{"id":71949,"date":"2024-07-13T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T02:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/f1db3edc4a4d7618d9723a131735cf56"},"modified":"2024-07-13T02:00:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T02:00:09","slug":"yearslong-tensions-boil-over-as-ex-obama-staffers-gang-up-on-biden-clooney-was-exactly-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/yearslong-tensions-boil-over-as-ex-obama-staffers-gang-up-on-biden-clooney-was-exactly-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Yearslong tensions boil over as ex-Obama staffers gang up on Biden: ‘Clooney was exactly right’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The criticism from ex-Obama staffers<\/span> aimed at President Biden, including calls for him to exit the 2024 presidential race, serve as a stark reminder of the well-known tensions between the former White House duo that go back nearly two decades.<\/p>\n The often testy relationship between Biden and Obama reportedly began shortly after the latter’s election to the Senate in 2004, when both men served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Obama, according to The New York Times, wasn’t fond of Biden’s often-long-winded speeches to the point where, on one occasion, he passed a note to a colleague reading, “Shoot. Me. Now.”<\/p>\n The two eventually found themselves facing off for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, where Biden, while announcing his campaign, controversially referred to Obama as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”<\/p>\n BIDEN, HARRIS DEFY CRITICS BY LAUNCHING FULL OFFENSIVE AIMED AT TYING TRUMP TO PROJECT 2025<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n