Hillary Clinton introduced her official holiday greeting by saying, "On this day, when we celebrate the birth of a homeless child who later became the Prince of Peace." At a December 22 press conference with housing secretary Andrew Cuomo, Vice President Gore commented, "speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full." It should be noted that by all accounts, Mary and Joseph sought refuge in a Bethlehem stable not because they were "homeless," but because they were traveling.

[Ed.: By some accounts, they were fleeing tax collectors.]

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