Powerful Kos Diary - What Sarah Palin Didn't (and probably couldn't) Tell that Crowd in Indiana

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/18/721672/-What-Sarah-Palin-Didnt-(and-probably-couldnt)-Tell-that-Crowd-in-Indiana

Written by CPT Doom about the author's family history of having a child with Down's Syndrome. One that wasn't used as a prop for his mother's political career.

Spoken by one who's been there. Yeah, Trig Palin was a great prop, and he's a great selling point in his mother's quest for personal recognition, but it's his siblings who are going to be the ones who will have to take care of him, and I wonder how that's going to work out?

Sarah Palin is doing harm every fucking time she opens her uninformed, grasping mouth.

The woman who wrote this is to be commended.

K&R.

us who grew up in families with siblings like Ab can relate to. Palin is an opportunistic woman who is using yet another of her children as
a prop for her appeal to RW religious crazies. Ugh.

Down's Syndrome or not using that child as a prop at her campaign events was pathetic.

I was spared that cross. They will surely have difficulties in their lives, as have we all, but I will not be hoping that they will predecease me.

but their child, kenny, was profoundly handicapped. wheelchairbound. normal sized body, but useless. CP? oxegen starved? i don't know, but they didn't have any other children, i remember being in their home and seeing this big lift thing in the bathroom. they id it on their own. and now my uncle has a daughter with profound CP. kept her at home. lots of crap they had to deal with all these years.
luckily alexa is a lot smaller than kenney was. had to be near 200lbs. kenny outlived his parents.

I also had an uncle with Down's. It took a similar toll on my mother's family. He lived to be 60, though -- a long life for someone with Down's.

and responsibilitities onto other people.

I honestly doubt that Sarah Palin will ever have to deal with most of the difficulties associated with Trig's condition. I suspect, though, that poor Bristol is going to have a fairly crappy life, and I imagine the younger daughters will, too, though the oldest daughter almost always ends up shouldering the lion's share of the burden in families where the mother doesn't carry her fair share. That happened in my family, too, and my oldest sister had her childhood ruined by carrying so much responsiblitly for six younger siblings. To this day she, now 63, is unable to draw a line that others can't cross to dump their crap on her. She feels it's her job to take care of everyone else's needs, but no one is responsible for doing anything for her.

The only bright spot I see for Bristol is that at least her family has some money. But I still doubt that things will be very pleasant for her.

to the Alaska governors office.

K & R

When Todd asked Bristol to take/watch Trig, she got visibly pissed per the article's writer, she said that Willow should watch him because Bristol felt SHE had to take care of him more so than her sister. She made the "frigging" comment. Willow refused at first, then the article quoted Todd as TELLING Willow "you will watch him".

So...what happens to Trig when he is 5, 10, 15 and they are STILL having to "watch/take care of" him?? As the OP link says, he's not even a year yet so they probably don't even have the full picture of his limits or disabilty. And what happens when these older siblings are out of the picture/out of the house---no kids to pass "Trig" off to---unless Sarah tells them they have to take turns bringing Trig into their homes to watch him. Is she going to make them live at home when they go to college so she doesn't lose her built in baby sitters??

the vote grubbing style of Sarah Palin who used her child as a prop and the UK Conservative Leader, David Cameron.

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article5821504.ece

The contrast is very strong and yet again shows why the GOP has no Political equivalence anywhere in the World.

Thanks for the article.

Send this to all the anti-choice people you know.

why folks feel so compelled to take such a black-and-white view I do not understand. What frustrates me the most about Palin's comments is that "for a fleeting moment" she contemplated her CHOICES--the same CHOICE she wants to take away from everyone else. Inconsistency much, right-wingers?