by D.W. Wilber, America Outloud:
“You don’t have to do this, Joe; you really don’t.” Barack Obama said to Joe Biden in 2019 as Biden was preparing to announce his plans to run for the Democrat Party’s nomination for President of the United States, and run against then-President Donald Trump.
At the time Obama made those private remarks to Biden, I found it a bit curious. One would have expected the former president to enthusiastically encourage and support his former vice president to run for the top job. After all, they spent eight years together in the White House and knew each other well. But perhaps that was the problem; Barack Obama knew Joe Biden too well.