Sen. Joe Biden, campaigning in Columbia, MO today, came out with this:
"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 developmental disability, who were born with a birth defect. Well guess what folks? If you care about it, why don't you support stem cell research?"
It's kind of a too-easy, doesn't-really-need-to-be-made gotcha point -- like when some Democrats claim that Bristol Palin is a walking example of why Gov. Palin's approach to sex education doesn't work. The point has been scored, but the logic is not sound and the politics is fishy.
Now -- some may find Biden's musings to be injurious to common manners, but Palin's work-life-family balance has been a conspicuous part of her appeal. A McCain campaign spokesman:
Barack Obama's running mate sunk to a new low today launching an offensive debate over who cares more about special needs children. Playing politics with this issue is disturbing and indicative of a desperate campaign.
Whenever a campaign charges that a rival has "sunk to a new low," I always wonder: where was the old low? And who put it there?
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