 When he became vice president, he invited me to his St. Patrick's Day breakfasts and Christmas parties. He was so unvengeful, I doubted he was Irish. Having elevated Biden to a height many thought he would never reach, the hoity-toity Obama team proceeded to treat their vice president with scarcely veiled disdain. Barack Obama's aides would trash Biden to reporters. A betrayal an angry hunter told me was like, quote, friendly fire.