I would normally have left my 9/11 post stand, but I came across the following story whilst exploring some blogs in Canada, and I find myself aghast. I then confirmed the story with the LA Times. Regarding Todd and Sarah Palin’s decision to keep their Downs Syndrome infant:

But a senior Canadian doctor is now expressing concerns that such a prominent public role model as the governor of Alaska and potential vice president of the United States completing a Down syndrome pregnancy may prompt other women to make the same decision against abortion because of that genetic abnormality. And thereby reduce the number of abortions.

What? Is this doctor absolutely insane? Have we devolved in society to such a point that, if a newborn isn’t precisely perfect, we must abort them, no questions asked?

Continuing:

Dr. Andre Lalonde, executive vice president of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in Ottawa, worries that Palin’s now renowned decision may cause abortions in Canada to decline as other women there and elsewhere opt to follow suit.

There just happens to be a Downs child, Shane, living next door to me. He’s in his late 20s and enjoys his life. His mother, Darlene, considers him to be a blessing. He functions nicely, speaks well, walks, talks, enjoys going to the nearby swimming pool in the summer. He helps his mother in the yard, takes the bus to the nearby town. So because he may have been a “challenge” a time or two, he should have been aborted?

My God, how the Leftists and Socialists really are the Party of Negativism, Arrogance, Elitism and Death. Let’s just kill everyone, Leftists, and leave the world to the trees and rocks. And, by the way, you first.

With friends and results like this, we should care one whit about what “the world” thinks of the United States?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, there is no consensus outside the United States that Islamist militants from al Qaeda were responsible, according to an international poll published Wednesday.

The survey of 16,063 people in 17 nations found majorities in only nine countries believe al Qaeda was behind the attacks on New York and Washington that killed about 3,000 people in 2001.

U.S. officials squarely blame al Qaeda, whose leader Osama bin Laden has boasted of organizing the suicide attacks by his followers using hijacked commercial airliners.

On average, 46 percent of those surveyed said al Qaeda was responsible, 15 percent said the U.S. government, 7 percent said Israel and 7 percent said some other perpetrator. One in four people said they did not know who was behind the attacks.

Oh, the money I could save if but I were the President of the United States.

I’ll make this short and sweet because I’m not trusting my emotions at this precise moment. But you need to see Obama’s comments from Tuesday. And for those unused to such base epithets in my posts, I’ll apologize later (they have since been removed – BZ).

From the Wall Street Journal:

You doubt his comment? Watch it here on YouTube.

From Politico.com:

She’s been labeled a pig because she disagrees with you? You sexist ____. She’s three times the person you’ll ever be. And you mark this now: this is the beginning of your political demise, for you have most assuredly pissed off a massive amount of your former voters. Keep it up.

So Barack Obama insults Gov. Sarah Palin and then gets upset at the media for reporting it? Yes, of course. From Politico.com:

Speaking at a high school in Norfolk, Obama took a few moments to address what he calls “the made-up controversy” of the day, Amie Parnes reports.

Obama said the McCain campaign moved to “seize an innocent remark and take it out of context because they knew it’s catnip for the news media.”

“See, it would be funny, but the news media decided that would be the lead story yesterday. This happens every election cycle. Every four years, this is what we do. This is what they want to spend two of the last 55 days talking about — Enough!” he said.

Obama called the attacks “lies, outrage and swift boat politics.”

“These are serious times and they call for a serious debate…spare me all the phony outrage. Spare me all the phony talk about change.”

That’s what kind of president you’re going to get with Barack Hussein Obama: blaming the victim apparently works for him.

BZ

P.S.
A number to call to voice your opinion of Obama’s comment, to his campaign: (866) 675-2008.

Things are no more complicated than this regarding Alaska Governor Sarah Palin:

Newsweek’s Howard Fineman writes:

We’ve got to go after her, and fast,” a top Democratic strategist, who asked for anonymity when discussing strategy, told me.

Allow me, if I may, to possibly risk insulting you with the obvious:

WHY are the Demorats and the DEM/MSM so speeding to slander, libel and lie about Sarah Palin? There is only ONE answer: because of the threat she poses to their sucesssful acquisition of the White House. It is because of her perceived effectiveness.

If this were not the case, there would be the equivalent of indifference. Do you see indifference? Look at the polls, look at the attacks, look at the numbers.

Therefore I concluded last week the Demorats DEM/MSM are clearly in PSH Mode. And I repeat: we can win the White House!

P.S.

Click on link: an excellent site debunking the outright lies and falsehoods surrounding Gov. Sarah Palin. Also, see Pat Buchanan’s oddly-competent article about the media’s reaction to her.