Obama Implies He Picked Biden To Be Vice President In Part Because He Was White

Former President Barack Obama suggests in a new memoir that he picked Joe Biden to be vice president in part because Biden was white and older.

“One of the reasons I’d chosen Joe to act as an intermediary — in addition to his Senate experience and legislative acumen — was my awareness that in McConnell’s mind, negotiations with the vice president didn’t inflame the Republican base in quite the same way that any appearance of cooperation with (Black, Muslim socialist) Obama was bound to do,” Obama wrote, according to a copy of the memoir obtained by CNN. “I liked the fact that Joe would be more than ready to serve as president if something happened to me — and that it might reassure those who still worried I was too young.”