Subject: Josh Earnest Talks Like Obama Prefers Biden Over Hillary
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Alexander Snyder-Mackler" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 18:33:03 -0400

Josh Earnest Talks Like Obama Prefers Biden Over Hillary

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2015/08/03/josh-earnest-talks-obama-hearts-biden-over-hillary

Josh Earnest Talks Like Obama Prefers Biden Over Hillary

Earnest later said that if Biden chooses to run, he could make a "strong"
case for his candidacy.  He added that other Dem candidates could make
"quite" a strong case. Note the qualifier. And Earnest never paid Hillary
the honor of mentioning her by name, just lumping her with "other
Democratic candidates" not named Biden. Add in the fact that *Joe reported
that there is "outrage at the White House" over Hillary's email and
foundation foul-ups*, and a picture emerges of an Obama jumping towards
Joe.  This could get very interesting!

Question for NB readers: by now, Hillary presumably knows what Earnest
said.  How would you imagine she is reacting?

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Does President Obama want Joe Biden to jump in the race
for president and will he support his vice president?

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Of course he will. If your vice president is running for
president, Mika, you support the president, right?

MIKA: I'm asking Josh. Josh?

JOE: That seems like an obvious answer.

JOSH EARNEST: It certainly seemed to generate some news in the last 24
hours, didn't it? *What the president has long said is that choosing Joe
Biden to be the running mate is the smartest decision he ever made in
politics. *And I think that even given the high expectations that the
president had for Vice President Biden, Vice President Biden over the last
6 1/2 years has exceeded them. He is somebody who is a champion of the
middle class. He is somebody who has *decades *of experience in foreign
policy [Ed.: hmm, more than Hillary!] and on a regular basis this
administration and this country benefits from the kinds of personal
relationship that Joe Biden has built around the world.

JOE: *So what you're saying is, the president is saying picking Joe Biden
was a smarter and wiser political decision than picking Hillary Clinton for
Secretary of State. *

MIKA: No, that's not what he said.

EARNEST: *That's clever. *

JOE: Well, you've got the best political decision you've ever made in your
life.

MARK HALPERIN: Only one could be best.

MIKA: So Josh, it was a yes?

EARNEST: Joe Biden has served the country and this president very well as
vice president . . . *If he chooses to run, he'll have a strong case to
make, but we've got some other Democratic candidates in the race that also
have quite a strong case to make. *

MIKA: Josh Earnest, nice dancing with you. Thank you very much. We'll see
you next time.

JOE: So, you know --

MIKA: That's a yes. How could you not?

JOE:  That's a yes. *He's going to support Joe Biden.* He says it's the
best decision he ever made in his life. He made that decision the same time
he made the decision Hillary Clinton Secretary of State.

MIKA: Biden is still there.

JOE: Biden is still there.

HALPERIN: Don't underestimate the degree to which *people in President
Obama's orbit have taken note of the Clinton foundation and the Hillary
e-mail thing and thought, huh? *

JOE: And I was going to say, and behind the scenes, we'e talked about this
a good bit. They don't say, huh? They say I can't believe that they did
that. I can't -- *there is outrage at the White House. *

HALPERIN: *Joe Biden doesn't have a server or a family foundation. *

Eric D. Schwerin
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