President Obama and Vice President Biden Contrast their Successful Leadership of Recession to the President Trump’s Historic Failure to Manage the Current Health and Economic Crisis
(Updated w/full video) Vice President Joe Biden’s new campaign ad featuring a socially distanced conversation between him and his former boss, President Barack Obama, is brilliant. The ad is a teaser for a longer conversation that will air across both leaders’ social media platforms on Thursday, July 23. I hope we can get weekly conversations between the two up until the Nov. Election.
In the intimate conversation, the former president and vice president drew a sharp contrast between how the Obama-Biden Administration confronted national crises and created millions of jobs to pull our country out of a recession, in contrast with Donald Trump’s historic failure to respond to the public health and economic crisis impacting every single American family. Vice President Biden and President Obama also discussed how the nation is grappling with systemic racism – and the current opportunity to make lasting change rooting out these historic inequities.
“Can you imagine standing up when you were president and saying ‘it’s not my responsibility. I take no responsibility.’ Literally. Literally,” Biden says in the teaser’s open.
Obama replies, “Those words didn’t come out of our mouths when we were in office.”
“No. I don’t understand his inability to get a sense of what people are going through,” says Biden. “He can’t relate in any way.”
“Well, and one of the things I have always known about you Joe, it’s the reason I wanted you to be my vice president, and the reason why you were so effective…it all starts with being able to relate,” says Obama.
The full conversation between the 44th President of the United States and the 47th Vice President of the United States will air across both leaders’ social media platforms on Thursday, July 23.