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Biden may have had Nancy Pelosi to thank for the fact that the bishops were already on a hair-trigger alert. Two weeks earlier on the same program, Brokaw had posed the same question to Pelosi, who had refused to answer. "Over the history of the Church," she insisted, "this is an issue of controversy." It is true that lay and church scholars engaged in a vigorous debate in the 1960s over the acceptability of contraceptive use before Pope Paul VI ended the discussion by reiterating official Church opposition to birth control. But the issue was separate from the question...
...themselves haven't been exempt from criticism either, even from the campaign's green allies. Newt Gingrich was part of the original series of ads, paired with his opposite number, Nancy Pelosi. But the truth is that Gingrich, though he published a greenish book last year called A Contract with the Earth, doesn't really support the We Campaign's goals - a fact that was made clear this summer when he mounted a new crusade in favor of virtually limitless oil drilling. That's not exactly the fault of the We Campaign, but it does point to the real challenge...
...McCain will be in the ironic position of having many of his longtime political enemies staring back at him from the convention floor. The creative-destructive caucus in the GOP is small, however, and few crave victory at the cost of self-immolation. And the prospect of an Obama-Pelosi diktat in Washington is enough to make even the most McCain-hating Republican sprint breathlessly to the polls. Ultimately it is a question of simple arithmetic. In 2008, the GOP base alone is not large enough to deliver victory. The free-market party must either move with the market...
...NANCY PELOSI, House Speaker, arguing that Catholics continue to wrestle with the question of whether human life begins at conception...
DONALD WUERL, Archbishop of Washington, rebuking Pelosi for misstating church doctrine...