AND THEN THERE IS JOE O'BIDEN~~~~There's never been a greater disconnect than that vision Joe has of himself, and the miserable reality that defines him. His bad judgment about this is what's leading him to the crazed dictator images that he's presenting to the world now. He tops Jimmy Carter now in the reality that he's a small, bitter, pathetic, little man. He's a clown now, a mouse whose ambitions were only to become a rat.