Biden To Oprah: ‘I Have A Regret That I Am Not President’

Joe Biden has a new book to plug, and he’s hitting the book tour circuit HARD.

It was announced earlier this summer that he would be talking to the Almighty O on November 12th.

They get together in the middle of the woods on expensive rattan furniture. Totally Zen. Totally Natural. Not At All Weird.

(a little weird.)

As the date approaches, more details of his conversation are emerging…

and it’s a doozy.

The biggest bombshell: He “regrets” not being the president right now.
According to this:

As part of his book tour, former Vice President Joe Biden sat down with Oprah, with the first clips of their interview together coming out today.

‘I have a regret that I am not president,’ Biden candidly told the talk show star. ‘Because I I think there’s so much opportunity. I think America’s so incredibly well-positioned.’

The title of the ex-veep’s new book, ‘Promise Me, Dad,’ comes from his late son Beau Biden, asking that he be OK as he faced the cancer that eventually killed him.

He says that the grief of losing his son to cancer is what kept him from running… though recently he revealed he also feared the ruthlessly personal campaign Hillary would have run against him.

It was that grief over losing his eldest son, Biden said, that kept him from entering the presidential race, which the Democrats eventually lost to now President Donald Trump.

‘Oprah, no woman or man should announce they are running for president unless they can answer two questions: One, do they truly believe they are the most qualified person for that moment. I believed I was,’ Biden said.

It was the second question that stopped him.

‘But was I prepared to be able to give my whole heart, my whole soul and all my attention to the endeavor?’ he mused. ‘And I knew I wasn’t.’

In another clip from the interview, he repeats that he knew, a month out, that Hillary Clinton’s candidacy was doomed.
‘A month out, I came back and said, we’re going to lose this election,’ Biden said.

In June, Politico reported that Biden had said at a donor conference that he knew a month out that Clinton would lose key battleground states.

Biden, however, had not previously expressed that publicly.

He also campaigned furiously for Clinton in those waning weeks.

I don’t know… hindsight is 20/20… did he REALLY know she was going to lose? No one else seemed to…

He also claims Obama got in the way… because Barry didn’t want any drama.

Biden revealed that he was also guided by President Obama not to run.

‘In January 2015 the president was convinced I could not beat Hillary, and he worried that a long primary fight would split the party and leave the Democratic nominee vulnerable in the general election,’ Biden wrote.

Biden said Obama had become ‘preoccupied’ with the predicament of whether Biden would run, which would pit his vice president against his former secretary of state.

Obama, Biden acknowledged, was ‘subtly weighing in against’ it.

‘Barack and I knew, coverage in the West Wing would shift from his agenda to my chances. I also believe he had concluded that Hillary Clinton was almost certain to be the nominee,’ he said.

If I’m being completely honest with myself… I think Biden would have had a MUCH better chance of winning against Trump than Hillary did.

For one, he doesn’t cause furious rage in the majority of people.

His values and politics may be crap… but he doesn’t cause anger convulsions.

So Democrats… running Hillary might have been the worst thing you could have done.