{"id":188273,"date":"2021-03-03T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T17:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=188273"},"modified":"2021-03-03T12:00:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T17:00:53","slug":"obama-feared-biden-was-tragicomic-caricature-of-an-aging-politician-having-his-last-hurrah-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-feared-biden-was-tragicomic-caricature-of-an-aging-politician-having-his-last-hurrah-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Feared Biden Was \u2018Tragicomic Caricature Of An Aging Politician Having His Last Hurrah\u2019: Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fobama-feared-biden-was-tragicomic-caricature-of-an-aging-politician-having-his-last-hurrah-book%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=188273&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bho-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In April 2020, when Joe Biden announced he was running for president, former President Barack Obama issued a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Obama has long said that selecting Joe Biden as his running mate in 2008 was one of the best decisions he ever made. He relied on the Vice President\u2019s knowledge, insight, and judgment throughout both campaigns and the entire presidency. The two forged a special bond over the last 10 years and remain close today,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Notably absent was his endorsement of Biden, who had served as Obama\u2019s vice president for eight years.<\/p>\n<p>Now a new book gives some insight into their relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The book, \u201cLucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency,\u2019\u2019 by Jonathan Allen, a senior political analyst for NBC News, and Amie Parnes, a senior correspondent with The Hill, says Obama\u00a0refused to support Biden because he feared he was a \u201ctragicomic caricature of an aging politician having his last hurrah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Allen and Parnes write that Obama didn\u2019t endorse his former veep because he \u201cseemed to be enamored with a former Texas congressman, Beto O\u2019Rourke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cFor many Democrats, Biden simply seemed unsuited for a modern campaign. Obama\u2019s allies sometimes explained the former president\u2019s reluctance to bless Biden\u2019s candidacy as fear that Biden would dishonor himself with a bad campaign,\u201d the write.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But he feared an even worse outcome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cObama worried that his former vice president would embarrass himself on the campaign trail and that the people around him would not be able to prevent a belly-flop. He wanted reassurance that Biden\u2019s legacy would be protected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book says Biden did almost everything wrong during his campaign, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, he was able to \u201chide his biggest weakness, which is himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Biden spent much of the campaign in his basement in Wilmington, Delaware, holding far fewer events than President Donald Trump.\u00a0One Biden aide told the authors that the strategy was tantamount to \u201cYou put your dumb uncle in the basement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">And top Biden adviser Anita Dunn said that \u201cCovid was the best thing that happened to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">One Trump adviser told the authors that Team Biden \u201cused coronavirus as an excuse to keep him in the basement, and it was smart. Biden was able to hide his biggest weakness, which is himself. And he did it with an excuse that sounded responsible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Allen and Parnes write that Biden was able to overcome three early losses in the primaries and win the nomination because he was a safe choice, even though supporters were not enthusiastic about him.\u00a0Democrats \u201cweren\u2019t willing to take a chance\u201d on a newcomer who might not win against Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cEverything else, he\u2019d gotten wrong. He\u2019d run a lousy campaign, flubbed debates, spent so much money on Iowa and New Hampshire that he teetered on the edge of insolvency, lost three straight states to start the primary, and allowed himself to be defined by his frailties,\u201d they write, noting that he ran on a \u201cbland message and a blank agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2020, when Joe Biden announced he was running for president, former President Barack Obama issued a statement. \u201cPresident Obama has long said that selecting Joe Biden as his &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274664,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bho-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Obama Feared Biden Was \u2018Tragicomic Caricature Of An Aging Politician Having His Last Hurrah\u2019: Book","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bho-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Obama Feared Biden Was \u2018Tragicomic Caricature Of An Aging Politician Having His Last Hurrah\u2019: Book","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188273","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}