions of men and whatever man inculcates can not save mankind. To KNOW and be KNOWN by God is ONLY through accepting His Son Jesus.
Hillary is the top favorite of the Planned Parenthood sacrifice of children to the god Molech. She is into mysticism and consults the familiar spirits of Elanor Roosevelt and others. She is into pedophilia. She has gained wealth through stealing from retired people with Whitewater. She has had so many people die around her from Vince Foster on to personal security guards, to people ready to testify against the Clinton’s etc that I know she is a murderer.So much more this wicked woman has done that is evil. Johnathan Cahn parallels her to the wicked Biblical woman Jezebel.He points out in a recent video Sept of this year how Bill is like King Ahab and she like Jezebel and so much more including times on the public stage as the same. Trump is not perfect but thank God Hillary did not make it as president.
go PRESIDENT TRUMP!!… So tired of one sided news. Let’s be honest for once in this century!! MR Obama divided our country more than any president in history.
Heads up! This survey is being doped! The Dem-wits are using mass spamming against Trump for serial votes against him on surveys on rightwing websites. As much as I hate the extra step of Captcha applications to authenticate survey votes like this site has done on comments guarding against spammers for a particular point of view, this right-wing site’s vote only in the 70’s percent for Trump’s re-election proves something is going on!
obama and biden both are pos ,their two terms almost destroyed our great country. i could not beleive it when they were elected the first time , but the second was unreal , i onlywish that the dumb voters that elected them had to suffer alone for their actions. obama/biden will go down in history as the worst pair to ever be in the whitehouse. but we do not have to worry about biden because he never had a chance thank god.
Both Obama and Biden are dumb ass motherfuckers with shit for brains. These assholes deserved each other. Sorry ass cocksuckers.
It’s time for American People- Republican and Democrats- dump away Obama-biden , so let Make America Great Again.
Mr President Trump should have more 4 year !. Goddess Americans!!!!
Biden was picked for Obama by the DNC. Politics works by who gets or can get the most money and electoral support. Biden had a long track record (which we are seeing played out in the current-day news cycles), and Obama’s claim-to-fame will forever go down in history as simply a ‘black’ man who achieved Presidency coming from basically an unknown senatorial run. The DNC needed someone who could garner national support after Bush, and Obama fit the bill. There was no way black Americans would pass up an opportunity to elect a man of ‘color’, issues-be-damned. Biden was chosen as his running-mate because there were still liberal white Americans who needed the comfort of a ‘balanced’ ticket. And, from what we are seeing now, Biden may have paid for the nod . . .
I don’t believe for one second that they really ‘got along well’. Whatever we saw on TV or in print was most-likely a lie or simply a “showmance”.
Today, we are learning you really can’t trust any demonrat.