US Vice President Joe Biden described Barack Obama as a cross between Denzel Washington and Franklin Roosevelt The Big Issue has learned.
Biden predicted Obama a genius - would win the Democrats nomination as far back as October 2007, according to his old friend Neil Kinnock.
Lord Kinnock and VP Biden became pals after the gaffe-prone US Senator was caught up in a plagiarism row in 1988. Biden withdrew his bid to become President because of the similarity of one of his speeches to a Kinnock speech from the same year.
However, the pair became close and Kinnock told The Big Issue in Scotland about a conversation in Washington D.C. when Biden was still in the Presidential race. I remember speaking to Joe and him saying it was going to be Barack Obama up against John McCain. He said: You can put money on it Obamas a genius.
I said: What kind of genius? Like who? He said: Well, there isnt one person I could compare him to, but hes like a cross between Denzel Washington and Franklin Roosevelt.
Kinnock, who attended Obamas inauguration in January, said Biden could take the top seat, should he be required. Hes an immensely tough and intelligent guy, and he could fulfil the role should the unthinkable happen. I think Obama knew that when he picked Joe for the job.
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Ole Crazy Uncle Joe! But he is correct. Denzel Washington is famous for pretending to be someone else and Roosevelt is famous for giving memorable speeches and screwing up the economy for years. Out of the mouthes of babes and buffoons.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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