One has to ask when a Senator of the United States has to admit that he's not permitted access to the mortuary on an Air Force base in his home state.

On CBS News's "Face the Nation" yesterday, (June 19, 2005) Senator Joseph Biden (D-Del.) told Bob Schieffer that the Defense Department policy forbids him from paying his respects to fallen soldiers as their coffins return to the US through the Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Though no cameras and no press would accompany him, Biden said he had to receive express permission from the Pentagon to join a grieving family that had requested his presence as they met their deceased son who died in a car bomb in Iraq.

"I'm allowed in the military base. I'm not allowed to go to the mortuary," he said.

It's clear that it's way past time for dreaming. It's time for a prayer and then ACTION .Welcome Joe Biden, the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate-designate.