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A new book about US President Joe Biden, The Last Politician, portrays Biden as an irritable old man and about how there was sometimes strain between him and former president Barack Obama.  In 'The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for America’s Future', Franklin Foer writes about Biden's middle-class upbringing and how it helped foster a resentment of intellectual elitism that shaped his political career and the aforementioned strain with the Harvard-educated Obama, AP reported. The book came out on September 5. Foer, a staff writer for The Atlantic, says Biden griped with how Obama was unable to say “f—- you” with “the right elongation of vowels and the necessary hardness of consonants; it was how they must curse in the ivory tower.”  Reportedly, the two politicians were very much in sync and had an unspoken code. For instance, if Obama did not want to ask a provocative question during a cabinet meeting, he would simply l