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With Special Olympics in the news today, here’s another perspective: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s address to the 2009 Special Olympics in Boise, Idaho:
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She’s real. She’s decent. That stnads whether she ever runs for any office again, or not.
I have no need to trash President Obama for his recent gaff. He apologized. I accept. But far more important is that we respect this woman who has NOTHING for which to apologize when it comes to caring for disabled children and babies in real life in real ways.
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Quite different than Obama talking to the nreally special folks on the Leno show last night wouldnlt you say.
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I’m sure you (llama or joel) said similar things when the Kennedy family founded the Special Olympics and the Clintons hosted the first White House Special Olympics gala in 1998.
I think support for the special Olympics crosses the political spectrum.
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The mildly anti-Obama inference of this post can only be the result of RACISM!
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Still laughing out loud about ZZ’s comment….
The mildly anti-Obama inference of this post can only be the result of RACISM!
WHAT??? When are you idots going to give it up??? The racism thing is getting really, really old. We have an inept, inexperienced goon in the White House……by the way…..the people voted for him overwhelmingly..just in case you didn’t notice…….he’s BLACK???
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What a cute little boy!!!
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Mrs., I’m thinking you don’t know our ZZ….
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Ms Palin who according to JoelMark, has NOTHING for which to apologize when it comes to caring for disabled children and babies in real life in real ways just announced today that she is refusing $165 million in special ed funds for educating Alaska’s disabled children.
Yes, indeed, this is a woman of princple who can put her disabled grandchild front and center in the campaign, promise to be a friend to all disabled children and then, in order to score a cheap political point, refuse money for their education. A real paragon of American motherhood.
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Arcadia, he’s not her grandchild. He is her son.
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kbells: Worse yet!
Incidentally, after a bit more browsing it appears that only a portion of the $165 mill was for special ed. But I’m sure Alaska’s parents of non-disabled kids will be equally understanding…
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Kbells, thank you.
The insane left just will not accept the fact that the child is hers and still spreads these terrible lies about her. If anyone ever forgets remember this – they lie to be mean, be hateful and get their jollies like Arcadia.
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That’s amazing. The President of the United States signs a bill with programs benefiting special ed kids, and Palin refuses the money. Then the President of the United States is attacked and judged here on World as being insensitive to special ed kids. It’s like the mouthbreathers live in opposite World.
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RPN, there’s probably more to the refusal than meets the eye. I haven’t done the research to find out. Have you? I know that some governors have rejected some of the stimulus money because of the strings attached.
By the may, throwing money around is not the solution to every problem.
RPN, in what way has the President been either judged or attacked? I’m not seeing it. I see the reporting of a mistake that he made and another take on the issue.
Like Joel, I think we should accept the President’s apology. We have all stuck our feet in our mouth, and every other president has, too. We’re all only human, including the Great Agent of Hope and Change.
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Of course, there is more to the issue than Palin just coldly refusing the money. Sheesh! I get so sick of this kind of macular degeneration type vision in politics. And it comes from both parties.
I applaud Sara Palin for standing up for the “less than perfect children and adults” out there. May we will come to realize the treasure they can be, just like all the “perfect” ones.
In seeing the story about the young woman who at 4′10″ is a college basketball player inspite of numerous handicaps, one wonders how many gifts and talents have been destroyed with each unborn child discarded.
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RPN, I think “attacked and judged” is a bit strong, reading back through the comments from yesterday’s thread on the president’s remarks I find most of us were pretty much willing to let it go. It happens. I don’t think the comments were overly harsh as a whole at all.
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KI: If you can explain how refusing perhaps $70 million to help special ed programs in a fairly sparsely populated state like Alaska constitutes “standing up” for those children I’d be happy to hear it.
And, yes, that 4′6″ basketball player is an amazing young woman.
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The strings attached to the money may be the reason, Arcadia. When you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas, remember?
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Conservatives tend to believe in actually treating disabled children decntly and loving them personally and sacrificially all their lives, and NOT slaughtering them before they are even born and respecting them as equals and as valuable human beings. Conservatives also support many effective public and private secotr programs for them too, but never let mere “programs” or “money” define our compassion for them.
Liberals tend to believe in using other people’s money to fund expensive programs that might make them look good to voters who want other people to care for disabled people. Honestly, there are some liberals who also are kind to disabled people personally, and they should be commended too — but not just because they threw money at a “program” for them.
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I repeat, Governor Palin has NOTHING for which to apologize when it comes to caring for disabled children and babies in real life in real ways. The executive decisions of any governor or president with regard to budgetary constraints can be mined and misused by their opponents to accuse them of all sorts of presumed horrific things. That’s nonsense.
Besides, refusing huge demands for government spending is often the BEST thing any executive can do to advance real education in today’s world. Throwing excessive money at education (for ALL kinds of kids) may be one of the biggest crocks on earth today. Money and quality education are often at odds with each other. Reality is often counter-intuitive.
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Authentic morality and compassion are better seen in how you live your life and treat others, more than in what sort of bills you sign or promote.
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#12, RPN wrote:
“Then the President of the United States is attacked and judged here on World as being insensitive to special ed kids.”
Huh? Actually, some real conservatives on this thread have not attacked the President at all, but immediately accepted his apology.
HOWEVER, what some leftists on this thread CANNOT stand is that we also said kind and good things about Governor Palin–well deserved! Many leftists cannot handle it when people they hate are affirmed in a positive manner.
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Bless, Sarah’s heart – she’s doing what she can to stay viable for the 2012 election.
Not only is she turning down money for the education of disabled kids in her state, she’s turning down money for the unemployed. Apparently neither group in Alaska has suffered enough yet. Conservatives want to see people literally begging for food in the streets before they’re gonna consider helping them. And then when they do give them help, they’re gonna berate them for being destitute and poor. It’s the epitome of “compassionate conservatism”, isn’t it?
Well, it will be a gift from God Herself if Sarah is the 2012 Republican nominee.
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We’re you guys crowing the other day about Republicans accepting stimulus money?
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Kbells, they forget from one day to the next, they ‘crow’ on cue, it doesn’t take much.
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Basically it’s a catch 22. If she takes the money she’s a hypocrite, if she refuses the money she hates little children.
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#22, “Not only is she turning down money for the education of disabled kids in her state, she’s turning down money for the unemployed.”
Money does not make morality, Anlir. And if the rest of states and America were run like Alaska financially right now, we would not be be incurring such huge debts and we would all be much MUCH better off.
It’s like rich leftist environmentalists who personally ride huge private jets and live in huge well-heated homes, but have enough money to purchase “carbon credits” to make up their green bona-fides and mend their morality.
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And if the rest of states and America were run like Alaska financially right now, we would not be be incurring such huge debts and we would all be much MUCH better off.
If America had the same oil to person ratio, yes you would be better off.
Basically it’s a catch 22. If she takes the money she’s a hypocrite, if she refuses the money she hates little children.
Well there goes that secret plan. We’ll need to think of an other.
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Alaska receives over $1.80 in federal spending per $1.00 paid it taxes. I for one would be quite happy if the queen of red state socialism is successful in turning down federal stimulus money. I’m sick of these red states sucking the federal teat then whining about socialism. It’s time for the wealth of this country to stay where it was created, in the blue states. Jindal and Palin are trying to prove there conservative bona fides on the back of the un-employed. If they really wanted their actions to match their rhetoric, they would refuse to take any federal money beyond what they pay in taxes.
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Alaska practices socialism better than any other American state. It confiscates a fee from the oil companies and distributes it to it’s citizens with a nice little check every year. On top of that, it has long been a top recipient of “pork” from Washington. And Sarah has been thrilled to continue both.
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The Special Olympics has a crawling competition? Cool.
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Alaske is being run with basic convictions of fiscal responsibility across the board and it is proving beneficial to the people of that state. On the other hand, the federal government is being run on basic saocialistic principles (including those that President Bush applied) and it is mired in debt, loss, recession and crisis.
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Why are some people so blind with hatred for Governor Palin that they cannot they straight and need to make up all sorts of nonsense to disparage her and her state?
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Hey, Joel Mark – she’s the one who called herself a pit bull with lipstick – her and no one else. Pit Bulls aren’t exactly loved like Persian Kittens and Shih-Tzus.
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Is Alaska on its way to becoming an CCR Saudi Arabia, covered with ice instead of sand?
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