Biden has reportedly referred to Obama as a "lunch-pail cornball" to others. Whatever the heck that means...
From The New York Post:
As vice president, Biden griped that then-President Obama couldn’t even properly say, “F–k you” because he was so buttoned-up.
While the pair were in sync on a lot of things, there was an underlying “tinge of class rivalry to their gibes.”
Foer describes the pair as “the lunch-pail cornball’’ — Biden — “and the effete professor” — Obama — “culturally chafing each other.”
“Biden told a friend that Obama didn’t know how to say ‘f–k you’ properly, with the right elongation of vowels and the necessary hardness of his consonants,” Foer writes. “It was how they must curse in the ivory tower.”
Biden was concerned Obama, 62, wasn’t being tough enough, including in Afghanistan, listening too much to his advisers without pushing back.
Biden had advised Obama to rebuke his generals’ advice on surging troops in Afghanistan, whispering to his boss soon after the pair took over the White House, “These generals are trying to box in a new president’’ and “Don’t let them jam you,” according to the book.
Biden and Obama reportedly developed a “secret code” for when the vice president needed to play bad cop during high-level meetings, according to the book.
“When Obama tipped back in his chair at meetings, Biden took that as a cue to ask provocative questions that Obama wanted answered but didn’t want to raise himself for fear of shifting the tenor of a meeting,” Foer writes.
You really have to wonder how Obama ever put up with this crazy old man, let alone give him his endorsement for president.
Clearly that decision was fueled more by politics than logic.
