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posted at 10:00 pm on July 17, 2009 by Allahpundit
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“Palin is controversial, in part, because America is divided over disability. We’ve established laws and institutions that protect people with disabilities. But we also do everything we can to make sure they don’t see the light of day.
Trig is a reminder of our fierce ambivalence over disability. Every mention of his name is a pinprick to our conscience. Every photo of mother and son is a reminder of concepts — vulnerability, dependency and suffering — our culture no longer tolerates, as well as virtues, such as humility, dignity and self-sacrifice, it no longer extols.
Trig is also a reminder of an inescapable truth: Disability is an inherent part of the human condition. At a time of deep cultural divisions, 1-year-old Trig Palin represents the deepest division of all, between a culture that increasingly sees genetic perfection as an entitlement and a culture still rooted in the belief that human beings are defined not by their capabilities but, instead, by the very fact of their humanity.”
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Guess who’s on the wrong side…
artist on July 17, 2009 at 10:02 PM
I read this earlier, and have to wonder why this
is still an issue?
cozmo on July 17, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Deja vu all over again.
fogw on July 17, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Very good.
Bob's Kid on July 17, 2009 at 10:04 PM
….on the wrong side…..
artist on July 17,2009 at 10:02PM.
artist: You idiot Liberals are,come to think of it,so was
Soddom Saddam!!
canopfor on July 17, 2009 at 10:05 PM
yes and the other side, who had so much fun at Ricci’s expense yesterday consider themselves the big tent party.
ctmom on July 17, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Let people know:
Every person below the poverty line or unemployed is Obama’s fault
700 billion could have raised every person above the poverty line by employing them.
Even Down Syndrome People could have been employed
PrezHussein on July 17, 2009 at 10:06 PM
This is total crap. Must be a very slow news day.
The only person I know who agonizes over disability is Justice Ginsburg, who assumed that Roe v Wade was about disposing of the inconvenient little creatures.
guntotinglibertarian on July 17, 2009 at 10:08 PM
This tells us more about the hateful people who smear Palin every chance they get.
It isn’t Palin’s fault that chose to have an abortion, That’s on them.
TimeTraveler on July 17, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Sometimes I can’t catch my breath when I think of how far we have fallen…that this is even a consideration.
If you do not know the Lord God, know Him now.
Mommypundit on July 17, 2009 at 10:10 PM
And, what is coming with Obamacare is that pregnant women will have to have tests to see if there are issues like Trig’s. If so, they will be forced to abortion so as not to have health issues to be paid for down the line.
I hate Obama.
suzyk on July 17, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Obama prefers the closet in the hall for these humans
bbz123 on July 17, 2009 at 10:12 PM
It may be cute to talk about his “mommy jeans”. He looked like that geek from a TV show with his pants pulled up to his whatevers.
This Obama is evil and stupid. Look at his eyes. He is bad news.
suzyk on July 17, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Three reasons the Dems are up in arms:
The baby wasn’t aborted
Governor Palin shows a wonderful, strong and altruistic character.
Here (the baby) is a truly needy person that does not fit the ‘official’ list of victims and the troubles of discrimation, poverty and a poor education. And I almost forgot the continuing effect of slavery nearly a century and a half ago. Notice that Brad and Madonna adopted only healthy kids.
But back to the Palin bashing…
IlikedAUH2O on July 17, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Another Palin thread…………Yawn.
Slow news day, I guess/
Knucklehead on July 17, 2009 at 10:15 PM
“Trig is a reminder of our fierce ambivalence over disability. Every mention of his name is a pinprick to our conscience. Every photo of mother and son is a reminder of concepts — vulnerability, dependency and suffering — our culture no longer tolerates, as well as virtues, such as humility, dignity and self-sacrifice, it no longer extols”
Well said
notagool on July 17, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Disability is not the issue. Trig is so small that any disability is not even noticeable, in any way. I didn’t read the rest of the article, but the hate for Palin, from the left, has nothing to do with disabilities. It is more about the violently rabid pro-abortion people (the ones want to force everyone to have abortions, to make themselves feel a little less monstrous) and Palin’s anti-abortion stance and refusal to abort Trig. But they couldn’t really care less about Trig, his state, or anything else.
Now, as to those on the right who get all bent out of shape about Palin … that’s a whole other story.
progressoverpeace on July 17, 2009 at 10:15 PM
I said this earlier topday. Palin showed me her core beliefs when she chose to keep Trig instead of aborting him like most selfish despicable scumbags do.
Jeff from WI on July 17, 2009 at 10:16 PM
artist: You idiot Liberals are,come to think of it,so was
Soddom Saddam!!
canopfor on July 17, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Um, you must be mistaking me for someone else.
artist on July 17, 2009 at 10:16 PM
I think Neanderthals showed more compassion than many of Palin’s critics.
Unfortunately, Neanderthals went extinct. Pity Palin’s critics haven’t met their demise sooner, even with Planned Parenthood’s help.
Kini on July 17, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Trig should kill a cop, then the libs will love him.
Or is it only O.K. to kill a cop when you’re part of a minority group? And does having DS count as being part of a minority group? Hmmm, this is confusing. Could one of my liberal betters explain the rules to me please?
Aquateen Hungerforce on July 17, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Stephen Hawking had a job and he could only move his eyes. Everyone can do something to help row the boat. Being an anchor is a choice. If you’re willing to work, Americans will fall over themselves to help you.
skree on July 17, 2009 at 10:19 PM
America is divided over disability..
————————————-
There is Two America’s!
The first,is the love of your child,and for a loving mother
like Sarah Palin,its a gift from God,and not a ‘mistake’,nor
a ‘burden’!
The real Caring and Compassion is lived day in and day out by the RIGHT,and in that,a baby has some form of basic Human
Rights!
———————————————————
The Second America!
The Liberal Party claims to be on the side of the little guy,who needs a group,to be formed,so that they have some
body that will speak for them!
However,the Left,uses and abuses said groups,for the single
purpose of using said group,strictly for their vote,only to
pay nothing but lip service,witness Obama tossing the Gay
Rights Groups under the bus,ala replay of Clinton!!
Obama has stated that baby’s don’t have ‘Human Rights’,and
the Liberal Party,would like to odopt,Germanys vision,of
the disabled,and any other imperfection of the human form!!
canopfor on July 17, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Rosemary Kennedy
Stephen M on July 17, 2009 at 10:21 PM
How awesome is it for Obama that another “icon” had died. Now the media can be distracted by that for a week, while he continues to destroy the country. If Bush was in power, you know conspiracy theories would arise.
RightWinged on July 17, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Selective Breeding. Like choosing meat at the butcher shop.
Kini on July 17, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Ooops, too many tabs open, wrong thread…
RightWinged on July 17, 2009 at 10:21 PM
I’m a Palin fan, but I’m just sick of it.
There is a Cap and Tax bill with Barbara Boxer trying to ram it through and there is an African American executive who testified before her yesterday and can be quoted today:
That’s a Quote of the Day.
Marcus on July 17, 2009 at 10:22 PM
You know………..
……….. I think it is far past the time to tell the ‘left’ to go fornicate with themselves!
Seven Percent Solution on July 17, 2009 at 10:22 PM
im going to bed soon
follow my lead
nothing kewl going on
blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Sarah Palin = The Party of Life
Palin Critics = The Party of Death
Kini on July 17, 2009 at 10:23 PM
from the previous headline posting:
I don’t think they hate her because she actually had the child. I think they hate seeing her with the child, and deep down they question whether they would have the strength to choose to have had Trig. The liberal meme for years was to abort such children for the child & families sake. The Palin Paradigm shatters all of this. It makes them uncomfortable therefore they attack them.
portlandon on July 17, 2009 at 1:32 PM
portlandon on July 17, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Sometimes I can’t catch my breath when I think of how far we have fallen…that this is even a consideration.
Mommypundit on July 17, 2009 at 10:10 PM
I feel more of a kinship with little Trig and all Gods special people than those who would call me brother while stabbing me in the back and stealing a piece of my wallet.
fourdeucer on July 17, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Sad isn’t it.
BacaDog on July 17, 2009 at 10:26 PM
+1
Kini on July 17, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Naw…he should have a sex-change. And start dating Perez Hilton.
guntotinglibertarian on July 17, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Not sure what you are implying. Rosemary Kennedy had her brains scooped out by her liberal family. They were embarrassed by her.
bloggless on July 17, 2009 at 10:27 PM
I think with Brad and Madonna it’s more like choosing puppies at the animal shelter.
ddrintn on July 17, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Trig puts an overload on Obamacare just like the infirmed elderly do. The exception is that broken fetuses don’t vote.
Fletch54 on July 17, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Big time. I’m with you, Marcus.
progressoverpeace on July 17, 2009 at 10:29 PM
I think what drives the Left insane is the big, wide sincere smiles of joy on Sarah and Todd’s faces in that picture.
That sort of joy should be reserved for your son’s gay wedding.
guntotinglibertarian on July 17, 2009 at 10:30 PM
I hope and pray that Trig grows up to be president someday. I know he will be a better man than the Thug that infests 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. today.
Zorro on July 17, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Did you notice how Boxer also assumed he was from Washington,DC? I think he took offense to that when he retorted that he was from Bethesda, Maryland. It was like Boxhead couldn’t percieve that a black man could be from a nice suburb.
bloggless on July 17, 2009 at 10:31 PM
I am just going to copy what I said when this story was in the headlines.
Cindy Munford on July 17, 2009 at 10:31 PM
He’ll undoubtedly have better taste in women, too.
guntotinglibertarian on July 17, 2009 at 10:31 PM
I assume that was Alford. When did he say that, just after his testimony?
progressoverpeace on July 17, 2009 at 10:32 PM
canopfor, artist is soooo not a liberal.
Wass a matta for you?
katy on July 17, 2009 at 10:33 PM
She should offered to fill up his gas tank and pay his mortgage while he chilled out with a nize big slice ob waddamelon.
guntotinglibertarian on July 17, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Those two authors can kiss my ass. The left hates Palin because she became a success without their help. They hate her because she isn’t a bitter harpie shrew like the rest of them.
They hate her because she makes doing the right thing look so easy after they have run from it their whole lives.
To them Sonia Sotomayor or Hillary Clinton are good examples of what a woman should because they are ugly and sexless and will put leftist ideology ahead of the truth every time.
NeoKong on July 17, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Well said.
katy on July 17, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Couldn’t disagree.
FontanaConservative on July 17, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Disability can bring out strength of character through the adversity; to the point where the so-called ‘disabled’ person is more functional than the average schmuck walking down the street.
I have seen it in the harshest of environments in exceptional individuals and in groups, and it absolutely awes me.
michaelo on July 17, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Hey! Hillary isn’t “sexless”. She’s a dyke.
Remember Bill Jeff telling his girlfriend that Hills had eaten more p***y than he ever had?
guntotinglibertarian on July 17, 2009 at 10:36 PM
One thing that bothered me was when Palin declared in the convention speech that people with children with disabilities would have an advocate with her in the White House.
I’m probably setting myself up to be a punching bag like Governor Lamm in Colorado way back when, but it’s a dangerous idea to expect the government to be responsible for the Down Syndrome babies of 40+ year old women.
There. I said it.
Buddahpundit on July 17, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Can’t answer your question, but Alford is going to be on BOR Monday.
Knucklehead on July 17, 2009 at 10:37 PM
I encourage you to watch the original clip and notice the hideous woman BEHIND Boxer in the glasses who is the stereotypical ultra-lib I would bet my life on. She is obviously there to put things in front of Boxer to use and I would bet gave her everything to “enter into the record” after this man’s speech. She has a smirk on her face you want to slap off and after this gentleman starts his rebuttal she clearly is in a panic and that smirk is gone and she is jumping up and down and whispering into Boxer’s ear.
Marcus on July 17, 2009 at 10:38 PM
While the description of the “conservative” side was a bit self serving, I for one see this as a pretty fair assessment of a very real dichotomy. One that puts me squarely opposite most here. However, there are many die hard liberals and democrats who really dont think in those terms, that never understand government well enough to realize they tend to enable some out there stuff. Either way, im willing to admit i do tend to view things like an end to genetic disorders as something society should provide. Its the whole hard future thing, gotta be securing our long long long term future in space…when you begin to grasp what changes in society would be necessary to actually do any of that stuff, things like gene therapy are quaint.
ernesto on July 17, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Um,you must be mistaken….
artist on July 17,2009 at 10:16PM.
artist: This is my third time,I’ve mistaken some very good
crew members of being a troll!
I will stop doing this!
I am very sorry,and sincerely apologize artist!
I hope I didn’t cause you any hard feelings!:)
canopfor on July 17, 2009 at 10:39 PM
I’ve found the disrespect for life crew to be a disturbing bunch
I just feel like they can’t take anything about new life
If the sun was a baby in the morning
they’d roll it back into the sea
blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Traffic must be down today.
Americannodash on July 17, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Watchin’ yer back, Buddah, because my wife and I had the same feeling. It just seemed…opportunistic.
And we’re both tired of folks…and I’m not saying Sarah is one of them, necessarily…who only come to Jesus on some issue when tragedy affects them personally. Then they rush around lobbying for some law named after their loved one.
Most egregious recent example: the mom whose toddler slipped out of her (unlatched) doggie door and drowned in her (unfenced) swimming pool.
Now she’s running around banging the drum for laws to regulate doggy doors (and suing the manufacturer of her own doggy door)
What sort of dumb cow takes her eye off of a toddler for twenty minutes and fails to install a kid-proof fence around her pool?
guntotinglibertarian on July 17, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Yeah, you said it. But you shouldn’t have. Sexist, misogynist, bigoted, dope. That would be you.
bloggless on July 17, 2009 at 10:42 PM
You’re young, and you should be out having fun on a Friday night. Forget bed, go out and get into some trouble.
Laura in Maryland on July 17, 2009 at 10:42 PM
This joker uses the same line every time.
Hey bonehead, you on autotroll or what?
Lanceman on July 17, 2009 at 10:42 PM
ObamaCare ultimately devalues life by putting a price tag on whether or not one’s life is of value to society.
Trig, possibly wouldn’t have been allowed to be born.
CynicalOptimist on July 17, 2009 at 10:43 PM
+1, that guy’s great!
As a Palin neutral, I’m tired of all the Palin QOTD threads, one after another. I haven’t run the numbers but it seems like they run about 50%. 2012 is a long way away, and although I’m all for keeping up with her political career at HotAir, how ’bout giving the rest of us a QOTD that’s worth participating in? Who cares what some guy or gal at Political thinks?
What’s going on in Honduras, AP? Inquiring minds want to know. There hasn’t been an update for several days.
FloatingRock on July 17, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Sarah was not advocating the government be responsible for DS babies of women over 40.
Look up the word advocate.
She was expressing the idea that she would be a mouth piece, a support, a champion of women who deal with the issues that arise from caring for a DS child.
katy on July 17, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Sadly a predictable QOT. A disabled child is a political football now. The 14 year old is no longer out of bounds, so go for the 1 year old?
Is there no decency left?
Hog Wild on July 17, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Trig is a miracle child.
His mother kept.
America fell in love with him.
And an entire political party and its followers have shown how much they hate him, which has united us.
And all it took was a sister to love him.
madmonkphotog on July 17, 2009 at 10:44 PM
I would
but i cant
id explain it to you but i dont want to turn the thread
maybe you can email me and ill tell you
blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Wass a matta for you!
katy on July 17,2009 at 10:33PM.
katy: I realized I confused artist,no excuses,and I do feel
embrassassed,its not the first time!
I need to read a tad slower,before jumping,and again,
theres no excuse!!:)
canopfor on July 17, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Wow, I thought only Lefties could come up with that sort of simplistic ad hominen attack.
Couldn’t you at least shoe-horned “racist” in there somehow?
guntotinglibertarian on July 17, 2009 at 10:45 PM
A
This does in fact happen in Canada. Pregnant women who have genetic testing done revealing a genetic abnormality are strongly encouraged to abort due to the costs to the healthcare system of a disabled child.
txmomof6 on July 17, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Knucklehead=Marytr
portlandon on July 17, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Thank you. Apparently some folks are just plain ignorant.
bloggless on July 17, 2009 at 10:45 PM
The time is coming where much more than words or votes will be required.
jwp1964 on July 17, 2009 at 10:46 PM
why you gotta get on knuckle with that “troll” sh*t?
blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 10:46 PM
While ObamaCare, Crap & Tax is being shoved down the countries throat, while Joe Biden tells us we must go bankrupt in order to save the country, while Barbara Boxer plays another race card.
You betcha, this is another yawner.
Eat me.
Knucklehead on July 17, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Sounding more and more like a Peoples’ Paradise…the perfect fascist world.
Go to P’yongyang. Won’t see a handicapped person anywhere, in a population of nearly 4 million.
Why?
People with physical handicaps (other than war veterans) are considered far less than human, a blight on the perfection of the Kim Empire. Abortion is common, infanticide is prevalent, and those who are not killed in vivo or immediately after birth are sent out the the farthest reaches of the country to slowly die, mostly shunned by even the poorest of the peasants.
Our President having no qualms about a baby left to die in a hospital storeroom or worried about one of his daughters having to live with a “mistake” has already shown us clearly which side of “perfection” he stands. Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D.-Md.) slipped an amendment into the Senate health care bill currently being legislated that would allow the Obama Administraion to mandate that insurance companies cover abortion and taxpayers pay for it.
This seems to be the Utopia that the Left embraces…perfection or nothing at all.
Whose perfection?
They can try to disguise it under “choice,” but it is in reality “cleansing” no better than that horror which was visited on Bosnia in our collective forgotten long long ago times.
coldwarrior on July 17, 2009 at 10:47 PM
I can’t help if you are a racist, too.
bloggless on July 17, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Knucklehead = martyr, bonehead, clippy0481.
Probably IMing Keith Overbite as we speak.
Lanceman on July 17, 2009 at 10:48 PM
you don’t know Knuck very well, do you, Big Boss?
blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 10:49 PM
That or too many beers…. ;o)
katy on July 17, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Fine, as far as it goes. But I’m not sure a GOP convention is the time and place. My wife and I looked at each other and started calculating, “How many votes did she hope to snare with that?”
Mind you, we had just contributed the maximum to McCain/Palin and were thrilled to have her on the ticket. But it seemed so…needlessly opportunistic.
guntotinglibertarian on July 17, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Actually, you weren’t flaming me…you were flaming Buddahpundit. I have no idea if he is a racist.
guntotinglibertarian on July 17, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Just that same post, BB.
Lanceman on July 17, 2009 at 10:50 PM
she’s a good one!
trust me, im a doctor
blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 10:51 PM
guntotinglibertarian on July 17, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Exactly when would it have appropriate for Governor Palin to express her pledge of advocacy? You have a different set of standards for Palin.
bloggless on July 17, 2009 at 10:52 PM
You didn’t read the article yet have you? Hit the link an read it and then respond accordingly. The author is not picking on trig.
Americannodash on July 17, 2009 at 10:53 PM
If Trig had never been born, Lefties would hate Palin just as much as they do now.
Speedwagon82 on July 17, 2009 at 10:53 PM
I wasn’t “flaming” anyone. I calls it as I sees it.
bloggless on July 17, 2009 at 10:53 PM
It simply astounds me that every time I even look slightly at the “Progressive” blueprint for society, I see EXACTLY the same utopia envisioned by such kindly gentlemen with names like Goering, Himmler, Goebbels, and Hitler.
Kill the old and the disabled by rationing health care to preserve resources, wipe out the genetically impure or the merely inconvenient in the womb, use the law and the media to silence opposition, create a government and corporate alliance that controls and directs every aspect of life and sustenance all under the yoke of an “enlightened” superior elite, with every person forced into “organizations” and “unions” for their own good.
Our country is becoming a rerun of the 1930’s (and not the Roosevelt version, either). All we need is for some incident to replicate the Reichstag fire so they can dispense with the Constitution and we are done.
babylonandon on July 17, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Trig is just the icing on the liberals Hate Cake.
bloggless on July 17, 2009 at 10:54 PM
IF this is true
I’m going to thank you for giving me the brightest spot in the worst week
This is hysterical if true
When did he say that?
blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Go sit on a Coke bottle, the 2 liter size preferably, and rotate slowly.
Knucklehead on July 17, 2009 at 10:54 PM
I have a little story about this…..
I worked with a woman, she was a good friend, many years ago, that wanted a third child. She was in good physical health, she wasn’t pushing the envelope in age, and when she found out she was pregnant, she was overjoyed. In the third month, there was a problem detected with the baby, and an amnio was done. It showed that the baby was most likely going to have Down’s syndrome and my friend was at a crossroads. I sat down with her and being very young, 21, at the time, I asked her what she was going to do. Even at that age, I understood the sanctity of life. I knew it would not be an easy decision for my friend. Most people would have just decided to end the pregnancy and go on with their lives, but my friend so wanted, prayed so hard for this baby, that she could not let her go. She did not want to kill her baby. She decided to keep the baby and was in her fifth month when she miscarried. She was devastated, they named the baby and had a quiet burial for the child. A few weeks later, she returned to work and I asked her how she was doing. She was at peace, knowing that the decision that she made was the right decision and it was God that made the final decision.
Those that are so shallow, so worried about appearances over the sake of child, may want to think twice about bringing a child into the world. I don’t think they deserve it.
HornetSting on July 17, 2009 at 10:54 PM
love it when you talk dirty
blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Just that same post, BB.
Lanceman on July 17, 2009 at 10:50 PM
she’s a good one!
trust me, im a doctor
blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Hey Lance, BB is right. Knucklehead just thinks there are more pressing matters to deal with today than this article.
Americannodash on July 17, 2009 at 10:57 PM
I love you too baby. Having a tough week? I sure am. I am on a rampage against stupid people today.
BTW, it’s 60 degree’s here in Chicago. So much for summer.
Brrrrrrrr……
Knucklehead on July 17, 2009 at 10:57 PM
She??
Seems like a man’s handle.
However, I, for one, like a good Palin thread.
The heck with it. I’m gonna go get some booze. Babs Boxer is lookin’ pretty hot for a lib, so I better go fix that.
Hey Don, is the Acropolis still there in Sellwood?
Lanceman on July 17, 2009 at 10:57 PM
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