If that doesn't scare the hell out of you, someone should check your pulse.
Of course, on one level this man is a blithering anus and a congenital liar. However Doughty, let us never forget that This is the Man Who Discovered Obama. It was Joe who "sold" the "...clean black man with no Negro accent ..." to the party way back when Obama was an obscure light-in-the-loafers Chicago pol with a lot of strange commie pals and no Birth Certificate. Then, Joe sold himself as a "mature foreign policy guru" to the rapidly forming Team Obama. Every foreign policy fluck-up of the administration is pure Biden ... that is, based on Biden's world view as a none-too bright child of an alcoholic household who flunked the 1950's idea of social studies and pretty much everything else, finally struggling through Law School.
This guy is pure Dumb Delaware, whose elderly residents all seem to come to resemble chickens (remember Frank Perdue) and who are all interrelated. Joe Biden became Senator-for-Life of this backward rump state on the votes of relatives. It's not that they thought much of him either, but that they just wanted him out of the state during the week.
He has a crucial role in this administration. He plays "Barbara Boxer" to Obama's Feinstein. That is, just as Barbara's job is ... or was ... to make Diane Feinstein look intelligent, Joe's makes The Magic Marxist Mulatto from Mombasa look smart by comparison. He is a brilliantly successful politician.
(Joey Plugs) has also turned himself and his family into mega-millionaires while in office. Dummie? Yup. But dumb like a fox.