A new book is raising eyebrows by claiming former President Barack Obama dismissed the presidential bid of South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg because the candidate was “short” and “gay.”
In “Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency,” authors NBC’s Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes of the Hill describe an October 2019 dinner event for black corporate donors to Democrat causes, in which Obama appears to caution Democrats against supporting Buttigieg.
“He’s 38, but he looks 30,” Obama reportedly said. “He’s the mayor of a small town. He’s gay, and he’s short.”
Obama reportedly had no personal problem with Buttigieg, but feared the little-known Democrat who failed to draw black support could beat then-President Donald Trump.
The comments are ironic, given Obama’s youth, “funny” name and the fact he was dismissed as unelectable in his 2008 Democrat primary against Hillary Clinton.
The event was reportedly aimed at boosting the appeal of Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who was at the time competing with Buttigieg and Socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for the Democrats’ progressive primary voters but failing to connect with black voters.
It came six months after his own vice-president, Joe Biden, entered the race. Obama remained neutral in the primaries.
The book also alleges now-embattled New York Governor Andrew Cuomo angered Biden and his campaign with a 2020 Democrat National Convention speech the Biden campaign felt was self-aggrandizing and aimed more at positioning Cuomo for a future presidential bid than supporting Biden.
Cuomo’s five-minute address did not mention Biden until the final 10 seconds.
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Poor little queer
Yup
I guess that obama thought which is not very often that being a tall queer as himself is better than being a short one!
Yep
And Obama issss queer .remember Mr Sinclair who claimed he Blew Obama in a limo . And to shut sinclare up he I is killed in a hit and run in California . Convenience ?????
Vermin
well, that wasn’t exactly a secret, but more importantly he was incapable of running a small Midwestern City of 135,000 people, had bad relations with both the Police and the Black community, and given that ,.it’s pretty much of a stretch to think the next step is President of the United States of America and it’s few hundred Million people.
The short Sodomite will burn in Hell.
With friends like Obama, little Pete doesn’t need any enemies.
Democrats are so corrupt they can’t even trust each other.
Thats why Joe Bidem gave him a job. To many things Joe has done makes you wonder???????
What if a Republican had said that?
Aren’t ALL the Democraps queer in one form or another? Wish they would quite trying to take down America. Why do they think they are so special?
It must be the makeup!..
BUTTpig is just not Obozo’s type or did not offer enough money for Obozo to date him.
Ol’bummer’s husband Mike is to big and scary for Butter Butt..
FLAMING
BO knows that well, now we know that without 0>joKe<0, BO had zero chances of winning, he barely had 65 million voters while 0>joKe<0 80million hardly lifting a finger or even campaigning…
Don’t wait today MUST sue Nancy Pelosi for gross negligence causing the wrongful dead of Ashli Babbit in the Capitol riot, she was unarmed, who gave those orders to the the Capitol police to shot an unarmed person without first giving prior notice of that they will be shooting at them , violating the law.
No one is above the Law not even the POTUS, Nancy fired the experienced Capitol chief of police days before the riots and placed an inexperienced person to be in charge, refused the offer from the POTUS TRUMP to have 10,000 troops to stop riots in DC, there are multiple videos that show how the Capitol Police let the rioters in the Capitol and also guide them to the chambers then inside to ambush them and gun down an innocent person.
We The People want the Law to be upheld even to everyone, no one is above the LAW.
Now the say the Capitol police that shot Babbit is in hiding who is helping him to do so, and why they haven’t open an investigation!!!.
I don’t know Communist muslim Obama made a statement like that because he visited
the bath houses in Chicago all the time and a lot of people think Michelle is Michael
with a penis! So I don’t know why he opened his filthy mouth!
So Obama is a homophobe and bigoted towards short people.
I would love it if every democrat politician had a hot microphone on them when they think they are not in the public’s eye. I’ll bet it would be very revealing just how and what they think about people from all backgrounds. They are the most intolerant, bigoted, hypocrites.
So…it ain’t homophobic, if ‘Bathhouse Barry’ says it! Is there like a, height -requirement for ‘politically-acceptable’ queer❓