{"id":2201067,"date":"2024-03-18T09:59:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T13:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-bragged-to-staff-about-doing-better-than-barack-obama-would-be-jealous\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T10:01:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T14:01:46","slug":"biden-bragged-to-staff-about-doing-better-than-barack-obama-would-be-jealous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-bragged-to-staff-about-doing-better-than-barack-obama-would-be-jealous\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden playfully boasted to his team that he&#8217;s outperforming Obama, saying, &#8220;Obama would be envious"},"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\">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%2Fbiden-bragged-to-staff-about-doing-better-than-barack-obama-would-be-jealous%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=2201067&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--><h2>A Friendly Rivalry? Inside the Dynamic Between Biden and\u200d Obama<\/h2>\n<p>In\u200b the hidden corridors of power, <strong>President Joe Biden<\/strong> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-splitting-from-royal-family-meghan-markle-to-publish-childrens-book-about-family-bonds\/\" title=\"After Splitting From Royal Family, Meghan Markle To Publish Children\u2019s Book About Family Bonds\">shared moments<\/a> with his staff that suggest\u2064 a playful competitiveness with his once boss, former President Barack Obama. Specifically, Biden has hinted\u200d that\u2062 his \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-sees-big-wins-during-covid-isolation\/\" title=\"Biden Sees Big Wins During COVID Isolation\">legislative triumphs<\/a> might just have Obama turning green with envy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Biden, \u2062whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-dont-care-about-you-guys-getting-it-staffer-sues-congressman-for-dangerous-approach-to-pandemic\/\" title=\"\u2018I Don\u2019t Care About You Guys Getting It\u2019: Staffer Sues Congressman For \u2018Dangerous Approach\u2019 To Pandemic\">aides felt<\/a> was\u2064 underappreciated by Obama for his insights on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-lays-out-his-middle-east-policy-supporting-israel\/\" title=\"DeSantis backs Israel in Middle East policy.\">foreign \u2064policy<\/a> and Congress, has quipped, \u201cObama \u200dwould be jealous,\u201d \u2063referring to the impactful legislation he&#8217;s signed off on during his term.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>The Public Persona vs. The Private Banter<\/h3>\n<p>The camaraderie between \u2063the two \u200dleaders has always been a picture of respect and friendship, at least in the\u200d public eye, with Obama often lauding\u200b Biden&#8217;s capabilities. Nevertheless, these private\u2062 anecdotes reveal a subtle battle of legacies within the same inner circle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe and the \u200dadministration\u2062 are essentially finishing the job. <strong>Ninety percent<\/strong> of\u200d the folks who were there in my administration, they are continuing and building on the policies we talked about,\u201d expressed Obama in a previous New York Times interview.<\/p>\n<h3>Turbulence and Trust: Biden and Obama&#8217;s Pivotal Moments<\/h3>\n<p>Yet, the transcript from Biden\u2019s discussion with special \u200dcounsel\u200c Robert Hur outlines tensions running deeper, especially during the <strong>2016 election<\/strong> \u200dwhen Obama backed\u2062 Hillary Clinton over Biden.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA lot of people were encouraging me to run during that period, except the president,\u201d admitted Biden. He believed that Obama viewed Clinton as a more viable candidate for victory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Addressing his team\u2064 later, Biden expressed\u200d his\u200c confidence that he could have clinched a victory against Donald Trump in\u200b that election year.<\/p>\n<h3>Biden&#8217;s Governance: Echoing or Eclipsing Obama?<\/h3>\n<p>Biden\u2019s approach to key issues like foreign policy and defense, along\u2063 with monumental initiatives such as the <strong>$1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan<\/strong>,\u200d reflect a nuanced divergence from his predecessor.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One stark \u200cdeparture was the decision to <strong>withdraw \u2064troops\u2063 from Afghanistan in 2021<\/strong>\u2014a move Biden \u2063advocated for since 2009 under\u2062 Obama&#8217;s administration, yet Obama had resisted. Biden&#8217;s execution of the withdrawal, however, led to tragic outcomes, including\u2062 the loss of \u206313 American servicemembers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite such differences, White\u2064 House spokesman Andrew Bates has\u2064 refuted any notion of friction,\u2062 explaining the presidents\u2063 remain in regular contact and hold a familial bond.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPresident Biden \u200bdoes \u2064not make\u2064 such \u200bcomments in private&#8230;He talks to both former President Obama and [former] President \u200d [Bill] Clinton often,\u201d Bates clarified.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With Obama poised to support Biden on the upcoming <strong>2024 campaign \u2063trail<\/strong>,\u200d their alliance commands the spotlight once \u2064more, heralding a collaborative spirit as Biden secured the Democratic nomination for yet another presidential race.<\/p>\n<p>Engaging in a healthy dose of rivalry may be \u2064part and parcel of the political game, but\u200c it\u2019s clear that \u2062for these two historic figures, mutual respect remains the cornerstone\u2062 of their unique relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind closed doors, President Joe Biden has playfully suggested that his achievements might spark envy in former President Barack Obama. Despite feeling undervalued by Obama on foreign policy and congressional insight during his vice presidency, Biden now takes moments to hint, &#8220;Obama would be jealous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2643,"featured_media":2201068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Biden_Obama_Portraits_22250646591952-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2201067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Biden_Obama_Portraits_22250646591952-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201067","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\/2643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2201067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2201068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2201067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2201067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2201067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}