John McCain just used autism as a talking point during the presidential debate. He had so little to say about Sarah Palin, he actually used autism as a way to promote her readiness. Because, you know, she cares about autism. Horse hockey!
I think Obama’s response was excellent: Across-the-board spending cuts will compromise our efforts to address healthcare problems like autism.
liz | 9:10 PM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
I think that he talked about Autism and Sarah Palin because he knows that Palin’s son has “something” and Autism is a big thing. Nevermind the fact that Palin’s child has Down Syndrome.
I liked his first slip about her building a pipeline to send natural gas to “the United States, er, Lower 48″. Freudian.
He spent so much more time on Biden’s qualifications than he did on his running mate’s.
Bob what’s-his-name (moderator) seemed disgusted several times, shutting McCain up with a “let’s move on”.
And what WAS that thing in McCain’s cheek? Chaw? Or something more insidious?
McCain has had surgery for numerous cancers and what you saw was the result of an operation.
The moderator was Bob Schieffer.
The McPalin mob scares me.
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Gulley – I was too apathetic to bother looking up Bob’s surname; the debate was debilitating and I couldn’t be bothered to check the name of a highly-regarded journalist before posting.
The anxiously-awaited (you’ll have seen it already; I’m in California) Letterman on Thursday night should be delicious.
And regarding the facial deformation, I was pointing it out to show that something is seriously wrong with the man’s health. With a waxy skin tone and a large region of scarring on the cheek, something’s not right. The scarring is simply a symptom of something organically wrong with the Republican Party’s offering to the American electorate.
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