Comments on: ThinkProgress is wrong: Palin did not reduce funding to Special Olympics

By: Link Love for Sarah Palin, 17 Days and Counting at Haemet

Link Love for Sarah Palin, 17 Days and Counting at Haemet — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:44:23 +0000

[...] work with special-needs children, including her autistic nephew. Then, at the end, it repeats the oft-debunked lie that Gov. Palin slashed funding for the Special Olympics. Palin actually increased the funding by 10% over the previous year; she simply did not give the [...]

By: Palin ha desarrollado prácticas de mal gobierno en sus mandatos - FALSO « Sarah Palin en Español

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:26:05 +0000

[...] la mitad) el dinero destinado a financiar los Juegos Paralímpicos: FALSO. Lo que recortó fue la propuesta inicial de incrementar el presupuesto destinado a este concepto en más de un 1… El presupuesto que finalmente aprobó suponía incrementar la dotación en 25.000 [...]

By: More Palin Rumors Debunked | Faith and Facts

More Palin Rumors Debunked | Faith and Facts — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:15:36 +0000

[...] budget, except in the Washington sense of “didn’t increase it as much as someone wanted.” Warren Throckmorton shows is was actually a 10 percent increase over the previous year; voxitar in the comments gives a link to the previous year’s budget of [...]

By: Palin slashes Special Olympics Budget: Accurate statement still unfair? « Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:58:18 +0000

[...] Palin had “cut the Special Olympics funding in half.” Now, here are the facts (and thanks to Warren Throckmorton for digging this [...]

By: Pajamas Media » Dissecting the Palin Rumor Mill

Pajamas Media » Dissecting the Palin Rumor Mill — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:20:23 +0000

[...] had “cut the Special Olympics funding in half.” Now, here are the facts (and thanks to Warren Throckmorton for digging this [...]

By: If Olbermann gives a charity $100 for a lie, how much will he give for bad reporting? — Warren Throckmorton

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:29:39 +0000

[...] Here and at Newsbusters, the claim that Palin cut the Special Olympics budget has been debunked. She signed a budget which gave them a 10% raise. [...]

By: Did Sarah Palin cut funds to Catholic charities? — Warren Throckmorton

Did Sarah Palin cut funds to Catholic charities? — Warren Throckmorton — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:10:22 +0000

[...] have examined the Special Olympics and Covenant House claims here and found them false. The Catholic charities claim is a similar kind [...]

By: dean

dean — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:41:56 +0000

Biden’s knowledge of foreign affairs and how he employs that knowledge are 2 entirely different things. He can’t keep his foot out of his mouth long enough to engage in the diplomatic process.

By: Daniel F. Vojir

Daniel F. Vojir — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:11:55 +0000

Prof. Throckmorton:

Yes, I confess that I used some material from ThinkProgress for my post. Thank you for requesting the source. I will also try hold ThinkProgess accountable in relations to the Special Olympics funding.

One of the problems I have with Sarah Palin, however, is that she has not answered satisfactorily many of the accusations that are prevalent in blogs like ThinkProgress. The fact that the McCain campaign has kept her from the mainstream press from the beginning requires skepticism from the entire nation.

Call me old-fashioned, but I consider Sarah Palin a politician first and foremost. To me, all politicians are guilty until proven innocent.

In addition, I didn’t like her tone concerning “community organizers”. I come from Chicago: a community organizer for the South Side of Chicago (not including Hyde Park) is subject to problems the Governor of Alaska has never seen: the South and West sides of Chicago are amongst the worst inner-city ghettos of the country. To my knowledge, Palin has never even seen an inner city.

One comparison that never seems to make the headlines, but I think should be addressed is the matter of foreign relations. Under our Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler aka The Diplomatic Dimwit, the efforts of American diplomats over the past fifty years have been erased. Foreign countries either fear us or laugh at us. Now look at the duos: Obama-Biden or McCain- Palin. Which would you chose to represent you? We got into a disastrous war because our President didn’t know a thing about the country he wanted to invade. In fact, every time he steps off of Air Force One, you know from the look on his face that he doesn’t even know where the hell he is! (And an intense, twenty-minute briefing en route never seems to help either).

Look at the duos again: Obama has a good working knowledge of different cultures and Biden has unimpeachable knowledge of foreign affairs. McCain is too hard line to consider any avenues of diplomacy with foreign aggressors and Palin’s personal and professional life has been spent absolutely oblivious to events/cultures outside of Alaska (“I heard in the news about it…”). We need leaders to be exceptional diplomats, not dimwits who, when they put their (our) best foot forward, it lands in cow patties in Crawford, Texas. We need diplomats and we need them NOW!

Again, thanks for reading and commenting on my blog.

DanV

By: Palin Rumors | Explorations

Palin Rumors | Explorations — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:28:34 +0000

[...] conservative, would she? Well, I still don’t think it’s important, but sure enough Warren Throckmorton shows is was actually a 10 percent increase over the previous year. Once again, we find that it’s a Washington “cut” — [...]