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Palin's Son Trig Born With Down Syndrome, Parents Hope Palin Offers More Than Words
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- I work and have worked for years with disabled children and their families. I am continually impressed with the love and devotion these families possess. It requires great sacrifice both of time and money to meet their needs. That being said I am not sure why they think Palin would be a help to them. It would appear to me that she is still in deep denial about her son''s disability. She certainly appears to be putting her own ambitions above his well being. All children need devoted parents but disabled children need almost super human devotion. Maybe I am old fashioned, but I don''t think an infant, any infant, needs a mother who is traveling the country and campaigning for one of the most difficult jobs in the world.
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- The message Palin should be spreading is that women and men over 40 are much more likely to have children with birth defects. A 17-year old girl and father are biologically hard-wired to have children, and more likely to have successful pregnancies and healthy children. Society has deemed unwed preganant teenage pregancies as undesirable. The Palins supported that view until it was politically inconvenient.The Rove campaign strategists cannot allow the myth of Palin as an ideal vp subverted by her traditional Republican and evangelical failings as a parent.
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- Palin is so effing ignorant that she believes the FOUNDING FATHERS put the words "One Nation Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance!
Palin is so effing stu.pid that she wants Alaska to secede from the USA, not realizing that the Russians would just take back Alaska if they did that! She thinks "being close to Russia" qualifies her in foreign policy.
Palin is so in.sane that she believes all the "end-time" lunacy and, if elected, she would work as hard as she can to DESTROY THE WORLD, to "bring back jesus"!
If YOU want to see everyone in the world suffer and die in the next few years, the vote for McCain/Palin. - Reply to this comment
- Don''''''''t they know that she cut funding for disabled kids when she was governor of Alaska? Posted by dbor77 at 06:00 PM
Instead of your babbling, I want LINKS. I want the links to the bill AND the facts surrounding this story. I think you are all full of it.
Posted by MyOpinion1 at 07:01 PM : Sep 08, 2008
Here''s a very good starting point for you, but you can do your own research after that.
http://www.examiner.com/x-796-Mental-Health-Examiner~y2008m9d8-Palins-Budget-Cut-for-Severely-Disabled-Children-in-Alaska - Reply to this comment
- Calm down and save your judgemental spirit for someone else.
Posted by HawkSprings at 06:37 PM : Sep 08, 2008
Oh please, Hawksprings--if a Democrat had done the same thing, you''d be having fits! - Reply to this comment
- "Guess that horse can''''t drink water unless it is your horse.
Posted by docpeter at 08:09 AM : Sep 09, 2008"
Exactly. I posted the links to the *official* documents in a previous post. Thanks for the math ... - Reply to this comment
- From factcheck.org:
"According to an April 2008 article in Education Week, Palin signed legislation in March 2008 that would increase public school funding considerably, including special needs funding. It would increase spending on what Alaska calls "intensive needs" students (students with high-cost special requirements) from $26,900 per student in 2008 to $73,840 per student in 2011. That almost triples the per-student spending in three fiscal years. Palin''s original proposal, according to the Anchorage Daily News, would have increased funds slightly more, giving intensive needs students a $77,740 allotment by 2011."
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Let me count backwards here for a minute. Palin''s baby trig is 5 months old. March to August is 5 months. Hmmmm. Coincidence that she approved increased funding just in time to help herself? - Reply to this comment
- While I applaude Palin for her comments on speaial needs kids and adults, her words don''t match her actions. She didn''t care about special needs kids UNTIL she had a the need.
While I agree withher that these kids and adults need help her past actions don''t support her words. I consider this typical actions from many who won''t help until the shoe is on the other foot. - Reply to this comment
- "Follow the link and check for yourself
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2
008/sliming_palin.html
Posted by Lola939 at 07:36 AM : Sep 09, 2008"
Before Palin:
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/07_OMB/budget/EED/comp2735.pdf
Under Palin:
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/08_OMB/budget/EED/comp2735.pdf
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/09_omb/budget/EED/comp2735.pdf - Reply to this comment
- "Follow the link and check for yourself
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2
008/sliming_palin.html
Posted by Lola939 at 07:36 AM : Sep 09, 2008"
Before Palin:
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/07_OMB/budget/EED/comp2735.pdf
Under Palin:
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/08_OMB/budget/EED/comp2735.pdf
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/09_omb/budget/EED/comp2735.pdf - Reply to this comment
- From the above article, "In her address, she had a special message for families with special-needs children: "I pledge to you that if we are elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House."
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FACTS for special needs kids in Alaska under Pulin:
Fiscal year 2007 (per Pulin) budget:
FY 2005 6945.30
FY 2007 Management Plan 7949.30
FY 2007 Governors 8265.30
Fiscal Year 2008 Pulin budget:
FY 2006 7949.30
FY 2007 Management Plan 3173.70
FY 2008 Governor 3156.00
Under Governor Palin, funds decreased from a planned budget of 8265.30 to 3156.0. That''s a 62% decrease. Actual consumed amount went from 7949.3 to 3156.00, where it lingers to this day. That''s a 60% decrease.
Guess that horse can''t drink water unless it is your horse. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by elizabethbj at 12:09 AM She cut 62 % of the funding for special needs kids in Alaska''''''''s budget. She is a lier again..
Before calling someone a liar, please check out your facts to prevent people from calling you a liar. This was taken from FactCheck.org: Palin did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She didn%u2019t cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three years.
Follow the link and check for yourself
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2
008/sliming_palin.html
Posted by Lola939
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Good girl Lola, I was pretty sure when I read her post she was lying, but had to read it myself to be sure. Those people are lying big time trying to hurt Palin. They know that something new is on board that they didn''t expect and has turned everything around. Last night on ABC they said that the women were really coming over to the McCain side and said that 52% view Palin favorable, but the surprise was that 65% of men view her favorable. Also said that a poll of expected voter McCain would win. Let them lie about that beautiful woman, it just helps her. - Reply to this comment
- All your libs are crying today. You realize the McCain and Palin have turned this election around and the most of the American people had rather have them than Hussain and his muslim religion. Go to your hole and cry it over babe.
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- Posted by elizabethbj at 12:09 AM She cut 62 % of the funding for special needs kids in Alaska''''s budget. She is a lier again..
Before calling someone a liar, please check out your facts to prevent people from calling you a liar. This was taken from FactCheck.org: Palin did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She didn%u2019t cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three years.
Follow the link and check for yourself
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_palin.html - Reply to this comment
- Thank-you for the information concerning Gov. Palin''''s past veto in the area of Special Education. The issue of the Republican''''s goes deeper by promoting "Vouchers" for parents. There are very few, if any, private schools who will or can service these children. Public schools are mandated by law to provide services. I work with Special Need children and am appalled that she would have the history of not caring for families in Alaska, when they needed it.
Posted by ziaiolanda
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Why don''t yoiu run for president. Probably wouldn''t ever get your family to vote for you./ - Reply to this comment
- Are any of these kids among those 4.4 million that John McCain denied SCHIPS? Twice! To protect tobacco companies profits! Typical "compassionate conservative" BS.
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- Palin needs to stay at home and take care of her kids. One is an unwed mother and another has Downs which takes a tremendous amount of time and patience and love. No way she can be VP and do both. Just the daughter being left without a mother proved that.
On special education, she did cancel funds for this important program. Nothing is said if they were every restored. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by prouddowndad at 08:36 PM : Sep 08, 2008
Posting it once would have been enough. You are not the only parent of a kid with disabilities, believe me. But Palin''s claim she will do something for you is hot air.
Check the GOP record on healthcare and you will see who''s talking and who''s acting. Same for womens'' rights. Palin won''t make me forget how McCain didn''t vote for the HR 2831 (fair pay act). - Reply to this comment
- Thank-you for the information concerning Gov. Palin''s past veto in the area of Special Education. The issue of the Republican''s goes deeper by promoting "Vouchers" for parents. There are very few, if any, private schools who will or can service these children. Public schools are mandated by law to provide services. I work with Special Need children and am appalled that she would have the history of not caring for families in Alaska, when they needed it.
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- Thank-you for the information concerning Gov. Palin''s past veto in the area of Special Education. The issue of the Republican''s goes deeper by promoting "Vouchers" for parents. There are very few, if any, private schools who will or can service these children. Public schools are mandated by law to provide services. I work with Special Need children and am appalled that she would have the history of not caring for families in Alaska, when they needed it.
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