Vice President Joe Biden’s son, former Delaware attorney general and potential Delaware governor Beau Biden, was laid to rest today after succumbing to brain cancer at the tender age of 46.

Friday Boston Globe (and Wall Street Journal) photo.

Biden has been clinging to his rosary as he buries a child for the second time (his first wife and 18-month-old daughter died in a car crash in 1972).

Others, however, have been clinging to the caricature of Biden as his own punchline – especially Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Great White South).

Totally shameful.

As opposed to Barack Obama’s totally heartfelt eulogy today.

Think what you will about Joe Biden’s politics or personality, but you have to feel for him in his time of loss.