Speaking from the gutter, the John McCain campaign says that Joe Biden
“sunk to a new low” in bringing up the issue of stem cell research as a hope for children with disabilities. From CNN:
“Barack Obama’s running mate sunk to a new low today launching an offensive debate over who cares more about special needs children," McCain-Palin spokesman Ben Porritt said. "Playing politics with this issue is disturbing and indicative of a desperate campaign."
It must be dark in that gutter. Pitch black. So murky that all issues look pretty much the same as the mud that John McCain’s people have been flinging. When you have
approved the use of the leaning Tower of Pisa to represent a U.S. Senator’s you know what in a political ad, that is a sure sign that your campaign headquarters is in a sewer.
For the parents of children with disabilities, stem cell research can offer hope---
light---for those whose lives consist of pain, suffering, early death. Sickle cell researchers may have found a cure for the disease in mice---which could mean a cure for children. Stem cell research is helping scientists understand cystic fibrosis better, which could help them find a cure.
Hope is the last thing that John McCain’s campaign wants Americans to feel right now. Their candidate wants us to accept the inevitability of a hundred more years of war, a hundred more years of dead end jobs, a hundred more years of unaffordable health care, a hundred more years of despair that will leave our planet unfit for human habitation. They want us to accept the inevitability of four more years of the most reviled administration in United States history, one that came to power by stealing an election.
There is something nasty, vile, toxic living in the gutter, and it isn’t just an ambitious man who wants to be president. It is an attitude which says
No one can help you improve your lives.
Give it up. Stay home. Don’t vote.
Abandon hope all ye that enter here. .
Does anyone expect anything to change under the presidency of a man whose campaign stands for Apathy, Cynicism and Despair?