As Vice President Joe Biden continues to toy with the question of whether or not to throw his hat into the 2016 ring, a former top adviser to Obama contends that there's probably one big question rolling around in the veep's mind: "'Why does she feel entitled to [run] and I can't?'" Although Biden and Hillary Clinton have always been friendly, they haven't exactly been friends, Politico reports, and now that the two may very well meet in a 2016 face-off, sources report that Biden's "undercurrent of resentment" for Hillary is starting to simmer.
While Biden reportedly "really likes [Clinton] personally," Politico reports that he has long "felt she viewed running for president as a 'burden.'" As Biden watches Clinton's stumbles on the campaign trail, the vice president's sense of resentment and "innate competitiveness" seem to have been stoked.
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