{"id":1628421,"date":"2022-08-31T13:49:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T17:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628421"},"modified":"2022-08-31T13:49:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T17:49:47","slug":"shoot-me-now-obama-wanted-to-drop-condescending-biden-new-book-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shoot-me-now-obama-wanted-to-drop-condescending-biden-new-book-says\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Shoot. Me. Now.\u2019: Obama Wanted To Drop \u2018Condescending\u2019 Biden, New Book Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshoot-me-now-obama-wanted-to-drop-condescending-biden-new-book-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628421&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Barack Obama and Joe Biden had such a &#8220;fraught relationship&#8221; that Obama wanted to drop Biden from the 2012 Democratic ticket, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11161185\/Tension-Barack-Obama-Joe-Biden-revealed-new-book.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">excerpts<\/a> from a new book obtained by the <i>Daily Mail<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Obama considered replacing his vice president with Hillary Clinton, leaving Biden &#8220;distraught,&#8221; according to <em>The Long Alliance<\/em> by\u00a0Gabriel Debenedetti. Obama eventually stuck with Biden, though he was furious at his veep&#8217;s decision to blurt out the administration&#8217;s support for gay marriage, an announcement Obama wanted to make.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s actions were &#8220;tantamount to betrayal&#8221; and &#8220;an example of Biden trying to position himself in front of the president,&#8221; the book says, with staffers saying that &#8220;we can&#8217;t trust [Biden] to say his lines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Biden said he was &#8220;not going to grovel to this guy,&#8221; referring to Obama. &#8220;My manhood is not negotiable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While mainstream media said for years that Obama and Biden had a &#8220;bromance,&#8221; with NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Athhh30gA60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">describing<\/a>\u00a0them as &#8220;lifelong friends,&#8221; this is far from the first indication that the two men did not like each other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t underestimate Joe&#8217;s ability to fuck things up,&#8221; Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/obama-biden-warning\/\">told<\/a>\u00a0a fellow Democrat during the 2020 presidential primary. He also urged Biden not to run in the 2016 election, again expressing support for Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>While rumors about Obama dropping Biden were swirling in 2012, many media sources pooh-poohed the notion, with then-NPR political editor Ken Rudin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/politicaljunkie\/2011\/11\/07\/142035876\/obama-to-dump-biden-from-the-ticket-in-favor-of-hillary-give-me-a-break\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dismissing it<\/a> as a story that is &#8220;not grounded in reality&#8221; and &#8220;makes us look silly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bad blood between Biden and Obama dates back to when the two first met, the book says.<\/p>\n<p>As a senator, Obama thought Biden was &#8220;condescending&#8221; and bemoaned his future vice president&#8217;s tendency to &#8220;ramble, clearly loving every minute of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shoot. Me. Now,&#8221; Obama wrote to a staffer when Biden started to speak.<\/p>\n<p>When Biden ran for president in 2020, Obama worried that his former veep wasn&#8217;t up to the job.<\/p>\n<p>Obama thought Biden seemed &#8220;tired,&#8221; the book recounts, and worried that a Biden run would be &#8220;unthinkably painful.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama and Joe Biden had such a &#8220;fraught relationship&#8221; that Obama wanted to drop Biden from the 2012 Democratic ticket, according to excerpts from a new book obtained by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}