He spots Obama and a frown furrows his brow.
The smile vanishes from Biden’s face as Harris turns away. Harris senses Obama’s presence and whips around with a joyous expression, and they meet each other’s gaze for an instant. MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images Vanishing smile It’s not too often that a former president like Barack Obama can embarrass President Biden at the White House.
In C-Span videos, you see Biden, quite cheery, glad-handing the crowd, Harris at his side, when suddenly, from stage left, emerges Obama, face creased into a handsome smile, eyeing the same group that Biden is schmoozing. Beside him, Vice President Kamala Harris was fairly bursting with excitement.Īfter the speech, the three luminaries mingled with the crowd, and that was where Obama showed his true colors. There was little effort to burnish the battered reputation of the old man standing glumly alongside him trying to look jolly. Obama sang his own praises as he rattled off a list of his presidency’s accomplishments. Well, he mentioned himself 33 times during his speech, according to Steve Guest, communications adviser for Sen. He quickly followed up with “That was a joke!” but the point was understood by everyone, that Joe is the beta in that relationship, even if he is the most powerful man on the planet. Invited back to the White House for the first time in five years, Obama began his speech Tuesday touting the 12th anniversary of his Affordable Care Act by referring to the president as “Vice President Biden.” The president just looked feeble and unpopular against his limelight-hogging former boss. If the idea was to borrow the Barack Obama magic, it backfired. Who had the stupid idea to invite his charismatic predecessor back to upstage the president and humiliate him before the world? Someone in the White House must really hate Joe Biden. There's no hidin' slidin' Joe Biden ahead of 2024 So FBI, why no raid of Hunter Biden's house?!įBI searched Melania's wardrobe, spent hours in Trump's private office during Mar-a-Lago raidįBI Director Christopher Wray is guiding the agency the wrong way, fast