Obama Memoir Reveals Cocaine Mitch’s Savage Response When Biden Tried to Explain Policy

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Barack Obama’s new memoir, in which the 44th president lays out an overarching defense of his administration and motivations, details a frosty exchange between then-Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, according to The Washington Post.

The book: The passage from “A Promised Land,” which will be released on Tuesday, describes how the top Republican senator responded when Biden tried to explain the merits of a bill McConnell had blocked.

  • “You must be under the mistaken impression that I care,” Obama writes, recounting McConnell’s reply.
  • According to The Post, Obama characterizes the episode as an example of McConnell’s “shamelessness” and “dispassionate pursuit of power.”
  • Throughout the book, the former president repeatedly accuses conservatives of breaking norms and ramping up polarization to score political points.

Commenting on the selection of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate in 2008, Obama says the former Alaska governor’s ineptitude was “troubling on a deeper level” and “her incoherence didn’t matter to the vast majority of Republicans.”

What about Joe? Obama outlines some of his concerns about picking Biden to run alongside him in 2008, including the longtime Delaware senator’s love for hearing himself talk and lack of self-awareness.

  • Biden “wasn’t always self-aware,” the former president writes in “A Promised Land,” noting that he and his eventual running mate “couldn’t have been more different.”
  • Still, Obama says, he “found the contrast between us compelling.”
  • Obama also contrasts his choice of Biden with McCain’s selection of Palin, who he says “had absolutely no idea what the hell she was talking about” on “just about every subject relevant to governing the country.”

Palin responded to Obama’s swipe in a Facebook post on Friday.

  • “It’s pleasurable to know I’ve lived rent free in your head these past twelve years,” she wrote.
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