On Tweety - why is Obama's staff so ANGRY about Biden's

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37. it's not honesty, it's undisciplined headline-stealing.

if biden and obama were just ordinary senators, then yeah, sure, his candor is great and if he forced an issue center stage that needed attention, then great.

but biden is obama's cheerleader-in-chief, and if they had a schedule for obama making an announcement at some other time, then biden was acting unilaterally against the plan.


now, if he was pissed with the obama team for planning on burying this issue until after the election, and knowingly did this to force the issue as a matter of principle, that's one thing.

if he just let it slip because he has no discipline, that's another.

but it's not a matter of courage or candor, it's a matter of pushing your own agenda at your own timing or letting the president push his agenda at his timing.



for the record, if this is what happened, then i'm very glad he did it.