Joe Biden’s got a lot of nerve

Vice President Joe Biden must think Nevadans are idiots. That's the only conclusion one can make after the comments he made Friday at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Let's start off with the little white lie that the private affair at UNR was "not a political event". The truth is that Biden was in Reno to stump for Sen. Harry Reid. That very morning, Biden spoke at a fundraiser breakfast at a local casino in which 30 patrons paid $2,400 to re-elect Reid.

So, Mr. Vice President, your visit to Reno was first and foremost political.

The truth-spinning didn't end there. Biden told the UNR crowd that even though Nevada has not felt the turn-around yet, he and President Obama have licked the recession. "The recovery act is working." He then told the UNR crowd that Harry Reid hung the moon and he's the exact right guy Nevadans need to send back to Washington in November 2010. "Harry knows what is worth fighting over and what’s worth losing over."

Jeez, nothing political here, Mr. Vice President.

Look, you know and I know politicians lie. And on the grand scale, Biden's lie in Reno was low-level. But here's the rub.

If Biden can't even come clean on why we was in Reno, why should be believe him on any other stuff?

Nevada is still mired in the recession. Our housing industry is the worst in the country. Yet, the Obama crowd in the form of Joe Biden comes here to tell us the crisis is over?

If Harry Reid and Joe Biden and Barack Obama had done any measurable thing to alleviate the housing pain in Nevada, he would have fixed the problems in the rest of the country. But they haven't. We're still in the soup and at the Obama pace of doing things for Nevada, we're going to be here for a while.

I want to be fair here. It's a tough task. I'm not expecting miracles. But I do expect a little truth now and again.

Next time you come back to Nevada, Mr. Vice President, we'd appreciate it if you'd at least not treat us like idiots.