Strollerderby : speech

Best of FameCrawler: Week of January 23rd

Whit Honea — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:00:00 GMT

Obama's Inauguration Speech and Oath - Text and Video

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Jenna and Barbara Bush: Letter to Malia and Sasha Obama

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America's New Poet on Motherhood

Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:57:00 GMT

I was just as moved by Elizabeth Alexander's poem following President Obama's inaugural address as the man's speech itself, but I don't think it's the best she's come up with.

In the spirit of the day and the spirit of this blog, I wanted to share one of Alexander's poems that truly gives voice to the mysteries of parenthood:

"my whelp, my cub, my seapup.
In the days before you smile at me

"or call me Mama or love me,
love is all tit, all wheat-smelling milk, humid crook of the arm

"where your warm, damp head seems to live.
I pretend your clasping my finger means you love me."

Read the whole of "Neonatology" here.

Palin Mocks Autism Research

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:30:00 GMT

No one should be too surprised at this point to hear that one of McCain’s top advisers referred to Sarah Palin as a “whackjob.” Or that Alaska’s largest newspaper enthusiastically endorsed Barack Obama for president. But it remains fun (in that stomach-churning way) to take a peak at some of the myriad reasons why Palin is widely disliked and distrusted even among her own people.

Take fruit flies, for instance. In Palin’s recent speech on special needs children, one of her more awkward blunders pertained to earmarks:

"Where does a lot of that earmark money end up, anyway? [...] You've heard about, um, these -- some of these pet projects they really don't make a whole lot of sense, and sometimes these dollars they go to projects having little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not!"

As the Huffington Post points out, fruit flies have been essential to autism research, showing that a protein called neurexin plays a huge role in proper brain functioning. Considering that this speech was supposed to be about helping special needs families, it’s truly baffling why Palin would have chosen to bash research that is widely known to be integral to understanding and treating autism.

Furthermore, fruit flies are the basic research tool of modern genetics, as anyone who has taken a biology class knows. To sneer at such research displays either extreme stupidity or a dangerous lack of concern for the opinions of the vast majority of her would-be constituents.

Photo: wizbangblog.com

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Political Nanny: Like Talking to a Roomful of Toddlers

Madeline Holler — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:31:00 GMT

Posted by Political Nanny

Oh, Hillary, what a night! There you were on stage, ready to deliver your regular stump speech to a very important crowd of Democratic voters in Pennsylvania, and what did they do? They ignored you! They milled! They chit-chatted amongst themselves?

And what did you do? You cut your speech back, waaaaay back. What usually takes you an hour, and in its shortest form until yesterday took 12 minutes, was wrapped up around the 5-minute mark. Didn't you just want to scold them?

Well, Political Nanny certainly doesn't approve of rude guests (or hosts?) -- audience members. But you did the right thing. And thank you, THANK YOU, for not losing your mind, or even calling attention to the improper behavior. You would have paid dearly for that.

Photo: AP