Now Biden sticks his foot in his mouth

If Biden didn't understand how this comment was perceived, he's stupider than previously thought and certainly not qualified to be president.

During a campaign event in Columbia, Missouri, Biden did not mention his Republican counterpart by name but said, "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."

Biden's support of stem cell research is at odds with the position taken by the Republicans' vice presidential nominee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose 5-month-old son, Trig, has Down syndrome.

Palin, an evangelical Christian, opposes stem cell research because it involves the use of human embryos, but her running mate, GOP presidential nominee McCain, does support stem cell research.

And oh, by the way, Palin does not oppose "stem cell research." She opposed embryonic stem cell research has shown no promise in finding cures and must create human life in order to experiment on it. She supports stem cell research that uses adult stem cells - the research that has proven successful in finding cures.