Why Biden Apologized.

Shylock with sartorial eloquence addressed the Court of Venice in 1604. 
"I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands,
organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same
food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases,
heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter
and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If
you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?
And if you wrong us, do we not revenge? If we are like you in the
rest, we will resemble you in that?"

And of course, it is not whether you are Jew or Gentile, all flesh and blood hurt, physically, mentally and emotionally. If you call a Christian a Shylock he will probably just smirk; you call a Jew a Shylock he behaves like a jerk.  If Shylock was right, we all have like feelings; so if Shylock is a term fit for a non-Jew, it should also be apt for a Jew too.  But Biden was not referring to a Jew; he was using the term to describe money hawks; so my question is why did he not just stand his ground and say baa to his critics? Well I guess there is one set of rules for Vice Presidents, and another set for everyone else. And I guess too, that Jews should also bristle at the name Judas, because Judas was a Jew. I love the Jews; but sometime they can be a pain in the joint.