Sarah Palin Genuinely Pisses Me Off - Democratic Underground

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Thu Sep-04-08 06:49 AM
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Sarah Palin Genuinely Pisses Me Off

After listening to that disingenuous tripe Sarah Palin called a speech I simply could not remain silent. Frankly if I don't voice my utter contempt for Sarah Palin to someone I think I might explode so, rather than allowing myself to spontaneously combust, I'll tell you why the worst part of Palin's speech is probably something you and everyone else in the world probably won't even notice.

I reckon to help you understand this I'll have to start at the beginning, but not the beginning of the speech, but the beginning of me.

Despite that I chat with a lot of you every day chances are you don't know this cuz it's not something I discuss often so let me let you in a little something. I am disabled. I walk with a cane and a full length brace on my right leg. Why? Because I was born with a birth defect called Spina Bifida. In it's least damaging form it basically just causes a curvature in your spine that many that have spina bifida don't even notice.

In my case it meant that I was born with a curvature of the spine, two missing vertebrae at the base of my spine and severe scare tissue covering all of my right leg and lower back. The scaring was so intense and left me so sick that when I was born the doctors weren't even sure I was going to live.

Now (and I say this knowing many of you will suddenly think I'm a dumby because I believe this, but anyway...) by God's grace I'm still alive and kickin', but the fact that I am as well adjusted and independent as I am today is because of the sacrafices my mother made for me to be so. The biggest of which was joining the United States Navy a few years after I was born in a bid to make sure that I as her dependent would always have proper medical care.

Because of the coverage she got through the Navy I was able to be followed at special clinics wherever we moved to that specialized in treating special needs kids like the ones Sarah Palin mentioned tonight in her speech. Special needs kids like her son. A special needs kid just like I was.

I heard my mother waking up before dawn damn near everyday for nearly two decades, venturing out to serve her country and ensure that I would always be cared for. It wasn't always something I could fully appreciate as a child, but now, as an adult, I get what it is she did for me. Which is how I get just how much Sarah Palin insulted her this evening with her completely fake and hollow appeal to parents of special needs children.

"Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge.

And children with special needs inspire a special love.

To the families of special-needs children all across this country, I have a message: For years, you sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters.

I pledge to you that if we are elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House."

A very sweet sentiment and one that makes sense, right? I mean as everyone knows... mostly cuz she's been using the kid as a political prop since the second it popped out of the womb (whomever that womb happens to belong to), "Sarah's" 5th child was born with Down Syndrome, a severe genetic abnormality that will impede the child's developement both mentally and physically. It makes sense that she'd be not only committed to her special needs child, but all of them. It makes sense as a parent that's faced the challenges of having a child that has problems that require extraordinary attention she'd be sensitive to other parents that face the same struggle each and everyday, sorta like my mom did.

That's what makes it so unfortunate that it's so patently obvious she could give a good God damn about any of those kids or their parents.

As it turns out little Miss Advocate, during her short tenure as Gov. of Alaska, didn't just trim the special education budget of her state... she gutted it, slashing the budget by 62 percent.

In 2007, before she came in as Governor, the special education budget for Alaska was a bit over $8.2 million. In 2008 the budget dropped a hair... to $3.1 million, a number that will stay unchanged through the 2009 school year.

Check for yourself: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3915534

This treacherous, lying, self-aggrandizing, charlatan who promised to work for those who struggled just like my own mother did, and who no doubt fell for her "compassionate conservative" crap because they surely wanted to believe that finally someone was really looking out for them, had every opportunity to establish a record of that which she boasted of on a national stage did nothing of the sort. In fact she proved that in truth she doesn't give a damn about any special needs child who doesn't have the last name Palin. Or at least not any whom she can't tote around as a political prop to show how holy and righteous she is. I mean after all, she knew the kid wasn't gonna be much, but she didn't kill it, right?

IS SHE NOT MERCIFUL?!

This woman is utterly loathsome and she insults the hard work of men and women who struggle everyday to give their kids who were born with disadvantages the same care and independence my mother struggled to give me. She insulted them and my mom with every hypocritical syllable that she uttered. I've disagreed with many a politician, but I can honestly say that even President Bush has never ticked me off the way this woman just did and that's saying something

This slight will not be forgotten and I will do everything I can to let the world know just what kind of lying hypocrite they might have sitting a heartbeat away from the presidency.