Posted on 03/22/2024 6:05:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
According to a recent report, there is quite the rivalry between current president Joe Biden, and former president Barack Obama. Two Biden aides who spoke with Axios discussed how President Biden compares himself often to Obama in private; part of a years-long ‘rivalry’ between the two.
“Obama would be jealous,” Biden has reportedly said, “when speaking about a perceived accomplishment,” one aide said. Other aides have complained that “Obama and his team did not fully appreciate Biden’s experience with foreign policy, Congress and grip-and-grin politicking — and were disrespectful,” the outlet published.
“The Obama people thought Biden would suck as president,” one former Biden aide told Axios. “They didn’t think he’d be organized enough to execute.” “We do have too many Obama people who don’t care about Joe Biden. It’s about them,” a former White House official said.
“When people say, ‘This is what worked for Obama,’ their first response is often, ‘We’re not Obama,'” a “senior Democrat” reportedly said, referring to Biden’s staff. Fox News reports how the alleged rivalry is not new knowledge:
The disagreements between Biden and Obama go back more than a decade, with books and interviews from the Obama era revealing significant policy conflicts between the two.
An excerpt from “The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore Foreign Policy After Trump” by Politico’s Alexander Ward revealed a disagreement that took place behind closed doors between Obama and Biden when Russian forces invaded Crimea and later annexed the peninsula, making it a part of Russia.
“The United States might have done more had Barack Obama’s vice president, Joe Biden, been in charge. Russia should ‘pay in blood and money’ for its actions, Biden told his boss as the 2014 invasion began. Obama disagreed, but he made Biden his effective ambassador to Ukraine during the crisis.”
I never thought I'd agree with the Obama team on anything.
The Obama people for once were right: Biden does indeed suck as President.
They both suck...
““The Obama people thought Biden would suck as president,” “
Broken clock...
5.56mm
This conflicts with the idea that Obama is running things from behind the scene.
Some things he is, but not everything.
Jill is the gatekeeper..................
They aren’t giving themselves enough credit, they both suck. It’s no surprise why our country is heading down the toilet. We have two turds and their minions running the country. That’s too much suck for any country to survive.
Joe is of course 10x worse than Obama, but only because he implemented Obama’s radical Marxist agenda much more quickly than Obama did. Obama thought that the country wasn’t ready for the changes he wanted, so he was more cautious than Joe. It must drive Obama crazy that stupid, demented Joe inflicted more damage on America in 3 years than Obama did in his 8 years.
Yes. One doesn’t have to pick between two lousy choices. Reject them both.
Well, when you’re The Chosen One, who can compare?
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If Obama had not picked Biden as his running mate, Biden wouldn’t be President now. The DNC would have stolen the election for someone else.
Same people who ran Obama are running Biden.
HRC.......................
Presidential candidates choose running mates who don't threaten them and who won't quarrel or try to take charge. They also usually pick VPs who are from another faction in the party -- somebody they don't alway agree with. For those reasons, presidents look down on their VPs -- and VPs resent it.
You don't get that high on the political ladder without having a large ego, and it's an insecure ego, because presidents have a lot to worry about. If your spent your whole life fighting your way up the ladder, you wouldn't want to take orders from anybody else, and you wouldn't like your former underling thinking he could do things better than you did.
It's interesting, though, that Biden was more interventionist when Russian invaded Crimea. What he's been doing lately may have something to do with his not getting his way back then.
As part of the public, it didn’t take long to realize that Obama would suck as president. Before that, I had wondered how it was that he even got nominated. Now Obama apparently thinks Biden would suck as president. That has definitely been proven out. Now we wonder what Biden thought of Obama as president before that happened. I’d pick RFK Jr. over either one of them.
So there was a “report” on the rivalry between Slo Joe Biden and HoMo Barry? Not sure I believe that.
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