Between his reluctance to endorse Biden and his damning him with faint praise, Obama’s encomiums for his former Veep come across as disingenuous at best, dishonest at worst. However, what does shine through is that Obama genuinely sees a Biden victory as the last hope for a rerun of Obama’s presidency.
Andrea Widberg "Since the 2020 Democrat primary began, Joe Biden has been doing everything he can to associate himself with Barack Obama. The one thing missing from these efforts was Barack Obama, who refused to say anything nice about his former Vice President." . . .
. . . "Experience? Well, yes . . . but is Joe’s the experience America wants? Robert Gates, Obama’s defense secretary, wrote in his memoir that Biden has “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” Joe Biden engaged in a high-tech lynching against Clarence Thomas, while simultaneously demeaning Anita Hill, a black woman. The list of Biden’s “experience” is endless, and none of it is good.
"Honesty? Joe Biden was driven out of the 1988 presidential race because of his dishonesty, an echo of his law school problems. What's also inconsistent with honesty is the corruption that’s benefitted his family for decades, including his dirty dealings with the Chinese government on Hunter’s behalf.
"Humility? This is the man who keeps telling all who will listen that he’s smarter than they are, and who told a voter “you’re full of sh*t” and then threatened to beat him up.
"Empathy and grace? For almost fifty years, Biden has lied about the man who was involved in the car accident that killed Biden’s wife and daughter, calling him a drunk, when it was Mrs. Biden who caused the fatal accident. Defaming an innocent man is the opposite of empathy and grace. In many of his interactions with people less powerful than he is, Biden is a bully.
"And of course, where in that litany of virtues does one put Biden’s creepy obsession with little girls or the fact that he’s credibly accused of sexually assaulting a staffer?
"Obama then dedicates a mere two minutes out of twelve to discuss Joe himself. We learn, among other things, that Joe helped Obama with the slowest, lowest recession recovery in American history; Joe was the one who kept a disease in a far corner of untraveled Africa from coming to America; and Joe will surround himself with experts." . . .
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