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tailfins1959
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 Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 8:51 am Post subject: Re: Barack Obama's Stance on Autism and Asperger's |
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| JerryHatake wrote: | | alex wrote: | From Obama's plan for change:
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/disabilities/
http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/AutismSpectrumDisorders.pdf
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Supporting Americans Living with Autism Spectrum Disorders: More than one million Americans live with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a complex neurobiological condition that has a range of impacts on thinking, feeling, language, and the ability to relate to others. As diagnostic criteria broaden and awareness increases, more cases of ASD have been recognized across the country. Barack Obama believes we need to research treatments and search for the causes of ASD. He has been a strong supporter of more than $1 billion in federal funding for ASD research on the root causes and treatments. Obama believes we must work to guarantee that Americans with ASD can live independent and fully productive lives and to assure that their families understand and are able to support a loved one with ASD. Obama will fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to ensure that no child with ASD or any other disability is left behind. Obama will also fight to assure that the government and our communities work together to provide a helping hand to people with ASD and their families.
Obama has a long record supporting people with ASD. In the state senate, Obama sponsored legislation that became law to create the ASD Program - a systems development initiative designed to promote the implementation of evidence-based practices. And in the U.S. Senate, Obama is also a cosponsor of a measure that would expand federal funding for life-long services for people with ASD, authorizing approximately $350 million in new federal funding for key programs related to treatments, interventions and services for both children and adults with ASD. |
I found this through the Autism bulletin. |
Good thing that I'm supporting Obama.
Obama has the right ideas and beliefs about us. |
Horse puckey! If some lefties had their way, there would be a fetal test for ASD followed by a free abortion.
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srriv345
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 12:45 pm Post subject: Re: Barack Obama's Stance on Autism and Asperger's |
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| tailfins1959 wrote: |
Horse puckey! If some lefties had their way, there would be a fetal test for ASD followed by a free abortion. |
Anyone who would advocate mandatory fetal testing or abortion is not truly "pro-choice." BTW, many people who are against abortion in most other circumstances are A-OK with it if the fetus is judged "defective." |
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Psycho_jimmy
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Location: Adelaide, Australia
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Aw, hell. I think this will just go as it did already here in Australia.
Everybody hates Bush, so instead of voting for what they think about each candidate, they'll simply vote for whomever it appears is opposing Bush's ideas the most - regardless of whether or not their own concepts are intelligent and constructive.
Whoever said democracy is the perfect government was an idiot. There is no perfect government. That's a contradiction of terms. |
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Speckles
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't think that I've ever heard anyone say that democracy is the perfect government, simply that it was better then the alternatives. |
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ToadOfSteel
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Location: New Jersey
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Psycho_jimmy wrote: | Aw, hell. I think this will just go as it did already here in Australia.
Everybody hates Bush, so instead of voting for what they think about each candidate, they'll simply vote for whomever it appears is opposing Bush's ideas the most - regardless of whether or not their own concepts are intelligent and constructive.
Whoever said democracy is the perfect government was an idiot. There is no perfect government. That's a contradiction of terms. |
You aussies spawned Rupert Murdoch, so this is technically all your fault...  (but then again, you also spawned pendulum so you're good in my book)
| tailfins1959 wrote: | | Horse puckey! If some lefties had their way, there would be a fetal test for ASD followed by a free abortion. |
Obama isn't exactly extreme leftist... if anything, it's Hillary you should be worried about... |
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