DURING THE Obama years, the Onion, a satirical online newspaper, carried a series of articles about a man it referred to as "Diamond Joe" and "The President of Vice". It featured headlines like "Shirtless Biden Washes Trans Am in White House Driveway" and "Biden Huddling With Closest Advisers on Whether to Spend 200 Bucks on Scorpions Tickets". The real Joe Biden, then vice-president, was a teetotaling and avuncular elder statesman, not a hair-metal-loving party animal. But the caricature of him as a regular guy drew on an element of truth. The now-president-elect, the son of a second-hand-car salesman, will be the first president since Ronald Reagan to lack an Ivy League degree, having finished near the bottom of his class at both the University of Delaware and Syracuse University's law school.
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