Joe Biden’s last boss, Barack Obama, gladly comes to help him with voters against a guy who succeeded him …..
Donald Trump…
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. joined forces with his top surrogate Thursday morning, releasing a video of a conversation with former President Barack Obama that cast the current occupant of the White House as unworthy and Mr. Biden as the perfect leader to replace him.
Mr. Biden and Mr. Obama covered several topics in the wide-ranging, 15 minute conversation, including President Trump’s faltering response to the coronavirus pandemic, health care, economic recovery, police brutality and presidential leadership.
The conversation, recorded at Mr. Obama’s Washington, D.C. office, was “socially distanced,” as Mr. Biden continues to contrast himself with Mr. Trump, who has only halfheartedly embraced coronavirus mitigation tactics such as wearing face masks and staying six feet away from another person. Mr. Biden and his former boss entered the office wearing masks, as the former vice president continues to diverge with Mr. Trump on that issue, then the two men sat in chairs across a room, not wearing masks, as they discussed how Mr. Biden would govern as president.
The video, coming at a time when Mr. Biden is leading Mr. Trump in the polls, was part interview and part political layup, with Mr. Obama teeing up Mr. Biden to talk about current events in the lens in which he was most comfortable. The two men repeatedly circled back to Mr. Trump, drawing a contrast with how Mr. Obama’s administration — and Mr. Biden’s potential White House — would handle situations differently than the incumbent….
image…Barack Obama and Joe Biden in 2009…..Shutterstock
Huh?
President Trump on Thursday slammed an ad released by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden that featured former President Obama telling his former vice president the U.S. is not dealing with the coronavirus pandemic as “smartly” as other countries with similar resources.
“Obama, who wouldn’t even endorse Biden until everyone else was out of the primaries (and even then waited a long time!), is now making a commercial of support,” Trump tweeted, referring to Obama’s relative silence during the Democratic primary.
“Remember, I wouldn’t even be here if it weren’t for them. I wouldn’t be President. They did a terrible job!”….
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People are free to have their own conclusions as to what kind of President that Obama was, but yes, indeed one part is certainly true. Trump never would have been President if not for Obama being in office at the time of his election.
Maybe I am being overly simplistic though as I very much believe a more mainstream Republican would have had a much larger victory in 2016.
Trump being nominated was influenced largely and in many ways unfortunately, as a reaction to Obama policies and optics
Trump won the Republican nomination by being the most anti Obama Republican–going as far as to spread the lie that our first African American President was somehow not American and had a fake birth certificate.
Yes Trump would never have become President were he not given the platform of the Republican Party. And he got that platform by dialing into the anti Obama hatred rampant in the GOP.
Let’s be accurate. He was not doing the Birther thing as a candidate. People just choose to overlook that from Trump’s past.
The larger point perhaps is that once he was nominated, there are people who did not want to vote for him, but did, because of Obama and the desire to overlook everything about Trump because of the need to change the kind of judges that were nominated, or to roll back burdensome regulations, etc.
While I think those are important things, character always should come first.
Also, in the primaries, Trump probably talked negatively about Obama less than the other candidates.
He did attack the other Republicans far more often and much more than the others were planning to.
The early debates would be all the other candidates trying to show how they would govern differently than Obama (or Hillary) and Trump attacking all the other Republican candidates.
I shall repeat something I have printed here several times….
After Obama dissed Trump and the White House Correspndends Dinner back in 2011 and in 2016….
Trump NEVER stopped hating him….