A Wall Street Journal article on what a McCain/Palin ticket might mean for
those concerned with disability issues:

http://tinyurl.com/6fzg28

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Tamar Raine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> If the truth be known...
> Now that we've had a chance to see Sarah Palin and to hear her speak -- or
> at least read the big rolling white block letters on the teleprompter in
> front of her -- we can see that she's prone to telling whoppers.
>
> >Now we know politicians as a group have a propensity to embellish the
> >truth -- particularly when describing their opponents or themselves --and
> >even to lie outright, but Palin does it so well, she's like a George Bush
> >with reading and pronunciation skills.
> >
> >In her acceptance speech last night, Palin told a whole string of lies. My
> >favorite was talking about little Trig, her latest offspring, who was born
> >with Down syndrome. Looking right out into the camera, she told the
> >parents of America with special needs children that if she and John McCain
> >win in November, "You'll have an advocate in Washington."
> >
> >Hard to square that with the truth, though, which is that as governor,
> >Palin has proposed a reduction in funds for special needs grants to
> >schools in both her budgets -- this at a time when the state of Alaska has
> >been benefiting from record oil tax revenues, which Palin is pushing to
> >return to citizens as cash rebates.
> >
> >Left unsaid by Palin was the fact that McCain himself, in Congress, has
> >voted against funding for the Head Start program, an early childhood
> >program particularly important to children of teen mothers, and that he
> >has opposed bills to increase funding for special education. So in fact,
> >parents of children with special needs such as Trig not only won't have an
> >advocate in the vice president's office, but also they won't have an
> >advocate in the White House either.
> >
> >Palin has also tried to turn a family tragedy -- her 17-year old daughter
> >Bristol's getting pregnant by a local self-described 18-year-old "redneck"
> >athlete from the same high school -- into a virtue by saying that she and
> >her husband will be helping their daughter "keep the child" and raise it.
> >To keep things cool in the eyes of god, she also announced that the two
> >teen parents would be getting married. Both kids were prominently on
> >display at the Republican National Convention during her speech.
> >
> >What Palin didn't tell convention-goers or the national viewing audience
> >was that as governor, she cut the funds for a program in the state to
> >support single teen mothers and that as a PTA member, mayor, and finally
> >as governor of Alaska, she has opposed sex education in the schools --
> >something her daughter and future son-in-law clearly could have used. Less
> >advantaged single mothers in Alaska and, should she be elected, in the
> >rest of America, will not have a friend in the Blair House. She also
> >failed to mention that McCain has voted against funding of teen pregnancy
> >prevention programs in Congress.
> >
> >Palin continued, in her acceptance speech, to spout another lie that she
> >had already been making in her first days on the stump since being picked
> >by McCain as his choice for running mate: she had said "No thank you" to
> >the $439-million "Bridge to Nowhere" which, as perhaps the biggest single
> >earmark in a year of record earmarks last year had become a national joke
> >line. The truth: Palin backed that bridge, and was even ready to add state
> >funding to get it built, until it became a national joke. Then she thought
> >better, and killed the bridge, while still taking the money, which the
> >state's senior senator, Ted Stevens now under indictment for taking bribes
> >from contractors) , had earmarked.
> >
> >Palin went on to lie about her opponent, Barack Obama's, tax plan, saying
> >it would raise taxes on businesses and on all Americans. In fact, Obama's
> >plan calls for lowering the corporate profits tax, while increasing the
> >tax on dividends and capital gains, both of which fall not on businesses
> >but on investors, and for lowering taxes on most Americans, while raising
> >them for people earning over $250,000.
> >
> >John McCain likes to ride around in a bus he dubs the "Straight-Talk
> Express."
> >
> >Sarah Palin, in her debut on the national stage since being named as
> >McCain's Number Two, has lied enough times to deserve the sobriquet Sure
> >A. Pallin'.
> >
> >DAVE LINDORFF is a Philadelphia- based journalist and columnist. His
> latest
> >book is "The Case for Impeachment" (St. Martin's Press, 2006 and now
> >available in paperback). His work is available at www.thiscantbehappe
> ning.net.
> >
> >http://www.buzzflas h.com/articles/ lindorff/ 137
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