New York Post By Victor Nava
CHICAGO – Former President Barack Obama praised “selfless” Joe Biden for passing on the baton in his address to the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night — just weeks after playing a leading role in a behind-the-scenes pressure campaign to bury the president’s re-election bid.
”At a time when the other party had turned into a cult of personality, we needed a leader who was steady and brought people together, and was selfless enough to do the rarest thing there is in politics — putting his own ambition aside for the sake of the country,” Obama gushed.
“History will remember Joe Biden as an outstanding president who defended democracy at a moment of great danger — and I am proud to call him my president but I am even prouder to call him my friend.”
Obama, 63, took the stage as U2’s “City of Blinding Lights” – a staple of his historic 2008 presidential campaign – blared in the United Center. He said what he admired most about his former VP was “his empathy and his decency and his hard-earned resilience.”
“And over the last four years, those are the values America has needed most,” said Obama, going on to praise Biden’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the languishing economy when he took office…
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