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Biden Questions GOP Commitment to Special Needs Kids
Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden riled up John McCain’s campaign Tuesday when he suggested that if Republicans are so concerned with special needs children, they’d support embryonic stem cell research. Speaking to voters in Columbia, Mo., Biden said: “I hear all this talk about how the Republicans are going to work in dealing with parents who have both the joy, because there’s joy to it as well, the joy and the difficulty of raising a child who has a ...
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CNN’s Toobin: Palin ‘Very Extreme’ on Embryonic Stem Cell Research
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Toobin’s comment came as host Campbell Brown began the program with the controversy over remarks made by Palin’s Democratic opponent, Delaware Senator Joe Biden, who made an indirect reference to the Alaska governor’s developmentally-disabled son during a campaign stop in Columbia, Missouri earlier that day: "I hear all this talk about how the Republicans are going to work in dealing with parents who have both...the joy and the difficulty of raising a child who has a developmental disability, who were born with a birth defect. Well, guess what folks? If you ...

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