Palin describes what her role will be in admin: Energy, Reform, Special Needs Care, And Disease Cure

[sabra]

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/15/politics/fromtheroad/entry4449934.shtml

Palin Outlines Four-Point Focus In McCain Administration

Says She'll Focus On Energy, Reform, Special Needs Care, And Disease Cures

(CBS)
From CBS News' Scott Conroy:

(GOLDEN, COLO.) - For the first time since joining the Republican ticket, Sarah Palin outlined the issues she would focus on in a John McCain administration.

“John and I have worked out a plan—what I want to concentrate on and what he would like to kind of tap into me to help with, Palin said at a rally in front of a few thousand people here. “My mission is going to energy security and government reform. And another thing near and dear to my heart, it’s going to be helping families who have special needs and children with special needs. And we’re going to be pushing for innovative cures for diseases.”

[Waya]

1. Oh, Dear God........

[Whalestoe]

2. Someone ask Sarah if this means she supports Stem Cell Research.

[Plaid Adder]

27. YES! Yes!

If only she would ever appear before the press, we could do it!

The Plaid Adder

[demokatgurrl]

3. Disease cure...

by laying of hands, or practicing medicine without a license? Or perhaps witch doctoring (for which she is sadly unqualified I'm sure)

[MaineDem]

8. My first thought was she would lay hands to cure

She is a vile human being who will do nothing to help Americans.

[justiceischeap]

4. Oh I get it... she was in a hospital so now she knows all about medical research. n/t

[bdamomma]

5. there is that word

Mission


is she talking in code? I do not trust this woman one bit.

what a hypocrite she talks about helping Special needs kids when she cut funding in her own state by 62%, yea tell me another lie Sarah.

[liberal N proud]

6. Breakdown:

Energy Reform - Drill baby Drill.

Special Needs Care - Taking care of the baby and hubby. Sorry, that is what I see happening.

Disease Cure - You get sick you die campaign.

OMG

[livetohike]

7. Her grammar is so poor, it's embarrassing to read.

What in the world are innovative cures for diseases? Laying on of hands? She's so full of it.

[Eric J in MN]

9. Sarah Palin misleads about how much energy Alaska produces...

...not someone I want handling energy policy.

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http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/energetically_wrong.html


Palin claims Alaska "produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy." That's not true.

Alaska did produce 14 percent of all the oil from U.S. wells last year, but that's a far cry from all the "energy" produced in the U.S.

Alaska's share of domestic energy production was 3.5 percent, according to the official figures kept by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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[dansolo]

36. And all of that is sold to Japan

I think that hardly any of the Alaskan oil is used in the US. More drilling in Alaska will do nothing for "energy independence"--but it will make her oil and gas buddies a huge amount of profit, and more revenues for the citizens of Alaska.

[book_worm]

10. Hey Palin, before you "reform" our national govt lets see how the investigation on your ethics in

Alaska turns out.

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. The woman doesn't believe in evolution

She couldn't even understand antibiotics, much less "disease cure." How can we put somebody who doesn't believe in modern science in charge of 'disease cure." Will she politicize the funding at the NIH? The NSF?

It's completely atrocious.

[nc4bo]

12. Well Sarah, will you be more interested in "skin cells" or "stem cells"...

We're in trouble if this 2 ring circus gets even 10 feel near the WH.

[Wickerman]

13. Faith Healing? that'll cut healthcare costs n/t

[beac]

14. Like the 'special needs care' that she SLASHED in her most recent Alaska budget?

It's TRULY amazing the amount of BS that woman spews every day.

[merh]

15. innovative cures for diseases

what laying on of hands, tanning beds and flying at 8 months when your pregnancy is a high risk pregancy?

For the love of mike - she is a liar and a fraud.

save us from her cures.

[Aloha Spirit]

16. "tap into me" "mission" "dear to my heart"... sounds like a first lady platform. nt

[subterranean]

20. Yeah, I bet ol' Johnny would like to "tap into her"

[Plaid Adder]

28. Yes, it is my crackpot theory that most Americans feel in their gut....

...that Sarah Palin is running for First Lady and not VP.

Notice we do not see a lot of Cindy any more. I seriously think that one way they've sold people on Palin as a 'celebrity' whose qualifications are irrelevent is by implying every which way they can that she's not _really_ going to be holding a government office after this is all over, and casting her as First Lady rather than a running mate is part of that. She's about the right age (viz., 30-odd years younger than him, which would make her the perfect age for a trophy wife) and the whole "mom" persona plays into that as well (especially when she's literally holding a baby). I honestly think a lot of American media consumers haven't really 'gotten it' yet that she's going to be given actual power if this ticket wins the election.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[Brotherjohn]

17. So: 1) "Drill, Baby, Drill!" 2) Fight pork (if it becomes political poison). 3) Cut special needs...

... funding by 67%. 4) I don't know... ummm... laying on of the hands?

That's basically been her approach to those 4 issues in Alaska.

[mascarax]

39. Funding

Has anyone called her out yet on the 62% or 67% (I read 62% previously but close enough) CUT in "special needs care" that she approved as Governor?

Gee, what changed? NOW it's a different story because it affects HER?

[oviedodem]

18. So I guess John won't be asking the GOV about economics? Why then Sarah are you here

[loyalsister]

19. Ever hear of....

March of Dimes
Easter Seals
MDA?......

There's big money in those non-profits these days.
They are going to try to keep health care privitized by focusing on non-profits. We have seen this before. Do not underestimate. Just make sure we know we have a better solution, what it is, and why.

I suggest watching the AAPD forum at disaboom.com. The mother was a big Republican. She was one who believed "if my son can anyone can, all of these other people out here are lazy."

Don't forget that the non profits offer a tax deduction every year. That's what this is all about, ya know.

[symbolman]

21. That's TWO Hummers in every garage

and a Pot of LEECHES in every bathroom!

She'll be in charge of BLEEDING US DRY, whether it's OIL or LEECHES for Health Care :)

[Vinca]

22. This woman is truly an idiot. This election has gotten absolutely bizarre. nt

[BigDDem]

23. We wont rest until

there's a tanning bed in every home!

[MadrasT]

24. They are just saying stuff for the sake of saying it.

There is no plan, no platform, no substance behind any of it. I'm astounded. I don't know how they can keep astounding me, but they manage to do it all over again every single day.

[Bread and Circus]

25. Disease cures? I'm one physician who isn't too thrilled about a D student

digging in my garden.

Please, send us somebody who knows something about....something.

But I have to ask how in hell is she going to "push for innovative cures" for anything? I seriously suspect she hasn't the faintest clue about how Biomedical research is funded or performed in this country. Seriously, what are her credentials to all of a sudden be the "special needs and cure for diseases czar"? I'm sorry but not using birth control at age 44 isn't much of a qualification.

Hell, if her first big medical decision was to sit on her broken bag of water for 26 hours, then god help those with serious diseases.

[Bread and Circus]

26. Also, I have to ask, and this is earnest...is there a huge catastrophic

problem with the education and care of special needs children?

In every community I've lived in there are tons of services, which usually came to be because of LIBERALS.

Couldn't she focus on an area where we are having a crisis or a looming catastrophe?

She's running for VP, not First Lady.

[walldude]

29. Well according to McCain she knows more about energy

that anyone in America so.. We're saved!

[PCIntern]

30. her roll will be limited to the one in the hay...with whomever.

[medeak]

31. LOL.. embryonic stem cells?

ha ha ha

[bridgit]

32. Sure, heard today from Schultz' town hall tapes a woman state Palin cut 'special needs' budget...

in Wasilla and people that needed meds were sent through Alice' looking glass instead. Palin is cold-blooded and proud of it even by Cheney's definition...and that cannot possibly be good

[qwlauren35]

33. Is she a First Lady??? Or a Vice-President?????

First, we have a Secretary of Energy. Next, we have a Surgeon General.

So, I'm missing something. Won't she have enough to do keeping abreast of Senate activities???

Or is this another indication that she still doesn't know what a VP does?

[anonymous171]

34. "Disease Cure" WTF?

[opihimoimoi]

35. Empty Charismatic Words from a Presumptuous Woman...She is FOOLING AMERICA

with whatever it takes....usually Empty Pagentesque Slogans and Phrases...

Their Records SUCK....The GOP Record SUCKS....

Bush/GOP screws up for 8 years and we gonna go for 3rds? ARE WE that lame as voters?

[blogslut]

37. Actually, she messed up

I saw her give this speech this morning. She conflated a chromosomal abnormality with a disease. In other words, she called Down's Syndrome a disease. I also think she realized she had done this but it was too late to take it back so she went with it.

[Zuiderelle]

38. OMG. It would be like the CEO of a huge corporation hiring his CFO who says...

"He would like to kind of tap into me to help with some money issues and stuff."

I want this person OFF my TV. I want her OUT of the election. And I want her OUT of the lower 48. Please just shut up and go home.

What's the "Innovative Cure" ... innovative like faith-healing? Exorcism?

[Straight Shooter]

40. "Innovative cures for diseases."

http://onelook.com/?w=innovative&ls=a
innovative
adjective: being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before

Well, thank goodness, that eliminates praying.