Advocates for the disabled receive Sarah Palin's pledge of support with the wary optimism of a group accustomed to unfulfilled promises.
Comment: 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.
Comment: WHAT HAS SHE DONE FOR THESE KIDS IN ALASKA???? SHE CUT FUNDING!!!!!
LIES,LIES AND MORE LIES!!!!
Comment: I guess Palin scored in the 300s on her college boards. Revenge On the Nerds
Comment: 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.
Comment: 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.
Comment: 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.
Comment: 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
Comment: 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?
Comment: 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?
Comment: 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!!!!!!!
Comment: Talk about the Ultimate Obama camp employee bloger! This Democrat-Hillary just stinks of it!
Comment: 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!!!
Comment: 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
Comment: 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
Comment: 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/
Comment: 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.
Comment: 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.
Comment: 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.
Comment: 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.
Comment: 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.
Comment: 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!
Comment: 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.
Comment: 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.
Comment: What McCAin is trying to ABORT a FEDERAL INVESTIGATION on SARAH PALIN as she is guilty of ETHICS VIOLATIONS, I mean if she were INOCENT, let the investigation go on, nothing to hide right. But if SHE IS GUILTY, stop the investigation before it's too late.
Palin should stick to censoring libraries and trying to fire librarians, because Palin is afraid of Harry Potter.
Comment: Harley, get someone to read this for you, because we all know you will have trouble with the big words:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/bannedbooks.asp
Comment: LMAO did you take me literally (pun). Hitler had a list of banned books too ;)
Comment: 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.
Comment: 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!
Comment: I live in Alaska. Do some research and you will find that not only did Palin reduce funding for special needs children, she also cut funds for pregnant teens and seniors.
Children with disabiities in Alaska are commonly on waiting lists for services for YEARS-that is a fact and has been in my 14-year residence here.. Sarah Palin is not a champion of the vulnerable and struggling-not children, not adults.
Comment: The reason why we have had such broken promises here is that the Democratic led Congress, which are usually males, do not understand the needs of children. We finally have a candidate who will be a major voice for all children and adults who have disabilities. I think Sarah Palin is genuine and will be most willing to be an advocate. Something the Democrats do not have a position on in their campaign. That is the real story.
Comment: Being for or against Abortion is not the issue folks, the ability to have a "choice" in the matter is.
Comment: Obama supporters pound Palin for not being compasionte.. running for office with a special needs child. I believe they can handle it.
But what about Obama himself? This is a man who allows his own brother to live in a foreign country on twelve dollars a year. This isn't covered by the MSM, mainly because they haven't figured out a way to blame it on McCain, Palin, or President Bush.
How much "compassion" can Americans realistically expect from Obama?
Comment: i am not sure she even has experience with down syndrome. she went back to work 3 days after he was born. what a mother.
Comment: Wow. and you're the authority. Thank you so much for your contribution.
And you are Dr????
Comment: And BTW... when my son was born with a lung infection and sent within an hour to a hopital a 110 miles away, we left the hospital the next day to be with him.
Never tell a mother, or father for that matter, what they are capable of or what they should or should not do.
Comment: i am not sure she even has experience with a down syndrome child. she went back to work 3 days after he was born. what a mother.
Comment: And you only have to hit the post button.... once.
Comment: Dearest "Posted By: ihateeveryoneincludingyou @ 09/06/2008 09:54:51
Comment: HarleyisHere, give it a rest already. Trig is her child. Your attempt to be funny might bowl them over on DailyKos, but here you just look like an idiot.
Posted By: loriw @ 09/07/2008 03:47:43
Comment: ihate....Harley is a a$$ho!e and has posted his a$$ho!e comments on nearly every article here at Newsweek.
Best to just ignore him and hope he'll go away.".....
Loriw you still mentally molesting your great grandchildren? STOP!
Todd is not the father LEVI is, duh. watch and see, I love seeing this unfold.
Palin flew after her water broke? With a baby she knew had downsyndrome? Anybody here have any idea how dangerous that is, not a quick how and jump flight, but flew from Texas to Alaska, to be with her daughter while she had her FIRST illegitamte kid. The second time and Levi get a shotgun wedding.
Oh BTW F@#K Both of you...god bless ;)
Comment: See? I called it.....Daily Kos! (Ok, maybe DU).
Comment: Read about Jill Staneck and how she held a down's baby until it died after surviving a late term abortion.
google Jill Staneck.
Read her testimony about what happened above at Christ Hospital.
Learn about Obama's pro-Infanticide position on the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.
A person that supports infanticide will Never support funding for children with disablilities.
Comment: Youa re the ladyboy version of CornHolyO, let me guess, "THE END IS NEAR, REPENT!" bout sums it up, huh. Keep lying it's all you repigs know...DESPERATION and Lies. OH also have you seen the Electoral vote...O 301 M 224 ties only 13, awe mcpalin out.
L:eave those kids alone, stop mentally molesting them.
Comment: If Sarah Palin is AGAINST being "politically correct." why does she refer to her child as "special needs?" Is that being politically correct, or a sensitive way of dealing with someone who may be different from us? This is so much a case of what is sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander.
Comment: It has nothing to do with being politically correct. It is the generally accepted term for children and adults with disabilities. That way, if they care to share what the disability is, they can do that; if they don't, they don't have to right away.
Comment: So glad that Sarah is an advocate for special needs children; she cut 300K from Alaska's Special Education budget this past year.
Way to go.
Comment: Post a link or article to support your so called fact.
I believe you are simply posting a rumor.
Comment: jillieloza, get your facts straight. She did no such thing.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/04/30/35recaps.h27.html
Comment: Please check your facts before you post things like this. It didn't happen.
Comment: Not many people would know better than I would; both of my parents work for a school district in Wasilla, Alaska, and one is a special ed teacher. I've met Sarah and she spoke at my graduation. I liked her up until this past week but she's just ridiculous now. Get your heads out of the sand people.
Comment: In what way is she "just ridiculous now" ?
Were you at all insulted when Obama called your town WASILLY last week on CNN on Monday on AC360?
Did you find that as ridiculous as I did and I don't even live there? Obama insulted your town, your friends and neighbors...do they care about this gaffe of his?
Comment: Just because I'm against Palin in no way means I'm for Obama. Yes it was amusing when he called it "Wassily" but hardly insulting; I've heard many reports mispronounce it. As for why she's so ridiculous, Ketchikan bridge anyone? She's been behind that bridge and fought for it, and she TOOK earmarked money from Congress to help build it! Then the moment she's announced as VP pick, she immediately backs away from it. And as for that "thanks but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere", we STILL have the money in our coffers, she TOOK it. Just because she decided not to spend it doesn't mean she still didn't accept the funds. As for her bragging about selling the Governor's jet on ebay, do you honestly think she had a choice? We were so annoyed with Murkowski that anyone who kept the jet would have been burned at the stake. Instead she insists on reminding us that she did it for the people... no, she did it because she truly didn't have a choice. Another funny thing is to hear Hannity and other Republicans go on about how she's cut taxes.... exactly what taxes has she cut? We don't HAVE ANY STATE TAX. Ridiculous.
The question is: Do we want someone who three years ago was the mayor of this tiny town to be an eyeblink away from becoming the most powerful person in the free world. Absolutely not. She just got a passport two years ago!
Comment: People keep bringing nothing but being mayor of a tiny town. She's Governor of the largest state in Amercia! And so they don't have a heavy populaton! At least she's governed!
What taxes did she cut.... the gas tax and property taxes. Where I'm from, both are considered tax cuts.
And you sound like she will stepping into the presidency within 10 minutes of taking office. It is unlikely.... that hasn't happened for health reasons since 1945. In the unlikely event it did happen, she would do what Obama has already done: bring in a VP with more experience than she has.
Comment: Great, she cut 8 cents off the highest gas prices in the nation. In Wasilla we were paying $4.45 at a time when the national average was $3.70, yet we have all the oil! And people in rural communities are paying up to $9.00 a gallon. Alaskans have watched our prices rise with the rest of the nation, yet remain stagnant while the lower 48 prices decrease.
I wouldn't be surprised if she stepped into the presidency within in 5 minutes of taking office! McCain is 72 with health problems, no VP has taken office with a greater chance of eventually taking the presidency. At least McCain is somewhat moderate, Sarah will have us learning about creationism and abstinence.
Glad to see it worked so great for Bristol.
You know if a democratic candidate had a 17 year old become pregnant that it would be quite the scandal, yet the republicans just turn it into family values, deck Levi out in suit and have him shaking hands with McCain.
I don't care who you are, it's hypocritical.
And what about the Bridge to Nowhere? And the ebay jet? Pretty much the only "points" of her acceptance speech and people just keep cheering mindlessly because she can speak. It's pathetic.
Comment: So you don't see a tax cut as a tax cut. Move here to Texas and say the same thing.
You wouldn't be surprised if she stepped into the presidency within (now it's 5 minutes) within taking office? Stop putting McCain in his grave... it simply isn't fact. And you still haven't addressed the fact that O has named a VP that's more experienced than he is.
I'm not worried about Palin's daughter... she and her future husband are not running for office.
And so you don't care who I am.... likewise with you. However, you can stop your hypocritical bullsh!t about not not being an Obama supporter... I don't need a light to see through you,
Comment: Sorry, but the 8 cent tax cut doesn't hold a candle to the fact that we're getting ripped off to begin with. If anything it's just rubbing salt in the wound. You were the one who said McCain was going to kick the bucket after 10 minutes to begin with, I speculate 5 minutes myself. And can you blame Obama for naming a VP with more experience? That's all anyone talks about anyway is how he has no experience, the least he can do is back himself up. Never said I don't care who you are... don't know where you're getting that from. And I'm really not an Obama supporter, I don't even really like politics. But I know Sarah, and that's what this is about. Bristol may not be running for president but she is tangible proof that absitence-only programs are not the answer. Sarah used to be a good mayor and a good governor but since she's been named VP she's just fallen into the same political trap that most other politicians (Democratic and Republican alike) have fell victim to. That's why I posted, and that's why it's sad. End of story.
Comment: Oh I get it now about not caring who you are... that was supposed to be rhetorical. As in, no matter who you are, it's hypocritical. Jesus.
Comment: C'mon Jillie... getting ripped off with what? How so? And you don't like an 8 cent a gallon tax cut? I'll take it any day. What is it that you don't like about Palin so much?
And all I said about Obama's experience was that she would do what he's done and get a VP with more expericence that her.
BTW, you're the one who said you don't care who I am....
How about you lighten up Jillie... Your name indicates you're much cuter than you sound....
Comment: Ripped off with GAS prices when we have all the OIL. Have you actually read anything I've written?? An 8 cent cut is pathetic when we were paying $4.45 a gallon while the national average was $3.70. And what about the poor rural people who are paying up to $9.00 a gallon? 8 cents doesn't make a difference when they're gouging us to begin with. I'm sure you'd love an 8 cent discount considering Texas is paying over a dollar less than we are. How convenient.
Comment: You're scoffing at saving 8 cents a gallon on gas.. but you failed to mention the property tax cut. You also say you're getting gouged for about 70 cents more for gas than everywhere else... but you also have zero sales and state income taxes. Not sure where else Alaska can cut any more taxes....
BTW, gas is currently averageing 3.55 here - about 90 cents less than you're paying. And while we have no state income tax, Texas has extremely high property taxes and sales taxes (8.25%). Both are amoung the highest in the nation. No matter how they go at it, states will get their pound of flesh.
Comment: Sarah Mukluk and McCain are republicans who will sat anything to get votes, but the history of the republicans for the past twelve years is they only help the rich ie., McCains $ 5,000,000 is middle class. McCain and republicans don't have a clue. So the disabled should not expect that promise to be kept. THINK! snf dtop buying the bull.
Comment: You're welcome to your unsubstantiated opinion.... and naaahhhhhhh, the dems would never say 'anything" just to get votes.
Comment:
In response to someone's outlandish and false claim that Obama would leave a child to die unmedicated:
In connection with this accusation last week, Senator Obama's response was aired on TV. He said the idea that he would recommend leaving a newborn (or anyone) to die without medication under any circumstances is" ridiculous".
We all know that with birthing there can be extenuating circumstances. In rare cases, Mother may die while birthing or following the birth. Perhaps she will choose her own death while birthing if she's very ill, and let baby live. Perhaps doctors will recommend otherwise. I don't know and you don't know because we aren't there. These are personal decisions, or there may be no choice when it actually happens.
If it is true that hospitals are not taking care of dying newborns while Mum is unconscious or otherwise, whose fault is it?
In any case, it is facile to demonise or ascribe blame to any one of our presidential candidates. Senator Obama is one of the most compassionate public figures we know, and he has demonstrated this quality indisputably in a long career of working with those in need.
Spreading this kind of thing is deeply wrong.
Comment: He voted against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.....twice. Here is what he had to say.....the link is to a video clip from CNN. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPZCXcTwZPY
Comment: Thank you for providing this clip! It pretty clearly states part of Obama's position on this. This clip unfortunately doesn't include Obama's statement that to require an abortionist to make a phone call to another doctor to get care for a born Alive infant is "TOO BURDENSOME" for the abortionist! BTW Carvel was not up to speed on this topic so I would suggest you discount his statements. I would like to have someone provide more info also on the statement at the very end that Rev Wright is on the board of this hospital... Also Jill Staneck's web site is very informative on her testimony on this very important topic.
Comment: I seriously doubt that anyone suggested Trig be "hidden", that's an appalling idea. I think the point is that he was very obviously brought in for votes. Have any other political candidates ever brought in an infant that age to an event of that magnitude?
Comment: I have a son with Down Syndrome and have NEVER hid him as some in this comment section suggest.
Please celebrate the beauty and love for these children. I was proud and happy to see baby Trig going to Washington. Hooray!
Comment: I have a child with Down Syndrome. We have never hidden him or. . We include him in ALL we do. Shame on people who feel that Sara should not have included him.
I am very happy that she did and proud. Good for her and good for baby Trig. Hooray!!!
Comment: We have never hid our niece either, and have no intention of doing so. Congratulations on your wonderful son, I am sure he is a terrific joy.
Comment: That was absolutely a disgusting display of pandering and waving a disabled child around for votes. I certainly hope that those who actually do have special needs humans at heart could see right through that as I did. I would think they'd be very offended as well as outraged.
Comment: I only saw a beautiful baby and BTW, I have a special needs son.
I saw a family with a lot of love between all members of the family.
If that is "pandering" then we need more "pandering" in families.
I did not see it as pandering at all.
Comment: I guess you think special needs children should be hidden at home where they won't disturb you with their presence. How enlightened of you.
Comment: No they didn't see right through anything. But no one needs a light to see through you. Do you really think the only people that should be seen are perfect? Only Obama's perfect kids are allowed on stage?
The only people offended are the ones reading your disgusting post.
Comment: I wonder at the wisdom of having a special needs young baby on the floor and podium of the republican convention. It seems to me that this was merely pandering and did not have the child's interest at heart. I personally would not take a very young special needs baby into such an environment for a relatively extended period of time.
Comment: Pesonally, I can't stand the term special needs child and wonder why such a beautiful healthy looking baby boy should not be 'pandered' about. As a mother of a young Down syndrome boy only a few months older than Trig I can tell you he probably enjoyed the exposure far more than my 'typical' kids would have. I thought it was great to see him being shown off just like the other children of the Palin family.
Comment: Before I get flamed here I just want to state for the record that I have an adult child with Aspergers Autism and ADHD so I know that you don't get help from the government for your kids and you pay out of pocket as I did for as much as I could.
Now given that we all agree that it is "dam" near impossible to get medical care and assistance for our kids who have obvious needs ...why do you think that the same government will provide EVERYONE with adequate healthcare. Does every one here want to wait for their own healthcare just like our special needs kids do now? I work in healthcare and the last thing I want is more government in our healthcare system. Look at the medical care the government is giving to our injured soldiers... that's government controlled health care...do you want that kind of health care for your loved ones? THINK ABOUT IT FOLKS!
Comment: Palin has cut funding for special needs kids in Alaska. She is parading around her Down Syndrome son with pledges to parents and advocates of the disabled. Her kid is only a few month old. She has no idea what is ahead for her family and Trig. There will come a day when Trig's needs cannot be met because of the lack of funding (at her hands). I can't trust her to make sure my Down Syndrome daughter gets the services she needs. Parents and advocates of special needs kids have had to fight for anything that is gained in the way of help for these kids. From what I have read Palin hasn't been much help to parents in Alaska. I would hate to see what she wants to do for us on a national level - no thanks!
Comment: Please provide a link to your information that Palin cut funding for kids in Alaska. Since by your post you do not live in Alaska I have to question your sources.
Comment: Anchorage Daily News published an article May 30th this year talking about just some of the cuts to disability services in Alaska. http://nl.newsbank.com/nojavascript.html
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Comment: An article from the Anchorage Daily News on May 30th of this year talks about just some of Palin's cuts to disability services.
http://nl.newsbank.com/nojavascript.html
Comment: this one didn't work for me either.
sounds like anonther rumor to me
Comment: So let's see, she line-items out the funding for special needs kids in Alaska's state budget, and then she births a special needs kid and suddenly she counts as a great supporter? All I can say is "in your dreams"; this is a woman whose positions shift like the winds, based solely on what's best for her. If this enough for her to get your vote, don't start whining when she's in office and suddenly YOUR special needs kids don't matter to her.
Comment: She is just beginning the challenge and is totally unaware what is ahead. Besides,she must have help of she went back to work when he was 3 days old. I really think she belongs at home-being a Mother-rather than gone and putting her family second. She has not been honest with the Alaskan people-why would I think she will be honest with us. Sorry- but I think its another case of saying wat we want to hear.
Comment: I support Sarah Palin wholeheartedly. She is a real person and more in touch with real life than any candidate I can recall. No matter what she does in terms of her son she will be critisised. If she didn't bring him on stage, she would be accused of hiding him. I f she brings him on stage and holds him like any mother would with a 'typical child" she is accused of exploiting her child that has Down Syndrome. Trig has 2 parents. I'm sure Sarah's husband will also ensure Trig receives the therapy he needs, or is that only a WOMAN'S responsibility? Some of the views expressed here appear to be from the dark ages!!! I have a son that is 25 years old who has Down Syndrome. He saw baby Trig and heard that he had Down Syndrome. He proudly commented that Trig has Down Syndorme like me. Disabled Americans receive the greatest amount of discrimination.
Comment: Thank you Susie for your perceptive comment.
Have you been as appaulded as I have by the comments made on other articles criticizing Sarah Palin for even haven given birth to Trig? I have heard comments like "that child should have been aborted, he will just be a drain on society for as long as he lives and people already don't have healthcare or food" and here's another..."she condemed her down's kid to a lifetime of he!! because of his disability". It makes me sick that people care so little for life and have so little understanding of Down's which like Autism has a wide range of disablility from mild (remember the actor Chris Burke) to more severe. But my experience has been that people with Down's have happier lives then these so called "normal" people do.
Comment: Sarah Palins son is 5 months old. She went back to work 3 days after giving birth. Does she really know what having a child with Downs is like? What his needs will be in a year or 5 years from now? She has not walked very long in our shoes and wont be for the next few months either. I also feel like she and the republicans are exploiting the fact that her son has downs. Everytime they mention her family they are quick to point out the he has downs. They also say that she "chose" to have him after finding out that he had downs, and that her daughter "chose" to have her baby - yet she doesnt want other women to have the right to choose. I dont trust her at all.
Comment: Does Sarah Palin know what having a child with Downs is like? Apparently after having one, she does. And unless you've had one yourself, she is a very large step ahead of you.
Comment: I don't know who you will vote for but would you trust a candidate like Obama...he has argued in committee and voted against the BORN ALIVE INFANTS PROTECTION ACT that provides that an infant that is born alive following an abortion be given medical care just as any other infant would. In other words...Obama voted in favor of INFANTICIDE. In Obama's own words he has said it is "too burdensome" to require and abortionist to call a doctor to provide care for a born alive infant. Reasearch it yourself on Jill Staneck's web site...she testified before Obama on behalf of a baby who had down's that was born alive after an abortion at Christ Hospital. The baby was left to die a lingering death alone in the hospital's dirty utility room until Jill Staneck found him and held him until he passed. She was so distressed by the practice of allowing infants to die in this way, some of whom were VIABLE that she blew the whistle on Christ Hospital and went on to advocate against this practice both in the IL legistature and at the National level. At both levels Obama opposed the legistation that would have assisted these born alive babies even if viable and normal! Do you think this is the kind of candidate who would really care about our children with disabilities? If there is someone NOT TO TRUST it is OBAMA not Palin!
Comment: diddles0503, I guess my brother doesn't know what it's like to have a disabled child, since he went back to work two days after the birth of his daughter, right?
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Governor Palin voted AGAINST programs for Special Needs Children.
She also voted AGAINST programs for Single Moms.
Why are so many things swept under the carpet ?
Global Warming: Governor Palin is unsure whether Global Warming is man-made.
She said she does not believe in that, "that stuffy old Evolution thing", either.
If elected, how would her viewpoint help improve our Education issues on any level?
This demonstrates her own lack of education folks. It is a problem for the future of America.
Wake up folks.
Comment: Provide credible links to your sources for these statements or do not post them.
Comment: Lori... lots of hammering on Palin for this... but no credible links. I've seen two, but both went to 404.
Comment: sorry, no links no web site, no credibility.
Stick to facts or state your opinions as your opinions.
Otherwise you are just another cog in the rampant rumor mill.
Here is a good web site for you to google... Jill Staneck
and realclearpolitics.com Did Obama Lie About Born alive Bill?
Comment: http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/09_omb/budget/GovernorsTwoYearSavingsProposal.pdhttp://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/09_omb/budget/GovernorsTwoYearSavingsProposal.pdff
Comment: Ha! When she says. "friend" what exactly does she mean? The kind of friend that will get more federal money to fund programs for special needs kids? This is exactly the type of "wasteful" government spending that Sarah "The Reformer" is going to Washington to eliminate. They should call her Sarah "The Opportunist." And she is the worst kind. So far she has held up her pregnant daughter to underscore her commitment to "Life," now she is holding up her son to get sympathy from Special Needs parents. DO NOT GET SUCKERED IN! She will do nothing to help you and will probably work to get existing programs cut.
Comment: Existing programs are so wraught with fraud and waste that is why so many are not getting services...the government is a broken bureacracy that needs people like Palin to help fix them so that the money, instead of being wasted, goes to help those that truly need it.
Medicare equipment department has at least a 35% fraud problem and that doesn't even include wasted equipment and personnel time.
Comment: Please post Govonor Palins record of cutting funding for speacial needs children by 60%.......it would be appreciated if all of Palins words were matched to deeds.
Comment: blueeyesmiling, nice bot post. Too bad it's not true.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/04/30/35recaps.h27.html
Comment: everyone.... Thanks for the link. Now I owe you one! lol
Comment: When she says a "friend" what exactly does she mean? Gov. Sarah "The Reformer" Palin hates bloated and useless federally funded programs that might help anyone in need. She is nothing more than the worst kind of opportunist. One that will use her child to get sympathy and more importantly votes. Do not get suckered in. She won't do a damn thing to help and what's worse, will probably work to get the existing programs eliminated.
Comment: Please see my post above regarding the other candidate and his positon on the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. Obama agrued and voted against this legislation at the state (IL) and national level. The
Act was written and signed into law by President Bush after Jill Staneck blew the whistle on Christ Hospital (near Chicago) where a baby with Down's Syndrome was born alive following an abortion. The baby was left to die in the hospital's dirty utility room until Jill found it and held it until it died. Obama stated it was "too burdensome" to require the abortionist to make a phone call to get another doctor to care for the born alive infants. Does this sound like a better candidate to elect to make decisions on the medical care for our disabled children. For a candidate who already supports INFANTICIDE it is only one more step to EUTHANASIA. Obama admires Europe so much.....Netherlands, in Europe, has legalized Euthanasia. THINK ABOUT IT FOLKS! Do some research on Jill Staneck...I'm telling you the truth!
Comment: The notion that McCain/Palin will be an advocate for disabled children or anyone in need of medical treatment is an obscene one. Anyone in need of extensive medical care, whether for a special needs child, for a senior, or an average citizen with a significant illness/injury; unless independently wealthy, will likely be doomed to destitution, bankruptcy, and little of no medical care. The vast medical care conglomerative will be ecstatic if McCain/Palin wins in November, and they will be pouring money into their campaign; because it will mean a strengthening of their status quo. If you want to guarantee no medical reform and more citizens without medical coverage; then vote McCain.
Comment: Health insurance covers most children, and for the ones who do not have health insurance, medicaid covers the rest in every state.
Comment: Since Medicaid reimbursement rates are so low, I can't find even dental providers for people with disabilities in my state. Let's not deny that this is a problem here...
Comment: Exaclty and Obama want to give everyone health insurance just like the Medicaid system...more broken medicine that no one can access...just like my son with the Medicaid Waiver for Autism in IN. Been on the wait list since 2000 and never gotten one bit of help from that, tho I have filled out boxes of government forms and have been interviewed twice...in 8 years time NO SERVICE. And I am only one of thousands in IN waiting on this list! MORE GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS will NOT fix this.
Comment: I surely understand your frustration at the extent of the waiting lists as I work with people with developmental disabilities. I have been that intake worker that completes the assessments and then has to tell families how long the waiting lists are. It is difficult to administrate even well-run programs when the funding is not there or is cut. We just received notice last month from our state that we're getting less funding from the feds for the Birth to Three program in 2009. That, along with a directive from our county stating that there is to be zero increase in spending for 2009, makes it especially difficult to maintain what we already have committed to for 2008.
Sometimes, government is the only option available. I work in a rural county and we don't have service providers knocking down our doors wanting to jump in and to serve our families. The idea of private competition sounds good in theory, but in reality, we've been told, "It's not profitable for us to operate here." If McCain/Palin have a plan to address this, I sure would like to see it.
Comment: Give them some time.... I would certainly trust someone who has experience with a down syndrome child to create and enlarge programs to help special needs kids, as opposed to someone who supports Infanticide.
