![]() ![]() “These days, nobody seemed to want my help,” Biden, who narrates the novel, muses, sitting alone at night in his lake house. Biden, Jr., in the opening pages of “ Hope Never Dies,” a mystery-thriller-fan-fiction mash-up by Andrew Shaffer that imagines Biden and Obama as crime fighters who set out to clean up the opioid-ravaged streets of Wilmington, Delaware. ![]() It’s here, in a purgatory of unfinished business, that we find Joseph R. Biden wept openly, and by that point, with Obama and Biden shortly giving way to Trump and Pence, there was a note of sadness to the partnership, the twinge of a twist ending and a legacy thrust into uncertainty. In August, 2016, on the occasion of Obama’s fifty-fifth birthday, Biden tweeted out an image of friendship bracelets featuring the two men’s first names, writing, of Obama, “A brother to me, a best friend forever.” Obama, in turn, called Biden his brother when awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, during a surprise ceremony just days before the two left office. An image of the two men laughing in the stands at a basketball game, in 2012, had long before become the stuff of memes, setting the terms for the pair’s dynamic-Biden effusive and grabby, Obama warily amused. ![]() By the final days of the Obama Administration, there was, among those inclined to recognize it, much warm feeling attached to the odd-couple bromance between the President and the Vice-President, Joe Biden. ![]()
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