The New York Times is out with a piece today that spotlights the Obama behind the scene’s story…
The fact is Barack Obama was NOT in the spotlight…
There where scant mentions of him during Biden’s march to the nomination…
Those that where made?
Where guarded ….
Obama was afraid of Sanders thrown attention on the ex-President who Sanders had made clear that he did NOT agree with on several policies and past actions…Many of us , including Democratic party member’s, have NOT been happy with Obama ‘s way in this…
Now that sanders has stepped aside we have the resurrection of the most popular Democratic , who was Joe Biden’s boss as Vice President…
I’m happy now for Obama finally stepping into the campaign to retire the guy who succeeded him as President…
Over the past year, Joseph R. Biden Jr. and former President Barack Obama practiced a political distancing of sorts, with Mr. Obama maintaining a posture of public neutrality in the Democratic primaries, offering counsel to any candidate who called (most did), and Mr. Biden saying he wanted to win on his own.
But with calibrated stealth, Mr. Obama has been considerably more engaged in the campaign’s denouement than has been previously revealed.
For months, he had kept in close contact with senior party officials, in hopes of preventing a repeat of the protracted and nasty 2016 primary race.
Then, in the weeks after it became clear that Mr. Biden was the party’s near-certain nominee, Mr. Obama — telling a friend he needed to “accelerate the endgame” — had at least four long conversations with his former vice president’s remaining rival, Senator Bernie Sanders. Mr. Obama’s efforts to ease the senator out of the race played a significant role in his decision to end his bid and, on Monday, endorse Mr. Biden, according to people close to the Vermont independent.
By that time, Mr. Biden and Mr. Obama had already begun hashing out the thorny questions of how, when and where to deploy a former president thrust into an unfamiliar role as his sidekick’s sidekick.
Mr. Obama will endorse Mr. Biden in an online video on Tuesday, according to two people with direct knowledge of the plans — including one who said the goal was to make it “not look like a hostage video.”
It is a negotiation between friends, but a delicate one. The terms of the reunion, however welcome, are complicated by an intermingling of political and personal issues, according to interviews with a dozen people close to both men who spoke mostly on the condition of anonymity.
Mr. Biden’s team knew better than to ask Mr. Obama for his overt support during the primary campaign. But they felt he might have done more to spare them a few tribulations, and were incensed that some former Obama advisers, especially David Axelrod, repeatedly questioned Mr. Biden’s viability….
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