By Si Dunn
So now we have Sen. John McCain's campaign rebuking Sen. Joe Biden for "raising a debate over who cares more for special needs children," according to a CNN report.
"The Republican camp's sharp response came after Biden said GOP advocates for children with birth defects should support stem cell research," CNN explained.
In my view, stem cell research should be conducted with the same scope and urgency as the Manhattan Project. I have never seen any signs that our Creator personally is attempting to block us from using our God-given brains and compassions to solve the sad, painful mysteries of birth defects. All I keep seeing are people who think they can speak for God and make rules on His or Her behalf.
Rather than shoot labels and accusations at each other, I would urge both political campaigns to immediately dispatch some of their aides to spend a day trying to help out in America's underfunded, understaffed special education programs in the public schools.
"Special needs" and "birth defects" stop being simple power plays in a political football game once you are inside the door of a special-education classroom.
Until you have spent at least one long, hard, challenging day working alongside special-education teachers and their aides in a public school, you really have no idea what "who cares more" for special needs children really means.
To both campaigns, I say: Quit using your fingers to merely point. Try using them, instead, to actually lend some helping hands to special needs children.
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