'I was given every s*** job in the world by Obama': Biden makes astonishing revelations about his relationship with the President as it's claimed he was 'frozen out' by White House over gay gaffe

Vice President Joe Biden reveals he willingly took the President's more 'bothersome' tasks but in turn wanted to be included in major decisions



The deal was kept for the first term but after Biden said he was 'absolutely comfortable' with gay marriage before Obama, he was frozen out

He was allowed to attend strategy meetings and wasn't happy when Obama's team didn't refute rumors about him being replaced by Clinton

Now the relationship is beginning to thaw but he is plagued by the prospect that Obama and his advisers want Clinton in 2016 and not him



Vice President Joe Biden has revealed that the President assigned him ‘every s*** job in the world’ but he still wasn’t able to win Obama’s full support and began being effectively frozen out after one of his infamous gaffes.

The 71-year-old argued that he was happy to do the less glamorous tasks- like handling the at-times petty Senate fights and calming the fears of the infamously paranoid President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai- but only at a price.

‘When the president asked me what portfolio did I want, I said, “Base it on what you want of me to help you govern…But I want to be the last guy in the room on every major decision… You’re president, I’m not, but if it’s my experience you’re lookin’ for, I want to be the last guy to make the case,”’ Biden said in a lengthy Politico profile.



He went on to admit that Obama kept up his end of the bargain for the majority of their dealings, but the article reveals that there has been a definite frost between the two men that came after Biden announced his approval of gay marriage before the President.



Two years later, the chill in their once buddy relationship is only now beginning to thaw.



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Iced out: After Joe Biden announced that he supported gay marriage before the President, Obama's team made an active effort to exclude him from meetings and keep him out of the public eye (seen together this week)

Less-than-stellar gigs: The Vice President revealed that he told Obama he was happy to take the more bothersome tasks off his hands but as long as Obama consulted with him extensively about decisions

Trouble began brewing during the 2012 re-election campaign as there were rumors that the Obama team was considering replacing Biden with then-outgoing-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.



When questioned about it by Biden, all involved parties denied any truth to said rumor and said so publicly, but not as forcefully as Biden wanted.

Rivals: The position of Vice President typically leads to the nomination after two terms but Hillary Clinton is roundly seen as the Democratic candidate in 2016

Not only were they not being as strong in their denials as Biden wanted, they were also lying. There was some truth to the speculation as pollsters from the campaign had begun slipping in questions about what the public would think if Clinton was brought in as number two.

Around the same time, Biden also gave the higher-ups in the campaign, like Strategist David Plouffe and manager Jim Messina reason to be upset after upstaging the President by coming out in support of gay marriage before the President.

The two men met and Biden apologized, asserting that it was an accident- just another in Biden’s long history of gaffes- but insiders apparently felt that it may have been a calculated move to signal his loyalty to the progressives who felt they were being ignored by Obama.

The apology was not enough and Obama’s staff reportedly turned hostile to the Vice President.

He was banned from strategic planning meetings that he had been included in during the first campaign, and nixed plans for Biden to headline private dinners with potential fundraisers. They even tried to block not one but two possible candidates when the Vice President was trying to pick a new chief of staff.

They also reigned in his public leash by dramatically limiting the number of appearances that Biden made in the months after the gay marriage slip.



Throwing his support: One of the biggest symbolic slaps in the face came when Obama chose to give his first televised interview of the second term with Clinton at his side rather than Biden

Another symbolic slap in the face came immediately after they won re-election, with the President deciding to appear with Clinton, his outgoing Secretary of State and former campaign enemy, rather than Biden for his first televised interview in his second term.

SECRETS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE: NEW REVELATIONS ABOUT THE OBAMA-BIDEN RELATIONSHIP

Vice President Biden offered to take on whatever projects President Obama wanted him to tackle and he landed 'every s*** job' Obama didn't want to deal with

Included managing the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq and hand-holding the reportedly paranoid Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Biden was reportedly furious after he got wind that pollsters from the 2012 re-election campaign started asking whether voters would like it if he was subbed out for Hillary Clinton

Obama's staffers denied the rumors publicly but Biden thought they should have been stronger in their reactions



They also told Biden that there was no truth to the rumors but didn't admit to the poll question Obama's team thought that Biden purposefully announced that he was 'absolutely comfortable' with gay marriage before the President in order to set himself up as a more progressive Democrat should he run in 2016 The 2012 campaign manager is now in charge of an influential PAC and said that he wouldn't pick sides between Biden and Clinton but accidentally said last month that he thinks Clinton is the 'strongest' candidate. Biden refused to talk to him when he called to apologize.



Time has apparently helped soothe the wounds, however, as Biden has recently been given some slack and allowed more appearances both on the road touting administration initiatives and in front of the camera. He made the morning news show rounds immediately after the State of the Union and embraced his likeability as a guest on Seth Meyer’s inaugural episode of Late Night.

The prospect of top Democratic advisers propping up Clinton's campaign while still technically claiming to stay neutral before Biden officially decides about 2016- a call he says he will make after the 2014 midterms- continues to plague the Vice President.



Even though he has been let back into the fold somewhat, his theory was given some credibility after Messina, who has since left the White House and launched a progressive PAC that is expected to play a major role in the 2016 race, told a reporter that they would likely be backing Clinton- without even mentioning the Vice President as a possible candidate.



'I think the numbers clearly show that she’s the strongest presidential candidate on the Democratic side and Priorities is going to be there for her if she decides to run,' Messina told The New York Times last month.



Politico revealed that after the interview, Messina felt that he may have overstepped the bounds and both called the White House to give them a heads up and Biden to apologize: the Vice President reportedly didn't respond.



One of Biden’s biggest strengths is the power of his decades-long relationships with Senators and members of Congress. The President’s reluctance to form bonds with people on Capitol Hill during his time in office has been not only a criticism of his leadership style but has also been detrimental to negotiations time and time again.



‘You know, I disagree with Joe Biden on a lot of stuff… but this is an individual who understands relationships… and I just get a completely different feeling with the president,’ Republican Congressman Tim Griffin from Arkansas told Politico.

One of his closest friends and Republican political allies is fellow septuagenarian John McCain, and though the Arizona Republican doesn’t doubt that Biden has no plans to go into retirement without putting up a fight, he also knows that Biden is rational about his chances.

Letting him loose: Biden has been allowed to make more public appearances in recent months, including his guest stop on Seth Meyer's inaugural episode of Late Night

‘The difference between Joe and someone like (former Senator Ted) Kennedy is that Ted gave up his ambitions...Joe never stopped wanting to be president,' McCain said.

‘I think he’d still like to be president. Hell, I’d still like to be president… but there’s a difference between liking being president and actually (getting elected), and I kind of get the impression, without him saying it, that he knows how formidable Hillary would be.’