Vice-president Joe Biden's son Joseph "Beau" Biden III dies after battling brain cancer.

How sad...

I feel kinda heartless, but I keep seeing these articles and find I... don't care. I mean it is sad for the family but it affects me... not at all.

... I hope they find a cure?

Well! Who'd a thought?

Police in rural northeastern Germany rushed out to track down a reported mob of up to 15 people armed with knives and sticks.

Instead, they found a group of asparagus harvesters.

http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/german-police-alerted-armed-mob-find-asparagus-pickers-31424368

NicoleK - I'm also one of the heartless. Yes, it is a tragedy. But the Bidens aren't the only family to face this. There are plenty of other families who also lose loved ones to illness.

I think it is fantastic that Biden served in the military; but, and I'm heartless on this - I, too, just don't care.

What I do wonder is what medical care did he get? Was he under Obamacare, which is forcing so many to lose good coverage and good doctors, like so many others are being pushed into? Or did he get better treatment because of his family connections?

I suppose it depends on why you don't care. If you find that your contempt for Biden himself can't even allow you to muster up sympathy for a parent who has lost a child, I would say that's pretty sad...for you. If, on the other hand, it's just because you can't feel pity for ant bereaved family, I would say that's just who you are.

But keep mind that while many families do cope with this kind of loss, Biden has also lost a child and his first wife (and Beau's mother) in a car accident years earlier. To be visited by this kind of tragedy twice makes him part of a much smaller group. I would hardly say that "lots" of people experience that. And I'm grateful they don't.

I agree with Patrick. When i was younger, in my 20s, hearing about tragedy and loss didn't seem to resonate as much. But after it hits, you realize there is only so much a family should be asked to deal with. The loss of your child, no matter the age, is not one of those things we ever prepare for or will get over. It isn't supposed to happen. We are conditioned to prepare for the loss of a parent, but not a child. I lost my sister-in-law to brain cancer about 4 months ago. It's a terrible, terrible disease.

I feel kinda heartless, but I keep seeing these articles and find I... don't care. I mean it is sad for the family but it affects me... not at all. ~ Posted by: NicoleK at May 31, 2015 11:43 AM

It's the media. They've drowned us with stories of family tragedy - so much so that something on a small scale like this elicits a "hmmph" response. "Call em when the death toll is in the hundreds."

I'm not a Joe Biden fan, but he has my sympathy on this.

I'm not a Joe Biden fan, but he has my sympathy on this.

Biden has always struck me as a tool, I've never seen the kind of machinations from him that would give him a level of respect for his abilities or seen him hold firm to an opinion that a large enough majority of other people didnt like because it was the right thing to do, or at the very east that he believed it was the right thing to do.

As to my sympathies for him on the loss of his kid? It depends on how jrs heath insurance was effected by the ACA.

Was he screwed over, was he in on of the groups that were illegally exempted?

Because if he was getting something more than the american public was forced to take why should I feel sorry for a guy who got more time than he would have gotten had he been forced to follow the rules?

Sounds cold and cynical I know, but I'm not the most empathic of people to begin with, and what little I have I dont waste on people I dont know, especcialy when they make their living on the suffering of others

I'll give you credit for a classy response, Conan. When I saw this announcement on Conservative Daily on Facebook, most of the conservatives' response were simply along the lines of "He has my sympathy. No parent should bury a child." Others had a bit more of a partisan edge. "Can't stand the POS, but I'm sorry for his loss." Then I saw two (out of several dozen) that were just plain over the top cruel. Overall, I was pleasantly surprised by the nonpartisan expressions of sympathy. You straddled the line between groups one and two.

...most of the conservatives' response were simply along the lines of "He has my sympathy. No parent should bury a child." ~ Posted by: Patrick at June 1, 2015 3:58 PM

The hardcore radical Left, I've noticed, seems to take great pleasure at the sufferings of political enemies. The Right, on the other hand, tends, in general, to present a more measured and circumspect response - with some exceptions, unfortunately.

Tammy Brue on crying while watching a 60 Minutes interview with Nancy Reagan on her husband having Alzheimers and the soullessness of the Left's response:

"Ronald Reagan was hated, and still is, in the feminist-establishment circles in which I grew up. That milieu subsists on enemies and hatred. I took my cues from the women around me, women I admired. They were strong and confident, and they knew. They knew who was out to get us. They knew who was determined to throw us back into the Dark Ages. They knew Reagan was evil."

[...]

"I checked my phone messages. There was one from a gay male friend, whom I see infrequently these days but with whom I share some fun and important activist memories. He had been watching the same interview, but he was cheering. 'Woo hoo! It looks like we might be opening up that champagne sooner than later! I hope you were watching the Dragon Lady on 60 Minutes tonight. I suppose with Alzheimer’s, he’s not suffering anymore, but it sure looks like she is! There is a God after all.'"

"I had never thought of my friend as an indecent person, just as I never thought of myself as one. But he really hates those two people and wishes them awful things. He believes he’s in the right and they’re wrong. He also believes that the questions that divide them are moral issues about life and death. The difference, however, is that I think it’s safe to say neither Nancy nor Ronald Reagan ever had a bottle of champagne in the fridge waiting for a gay man or a feminist to die. The Reagans, I’ll bet, don’t hoot and holler at someone else’s pain."

"Mrs. Reagan’s humanity illustrated by counterpoint the soullessness of the Left. We, the Feminist and Gay Elites, inflicted on society narcissists’ biggest crime of all: We couldn’t see beyond our own interests and desires. We became indecent in defending our principles."