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Board Certified M.D. on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:44:06 AM
We have The Special Olympics and the Paralympics...Joe Biden would qualify for neither as all these challenged athletes are more talented than he is. Nonetheless at their expense he insults them
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The Democratic vice-presidential nominee's comments were apparently aimed at his Republican rival, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has an infant son with Down syndrome and opposes embryonic-stem-cell research.
![[Biden, Joseph]](http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/HC-GJ027_Biden_20061108175250.gif)
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"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," Sen. Biden said at a rally in Columbia, Mo., on Tuesday. "Well, guess what folks? If you care about it, why don't you support stem-cell research?"
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The McCain campaign responded quickly. "Barack Obama's running mate sunk to a new low today, launching an offensive debate over who cares more about special-needs children," said McCain spokesman Ben Porritt. "Playing politics with this issue is disturbing and indicative of a desperate campaign."
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Gov. Palin's social-conservative background Wall Street Journal
Biden promotes Embryonic Stem Cell Research....why doesn't he offer himself for this butal research! Biden should have
considered the Special Olympics promoted by Democrat Maria Shriver-Kennedy whose mother founded this movement. Bide is a bombast foot in his mouth FOOL and insults these Saintly Parents!
"I get the joke that only dumb and shallow people are using a term that means dumb and shallow. But it is only funny if you think a "retard" is someone dumb and shallow. I am not those things, but every time the term is used it tells people it is okay to think of me that way and to keep me on the outside." Frank Stephens on why using the "r-word" is a big deal to him. Learn more...
For the intellectually disabled and their families, it's just as bad as the "N"-word.
By Maria Shriver 8-22-2008
This has ben a year filled with teachable political moments. Racism, sexism, ageism and "change" have been debated at kitchen tables and water coolers across America. But this last week, those gathered around my kitchen table have been consumed with another discussion, one that is not Democratic or Republican -- it's the "R-word" debate.
The "R-word" stands for "retard." For the 6 million to 8 million Americans with intellectual disabilities and their families, this word and its hurtful use is equal to the impact of the "N-word" on an African American.
The reason it's kitchen-table fodder is because of the Dreamworks film "Tropic Thunder," which topped the box-office charts when it opened last weekend and which will attract many more moviegoers this weekend. In the R-rated film, which I've seen, a character named Simple Jack is a caricature of a person with a developmental disability. In one of the scenes, the character played by Robert Downey Jr. chastises Ben Stiller's character for "going full retard," and the "R-word" is repeated many times