Saturday, August 08, 2009

Politics Trumps Family: Thy Name Is Sarah

The exploitation of the children of Sarah Palin by their mother for political gain continues.

It began, as far as we know, on convention night in St. Paul, Minnesota. And it continues to this day on Facebook:

The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.

"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats....."

"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care."

Really, was it necessary to use her daughter's disability to make things up about a "death panel," to imagine "subjective judgement(s)," blindly to attack nameless government "bureaucrats," and to try to scare individuals into believing that the President of the United States wishes them dead? Apparently it is, if your name is Sarah Palin.

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