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“Top Democrats are still reeling from Obama’s bizarre behavior at a $7,500-a-plate fundraiser at a stately mansion at Brown University in Rhode Island on October 25. The fundraiser, organized by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, was supposed to highlight Democratic Party unity. However, while Obama endorsed Democratic House candidate David Cicilline for outgoing Representative Patrick Kennedy’s seat, the president failed to endorse Democratic gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio over Republican-turned-independent former Senator Lincoln Chafee. Obama’s lack of an endorsement for a Democrat over a former Republican prompted Caprio to tell a radio show host that Obama ”could take his endorsement and really shove it as far as I’m concerned.”

Later that day, Obama briefly appeared at the fundraiser at Brown University, where Democratic loyalists paid $7,500 to hear Obama speak, but departed after only 20 minutes, telling the assembled guests that he had to go back to the White House to ”tuck in my daughters, walk the dog, and ‘scoop the poop.’“ The Democratic faithful were appalled and shocked at Obama’s quick departure and one of the three reasons he gave for it: to scoop up dog turds as if the president of the United States actually performs such tasks with a phalanx of White House staff and Secret Service agents at his disposal.

Vice President Biden knows too well about Obama’s lack of attention to his daily tasks of being president. The details of the fiasco at Brown soon were conveyed to Biden by his two old Democratic Senate colleagues from Rhode Island: Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse. Biden was not amused about Obama’s dissing of the Democrats in Rhode Island. A week later, Chafee defeated Caprio for the Rhode Island governorship, thanks largely to Obama’s less-than-neutral stance in cutting a secret deal to support Chafee against Caprio.”