{"id":4366,"date":"2008-04-28T00:27:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T07:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/28\/the-three-candidates-on-disability-a-subject-that-dares-not-speak-its-name\/"},"modified":"2008-04-28T00:27:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T07:46:58","slug":"the-three-candidates-on-disability-a-subject-that-dares-not-speak-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4366","title":{"rendered":"The three candidates on disability (a subject that dares not speak its name)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9 at Crooked Timber<\/a> has a good and fairly long post comparing the disability policies of Clinton, Obama and McCain. Kathy at The G Spot <\/a>nutshells for us:<\/p>\n

— Hillary Clinton’s disability policy? Very, very good.<\/p>\n

— Barack Obama’s disability policy? Even better!<\/p>\n

— John McCain’s disability policy? Complete and utter craptastic-ness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Both Michael’s and Kathy’s posts are excellent and well worth reading in full.<\/p>\n

I did wonder if some disability activists wouldn’t look at the candidates in terms of “right to die” laws and find McCain to be better on that issue than the two Democrats. (Although I don’t know if any of the three have specifically spoken about that issue.)<\/p>\n

A bit from Michael’s post:<\/p>\n

And I have to admit that I\u2019ve been mightily vexed by […] the phenomenon of the avoidance of disability qua <\/em>disability. It\u2019s as if we Americans have been talking about disability all our lives, as Moli\u00e8re\u2019s M. Jourdain has been speaking in prose, without realizing it. Remember that debate about SCHIP? You know, the one we lost on Bush\u2019s veto<\/a>? What the hell was that about? It was about disability<\/em>, folks \u2013 about children suffering catastrophic illnesses and traumatic injuries for which their parents couldn\u2019t (and their parents\u2019 dastardly, moustache-twirling health-insurance providers wouldn\u2019t) provide. Vets returning from Iraq with PTSD or TBI (post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury) and being warehoused and\/or underserved and\/or neglected by VA hospitals? Uh, well, once again, here we\u2019re talking about disability<\/em>. Why in the world do we frame these things as matters of \u201chealth\u201d or \u201cemployment\u201d or \u201cveterans\u2019 benefits,\u201d when doing so prevents us from realizing that we\u2019re all touching different appendages of the 8000-pound elephant in the room? The subject is disability, people. It\u2019s about our common frailty and vulnerability. Get used to it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9 at Crooked Timber has a good and fairly long post comparing the disability policies of Clinton, Obama and McCain. Kathy at The G Spot nutshells for us: — Hillary Clinton’s disability policy? Very, very good. — Barack Obama’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disabled-rights-issues","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}