SPECIAL EDUCATION

Trig's Promise

Advocates for the disabled receive Sarah Palin's pledge of support with the wary optimism of a group accustomed to unfulfilled promises.

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  • Posted By: xalena831 @ 11/01/2008 11:51:08 AM

    This seems to be a anti Palin page. I have read here in our local paper in Ketchikan Alaska that Palin has raised the amount of money for each special needs child. It has gone from something like $20,000 up to $40,000 per kid. So I would like to know where the cutting has taken place.

  • Posted By: andrew.9 @ 10/24/2008 6:50:01 PM

    WHAT HAS SHE DONE FOR THESE KIDS IN ALASKA???? SHE CUT FUNDING!!!!!
    LIES,LIES AND MORE LIES!!!!

  • Posted By: gobbledegook @ 10/23/2008 5:18:36 PM

    I guess Palin scored in the 300s on her college boards. Revenge On the Nerds

  • Posted By: Mwalimu @ 10/22/2008 7:24:48 PM

    Palin's pledge is a paper promise. Given a choice between providing for children of special needs and maintaining a tax cut for his wealthy friends, which will McCain choose? He pledges to approach the budget with a hatchet. One group that will get axed are children with special needs because they do not have the lobbyists and the campaign fund contributions.
    I'd also suggest that everyone read the analysis of the health insurance industry by the Los Angeles times. (It's a three part series which began yesterday.) Health insurance companies are likely to regard children with "special needs" as "clinical train wrecks." If McCain gets his health proposals enacted, families of children with special needs are likely to find it very difficult to find any kind of insurance policies that will cover their children. As a government employee, Sarah Palin does not have to worry about health insurance, but most people in America do.
    Obama and his Democratic allies offer children with special needs a much more humane alternative. I'd encourage all parents with special needs children to check out the Obama website for further details.

    • Posted By: baybluv @ 10/23/2008 4:18:15 PM

      I agree, is it not the Republicans that are saying they don't want any more social programs and that Obama is a Socialist for wanting to create programs that will help people. Wasn't it Ms. Palin that said community workers works wasn't important. Wake up -- this woman will not help you or your children.

  • Posted By: baybluv @ 10/23/2008 4:15:37 PM

    Is it not the Republicans who are screaming that they don't want any more soical programs and that Obama is a Socialist because he wants to help people. Wake up -- this woman will not help your children.

  • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/22/2008 4:45:11 PM

    FactCheck.Org is owned by the Annenberg group of Chicago! Talk about a conflict of interest! And Obama has been telling people on the trail to check out the site to verify his opponents claims. Funny, every time that he endorsed something, it turns out to be a part of his spin machine! Like he raised objections in the primaries when Indiana required photo I.D. to vote. He Protested that It took away people's right to vote! I
    knew then and there that he was up to no good! America, wake up from the MASS HYPNOSIS!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWTs1YyhFRg&feature=related

  • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/21/2008 8:58:00 AM

    McCAIN HEALTH IN QUESTION...............

    The Armed Forces pathologists suggested that the left-temple melanoma had spread from another melanoma, known as a metastasis or satellite lesion. ???The vertical orientation of this lesion,??? the report said, ???with only focal epidermal involvement above it is highly suggestive of a metastasis of malignant melanoma and may represent a satellite metastasis of S00-9572-A,??? which is the ???skin, left temple, lateral??? biopsy.

    The pool report was by nature unable to provide a complete portrait of Mr. McCain???s recent medical history. It left several questions, including about the number of biopsies and when they were done. On Aug. 18, 2000, Dr. John D. Eckstein, Mr. McCain???s personal physician at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, noted in Mr. McCain???s records that there were two biopsies of the left temple. Dr. Eckstein???s note did not say where and when the biopsies were performed. The Armed Forces report cited one biopsy, so presumably a second was performed in Scottsdale. The Armed Forces pathologists said a melanoma had developed over a skin scar whose origin was unclear..........

    The Armed Forces pathologists did not speak in the teleconference in May 2008, and questions raised by their report have remained unanswered. The selected reporters did not ask about that report, and the Mayo Clinic doctors did not discuss it. A complete Mayo pathology report was apparently not included in the pool summary...........

    If Mr. McCain???s 2000 left-temple melanoma was a metastasis, as the Armed Forces pathologists??? report suggested, it would be classified as Stage III. The reclassification would change his statistical odds for survival at 10 years from about 60 percent to 36 percent, according to a published study..............

    McCAIN HEALTH PROBLEMS = PALIN S PRESIDENCY! HELLOOOO!!!!!!!


    • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/21/2008 11:18:51 PM

      Talk about the Ultimate Obama camp employee bloger! This Democrat-Hillary just stinks of it!

  • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/21/2008 8:58:44 AM

    Obama is a "decent family man, citizen.................
    "He is a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared about as President of the United States.......

    Those are John McCain own words.....................

    If he said Obama is decent and nothing to be scared and now he says differently HE LIED TO YOU THEN OR HE IS LYING NOW.....

    If he can tell you something one day and another opposite the other day, how could you trust his word? How do you know he is not coming with another story if elected? He has not kept his word more than 3 days in a row..........

    What is he hiding, why is he lyig to you?

    How different is he lying than Bush?

  • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/21/2008 8:58:18 AM

    Most firms pay no income taxes - Congress
    Study finds that the majority of domestic and foreign corporations in the United States avoid paying federal income taxes.
    NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Nearly two-thirds of U.S. companies and 68% of foreign corporations do not pay federal income taxes, according to a congressional report released Tuesday.
    The Government Accountability Office (GAO) examined samples of corporate tax returns filed between 1998 and 2005. In that time period, an annual average of 1.3 million U.S. companies and 39,000 foreign companies doing business in the United States paid no income taxes - despite having a combined $2.5 trillion in revenue.
    The study showed that 28% of foreign companies and 25% of U.S. corporations with more than $250 million in assets or $50 million in sales paid no federal income taxes in 2005. Those companies totaled a combined $372 billion in sales for the largest foreign companies and $1.1 trillion in revenue for the biggest U.S. companies.
    Full article: http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/12/news/economy/corporate_taxes/
    August 12, 2008

    WHERE IS THE PRESS? NOBODIES IS TALKING ABOUT THIS REPORT!

    WHAT ABOUT THIS DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH?? And these are FACTS, not suppositions.........

    HAPPENED UNDER BUSH WATCH, WHO ARE THE SOCIALISTS HERE?

  • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/21/2008 8:57:39 AM

    LOOK HER TERRIBLE RECORD IN ALASKA...

    LOOK McCAIN RECORD IN THE SENATE FOR 26 YEARS......

    KEEP HOPING, THEY JUST WANT YOUR VOTE AND SAY WHATEVER TO GET IT....SAD!!!

  • Posted By: Nins @ 10/21/2008 1:32:12 AM

    After 9/11, the US government started rounding up Muslims without cause and without due process of law, and put them in prison camps like we did to the Japanese Americans in WWII. The Bush administration called it's main internment camp Guantanamo Bay. While there are certainly many guilty terrorists held in Guantanamo, there are also many innocent American citizens who have been held illegally for years without even being charged with any crime. They have been tortured by our government. Some of them have died.

    Recently the Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration in the matter of Guantanamo Bay. The Supreme Court Justices were NOT on the side of the terrorists. They were on the side of the Geneva Convention, that says you can not torture POWs, and on the side of US laws that state you can not imprison a person without charging them with a crime and bringing them to trial. I'm sure that like most Americans, the Justices who voted against the illegal, immoral doings at Guantanamo didn't feel sympathy for the terrorists. They felt sympathy for the laws of AMERICA, the land of the FREE, where even rat finks get a fair trial.

    Meanwhile, back in Iraq, the Bush administration is busy trying to build a smokescreen to hide the CRIMES they have committed. Those pesky weapons of mass destruction. Just think, the National Debt went up over 6 trillion dollars under Bush. More than 2 trillion of it went directly into the pockets of Halliburton, a corporation owned by the Cheney family. Halliburton is now a DUBAI corporation and therefore is not subject to US taxes. All that money they took out of the US Treasury is going into the coffers of a MUSLIM country.

    Did you hear about how the US government is being charged millions for Halliburton deliveries of sand into Iraq from Kuwait? Sand. Like there is a shortage of sand in Iraq? Another contractor shipped sand from Idaho to Iraq at our expense. Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz discusses these and other excesses of our current government's out of control spending in Iraq.

    Your grandchildren will be working like slaves to pay off this debt, so that the Bushes and Cheneys can live the high life in Dubai.

    Yeah, they're patriots, Bush&Co. They wear flag pins. And hide the money they stole from America in Dubai.

    And they want me to believe that Obama is a socialist. Right.

    In case you think McCain is any different than Bush, watch this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJUCU1UH2w

  • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/21/2008 12:06:25 AM

    This is so true about how the election is already bought and paid for:
    http://www.againstobama.com/2008/10/what-is-it-that-barack-obama-knows-that-the-rest-of-us-don%E2%80%99t/#comment-1929

  • Posted By: smart girl @ 09/08/2008 12:58:45 AM

    I live in Alaska and have for 14 years. Do some research and you will find it is common for children with disabilities to be on waiting lists for YEARS-and this situation has certainly has not improved since Palin came into office. She cut funds not just for children with special needs, but also pregnant teens and seniors. Sarah Palin is not a champion of the most vulnerable or struggling among is. This is a strategic, political move, plain and simple.

    • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/20/2008 11:48:22 PM

      Bull! you are just another Obama Camp employee blogger with your predictable, formula responses that have gotten so transparent and tired. Devoid of any creativity! These are some examples of the typical posts that might come from your nefarious organization:
      "White senior female supporting Obama!"
      "Life long Republican, retired Marine, now supporting Obama!"
      "Former Neo-Nazi sympathizer who now supports Obama!"
      The only line of attack that your camp has had is to say that people don't want more of the last eight years. And attempting to tie McCain to the Bush Administration because he happens to be a member of the same party! Talk about scare tactics! The Obama administration can't offer any solutions or plans that it's administration will do for America because it does not have any! It can only point to the Bush administration and say, " Nobody could be as bad as that guy, so you should vote for me, because I look good by comparison! And since John McCain is a member of the same party as that big bad boogy man Bush, it might remind you of the last eight years!" So, with that logic, you might as well say, " Vote for me because the nightmares of the Bush administration will come back to haunt you otherwise. It does not matter that I could be worse than any president in history. At least I am a fresh new face and I speak well from a teleprompter and look good in a suit. In other words, I am a poster boy president and the sight of me and my charismatic rhetoric will make the world heal and everyone will come together and sing Cumbayah!" God save America! The superficiality of this shallow culture of " American idol-esque" nonsense is just sickening!

  • Posted By: dovitt @ 09/09/2008 6:32:01 PM

    True "advocates" of people with disabilities would KNOW that you need to look at the person first and not the disability. There have been many changes in language in this field. You need to educate yourself before you can advocate for someone else. I have worked with people with developmental disabilities for the past 23 years. I will not support Sarah Palin just because she happens to have a child with a disability.

    • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/20/2008 11:48:01 PM

      Bull! you are just another Obama Camp employee blogger with your predictable, formula responses that have gotten so transparent and tired. Devoid of any creativity! These are some examples of the typical posts that might come from your nefarious organization:
      "White senior female supporting Obama!"
      "Life long Republican, retired Marine, now supporting Obama!"
      "Former Neo-Nazi sympathizer who now supports Obama!"
      The only line of attack that your camp has had is to say that people don't want more of the last eight years. And attempting to tie McCain to the Bush Administration because he happens to be a member of the same party! Talk about scare tactics! The Obama administration can't offer any solutions or plans that it's administration will do for America because it does not have any! It can only point to the Bush administration and say, " Nobody could be as bad as that guy, so you should vote for me, because I look good by comparison! And since John McCain is a member of the same party as that big bad boogy man Bush, it might remind you of the last eight years!" So, with that logic, you might as well say, " Vote for me because the nightmares of the Bush administration will come back to haunt you otherwise. It does not matter that I could be worse than any president in history. At least I am a fresh new face and I speak well from a teleprompter and look good in a suit. In other words, I am a poster boy president and the sight of me and my charismatic rhetoric will make the world heal and everyone will come together and sing Cumbayah!" God save America! The superficiality of this shallow culture of " American idol-esque" nonsense is just sickening!

  • Posted By: krohn2 @ 10/20/2008 8:35:34 PM

    Obama, the excuses are wearing thin. what excuse do you have for this one?:
    http://www.againstobama.com/2008/10/obama-praised-searing-and-timely-book-by-ayers/

  • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/20/2008 4:54:35 PM

    The facts: she took an 8 hour flight after fountain broke, risking his baby life, choose to advance her political career before taking close care of this baby and exposing her daughter at national stage of shame. She cut rather than create programs to help in Alaska.
    And you think she is going to think in YOUR child? .
    Think hard before voting for someone with her record and ties to the Alaskan indepebdence party and witchcraft rituals. That lies, blaspheme and divide Americans for her own gain. She only think in one person and that is Sarah Palin.

  • Posted By: mltsis @ 10/20/2008 2:57:52 PM

    my son was born a cranial vascular sydrome child, and for the first 3 years we were at the doctor's office 2 to 3 times a week. i did could not work for 4 years because their were no one to keep him. was told if he live to be 3 he might make it. not having no regrets, he is a wonderful person. but will someone explain to me how can she say she understand what i went threw when she is on the road campaigning. or do she have a well paid babysitter who understand what i went threw.

  • Posted By: mollysgran @ 09/10/2008 12:57:35 AM

    Sarah Palin's trail of disaster includes CUTTING programs for children, at risk teen Moms, and schools. She just does what "God tells" her, and reads the speeches the Republicans give her. She is not to be trusted.

  • Posted By: mollysgran @ 09/10/2008 12:55:30 AM

    If you check Palin's record, she has cut more programs for children and education than she has advanced. She is only going to do what "God tells" her to do. Oh, and maybe the Republicans will give her some speeches to give, too.

  • Posted By: L1bbyMaMa @ 09/09/2008 9:36:24 AM

    I find it frightening that Sarah Palin would make promises that I don't believe she would keep. Parents with kids with disabilities need hope, follow through and a true sense of understanding of the services that the kids need.

    • Posted By: summer4077 @ 09/09/2008 3:13:11 PM

      She doesn't care. She parades her son around as a pawn in her game. Disgusting, and I can't believe people can't see through her ruse.

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