Lots of chatter out there about last night鈥檚 debate. Here鈥檚 some blog entries that I dug up:
Charles Fox, who writes the (which is linked on my blogroll), has heard enough. Quote: 鈥淚f Senator McCain鈥檚 voting record with President Bush was not enough to disqualify him for the Presidency, then his use of children with special needs as a political tool certainly rules him out once and for all.鈥�
The bloggers at , no surprise, aren鈥檛 buying it either. Quote, from a poster who calls herself 鈥淟awyerMama:" 鈥淢cCain/Palin--If you鈥檙e going to help special needs children, tell us how. If not, shut up and stop using it to play the sympathy card.鈥�
鈥榮 author wasn鈥檛 pleased with McCain. Quote: 鈥淟ast but not least, Obama called the McCain-Palin bluff on special education by asking them to put their money where their mouths are.鈥�
Domenico Montanaro at CNBC鈥檚 had some questions. Quote: 鈥淢cCain also said they want to help find a cure. But how? The [National Institutes of Health] budget has been slashed in the past eight years. Does McCain-Palin propose additional funding, particularly for autism or Down鈥檚 research?鈥�
Matt Moon at , liveblogging the debate, says that McCain came up with just the right response to Obama during one of their exchanges about autism. Quote: "...Obama responded to McCain鈥檚 description of Palin by praising Palin and then saying that to deal with things like autism, more money needs to be spent. What does McCain ask? Exactly the right question: why is it always about more spending?鈥�
I have to tell you...I鈥檝e spent a good half hour or so combing through the blogosphere, and I鈥檓 having a hard time finding voices in support of McCain鈥檚 comments, or his disability policies. Rather, a lot of the bloggers I鈥檓 seeing are using words like 鈥減andering.鈥� And there鈥檚 a consistent pattern of people believing he was outright mistaken about the nature of Trig Palin鈥檚 disability.
Let me know what I鈥檓 missing, readers, and I鈥檒l link good blogs here. In the meantime, here鈥檚 an excerpt from the Oct. 15 broadcast of The Today Show, which talks about the positive feelings some families of people with Down syndrome have for Sarah Palin.