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Cooper’s Eye on the Left: Biden tells Iowa voters he’d offer Obamas big appointments

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a community event at the National Motorcycle Museum, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020, in Anamosa, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a community event at the National Motorcycle Museum, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020, in Anamosa, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a community event at the National Motorcycle Museum, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020, in Anamosa, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, seemingly desperate to get some love from the man who selected him as vice president, said for the second time in recent weeks he would appoint former President Barack Obama to the United States Supreme Court if he would take the job.

“Yeah, I would,” he said in an Iowa campaign hall last week in answer to a voter’s question, “but I don’t think he’d do it. He’d be a great Supreme Court justice.”

Someone, apparently not understanding, asked which Obama Biden was referring to.

The former president, he said. He said he “sure would like Michelle [Obama] to be the vice president. They’re both incredibly qualified people. I mean, and they’re such decent, honorable people.”