Posted on 11/26/2019 7:50:41 AM PST by Red Badger
Former President Obama reportedly told a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate that his former Vice President Joe Biden doesn't have what it takes to win the Oval Office.
Obama, 58, has remained relatively quiet during the first part of the Democratic primary; however, he has met with many of the candidates privately. In one particular meeting, the former president took a dig at his own vice president, according to Politico.
"With one candidate, he pointed out that during his own 2008 campaign, he had an intimate bond with the electorate, especially in Iowa, that he no longer has. Then he added, 'And you know who really doesnt have it? Joe Biden,'" Ryan Lizza reported.
The former president's dig stands in stark contrast to the relationship Biden has depicted during his campaign. Biden, who has repeatedly stated that he doesn't want Obama's endorsement because whoever wins the primary "should win it on their own merits, has frequently referenced his time working within the Obama White House.
The former vice president cites the Obama administration's record on healthcare as well as on the economy frequently. However, he has also been faced at times with difficult questions from his time in office. During multiple presidential debates this fall, Biden took heat from rival candidates for both relying on Obama's legacy when it suits him and for distancing himself from it when it was more beneficial for him.
There is a precedent for former presidents to hold out endorsing their second-in-commands subsequent White House bids. Ronald Reagan did not endorse George H. W. Bush's candidacy in 1988 until it was clear who the GOP nominee would be. Then, there was the 1968 Democratic presidential campaign in which Lyndon B. Johnson declined to offer a robust endorsement of Hubert Humphrey until a little more than a month before the general election.
McCain was the perfect foil for the Kenyanesian Usurper.
Had you ever seen a Presidential candidate endorse his opponent before?
Folks...wake up....Obama has thrown Biden and his druggie son Hunter under the bus!!! It is as simple as that...period!!! Obama knows Biden is a 100% MORON!!! Goodbye, Joe & take Hunter, The Useless, with you!!
Im surprised Plugs is still in the race. My money was on him imploding last summer.
From recent accounts, Joe Biden is going down in flames, thus, because of Joes lack of intellect and loose lips, he is the Obozos greatest threat of him going down in flames along with him. Could Joe be pondering arkancide?
Time for us to get behind Biden 2020. Let Operation Chaos 2.0 begin. Vote in your state democratic primary.
Often!.................
Demoncats still have ALOT of WHITE WOMEN. educumacted too
My dear wife and mother are two.
We DONT talk politics. I just joke around with them
Tucker was talking about this last night and that Barry is setting the stage for his wife to be the contender.
She may jump in, but she won’t be able to save them..................
Or maybe his tall-bodied husband Reggie Love.
“Johnson didnt run for reelection in 68 because he was deeply unpopular”
Walter Cronkite often had bad Vietnam War related news for LBJ and the rest of the USA.
It was no surprise to me that LBJ didn’t try for a second term.
LBJ’s went from FDR level power to doghouse in less than four years.
And yet the Left succeeded over the years in pinning Vietnam on Nixon, and not LBJ.
Mother Jones, a leftist magazine, has it in for Joe.
Joe has lots of old baggage, a greedy son named Hunter, and probably dementia.
Joe was quite formidable intellectually when Obama picked him for VP.
Dementia is the biggest worry a DC politician has.
Working Class White is generally construed in terms of political discussion as those without a college education.
Your wife and mother do not fit into that category.
The democrats single biggest voting block is working class whites... They like to pretend they are a minority party and they do have large swaths of many minorities, but their single biggest voting bloc to this day is still working class whites... and they have been driving them away for decades....
It is Trump getting those previous multi generational working class white folks who were born and raised as democrats, just like their parents and grandparents were, to vote for him, that was exactly why he took the upper midwest.
No Trump did not get all of the, and no they haven’t all deserted the party, but LARGE NUMBERS HAVE... most just went inactive, because the GOP really never gave them a reason to vote for them... TRUMP finally did.
No, the GOP isn’t suddenly going to win every working class white person, but that is STILL TO THIS DAY THE BIGGEST SINGLE BLOC of Democrat voters, and The Democrats have been disenfranchising them for decades...
When the party in the 90s drove out all the Blue Dog Democrats, that sealed their long term fate.. Had the GOP not been so beholden to money men pushing Globalism, and ran with the platform that Trump did, they would have flipped this region long ago....
The UBER EDUCATED don’t mind when they go out blaming whitie, because they have been indoctrinated into the white guilt mantra, and raised on critical theory instead of critical thinking.... The working class whites don’t subscribe to that nonsense, they work damn hard for what they have, and aren’t racists, and don’t see any guilt because they are white... they have worked hard for everything they have, and resent people like Pocahantas and others lecturing them that they are the root of all evil in our society.
100% agree.
Sure hope not
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