Palin on Special Needs Kids

I was going to get annoyed until the snarky final question. Don’t change, Jake.

This is one of the nicer things about Palin’s candidacy (actually, maybe the only one). Calling attention to this issue and medical research is a good thing, but of course they oppose more development into one of the most promising areas of research.
But, back to more pressing issues.
Jake, you better call your broker.
You’ve taken your eye off of the Asian markets today.
Tokyo: down 9.6%
S. Korea down 10.5%
All the rest in the red too.
And Europe is down big early as well.
What is Sarah Palin going to do about the global financial crash that continues?
And is she going to be Alaska first on falling oil prices (as Alaska residents and the state lose revenues in a price drop) or is she going to be for America first?

Cue the New Hampshire Hillary Clinton ploy!
Just wait, later today, she’ll do it again so there’s video.

I agree with McCain that :
thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative that was once in many childhood vaccines, is responsible for the increased diagnoses of autism….
I suport Obama but McCain is right about thimersoal…

Friday, October 24, 2008
Lawyer Claims to Have Recording of Obama’s Grandmother Confirming Candidate’s Kenyan Birth
Dateline USA….
Could this be a game changer?
WND reports:
The Pennsylvania Democrat who has sued Sen. Barack Obama demanding he prove his American citizenship – and therefore qualification to run for president – has confirmed he has a recording of a telephone call from the senator’s paternal grandmother confirming his birth in Kenya.
The issue of Obama’s birthplace, which he states is Honolulu in 1961, has been raised enough times that his campaign website has posted an image purporting to be of his “Certification of Live Birth” from Hawaii.
But Philip J. Berg, a former deputy attorney general for Pennsylvania, told the Michael Savage talk radio program [Thursday night] that the document is forged and that he has a tape recording he will soon release….

Organized Fixed Outrage by the Obama camp on Palin is getting old
Seems like the media wants Palin to come out either naked or dressed like a slob.
Guess no wonder will ask Obama why he has spent over $560,000 on his suits, ties, shoes since running for president?
Or
Obama campaign spent $500,000 to upgrade it’s plane????
Or
$290,000 for the special 1 day return trip to Hawaii to see GrandMa…
Oh no, it wouldn’t be fair.

Imagine What The NewsMediaWould’ve Found If They Looked, Perhaps This Proof Of Obama’s Socialist Party Ties?
Newspaper shows Obama belonged to socialist party:
“JERUSALEM – Evidence has emerged that Sen. Barack Obama belonged to a socialist political party that sought to elect members to public office with the aim of moving the Democratic Party far leftward to ultimately form a new political party with a socialist agenda.
Several blogs, including Powerline, previously documented that while running for the Illinois state Senate in 1996 as a Democrat, Obama actively sought and received the endorsement of the socialist-oriented New Party, with some blogs claiming Obama was a member of the controversial party.
The New Party, formed by members of the Democratic Socialists for America and leaders of an offshoot of the Community Party USA, was an electoral alliance that worked alongside the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. The New Party’s aim was to help elect politicians to office who espouse its policies.
Among New Party members was linguist and radical activist Noam Chomsky.
Obama’s campaign has responded to the allegations, denying the presidential candidate was ever a member of the New Party.”

Hero
Thanks for the video post if you listen to it rather than read the spin on the screen it makes you LIKE OBAMA MORE.
Thanks : )
Obama 08.

VOTE NO on PROP 8 in California

What do the experts have to say about using your Down’s Syndrome baby as a political prop and putting him on display in front of large crowds way past his bed time?

Sorry, but Palin has a special need kid, when it appears that she is also a special need individual by her intellectual inferiority complex.

Dear Jake Tapper:
I am not a supporter of McCain/Palin but, as the parent of a vaccine-injured child I do credit their responsiveness to the needs of “special needs” children, including those children who are vaccine injured.
Whatever you think about her, it is clear that Sarah Palin has experienced the travails of someone close to a child with autism. Her concern about children with special needs, including her own child, is welcome to all similarly situated parents because it appropriately heightens concern about these issues.
As for Senator McCain’s statement about thimerosal, this is a clear example of a politician stating his belief in a way that produced no political advantage for himself. He is not the only politician who believes that mercury-containing thimerosal in vaccines – including flu shots widely distributed at the present time – is seriously problematic as a health hazard.
For your information, there is significant scientific support for this concern and more science emerges every day. There exist no studies establishing that thimerosal is safe or that thimerosal in vaccines is not linked to autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Our public health establishment has preferred not to look at this difficult issue, and dismisses the concern out of hand for fear that our nation’s vaccine program will be damaged. No less than former National Institutes of Health Director Bernadine Healy has said as much, in an inteview with CBS News reporter Sharyl Atkisson.
I would have expected a reporter from a prominent news outlet to present this issue in a more balanced fashion, rather than an off-hand remark unfairly criticizing McCain as being somehow out of the mainstream on this issue.
I support Obama because his and his party’s platform overall likely is better on education and health issues. But certainly on the issue of special needs children and vaccine safety Senator McCain has shown courage and dedication to principle. He should be credited for that – I would not be at all upset if he became President rather than the candidate I support.
Robert J. Krakow,Esq.
Parent

Governor Palin vetoed $275,000 in Special Olympics Alaska funds (Page 100, SB 221 with vetoes)

Looks like a typical morning for our reality challenged friends.
The stock market is headed for a record dive this morning, after massive equity losses in Asia and Europe and we have, uh “friends”, like Hero posting garbage.
Which makes me wonder what pointless issue the official McCain campaign is going to raise today.
Tokyo down 9.6%
Hong Kong down 8.3%
India down 10%
Germany down 9%
U.K. down 8%
Dow and Nasdaq down 5% in the first 10 minutes.
Do we see a 1,100 point drop and a trading halt today like the financial talking heads are focusing on this morning?
Meanwhile, Sarah Palin last seen with her shopping shoes on.

All Children need to be addressed, Special needs in Paticular, But Sara Palin is against Stem cell Research and we need to Find the Causes of these special needs. and Mccain wants to have a spending Freeze if he should win so how Do we pay and Invest in Science Etc to get to the root of Children with special needs and help them?

Today,
Jay Z has already donate $500 000 to charity in aide of Specail needs kids!

Jake couldn’t do it. Just couldn’t end a post without slipping in pro-Obama bias.

You know, I’m no Sarah Palin fan, but it is a tough situation she and her sister find themselves in, given their children’s health matters. And I pray the best for them.
On the other hand, I don’t believe anything that woman says. She is a pathological liar. I don’t know that the tears are real. Their campaign has pretty much modeled themselves after the Clinton campaign — tears and all. And she might get some sympathy votes. But not enough to stem the tide.

Stem cell research is not going to find a “cause” for disabilities. It might be a treatment option. I think we can all agree that “cause” is going to be about an environmental toxin and admitting that these toxic substances damage immune system function, mitochondria and neurons is where it should be headed, because, as we also know, the alternative medical community already knows this.

Was she talking about herself. She had a “special need” for fancy cloths and spent $150,000. Go Caribou Barbie

LOVE IT!! Thumbs up, Jake…..FINALLY we’re hearing what many Americans are concerned about…the future outlook being promising for their children.
McCain/Palin 08 for our children and grandchildren’s future!!

Trig Palin is adorable!
I taught kids with autism and Down Syndrome for 27 years. What a blessing they are.
They taught me far more about myself and life than I could ever teach them.
They live in the moment, find joy in simple things, are very loving, forgiving, and notoriously stubborn.
I look forward to watching Trig grow up either in the White House or Alaska.
Sarah Palin is wonderful.

Touching? Yes.
Palin cut funding for Special Olympics.
Alaska had 2 federal lawsuits against it to increase other special needs funding. A legislator said a bill was passed to comply and added more. Governor Palin did not advocate for it; she did squat. She did sign the bill.
Now, I do not believe Trig had been born yet but her nephew is 11 years-old.
Of course, Palin may have had an epiphany since Trig. She would not be the first Republican who began to care about something once it affected them. Apparently, a nephew’s plight was not close enough to get involved.
I will refrain from saying what I call people like her.
McCain’s record is decidedly mixed but his inclination is that he cares little about education funding. But who knows? Maybe this could be the 1,111st exception to his across the board spending freeze.

Why does she keep pulling the poor kid out at every photo op during he campaign trail?
She is a smart pandering woman.

Special Needs Parents Beware of Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin wants to divert funds from already underfunded federal programs that support special needs children in public schools to give parents choice for private schools? And do we really think parents will receive the full tuition amount for private schools? Probably not. So I’m guessing really only wealthy families will be able to use these resources as a supplment to private tuition, and middle-class families with children in public schools will see a reduction of school services. That’s what it looks like to me. Aside from private schools for the moderately to severely disabled, private and religious schools typically do not have their own special needs resources–a religious education is not adequate for special needs children. Children who are mildly yet pervasively disabled will receive fewer supportive services in the public schools and their outcomes compromised. Programs that involve directing funding to parents sometimes require strict qualification criteria based on level of disability and that may leave exclude many families whose children have special needs. With diminished services in public schools these families will be left out in the cold. Palin is pandering to special needs families for votes and I think this is reprehensible.

“using your Down’s Syndrome baby as a political prop”…
More like using your gravely ill white grandmother as a political prop?

Jake – Please ask Sarah Palin for the specifics when she indicates that special needs families can “count on us in the White House doing all that we can for them”. Does that mean more funding for early intervention? Are the Palins providing early intervention for Trig? They should do more than just photo ops with Trig by being more specific regarding the support required if they are going to be a role model for families with special needs kids.

McCain and Palin are for school vouchers. They really do not support Public Schools. So when Palin talks about special education funding, who is the money for? Most special education is provided within Public School settings, and in fact Speech Language Pathology services are almost entirely provided by Public school Speech Language Pathologists, even for private school students. Does she know that “No Child Left Behind” has actually done special education the greatest disservice. Now even kids who are learning handicapped are expected, under the mandate of NCLB, to be at “grade level” in academics. It appears those who came up with NCLB are fundamentally ignorant about one fact :If learning handicapped students could be working at grade level they would not be in special education to begin with. Is Palin planning to send Trig to a Public School? When she says she would like to fully fund the federal mandate for special education, she is going to have to favor Public Education over vouchers.

That Sarah Palin is prone to abusing her power for personal reasons, as she was shown to do in Alaska, is evident in her plan, should she become VP, to pressure Congress into funding a $45 billion program for the benefit special-needs children like her son Trig. Children with other health issues—diabetes, HIV, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, muscular dystrophy, etc.—do not figure in her plan. Parents of these children presumably would be left to negotiate health costs with their private insurers, provided they can afford or get the insurance.