As much as high-ranking Democrats have tried to underplay or outright deny it, rumors have long persisted that the relationship between President Joe Biden and his old boss, former President Barack Obama, is tepid at best — and outright frosty at worst. A new report from Politico isn’t going to help quell that chatter — especially in the wake of a disastrous presidential debate in late June that appears to have fractured the Democratic base. Perhaps the most high-profile example of the fractured state of Democrats came on Wednesday, when actor George Clooney penned an opinion piece for The N…