Biden is a Key Adviser and Confidant in Obama's White House

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Here's the problem with Reader Comments -- not just here, but anywhere on the internet. No matter what the story is about, let's just say there's a story about a puppy giving his life to save his family from a fire, there's somebody who's going to write that the puppy deserved his fate and the family didn't deserve to be saved. Don't believe me? Just start scrolling through the comments on any story that has generated a fair number of responses.

One poll I just looked at offers readers a chance to grade Obama so far. Some A+'s, B's, etc., but also 37% F's. That is probably a pretty good approximation of the percentage who are ready to take every opportunity to be as negative as possible on anything that Obama or his administration do or say. (I haven't read one comment by a well known non-talk show Republican which comes close to the equivalent of giving Obama an "F" grade. In fact, many like Howard Baker clearly would give a higher mark.)

"Blowhard," "liar," racially insensitive, talking "blather," falling flat twice in his presidential aspirations -- "fluff/propaganda" indeed! "Seamless and natural" transition? The "relatively easy transition" (hardly "seamless") that was referred to was Biden's personal adaptation to his new role, not that of a man miraculously morphing from Senator to Vice President.

Finishing with a flourish that I can only hope was an attempt at a grand denouement and not hateful hyperbole, our commentator concludes his own open audition to write for Rush by calling Obama's policies "infantile and dangerous." If someone had described Bush's policies that way, you can be sure that many would have fired back with the words "unpatriotic" and "traitor."

Me, I'm for the puppy.

Are you serious?

Wow, that's probably the most fluffy of fluff/propaganda pieces I've ever, ever seen. Kenneth T Walsh should be just plain embarrassed. I only hope you aren't seriously trying to claim that to be some form of actual "journalism."

Each day we are treated to a new gaffe from Joe Biden, whether misspeaking, divulging classified information, cursing in front of an open microphone, to the point that reports now indicate the White House administration considers his daily gaffes to be a "distraction" from their agenda. Yet you manage to pen a piece attempting to cast Joe Biden's transition to the Vice-Presidency as seamless and natural.

Ken, please take the final step and submit your resume to the Obama administration or the DNC. They are clearly in need of a fiction writer, like yourself, who could write similarly ridiculous pieces attempting to make the case for Obama's infantile and dangerous policies.