Report: Democrat Says Barack Obama Warned That Joe Biden Could Still ‘F*ck Things Up’
Former President Barack Obama warned during the Democrat primary that his former Vice President Joe Biden could “f*ck things up,” an anonymous Democrat said according to a report in Politico.
The line was originally attributed to an anonymous Democrat source cited by Politico‘s Marc Caputo from a conversation the Democrat claims to have had with the former president about the 2020 primary. It suggests that Biden was not Obama’s first choice for the Democrat party’s presidential candidate in 2020.
“One Democrat who is neutral in the 2020 race and spoke to Obama about Biden’s gaffe-prone nature recalled the former president saying: ‘Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up,'” Caputo wrote.
That quote was first reported in January, but was revisited in a Politico story last week by Alex Thompson recalling how Obama supported his formal rival for the presidency Hillary Clinton in 2016 instead of his own vice president.
As both Obama and Clinton speak Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention, with Biden set to formally assume the party’s presidential nomination on Thursday night, these rifts between the top Democrats seem particularly relevant.
Thompson’s piece noted that Obama himself formally declined to be interviewed for the story that includes the quote about Obama warning about Biden’s capabilities as a candidate.
Instead, Obama’s spokesperson provided a generic statement that said, “President Obama has been unequivocal in his respect for Joe’s wisdom, experience, empathy, and integrity.”
But Thompson did speak to several top former Obama White House officials, such as former Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and former senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, among others. Jarrett, in particular, has been working to smooth over any hard feelings from the past and back Biden, after the former vice president won the nomination.
Thompson also reported that Biden’s allies are still displeased with how Obama and his top aides anointed Hillary Clinton as his successor in 2016.
Even Biden was a little hurt by the actions of Obama’s team.
“I knew a number of the president’s former staffers, and even a few current ones, were putting a finger on the scale for Clinton,” Biden wrote in his political memoir after leaving office.
While Biden was still pondering a run for president in 2016, Clinton was figuring out how to stop him, Thompson reported.
Clinton campaign manager John Podesta estimated that Biden would run for president and even drafted opposition research on him, while negative stories about his career made its way into the media.
Biden himself wrote in his memoir that Obama “was not encouraging” about him possibly running against Clinton in 2016.
As Biden began exploring a campaign against Trump in 2020, the New York Times also reported that Obama “cast his doubts” about it in a conversation with Biden.
“You don’t have to do this, Joe,” Obama told Biden, according to a source familiar with their conversations, cited by the Times. “You really don’t.”
The August 2019 story, by Times reporter Glenn Thrush, also detailed that Obama believed Biden should not run in 2020, but became more active in his former vice president’s campaign.
In March 2019, Obama requested a briefing on the state of the campaign from top Biden aides
“Win or lose,” Thrush reported about Obama’s message to the team, “They needed to make sure Mr. Biden did not ’embarrass himself’ or ‘damage his legacy’ during the campaign.”
Devastating Trump campaign video portrays the dramatic mental decline of Joe Biden over the last few years
The Democrats are hiding their radical platform and the party's capitulation to the Sanders-AOC socialists and instead touting the personality and purported character of Joe Biden as a guarantor of moderation.
It's a phony appeal on two counts. One is that the lefty rads are totally in control, and they know it. They just have to keep a low profile and count on the media to hide them and their views.
But the other count is harder to conceal: Joe Biden's mental decline is severe. Maybe they think they can limit his spontaneous interactions to interviews with Cardi B and People Magazine (which implies they will try to cancel the scheduled debates). Alzheimer's is no joke, and a substantial portion of the public knows someone who has been afflicted, so people can recognize the symptoms when they see them in Biden. And that's a big problem, because while Biden has his moments of lucidity, he also has offered plenty of evidence that he is not the same man he was five years ago.
The old gaffe-prone Biden was never the sharpest knife in the drawer, but the video below from the Trump campaign put the lie to the contention that his mental wandering off is just "Joe being Joe." It is barely over a minute long:
"You can't beat somebody with nobody" is a political dictum (attributed to Jack Abramoff) that carries a lot of truth. By nominating a candidate whose mental capacity is rapidly falling, the Democrats are trying to beat somebody with nobody.
This video argues against both counts of the Democrats' fraud. Biden lacks the focus and energy to keep the radicals reined in, even if that were possible). And his character, even if voters accept the fiction that it is sterling (ignoring his corruption in China, Ukraine, and elsewhere), now that nobody is home upstairs, it doesn't matter.
Undignified Obama
What an
ex-president’s inflammatory and hateful nominating-convention address was made
of.
Thu Aug 20, 2020
Last night Barack Hussein Obama gave what was probably the most
undignified, inflammatory, hateful nominating-convention address of a former
president in the history of the United States.
“This administration has
shown it will tear our democracy down if that’s what it takes to win,” he said
August 19, puffing himself up with a studied indignation.
This is the same,
shameless, Saul Alinsky-worshiping liar who presided over a seditious plot, a
rolling coup attempt, to overthrow his successor using the CIA and FBI, the
early outlines of which this writer sketched in Obama’s Insurrection.
The real-life conspiracy
to oust Trump, though not (yet) successful, has allowed Democrats and their
Deep State allies to practice these dark arts over the past four years that
they may soon use to remove the mentally incompetent Joe Biden from the Oval
Office to pave the way for Kamala Harris, who is not black despite what her
publicists in the media say, to become president.
No one in the media seems
to have noticed that the party of LGBT and racial utopia is now headed by a man
who is apparently not completely convinced of the rectitude of those causes.
Biden has said
homosexuals shouldn’t receive security clearances because “my gut reaction is
that they are security risks.”
A friend of
segregationists, Biden worried aloud that his children would grow up in “a
racial jungle,” and patronizingly observed that Obama was “the first mainstream
African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking
guy.”
Another of his legendary
race-tinged gaffes went like this: “In Delaware, the largest growth of
population is Indian Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven
or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.”
This is relevant now that
the Indo-Caribbean Harris, is on the Democrats’ presidential ticket.
The Wednesday night of
the virtual convention highlighted the endlessly expanding thicket of lies,
hoaxes, and paranoia upon which the modern Democratic Party is built. It was low-information
propaganda for the ignorant and the gullible.
America is hopelessly,
systemically racist, and so are police, the criminal justice system, and the
prison system, the audience was told. People with money, the hated rich, run
everything and do so with malice towards everyone else. The novel coronavirus that
causes the occasionally deadly disease COVID-19 is racist, somehow having a
greater impact on visible minorities. Climate change, which human beings are
definitely causing, is on the verge of ending life on this planet if we don’t
do something very, very expensive right away. Presumably racism is involved.
Illegal aliens are the incredibly talented would-be saviors of America and
anyone who wants to deport them or enforce the nation’s borders is racist.
Donald Trump and the Republicans are shutting down the U.S. Postal Service so
Democrats can’t vote.
That’s probably racist,
too, come to think of it.
BLOG EDITOR: YOU WILL NEVER HEAR A WORD ON THE PLIGHT OF
AMERICA’S MIDDLE CLASS RESULTING FROM MEXICO’S INVASION, OCCUPATION AND
SUPREMACY AS IT IS ALL BY INVITATION OF THE DEM PARTY!
The pandering to Latinos
was in full effect.
Illegal aliens showed up.
One spoke in Spanish, and an entertainer named Prince Royce sang in Spanish.
Michelle Lujan Grisham introduced herself as governor of “Nuevo Mexico,” where,
she said, we “embrace our multicultural identity as our greatest strength.”
Gun-grabbers, included
former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, made an appearance. She is the
gun-control fanatic who had a littoral combat ship, a vessel of war designed to
fire weapons that kill people, named after her, the USS
Gabrielle Giffords, because a mentally unbalanced man shot her.
But the highlight of the
evening was Obama, who continued slamming his successor in unpresidential
fashion. It was cheap shot after cheap shot.
And Obama was doing all
this for a guy he doesn’t even like.
Pretending to be a solid
supporter, Obama described newly minted presidential nominee Joe Biden last
night as a “friend” and a “brother,” even though the 44th president reportedly
once said, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.”
Obama said: “But we
should also expect a president to be the custodian of this democracy. We should
expect that regardless of ego, ambition, or political beliefs, the president
will preserve, protect, and defend the freedoms and ideals that so many
Americans marched for and went to jail for; fought for and died for.”
“I have sat in the Oval
Office with both of the men who are running for president. I never expected
that my successor would embrace my vision or continue my policies. I did hope,
for the sake of our country, that Donald Trump might show some interest in taking
the job seriously; that he might come to feel the weight of the office and
discover some reverence for the democracy that had been placed in his care.
“But he never did. For
close to four years now, he has shown no interest in putting in the work; no interest
in finding common ground; no interest in using the awesome power of his office
to help anyone but himself and his friends; no interest in treating the
presidency as anything but one more reality show that he can use to get the
attention he craves.
“Donald Trump hasn’t
grown into the job because he can’t. And the consequences of that failure are
severe: 170,000 Americans dead. Millions of jobs gone while those at the top
take in more than ever. Our worst impulses unleashed, our proud reputation around
the world badly diminished, and our democratic institutions threatened like
never before.”
So many lies.
President Trump didn’t
cause COVID-19 and he didn’t fail to act as it spread across the country. The
weaponized novel coronavirus came to our shores from Communist China in the
form of a biological attack on America. Trump shut down flights from the
epicenter of the so-called outbreak. He did this while Democrats bent over
backwards early this year urging people to ignore the virus and buy from businesses
in the nation’s many Chinatown districts to prove they weren’t prejudiced
against Asians.
If America’s democratic
institutions are now “threatened like never before,” it wasn’t President
Trump’s doing. He didn’t unleash the angry, surprisingly well-organized mobs
terrorizing American cities after the death of career criminal George Floyd.
BLOG EDITOR: OBOMB HAS LONG BEEN IN BED WITH MUSLIMS AND
MUSLIM DICTATORS. IT WAS A SAUDIS BILLIONAIRE WHO PAID FOR HIS HARVARD
EDUCATION. WHAT DID THIS CLOWN KNOW ABOUT THE OBOMB? OBAMA SERVED THE SAUDIS
WELL FOR 8 YEARS. THEY ARE PROBABLY FUNDING HIS PHONY PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
WHICH WILL NOT CONTAIN HIS PRESIDENTIAL PAPERS AS HE CONTINUES TO HIDE HIS TRAIL.
Obama said the U.S.
should be “a nation that stands with democracy, not dictators,” even though he
supported the late Islamist strongman in Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, and openly
seethed with contempt for Israel, the only actual democracy in the Middle East.
Obama continued
fetishizing democracy, even though the United States is a constitutional
republic, not a democracy.
Biden and Harris
“understand that in this democracy,
the Commander-in-Chief doesn’t use the men and women of our military, who are
willing to risk everything to
protect our nation, as political props to deploy against peaceful protesters on
our own soil. They understand that political opponents aren’t ‘un-American’
just because they disagree with you; that a free press isn’t the ‘enemy’ but
the way we hold officials accountable; that our ability to work together to
solve big problems like a pandemic depend on a fidelity to facts and science
and logic and not just making stuff up.”
“None of this should be
controversial. These shouldn’t be Republican principles or Democratic
principles. They’re American principles. But at this moment, this president and
those who enable him, have shown they don’t believe in these things.”
No one in the media will
challenge Obama’s claim that under Trump the military was deployed against
allegedly “peaceful protesters on our soil,” even though Democrat governors and
mayors invited anarchy in the streets by refusing to use law enforcement
resources available to them to put down the recent riots.
In the White House, Obama
frequently bashed those who disagreed with him. He trashed the Supreme Court
during a State of the Union Address like a Latin American caudillo over its Citizens United ruling while the
justices were seated mere feet away.
BLOG EDITOR: AT A LA RAZA ‘The Race’ RALLY, THE OBOMB ALSO
REFERRED TO AMERICANS NOT FOR OPEN BORDERS AS ‘OUR ENEMIES’.
Obama referred to
political adversaries as “enemies,” and demonized Fox News because the cable
news network didn’t always depict him as he wanted. A decade before George
Floyd’s death, Obama’s interior secretary, Ken Salazar, promised to keep his
“boot on the neck” of BP after the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
As for Obama’s “political
props” smear directed at Trump, two uniformed U.S. Army soldiers were
used as scenery by the DNC. During the virtual roll call vote,
delegates from American Samoa pledged the territory’s delegates for the party’s
nominee with the enlisted personnel in-frame. This violates Department of
Defense rules. The Pentagon is reportedly investigating the incident.
Obama mentioned the
passing of former civil rights leader and corrupt longtime Georgia congressman
John Lewis last month, calling him “a giant of American democracy.”
The former president left
out the fact that Lewis, who has been lionized in death, played the race card
during the Obamacare debate in 2010, falsely
claiming that the bill’s Tea Party opponents called him the
N-word when he walked past them.
Unsurprisingly, Obama
whitewashed the Black Lives Matter-Antifa-Democrat riots after the death of
George Floyd, refusing to acknowledge the violence and looting carried out
across America by the Left.
“To the young people who
led us this summer, telling us we need to be better -- in so many ways, you are
this country’s dreams fulfilled,” Obama said in a new, wordier iteration of his
“yes, we can” mantra.
“Earlier generations had
to be persuaded that everyone has equal worth. For you, it's a given -- a
conviction. And what I want you to know is that for all its messiness and
frustrations, your system of self-government can be harnessed to help you
realize those convictions.”
“Messiness” and
“frustrations” are Obama’s shorthand for the things known as “law and order”
and “police” that prevent the radical street activists he focused much of his
presidency on fostering, from forcing unwanted change on society by violence.
After Obama’s address,
Kamala Harris’s speech was anticlimactic despite her perky, game show host-like
demeanor.
Interestingly, she wore
purple attire, just like Hillary Clinton did at her concession speech in 2016.
She rehashed the themes
of the convention in uninteresting, politically correct ways.
COVID-19 “touches us all,
let's be honest, it is not an equal opportunity offender,” Harris said.
“Black, Latino, and
indigenous people are suffering and dying disproportionately. This is not a
coincidence. It is the effect of structural racism. Of inequities in education
and technology, health care and housing, job security and transportation. The
injustice in reproductive and maternal health care. In the excessive use of
force by police. And in our broader criminal justice system. This virus has no
eyes, and yet it knows exactly how we see each other—and how we treat each
other. And let's be clear—there is no vaccine for racism. We've gotta do the
work.”
Whatever that means.
Harris wrapped up her
address to tepid applause from the 20 or so people in the TV studio or whatever
it was in Wilmington, Delaware, and then “Work That,” by hip hop artist Mary J.
Blige, was played as if to reinforce the politically all-important myth that
Harris is black.
No one mentioned how Rep.
Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii knocked Harris out of contention during last year’s
primary debates with a single, devastating colloquy about the senator’s
tough-on-crime policies while she was California’s attorney general and San
Francisco’s district attorney.
Harris said she was a
“progressive prosecutor,” yet in state and local office she
did things progressives don’t like, such as defending capital
punishment, emphasizing truancy enforcement, and allegedly ignoring those
sexually abused by clergy.
Harris’s campaign for her
party’s presidential nomination ended when Gabbard said, “I’m concerned about
this record of Senator Harris. She put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana
violations and laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.”
Gabbard added: “She
blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row. She kept
people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the
state of California, and she fought to keep cash bail system in place that
impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.”
There was no worthwhile
comeback.
Failed presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton’s convention speech was a snoozer.
“I wish Donald Trump knew
how to be a president because America needs a president right now,” she said.
“As Michelle Obama and
Bernie Sanders warned us, if Trump is reelected things will get even worse.
That’s why we need unity now more than ever.”
Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi uttered bogus statistics, saying “more than 5 million Americans are” –present tense— infected by COVID-19.
According to
Worldometers.info, at the very moment she offered that figure, a cumulative
total of 5,700,931 Americans had contracted the disease. But Pelosi left out
the fact that 3,062,331 recovered from it, which means that only 2,638,600 –or
half the number she claimed— now have the disease.
Presumably, Pelosi
thought that doubling the number of those currently infected made President
Trump look worse.
Mariska Hargitay spoke
about domestic violence, even though the audience consisted of the same people
who tried to have her long-running television show, “Law and Order: Special
Victims Unit,” canceled in recent months after George Floyd’s death reset the
calendar to the beginning of Year Zero.
The Left made an attempt
on the show’s life because it portrays police positively. Never forget that the
Democratic Party officially
endorsed Black Lives Matter and its pro-cop-killing worldview
in 2015.
Rolling Stone leftist E.J. Dickson attacked
Hargitay in June for daring to portray a good cop on TV,
because cops are “embedded … in a system that perpetuates racism and misogyny
and brutality.” The character, Olivia Benson, “plays a major role in
perpetuating the idea that cops are inherently trustworthy and heroic.”
Even worse, Dickson
wrote, “[a] not-insignificant number of police officers have credited the show
with their deciding to enter law enforcement.”
The August 19, 2020,
episode of the Democratic National Convention was fiction, like the popular
police procedural show.
And it’s finished now,
just like America will be if the radicals get their way.
Exclusive — Donald Trump on the Bidens: ‘It’s a Corrupt Family’
President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively in the Oval Office last week that his general election opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his entire family are “corrupt.”
Trump, the incumbent Republican, will face off against Democrat Biden in November. Biden, the presumptive Democrat nominee, will formally accept the Democrat nomination for president, thereby officially becoming the party’s presidential nominee at the Democrat National Convention on Thursday night.
In his Oval Office interview with Breitbart News last Monday, the president made clear that his opponent and his whole family are “corrupt,” as evidenced by not just Biden’s son Hunter Biden’s business dealings with the Chinese Communist Party and Ukrainian oligarchs, but also other Biden family members, such as Biden’s brothers, James and Frank Biden and more.
Trump started by ripping into Hunter Biden for the $1.5 billion deal he cut with the Chinese. Hunter Biden accompanied his father, then the sitting vice president, to China on Air Force Two. Then just weeks later, he secured a $1.5 billion deal from the Bank of China, as Peter Schweizer—Breitbart News senior contributor and Government Accountability Institute president—has exposed. Hunter Biden also had a deal through Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company, through which he made tens of thousands of dollars a month—even though he had never been to Ukraine before accepting the position. Joe Biden, as vice president, pressured Ukraine to fire a prosecutor who was investigating Burisma while his son Hunter worked for the firm.
“Hunter Biden came away with $1.5 billion, of which he gets big fees on. It’s not a possible thing to do,” Trump told Breitbart News in the Oval Office. “You can’t do that. It doesn’t—nobody has done that. Nobody has done that. China doesn’t do that. But he walked away in ten minutes with one-and-a-half-billion dollars. He gets fees on it. Ukraine, the same thing.”
But Hunter Biden’s questionable international dealings were not limited to China and Ukraine. As Schweizer’s most recent book, Profiles in Corruption, released earlier this year exposed, Hunter Biden’s firms had deals that secured hundreds of millions of dollars in other deals with the Chinese and with the Russians and Kazakhs as well.
“Other countries,” Trump said, noting next that the whole Biden family has been in on the graft: “The same thing for the family.”
Trump is correct about that. Schweizer’s Profiles in Corruption exposed Biden’s two brothers, Frank and James, for various questionable deals in which they each engaged.
Despite having no experience whatsoever, Schweizer revealed this year that Frank was linked to $54 million in taxpayer loans from the Obama administration provided to help with U.S. relations in the Caribbean. Schweizer also revealed that Biden’s other brother, James, was employed at a firm to which the Obama administration funneled more than $1.5 billion in contracts over the course of Biden’s time in the nation’s second-highest office.
“It’s a corrupt family,” Trump told Breitbart News of the Bidens. “It’s a corrupt family, okay?”
In addition to Frank, James, and Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s sister, Valerie Biden Owens, is exposed in Schweizer’s Profiles in Corruption as steering millions of dollars to a consulting firm she owned during her stints in her brother’s two previous presidential bids as his campaign manager. What’s more, Biden’s son-in-law, Howard Krein, who is married to Biden’s daughter Ashley, launched a firm from the Oval Office and repeatedly briefed investors privately, as Schweizer exposed in the book.
The president’s comments came in response to Breitbart News asking him about Biden’s attempts to frame him as weak on China, something that is hard to argue given the president’s and his administration’s work on the issue. Nonetheless, Biden’s team has tried to flip the script against Trump on China, something the president laughed at during his Oval Office interview as he laid out his successes in holding the Chinese Communist Party accountable.
“Weak on China? He’s weak period,” Trump told Breitbart News. “Weak on China? China has never—they’ve paid us billions and billions of dollars. They were having the worst year ever that they’ve had in 67 years. Weak on China? Those guys were pathetic. If Biden got elected, they’d own the United States within a very short period of time. China would own the United States.”
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