Quote of the day
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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The point there is that Christ IS love and through Christ, one can do all things through him, through faith.
The point of that ideal is that it’s God’s ideal, Word became Man, Jesus, His only Son, who is Love, God among us, Emannuel.
So of course no human being in this world can live up to “that standard” but we are asked to do miracles IN HIS NAME, the power being God, Christ, not us.
Lourdes on July 18, 2009 at 8:48 AM
You are making a very common mistake. Allah always takes quotes out the story to encourage interest and then does blue highlights for the readers to click on which are links to the original story. Normally he is ridiculed for “writing” the story as many people don’t appear to get the fact that the Quote of the Day must come from another piece. Plenty of reasons to get annoyed with Allah but you complaint is not one of them.
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 9:05 AM
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 9:05 AM
Right on Cindy… Excellent break down as usual.
Keemo on July 18, 2009 at 9:10 AM
been wanting to go to normandy for a long long time
blatantblue on July 18, 2009 at 9:12 AM
That was very funny. I hope one hundred people send it to her.
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 9:17 AM
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 9:05 AM
That is fine for people that keep up with HotAir all the time but for others that just check it every now and then it still smells
KBird on July 18, 2009 at 9:39 AM
Like I said, not an uncommon error. Please come often, learn the ropes, it will be fun and we will enjoy you being here.
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 9:43 AM
I am going to try one more time, I am not talking about me, I am talking about someone that may just check out HotAir every now and then
KBird on July 18, 2009 at 10:13 AM
I don’t get this one at all. The disability of Trig has never been a discussion that I’ve seen nor a part of the anti-Palin sentiment from the left.
They can’t stand her politics but prefer, usually, to lampoon her for being stupid/redneck/Barbie/etc.
AnninCA on July 18, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Try as often as you like, it is not HotAir’s problem that people don’t instantaniously “get” the lay out. I believe they have achieved their quota of the constantly offended.
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 10:23 AM
I can believe you haven’t seen it Anne but that does not mean it isn’t there. It has been pretty horrendous.
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 10:25 AM
The internet being the charming place that it is, a couple of obscure lefty bloggers wrote demeaning posts about children with disabilities. Apparently, those few bloggers speak for everybody who has an unfavorable opinion of Sarah Palin (a little less than half the country).
RightOFLeft on July 18, 2009 at 10:49 AM
AnninCA on July 18, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Ann;
It’s been there. Lots of stuff at the lefty websites. Governor Palin is constantly accused of using her son as a “campaign prop,” for example.
What about real hate, from the party that thinks they’re the tolerant ones?
It may not be at the water cooler at work, but it’s there where annonymity can sheild those that hate.
massrighty on July 18, 2009 at 10:51 AM
Not sure what your meaning is, here. First, I’d say it’s more than a “couple” of “obscure” lefty bloggers. There are threads, comments, even contests! that demean both Trig and Governor Palin. If you read the article that this QOTD is linked to, you find one of the core reasons; Trig’s presence is a rebuke to the extremist view that abortion can be a “more moral” choice than carrying a child to term.
As for the idea that “a little less than half the country” have an unfavorable opinion of Sarah Palin, that may be true, right now. Consider this, though;
A lot of those opinions may come from the lies, distortions, smears, and the constant drumbeat of anti-Palin comment from the media. No VP candidate has ever been so thoroughly investigated, or so roundly attacked. Which leads to persceptions formed by bad information.
Tom Peters, who co-wrote “In Search of Excellence,” says this throughout his work:
“Perception is all there is. There is only one perceived reality, the way each of us chooses to perceive a communication, the value of a service, the value of a particular product feature, the quality of a product.”
Apply this to Governor Palin. Who knows how her fav/un-fav numbers will look when some truth has pushed out the bad information thats out there?
massrighty on July 18, 2009 at 11:05 AM
As someone who has “borderline” Autism, to me it has become more important than ever to stop forced vaccines on our country. Did you know that there is Thimerosal in them? That component along with Mercury has been linked to Autism. But there is more than that..
Formaldahyde
Sucrose (sugar)
Egg protein
Polysorbate 80
and even detergent!
Read more here before you or your children are thinking about vaccines.
My point is, eugenicists and their friends in the media are attacking Palin b/c of Trig and his Down’s Syndrome…and these one-world NWO types aren’t fans of the disabled. I guess some of you heard about that eugenicist Ruth Bader Ginsburg!
BobAnthony on July 18, 2009 at 11:05 AM
Yes, please feel free to ignore commenters on said blogs as any part of the population that have expressed these feelings. To ignore the lack of compassion of a significant group of people because you dislike Gov. Palin as a potential candidate is equally disingenuous.
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 11:08 AM
BobAnthony
This autistic thinks that the idea that vaccines can cause autism is BS!
Autism is hereditary.
annoyinglittletwerp on July 18, 2009 at 11:19 AM
I will ignore them, and I think you should, too. They’re not evidence of great cultural divide over the worth and dignity of the mentally handicapped. They’re mostly kids who get off on being able to break taboos without any consequences. It’s not a fair representation of Palin’s opponents. It’s especially not a fair representation of America.
At some point conservatives and liberals have to step back and take stock of their common values. We have a lot to be proud of with respect to how we treat the disabled in our country, and I think it would be a tragedy to disregard that just to score a cheap political point.
RightOFLeft on July 18, 2009 at 11:22 AM
That’s the problem with quote of the day. Allah doesn’t make it clear who said it or why he thinks it’s quote worthy. Also he does not use quote marks properly. Quote marks go at the beginning of each quoted paragraph (but not the end of the paragraphs except the last one).
B26354 on July 18, 2009 at 11:28 AM
As a whole I agree with you, my father was disabled and never even took advantage of all the opportunities that were available to him as the increased over the years. But I wish I could believe it was out of compassion instead of fear of law suits. I am watching in awe as our government tries to divine a health care system that appears to encourage the early demise of seniors and disabled as a cost saving strategy and since I am fast approaching the senior designation I am getting a tad sensitive and less trusting in what the population really believes.
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Come on, please be willing to at least click or ask. Geesh!
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 11:31 AM
B26354 on July 18, 2009 at 11:28 AM
Come on, please be willing to at least click or ask. Geesh!
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 11:31 AM
massrighty on July 18, 2009 at 11:54 AM
Caught your posts on this thread last night. My son has Aspergers. Falls into the “techy” model very well except has no interest in math. As such, math has been a struggle for him. All of his Apspergers focus (which we see as a gift, really) has taken him to a great grasp of history, and a love of writing.
It’s such a broad spectrum, and has so many facets.
Good for your parents, by the way, and God bless them for refusing to shuffle you away. (In fact, God blessed them with you, and they were wise enough to understand this.)
In my son’s case, we had to push back when some helpful souls recommended medication (useless for Aspergers) and even attempted to diagnose him as Schizophrenic.
massrighty on July 18, 2009 at 12:04 PM
The frustrating thing is how many people support Obama’s health care reform because they think it will actually improve health care. We’re getting smothered by the Democrats’ good intentions.
RightOFLeft on July 18, 2009 at 12:07 PM
I wish Bauer would stop using Trig to score political points. He is no better than the loonies on the Left who use Trig as a political punching bag. Both sides are disgraceful.
Chekote on July 18, 2009 at 12:12 PM
You are ssoooo much nicer than I am. I don’t see them as good intentions at all, I see them as a power grab. It is un-American (yes, I said it) to want to have this much control over the individual citizen.
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 12:14 PM
I think it is often a combination, ie: more than one factor at work. I believe that some children are genetically predisposed toward autism, & I also believe that vaccines can have a different & harmful effect on the brain chemistry of those particular children.
It is a fascinating disorder for sure, we may never really understand it in our lifetime. But I do agree with what massrighty said, it can also come with amazing gifts. My son is proof of that!
kg598301 on July 18, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Ah yes; it’s never a complete thread until somebody trots out the old “both sides do it” meme.
Bauer, for all his faults, isn’t insisting that anyone’s child should have been aborted. Nor is he sponsoring photoshop contests to smear a family.
No equivalency here.
massrighty on July 18, 2009 at 12:25 PM
There might be an individual allergic reaction as with any drug but the mercury argument is total bs since it was taken out the vaccines quite a while ago and the instances of autism appear to be rising. The increase may be more of the ability to recognize it but it seems a bit to much for that to be the case.
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Thanks for your comments, there is a reason I didn’t specifically say it was thimiseral that would cause such a reaction, my point is that some children can be genetically predisposed & then exposure to another event or factor (and there are potentially too many to list) could cause autism because their brain chemistry is different. I’m certainly not interested in arguing the immunization angle, that is pretty much a moot point around here. :)
kg598301 on July 18, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 12:27 PM
I think that the increase in Autism Spectrum diagnoses (including Aspergers) is probably a cumulative result – kind of an all-of-the-above deal.
Food allergies
Med reactions (including, but not limited to, vaccines)
Increased recognition
Over-convenient diagnoses (rare, but remember how everybody had ADD/ADHD for a while?)
And, there are probably many more triggers that we don’t understand.
massrighty on July 18, 2009 at 12:43 PM
I think that Todd and Sarah Palin make the Hatefilled Left, especially liberal angry, venomous women, scream and pull their hair out becuase over the last 30 years they have managed to make abortion “mainstream” and “okay” then Todd and Sarah show up on stage with the ultimate child they thought they could justify killing and the child is precious and so obviously loved and well taken care of and their whole canard comes crashing down. The Left is startig to see who the enemy is…it is them…
God bless Todd and Sarah Palin for the example they set and the values they live. I’m praying for them everyday.
CCRWM on July 18, 2009 at 12:49 PM
Must read: The ultimate take down of Peggy Noonan…
Norwegian on July 18, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Another hypothesis about autism’s increase is that it appears to increase somewhat proportional to the increase in using immunizations that, to save money, they combined 3 shots into one making it more potent. The theory is that for some kids it overwhelmed their system, they had a very bad reaction, and autism like symptoms are the result.
CCRWM on July 18, 2009 at 12:54 PM
massrighty on July 18, 2009 at 12:43 PMkg598301 on July 18, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 1:03 PM
I saw that early, I hope all her friends send it to her in an email today. Not that she will see the irony.
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 1:05 PM
I still don’t get this article. Abortion isn’t about this. If you think your family can handle the pressures that come, that’s your choice.
Palin’s family is solid. It’ll be fine, obviously.
AnninCA on July 18, 2009 at 1:13 PM
Ann;
First question, and it’s not intended as a challenge, or an attack;
When you say “this article,” do you mean the post at the top or this page, or the linked-to article that it refers to?
massrighty on July 18, 2009 at 1:43 PM
Thanks, I enjoyed reading that brilliant post taking Noonan down…but I have to admit I’d never heard of her until she started attacking Palin
CCRWM on July 18, 2009 at 1:43 PM
Which, in a perverse way, validates her attacks. If she’s playing “Hey, look at me! I’m still here! I’m relevant!” and someone who never heard of her reads her, then, strangely, her strategy works.
massrighty on July 18, 2009 at 1:45 PM
Really? Very interesting. She was a speech writer for Pres. Reagan. She wrote two of the best the Normandy anniversary speech and the Challenger speech. That said, remember that she had Ronald Reagan as her editor, left to her own devises she has been pretty much a dumba$$. She is very very impressed with herself and her circle of friends and doesn’t understand why the average American is reluctant let them make the decisions on who governs.
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 1:49 PM
55555 especially the last line:
davo on July 18, 2009 at 2:16 PM
Cindy I really wasn’t into politics until 2000. I voted for Bush and started to pay attention to the world I would be bringing my children up in…
CCRWM on July 18, 2009 at 2:45 PM
No problem Cindy, the bottom line is that no one really knows what causes it. We have no history of autism on either mine or my husband’s side- but who’s to say it couldn’t be the combination of our genes that resulted in our son having autism? Only God knows!
But He certainly has made these little ones with a different perception than the rest of us, & it is very interesting as well as well as very challenging to deal with.
kg598301 on July 18, 2009 at 2:53 PM
Ann, I hope you didn’t make this comment and leave; how can anyone help you if you don’t stick around?
massrighty on July 18, 2009 at 2:59 PM
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Small part…
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She is controversal because she came along right when we needed a strong contrast of Americanism -v- Socialism. Not just Odumbsh*t, but all over the place. She is like a candle in the darkness; hence she needs to be extinguished.
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To be sure, she also is a great human being, compared to the Mess-I-ah… ummm.
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And there are a number of other contrasts that she wins handily. The controversy mentioned above however is one of the ones that most people care least about…
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RalphyBoy on July 18, 2009 at 3:16 PM
Rob Zombie more human than the humans. Psychobilly – Rockabilly’s nasty little sister ;)
Dr Evil on July 18, 2009 at 3:17 PM
I almost need to make a list to keep up with people past present and future. Especially since I am older and people who had clout in the past won’t go away. (That’s a shot at Ms. Noonan). There is really no reason for you to her except that she gets bashed here frequently. Your probably right that it has increase since she has been so harsh about Gov. Palin. If you ever get the chance to see those to speeches (I am sure they are on YouTube) they are beautiful pieces of work.
Cindy Munford on July 18, 2009 at 5:12 PM
Nonsense.
Palin became controversial the second the liberal base heard she was an evangelical Christian. Period, end of story.
They hated her from that moment forward for all the same reasons they hated George Bush. Indeed, she WAS the female George Bush. She was a white, female, Clarence Thomas. She’s a woman! Democrats think they OWN women the way they think they own African Americans, and own gays, and own every other minority.
If you are a minority in any way, and you step off the Democrat plantation…. you better watch your back!
American Elephant on July 18, 2009 at 5:55 PM
To anyone who thinks that Trig has been off limits, Alan Colmes (on his radio show) blamed Trig’s disability on the fact that Sarah jumped on a plane and flew to Alaska to deliver instead of delivering Trig where she was.
Anyone remember this? I was disgusted. And Colmes is one of the nicer libs. I consider this a refutation of what the troll says.
Facts are stubborn things.
Geochelone on July 18, 2009 at 7:15 PM
Name that troll, please.
massrighty on July 18, 2009 at 7:55 PM
As much as I dislike Alan Colmes he did NOT blame the DS on Sarah taking a flight home when she went into labor..he just said that that was a bad idea…
Cindy can you remind me of the two speeches?
CCRWM on July 18, 2009 at 10:13 PM
That’s a Quote of the Day.
Marcus on July 17, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Go Marcus, great comments!!!!!
highninside on July 19, 2009 at 8:21 PM
Must read: The ultimate take down of Peggy Noonan…
Norwegian on July 18, 2009
That was great. Thanks for the link. To me, conservatism is like art. Other people will try to tell you what it is, but you know a true masterpiece when you see one and you also know a crappy piece of sh*t when you see one; no matter what the “experts” tell you. Let all the Peggy Noonan’s and the insignificant bloggers think they are influencing people. Gives us something to laugh at.
SKYFOX on July 20, 2009 at 8:20 AM
Sorry, just saw this. When I get home I will find them on YouTube and link them for you.
Cindy Munford on July 20, 2009 at 12:50 PM
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