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don't understand how someone can seriously say this about themselves: "I was raised as a Catholic, I'm a practicing Catholic, and I'm totally at home with the Catholicism that I was raised in and this whole culture of social responsibility, reaction to abuse of power, the whole notion that there is collective civic responsibility. It's the Catholic consciousness that I'm totally comfortable with." ... only to spew this nonsense: "It is not choice. It's always a very, very, very difficult, difficult decision. I know that, my church has wrestled with this for 2,000 years. We've always believed from the outset...

The presidential election to be held two weeks from today is the culminating contest between two ideologies, not just two candidates. It will pit America’s political left against her political right, and it will contrast the values and visions of two very different “American Joes.” The first Joe — Joe Biden — is a six-term U.S. senator who dreams of growing the government; the second Joe — Joe Wurzelbacher — is a plumber from Toledo who dreams of growing a small business. “Senator Joe” is a Democrat who wants pipe-fitter Joe to postpone his dreams, “be patriotic,” and pony up...

Leave it to Joe Biden to say in one speech what John McCain has been unable to say for an entire campaign. Yes, there is the issue of the economy. (Obama's ties with Fannie and Freddie have barely been mentioned by McCain.) Yes, there is the issue of taxes. (McCain can't seem to explain how cutting taxes for all is better than class warfare and socialism). Yes, there are a host of issues where McCain has a better plan, but one of the most important, especially in a time of war, is that John McCain is ready to be commander-in-chief...

On today’s episode of “Ellen,” Joe Biden told Ellen DeGeneres “that if I lived in California, I would vote against Proposition 8.” This initiative reads, “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” Yet in his debate with Sarah Palin on October 2, Biden said that “Barack Obama nor I support redefining from a civil side what constitutes marriage.” Catholic League president Bill Donohue weighed in on this today: “Proposition 8 is a civil initiative that would secure marriage as an institution that is exclusively between a man and a woman, and Joe Biden...

just heard on this on tv and DUmmies board is also melting down over this. would anyone be able to speculate as to why this would have happened yesterday or today?