Mother and Child

For being almost recalled (impeached) as mayor for being a bully, the vetting process should have picked it up.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-schmeltzer/palin-almost-recalled-as_b_122769.html

She's just not nice.

http://www.washingtonindependent.com/4328/more-on-palins-true-stand-on-earmarks

How can one guy be a Maverick regarding earmarks -after being the King of earmarks, then insult his VP choice for her big share of earmarks?

Yet another ethics investigation on Palin:

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/04/1347973.aspx

As the parent of a grown child with special needs, I have to say I took exception to Sarah Palin's claim that she speaks for people like me. If that's the case, where is her health care plan? And I mean a real health care plan, not some fake plan that only helps people who can already afford to pay their own way. My daughter was born before the passage of the Kennedy/Kassebaum Act, and I had to move my family cross country to find an employer whose insurance didn???t carry a pre-existing clause that would have left my daughter without coverage for an entire year.

What families like mine need is reliable access to care, including ongoing physical therapy, and some mitigation of the annual out-of-pocket expenses we have to pay every single year. I don???t expect to get that from Sarah Palin

As the parent of a grown child with special needs, I have to say I took exception to Sarah Palin's claim that she speaks for people like me. If that's the case, where is her health care plan? And I mean a real health care plan, not some fake plan that only helps people who can already afford to pay their own way. My daughter was born before the passage of the Kennedy/Kassebaum Act, and I had to move my family cross countrty to keep my

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I think I'm going to change my mind a bit and more forcefully disagree not only with the article but the rest of the debate on these boards as well. I think the author is disgusting for dragging Palin's baby into this, and I think you all need to grow up and stop doing the same thing with all the children involved.

They are children. They can't help who their parents are. And they most assuredly don't deserve accusations from HALF THE COUNTRY - none of them! Do you people know what this kind of behavior does to children? Do you even care?

I agree with many of the posts below that suggest this is an unfair and bitter article. But it's not representative of the thought on the Left as a whole. Obama and Biden have agreed that Palin's family should not be the subject of political debate, for instance.

I do disagree with the extent that the posts below slip into wholesale condemnation of those they don't agree with.

I, too, zoomed in on baby Trig during the speech. You see, I became pregnant after months of trying. My husband and I were overjoyed. Then we found out that our baby had serious skeletal defects. We made the AGONIZING decision to terminate the pregnancy. It was the most difficult, devastating experience of my life, but we honestly felt that we did what was best for our daughter. I will not and would not entertain arguments from outsiders about our decision. I had never considered myself staunchly pro-choice, though I did respect the ability of individual women to make their own decisions. I never thought I was capable of aborting a baby. But, as Republicans have become so fond of saying, "life happens." Sarah Palin's views on abortion are based in her faith, but our country respects the separation of church and state. I would not have welcomed government interference in the painful decision that my husband and I had to make.

I am also an inner-city high school teacher, and the pro-life views from the right often confound me. Bristol and her baby will probably be fine. Her parents make over $200,000 a year, and they have the means to support her. She has a boyfriend who is willing to marry her. What advice does Sarah Palin have for my pregnant, 16 year-old student whose parents are MIA and whose boyfriend has already moved on? Who is going to help my student? Who is going to take care of her baby while she attends school (since daycare in schools has effectively disappeared with the advent of NCLB)? What future do this girl and her baby really have? Those on the right like to speak of self-determination and personal responsibility, but I usually discover that those individuals have never set foot in an inner-city environment. You don't need to travel overseas to witness the third world. It's right here, at home, in our large cities and rural communities. By the way, I'm from a small town in Wisconsin. Population 6,000. If our part-time mayor was nominated for the Vice Presidency because of XX chromosomes, I would be apalled.

You are a pig. Whyat a hypocrite. You would have vacumed your twins out of your womb but imply Palin is pimping her 4 month old son for votes? How about millions of americans watching a family openly love their special needs child. Maybe more americans will think twice before staring at special needs or disabled children like they are some side show.
Anyone with children knows that infants can sleep through anything and a baby that age wakes up every few hours to eat anyway.
B hussain obamie and his america hating wife will never win

But I was drawn in by Sarah Palin's appearance at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night. Not because the woman knows how to give a speech--and she really, really knows how to give a speech. But that's just good theater;

Hello? Anybody home? Funny how Obama's speeches are not considered just theatre, but Palin's are?
Hypocrite

I was taken in too ... until I discovered that as givernor she cut special needs funding in Alaska by 62%. So much for parents of special needs children having a friend and and an advocate in the White House if McCain-Palin is elected. I feel used - she pimped out her youngest child as a charming unwitting campaign prop.

she was aginst special needs funding in Alaska. CNN report this morning. it has been fact checked and is true. Palin is a liar