Posted on 10/11/2007 6:04:41 AM PDT by kristinn
Since then, Frost and his family have been introduced first-hand to something else that most kids his age haven't: the reality of how brutal partisan politics can be in the Internet age. It started over the weekend, when a blogger calling himself Icwhatudo put up a post on the conservative website Freerepublic.com noting what he had found by scavenging around the internet: that Graeme attends a private school, lives in a remodeled house near one that had sold for $485,000 in March and is the child of parents whose wedding was announced in the New York Times. The post also noted that his father purchased a $160,000 commercial space in 1999.
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And while they are still uninsured, they claim it is most certainly not by choice. Bonnie Frost says the last time she priced health coverage, she learned it would cost them $1,200 a month.
In short, just as the radio spot claimed, the Frosts are precisely the kind of people that the SCHIP program was intended to help.
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While the family continues to support the vetoed bill that would expand the program to 4 million more children, they are hoping to remove themselves from the middle of the storm. After giving a few interviews, Halsey and Bonnie Frost now say they don't want to say anything more, though network camera crews have planted themselves in front of their house.
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Politics has never been a gentle game. As far back as 1895, satirist Finley Peter Dunne's fictional saloonkeeper Martin Dooley observed that women, children and prohibitionists would do well to stay out of it, because "politics ain't beanbag." But surely, even Mr. Dooley could never have imagined a day would come when a mere seventh grader could be swift-boated.
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Switboater? As opposed to being a Stalinist engaging in pushing socialism at all costs?
I loathe the media.
I think we can, based on the price they quoted, infer daddy's age (if not mommy's) and the existence of any preexisting conditions in this little group.
Some smart guy out there might even know how to figure out daddy's blood pressure with the information we have and the probability of his having rectal hemorrhoids.
Swift-Boating.....is TELLING THE TRUTH when ALL the LEFT is telling a LIE!!
When you put your life into the political arena as an example of why we need to expand socialism, expect people to look at that example and disect it.
To hide behind your kid after getting caught in lies by omission is disgusting. Then again, they are Democrat operatives.
Swift-Boating.....is TELLING THE TRUTH when ALL the LEFT is telling a LIE!!
Correct. I would like to post something and I will try to be careful. I worked with special needs children on an administrative level. The ‘right’ to an equal education has been interpreted by the courts that if the child is ‘disabled’, that can include the school district footing the entire bill for a special needs school placement. (Think $100,000/yr+, sometimes very +++)
I would not deny that the parents are in a very tough situation, however, I am not sure I would argue that the taxpayer should foot the entire bill.
I saw a Doonsbury cartoon a couple of weeks ago that claimed “Swift-boating” was a new word added to the American lexicon as a result of the Bush administration. I couldn’t help but chuckle as self-congratulating liberals like Gary Trudeau pat themselves on the back for inventing word that no one other than kooky liberals use. Perhaps the greatest illustration of their limited IQ is that telling the truth about someone is synonymous with “Swift-boating”. Don’t believe liberals are the only people who use this phony, contrived word? Hmmmm. What magazine was this in? Time magazine? I rest my case.
Deadbeat dads can go to jail for being deadbeat dads, but what about deadbeat parents?? If they work that hard, they can afford health insurance for their son.
Considering their excellent financial situation I would not call the Frost’s “middle class.” I read that they bought their house 9 years ago for $50,000 and it is now worth $300,000. That’s a damn nice amount of equity.
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I think it would be fair for the school district to pay for the education portion only, as fair. The high costs of special placements is due to medical and residential support, not education.
Was this supposed to be a news report or an opinion piece? It’s so hard to tell these days.
Ugh... the dreaded double post. My apologies.
I’m so ashamed... ;-)
“Swift Boating” is a bad term... we need a better one. Something like “DisenDemification”
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Cry me a river, you self-indulgent income hiding SOB.
You think nothing of having other people pay for the kids you produced.
Since insurance companes control so much of our lives already (seatbelts, smoking, helmets, and airbags all come to mind) you would think that we would be safe from danger and disease and wouldn’t need insurance anymore.
Methinks that the Frost Grandparents and the Frost parents are doing a little TAX EVASION!!! HELLO IRS!!!
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