This is a man who has his priorities straight --- and who's better to serve as president. I will be honored to vote for Madelyn Dunham's grandson tomorrow.
Thanks Grandma Denham. Your country will be forever grateful.
Wish you a peaceful transition Madelyn...Because you represent the love of all our grandmothers.
Thank you, toots, for raising a daughter with such courage, intelligence and a strong sense of right vs. wrong... and for helping to bring up her son and daughter your grands and great-grands to be the same...
All the Soldier and Members of the Brown-Burton Family pray that america will make you proud tomorrow, and
Shine Through You The Beacon of Hope That Makes Each Generation Strong and Stronger!
We Salute You!
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It Has Come To This???
I'm not saying McCain/Palin has anything to do with this but you have to ask yourself...What the Heck Is Going On Out There????
McCain Supporter Denies Candy To Children Of Obama Supporters On Halloween (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/01/mccain-supporter-denies-c_n_140075.html
]]>[S]cientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have shown that a protein called neurexin is required for..nerve cell connections to form and function correctly.
The discovery, made in Drosophila fruit flies may lead to advances in understanding autism spectrum disorders, as recently, human neurexins have been identified as a genetic risk factor for autism.
The study of fruit flies has also been used for other autism research and “revolutionize[d]” the study of birth defects.
I just don't get MSM just let's thing FLY...As foster mother and a adoptive mom of Special Needs Children, Iam ashame she is even allowed to speak about such a delicate subject, and turn it into a disgrace...
Fact checking
"Palin is a confident and compelling spokesperson for special needs children. But what the campaign gains in charisma, it loses in credibility." For example, she talked about "reprioritizing" spending in order to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) -- ignoring the fact (or not knowing) that achieving that goal by redistributing the budget would require a 6.4 percent cut in ALL OTHER DOMESTIC PROGRAMS. That means Pell grants, Section 8 housing, low-income energy assistance, WIC, clean energy research, and "dozens and dozens of other programs." Not to mention the fact that McCain has opposed funding IDEA numerous times.
11 Days Before Election, Palin Endorses Obama's Call to Fully Fund IDEA
In Pittsburgh this morning, Gov. Palin gave a speech on special needs. A big focus of her speech was fully funding the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). It took a long time, but I'm pleased that 11 days before the election, Palin has endorsed a position that Sen. Obama took more than a year ago, when he issued his policy position on disabilities. His first recommendation is to fund IDEA, a position he has advocated since he was first elected to Congress.
Here's what she didn't say:
In no part of her speech did Palin criticize the Obama-Biden plan for children and adults with special needs, or even draw contrasts between the positions.
Heather Bruce, Palin's Sis, Speaks
Gov. Palin's big sister, Heather Bruce, spoke with Autism One Radio, about raising her 13-year-old son with autism. What she said doesn't reassure me about her sister's understanding or commitment to autism. Here's what she had to say:
"She [Sarah] wants to help. She wants to help so badly, but she has a lot to learn, and she knows it. She’s fresh into this, being an advocate for autism, for Down syndrome. People expect her to know everything about everything. [She has said] We need to sit down Heather, tell me what your needs are, what do you wish you could see, what do you think would help the state. And that was just the time she was the governor."
So after Sarah has been an aunt to a child with autism for 13 years and governor for nearly two, the best endorsement her sister can give her is "she has a lot to learn, and she knows it"? Interestingly, she also gives credit to the Democratic candidates for also raising the issue of autism during the campaign. How strongly does she support her sister's candidacy? I can't tell after listening to this nearly hour-long interview.
http://specialneeds08.blogspot.com/
http://specialneeds08.blogspot.com/
11 Days Before Election, Palin Endorses Obama's Call to Fully Fund IDEA
In Pittsburgh this morning, Gov. Palin gave a speech on special needs. A big focus of her speech was fully funding the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). It took a long time, but I'm pleased that 11 days before the election, Palin has endorsed a position that Sen. Obama took more than a year ago, when he issued his policy position on disabilities. His first recommendation is to fund IDEA, a position he has advocated since he was first elected to Congress....
AND...
Heather Bruce, Palin's Sis, Speaks
Gov. Palin's big sister, Heather Bruce, spoke with Autism One Radio, about raising her 13-year-old son with autism. What she said doesn't reassure me about her sister's understanding or commitment to autism. Here's what she had to say:
"She [Sarah] wants to help. She wants to help so badly, but she has a lot to learn, and she knows it. She’s fresh into this, being an advocate for autism, for Down syndrome. People expect her to know everything about everything. [She has said] We need to sit down Heather, tell me what your needs are, what do you wish you could see, what do you think would help the state. And that was just the time she was the governor."
So after Sarah has been an aunt to a child with autism for 13 years and governor for nearly two, the best endorsement her sister can give her is "she has a lot to learn, and she knows it"? Interestingly, she also gives credit to the Democratic candidates for also raising the issue of autism during the campaign. How strongly does she support her sister's candidacy? I can't tell after listening to this nearly hour-long interview.
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Palin vindicated?
Governor offers Orwellian/Chaney spin
Page 8, Finding Number One of the report says: "I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act."
In plain English, she did something "unlawful." She broke the state ethics law.
Perhaps Gov. Palin has been too busy to actually read the Troopergate report. Perhaps she is relying on briefings from McCain campaign spinmeisters.
Jobs Baby Jobs!!!
]]>These are hard times. Our economy is in crisis.
But...John McCain, who admitted on Sunday that "the economy has hurt us a LITTLE BIT, HUH?in the last week or two," is desperately trying to turn the political page.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/13/mccains-week-off-to-rocky_n_134067.html
What America needs in this hour is a fighter; someone who puts all his cards on the table and trusts the judgment of the American people.
OK...OK...OOOOK....WHERE THE CARDS ON HOW YOU PLAN TO HELP US. OOOH HERE THEY ARE
And yet, as soon as the Senator began leaving behind last week's shadows, he stepped right back into the internal confusion and mixed messaging that has haunted his presidential run to this point.
Late Sunday evening word emerged from McCain headquarters that, in fact, there would be no bold new economic proposal to throw on the table.
"We do not have any immediate plans to announce any policy proposals outside of the proposals that John McCain has announced, and the certain proposals that would result as economic news continues to come our way," said spokesman Tucker Bounds.
OK, is it just me or did some of those ideal sound like Obama's
Is it just me, but did fighting get us in this mess
Is it just me, but didn't McCain fight against deregulation that got us in this mess
Is it just me, but McCain just vote against CHIP for health childrens furture
Is it just me, when we could have stood up and fought our enemies we went the other way
Is it just me, that McCain voted 95% with Bush infighting and selfishness and not to mention the war
is it just me, that he is sticking to disbuted (many times over, by many many more) lies
The only thing he said I agree with is
Don't give up hope. Be strong. Have courage. And fight. For Obama, oooops he forget that part.