Joe Biden never had a seat at the cool kids’ table at the Obama White House.

The Obama gang saw him as a sort of a goofball and windbag, a member of an older, outmoded generation. So much so that in eight years, the Bidens were never invited by the Obamas to their private digs in the White House.

The disdain was so apparent that Obama considered dropping Biden in favor of Hillary as VP in 2012.

But now the tables have turned.

With the $1.9 trillion stimulus package, Biden is being hailed by Democrats as a transformational, once-in-a-generation progressive champion while Obama has become a cautionary tale, being trashed for the size of his itty-bitty 2009 stimulus bill.

Creaky, old-fashioned Joe moved fast and broke things. Unlike the sleek, modern Obama, who kept trying to work with obstructionist Republicans, Biden blew them off, calling it “an easy choice.”

For Democrats, Biden is proving to be cooler than Obama. Who would have imagined?

Maureen Dowd on the new Democratic equations:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/20/opinion/joe-biden-barack-obama.html