Obama considered replacing his vice president with Hillary Clinton, leaving Biden “distraught,” according to The Long Alliance by Gabriel Debenedetti. Obama eventually stuck with Biden, though he was furious at his veep’s decision to blurt out the administration’s support for gay marriage, an announcement Obama wanted to make.
Biden’s actions were “tantamount to betrayal” and “an example of Biden trying to position himself in front of the president,” the book says, with staffers saying that “we can’t trust [Biden] to say his lines.”
For his part, Biden said he was “not going to grovel to this guy,” referring to Obama. “My manhood is not negotiable.”
While mainstream media said for years that Obama and Biden had a “bromance,” with NBC News describing them as “lifelong friends,” this is far from the first indication that the two men did not like each other.
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