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Cardinal Egan is a rock-solid Catholic Churchman, if anything a bit more conservative than Cardinal O'Connor. I got to know him pretty well while he was Bishop of Bridgeport. This is nothing but an underhanded effort by the media to split and divide conservatives--something they do all the time, and there always seem to be people eager to swallow their poisoned bait.

Are you saying that the Cardinal should have said that Americans are totally without sin? That's about all his remark amounted to, that no one is entirely without sin.

But it's pretty obvious that it was a trick question. McCain and his left-wing admirers in the press tried very hard to do the same thing to Bush last year, when he spoke at Bob Jones University. "Divide and conquer" is the old name for it. It's typical slimy behavior on the part of our lying media.

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Are you saying that the Cardinal should have said that Americans are totally without sin?

No thought required here, just an old-but-true cliche:

There's a time and place for everything.

The Hate America crowd marched in grieving Washington. The time for criticism of America by (of all people) New York's Cardinal is not now.

As for the media trying to 'split' conservatives this is the New York Post. Conservative to the core. Do you think they solicited those letters?