Expertise by Birth

I like how McCain explains Palin’s committment to special needs children just because she has one. He further added that kids with autism need more help from the government; never mind that Palin has a kid with Down’s syndrome. Obama was right to point out that in McCain’s ‘spending freeze’ funding for such special needs programs would be eliminated. McCain so far has not mentioned which programs will be eliminated in his ‘spending freeze’. He has already excluded defense, veterans affairs, and entitlement which make up 75% if not more of the federal budget.

Anyway, back to the expertise-by-birth logic, should we appoint the next Treasury Secretary based on the fact that his kid is majoring in finance? The President should technically then be only a person who has a kid serving in the military. Who care if Sasha and Malia are not yet teens yet, ship them off to Iraq like McCain, Palin, and Biden’s kids, right? Better appoint a person who has a homeless kid as the next Housing and Urban Development Secretary and dare you nominate a Supreme Court Justice whose kid hasn’t appeared on Judge Judy. So it is not only important to live closer to Russia to be considered a foreign policy expert but to also use your poor kids illness as a qualification otherwise the press should respect their privacy. Next Up – Cheney to serve as a gay rights activist once his term as Veep is up.

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  • ferret

    Don’t you think a mother of a special needs child would be a bit different than one parenting a kid majoring finance. If she has taken care of such a child, she’ll understand the needs of such kids a lot better, and its not a far-fetched thought that she decides to pilot the cause.

  • http://www.ipatrix.com Patrix

    @ferret: No I don’t. By that logic, the mother of a solider knows best about defense policy, no? The mother of special needs child doesn’t necessarily know the best policy; understanding needs and making policy can be different.

  • ferret

    Policy making is definitely different than just understanding something. What i am trying to point out is that the analogy that you put forth seems not the best one to me. The mother of a kid studying finance, will never know about it unless she studies it herself. The mother of a soldier will never really know about what the soldier goes through unless she has been one. These kids are capable of taking complete care of themselves and leading independent lives. But the mother of a special needs child knows more about what needs to be done for his betterment, than the child. Now only if such a mother knew what goes into policy making.
    Say you trusted Palin’s abilities as a policy maker, then it only makes her come across as stronger in this case, than someone else ‘coz she knows the ground realities of it and can empathise a lot more with people in similar situations.

  • http://www.ipatrix.com Patrix

    @ferret: Agreed. But I disagree with the basic premise that just because she is a mother of a special needs kid makes her better suited to handle this issue at a national level. I would rather prefer someone who has worked on the issue for several years. Mind you, she has been the mother of that kid for only about two-four months now and I’m sure she isn’t doing most of the real care.

  • ferret

    Now that arguement, if i had seen in the post, i wouldn’t have said anything :)


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