(Commentary by Jeff Bergner, an adjunct professor in the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) It is a media commonplace that Joe Biden faces a uniquely daunting set of challenges. Some have gone so far as to compare his challenges with those of Abraham Lincoln, conveniently forgetting Reconstruction, World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, the difficult passage of civil rights legislation, Vietnam and 9/11, to name but a few of the many serious challenges the country has faced.