IF we can believe the NYT
Posted on 08/16/2019 5:25:01 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Former President Barack Obama, discussing Joe Biden’s run for the high office in 2020, reportedly told his vice president that he didn’t “have to do this.”
“You don’t have to do this, Joe, you really don’t,” Obama told Biden early in 2019, according to The New York Times. The Times reported that Obama “took pains to cast his doubts about the campaign in personal terms.”
Biden, who leads President Trump in several polls on 2020 matchups, said he couldn’t forgive himself if he passed up the opportunity to beat Trump. He initially thought he could beat Trump in 2016, but Obama reportedly pushed back because, in part, he thought former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would be more effective in continuing his legacy, according to the report.
Speculation has swirled over the decision by Obama to so far refrain from endorsing Biden formally. Still, despite Obama’s early hesitation, he has taken a much more involved role in Biden’s campaign than in that of other candidates’, The Times reported. …
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What’s this “reportedly” crapola? Why is Fox News passing along New York Times garbage? Do your own damn reporting, Fox News.
I think we are talking about two different kinds of sun downing.
He has his fingers in more than we could ever imagine. The NSA should be monitoring the bastard.
Joe missed the boat in 2016. He would have beaten Hillary and Bernie.
“How different the world would be if he had done so.”
indeed. she’s probably be President of the United States today because as VP she would have no power to be corrupt, including no power to sell Russia our uranium supply and therefore no need for a secret email server and in no position to kill our Libyan Ambassador and his guards ...
What Obama meant: Joe, you realize you were just a prop, don’t you?
Exactly.
“he thought former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would be more effective in continuing his legacy”
Because she was a sick old drunk who would let Obama and Valerie Jarrett make the decisions.
Bathhouse Barry and ValJar are keeping their heads down, lest they get chopped off by the AG’s Russia Hoax origins investigation.
LOL!
And true.
Joe Biden has been down this “Presidential road” five times before:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/happened-times-joe-biden-deciding-run-president/story?id=34605046
I think we should elect him this time—as President of his local nursing home!
Barry valued his own life. I’d bet $100 that he’d have been a victim of arkancide, as fast as the hillnbill woulda figured out how to do it without implicating themselves.
Agree with you on this one.
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