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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
Ex-NBA ref Tim Donaghy 
