The connection between the POTUS and the VPOTUS is usually a fickle factor.
Typically issues begin out properly sufficient however end badly, as they did with former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence.
Different occasions, issues sputter and struggle to even begin out properly, as with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
After which there’s no matter is occurring between former President Barack Obama and Biden, who served as the previous’s VP in each presidential phrases.
The 2-term Democrat ticket of Obama-Biden has at all times appeared like an odd match from the outset — way more a wedding of comfort than the rest.
Biden, very a lot a swampy, profession politician, by no means fairly felt like a pure extension of Obama, very a lot a part of the brand new breed of far leftism infesting the Democratic Celebration (suppose the “squad.”)
It doesn’t assist dispel the odd couple vibe that Obama, for the many, many, many faults he has, at the very least has some semblance of a human character — whereas Biden has all of the charisma of a comatose wildebeest.
Obama’s character largely stems from his talking capability, and it’s a capability the person clearly places effort and time into. No matter you could consider the person, when Obama speaks, it’s very deliberate, crafted and curated.
So when Obama mentions — or doesn’t point out — one thing when talking publicly, individuals take discover.
In a less-than-glowing Sunday article from The Washington Submit, the outlet that threatens democracy with darkness (or one thing to that impact) chronicled the way in which through which Democrats are furiously working to overturn the less-than-stellar image of the incumbent president — apart from Obama.
Earlier this month, Obama and his staff deliberate a lavish occasion in Chicago that was each a Democrat rah-rah occasion and a celebration of the 15-year anniversary of Obama’s 2008 normal election victory.
WaPo reported that, talking to unnamed attendees of the occasion, there was a “pointed absence of any significant cheerleading for Biden.”
Obama allegedly “barely talked about” Biden in a speech at that occasion, nor did he provide a lot reward for the incumbent on a podcast look earlier that day.
Now, Obama’s camp seems to be attempting to squelch any anti-Biden chatter, as a consultant informed the Submit that the Chicago occasion was hosted by the Obama Basis, which is “a nonprofit that can’t legally interact in partisan political exercise.”
That clarification appeared to defy the final sentiment of the occasion that WaPo reported on: “But a number of attendees mentioned the tensions had been evident.”
“The takeaway of the weekend was not, ‘Hey staff, we’ve received to get the band again collectively to assist Biden out,’” one unnamed attendee informed the Submit. “If this can be a supposedly existential risk and democracy is so challenged, then why aren’t you being extra overt about it.”
Nicely, the explanation that Crew Obama just isn’t “being extra overt” is a relatively easy one: Your entire Obama model is about being a frontrunner and Biden’s dropping everywhere proper now (in polls, in public sentiment, you identify it.)
The self-preservation of his personal legacy far outweighs any love that Obama might have had for Biden as soon as upon a time, and that’s as a result of, merely put, Biden is poisonous.
And, to make certain, Obama is wildly self-obsessed together with his legacy.
It’s a genuinely tough process to call one tangible side of American life that has improved below Biden’s watch, notably when juxtaposed towards what his predecessor achieved. In reality, it’s hard-pressed to call a single factor Biden has even finished higher than Obama — which is a fairly damning evaluation.
And, evidently, Obama needs as little to do with that type of poor presidency, his personal however, as attainable.
So sure, America has seen presidents and vice presidents bicker and in the end despise one another (once more, take a look at the sniping that also exists between Trump and Pence)… however this nonetheless feels exceptionally chilly and like dangerous information for Biden.
Obama isn’t bashing Biden or something like that. However he’s additionally not likely acknowledging Biden or his presidency.
That nearly feels worse, as a result of if the ostensible patriarch of the fashionable Democratic Celebration isn’t even acknowledging you… that’s extra worrisome than any ballot might presumably be.
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.
