Mother of the Year
“My son, like so many others, they come back a bit different, they come back hardened, they come back wondering if there is that respect for what it is that their fellow soldiers and airmen and every other member of the military so sacrificially have given to the country. And that starts from the top, and it’s a shame that our military personnel even have to wonder if they have to question if they’re respected anymore. It starts from the top. The question, though, that comes from our own president, where they have to look at him and wonder, ‘Do you know what we go through? Do you know what we’re trying to do to secure America and to secure the freedoms that have been bequeathed us?’ “
PTSD is a serious condition, and scoring a cheap shot at the president at her son’s expense is inexcusable and an insult not just to him, but to everyone who suffers from it (not all of whom have seen combat in the traditional sense). But it is a slap to the veterans who indeed do return home changed. PTSD is a clinical determination, and I have no idea if Palin suffers from it or not, and if he does suffer from it, I have no idea if he developed it during his tour in Iraq or just growing up in THAT household.
Trick/Trap/Trunk/Spatula was notoriously the most drunken and belligerent of the Palins during the famous #PalinBrawl (the Bristolnacht), and he ended up as the most injured party. He has a long history of violent behavior that precedes his tour in Iraq.
Mock Paper Scissors 
He enlisted in order to escape trouble with the law. Without the Bush era moorland waivers, he might not have gotten in.
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Wtf spellcheck? “Moorland waivers”? Moral, moral waivers!!!
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Aaarh ‘Ee don’t go into the Moorland after dark, young sir. it be the haunt of the press gangs. Oh, and aarh!”
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Is that Burns?
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Monty? Nope it’s all me
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Since Spatula’s tour of duty was in 2008, is the snowbilly princess sure she’s blaming the right president?
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She has a choice of three presidents: Carter, Clinton, or Obama, one deity, one asterisk and one War criminal. Given that she’s not paid to think…
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It’s Obama’s fault her son beat up his girlfriend. Got it.
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I suppose it’s Obama’s fault her daughter got knocked up too.
Trash is trash no matter how fancy trailer is painted.
Or how much the spiked dick ensemble cost.
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Ummm… I don’t think they’ll be making that particular accusation.
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Jeepers! You people and your wanting things to make sense and be true.
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Yes well, so much for the Party of Personal Responsibility. It’s not Spatula’s fault he’s a woman beating, alcoholic goober. I just hope the girl friend has the good sense to leave.
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Thank God traumatic stress is a product of disrespect promulgated by an America-hating president!
Otherwise her subsequent cheerleading for the next war might seem callous and ignorant.
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Gawd, I hate her.
“In May 2007, Bush threatened to veto (Veterans health care) legislation that sought a 10% – $3.2 billion – increase, calling it too expensive. Bush proposed a 2% increase, far below what lawmakers and VA officials said was needed to treat a dramatic increase in traumatic brain injury and PTSD cases.
…Amid the growing scandals about substandard VA treatment and inept management, (Bush’s Secretary for Veterans Affairs, Jim) Nicholson resigned in July 2007.”
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