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Name: Micah Fialka-Feldman on Feb 13, 2008Comments: I have signed the petition thank you for letting me sign MicahFlag
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Name: Jesse Ascioti on Feb 21, 2008Comments: OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT!Flag
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Name: Jennifer Jones on Feb 21, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Mardge Cohen on Feb 21, 2008Comments: great work!Flag
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Name: Ashley Franklin on Feb 22, 2008Comments: GO OBAMA!Flag
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Name: Karen Leitson on Feb 22, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Richard Feldman on Feb 22, 2008Comments: A new movement is emerging to create inclusive community and 21 century citizens. It is our responsibility to become activists and leaders in our community so we can create a new self-governing America that respects the humanity of all people: " A Community that excludes even one of its members is no community at all" Let your voices be heard and be the leadership for all!Flag
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Name: Ellen Bates-Brackett on Feb 22, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Roslyn Schindler on Feb 22, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Carly Fahey on Feb 22, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Tamar Paull on Feb 22, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Amy Brackett on Feb 22, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Ryan Easterly on Feb 22, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Neal Schindler on Feb 22, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Jenny Grabelsky on Feb 22, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Debra Hart on Feb 22, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Lore Schindler on Feb 23, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Joseph A. Stramondo on Feb 23, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Alex Cherup on Feb 23, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Heather Strgill on Feb 23, 2008Comments: I'm a young community leader/activist from Cincinnati that is disabled, and I intend to vote for Barack Obama. Honestly, my first choice was Kucinich. Since Barack is the closest to Kucinich, he will get my vote. As a leader with integrity, I hope he continues to make choices that are best for ALL the people...not just the rich.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 23, 2008Comments: I wholeheartedly believe in the hope and promise that Sen. Obama provides me, the disability community and the Country. This is why I am supporting this wise man's canadency!Flag
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Name: Janice Harris on Feb 24, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Christina Mills on Feb 25, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Alon Marie on Feb 26, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Michael Murray on Feb 27, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Michael Murray on Feb 27, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 27, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 6, 2008Comments: Thanks to E. H. for educating me about this wonderful candidate who will make a difference in my son's life!Flag
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Name: Scott Eveloff on Mar 6, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Kris Martone Levine on Mar 6, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Virginia Despard on Mar 7, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: James C. "JAKE" Billingsley on Mar 9, 2008Comments: 1) ASAP Housing Vouchers for Homeless & Disabled veterans 2) Raise minimum on SSD up to the poverty level it is now one third less than poverty level 3) Create one Office for the Disabled for all sevices, training, education, housing, support, issues, etc. so to eliminate the complex impossiblility which now existsFlag
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Name: Brian J. Coppola on Mar 9, 2008Comments: We also need a "No Disabled Person Left Behind Act," as it relates to getting assistive technology into the hands of us youngsters who still have life ahead of us. This is a problem, because the assistive technology market chooses to run a closed market, thus, counting on more elderly people getting disabled. The statistics of disabled, including the blind is that of the elderly generation, as opposed to that of people in my generation. Obama, when elected please see to it that the young disabled americans are taken care of with their assistive technology needs as the prices are very high, some of the products that we need being in the thousands of dollar range, such as accessible PDA's Note taking devices and special bar code scanners, and most of all, reading machines that enlarge text and special eye glasses and hearing aids for us to see and hear. The older generation had gotten away with their "set in their ways," attitude for too long. Wealthy sons and daughters had been allowed to support those of retirement age and yet, still healthy enough to perhaps take courses in the new technology and yet, they get to claim them as dependents on their taxes. Your "No Disabled Person Left Behind" policy should include equipping senior citizen centers with assistive technology and at the first year of retirement, so long as the senior does not have any serious illness or lack of cognititve ability or some other brain disorder which prevents learning, than if they are claimed as dependents on their sons' or daughters' taxes and the sons and daughters are making more then $50,000.00 in gross income, than these individuals who are being claimed as dependents must go to a senior citizen center and learn the newest computer technology, including adaptive technology or the son or daughter claiming them as dependents must pay 15% of what they are claiming them on their income taxes. This should be used to generate a fund to issue an assistive technology stypend or assistive technology ecconomic stimulous package that is untouched by both Social Security and suplemental security income. This would help open up the assistive technolgy market to bring down the prices of the assistive tech so that my generation of disabled people can live in the least restrictive environment possible and also be able to gain gainful employment. Because 70% of us young working aged disabled are unemployed rely on public assistance program, which gives us only a fixed income, which would not afford us the use or the purchase of the adaptive technology that we need to be independent citizens and also productive citizens. The same rules that I suggested that applies to the sons and daughters claiming elderly parents on income taxes as dependents should also apply to any elder in their first year of retirement receiving any form of benefits or services from the state or fedeeral government, whether it be caregiving services, medicare or medicaid or any assistance from the states which helps elders raise their grandchildren. Why this approach 1. Elderly people do become disabled and could benefit from the assistive technology themselves, thus, easing the burdens on their future caregivers, which only leads to abuse and more crimes against elderly people. 2. It would help them maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment and ease the expenditures on the government and families of nursing home care. 3. As it relates to more and more grandparents raising their grandchildren and also, technology, such as computer technology being required in our schools now a days and thus, the computer becoming a necessary evil for the children of the next generation to succeed and gegt jobs, there is also lurking with it preditory crime, such as sexual crimes in nature. 4. The people raising the children need to know about computer technology in order to keep their children safe. In short, "No Disabled Person Left Behind" would benefit everyone. Disabled or not.Flag
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Name: Jenna Clark on Mar 9, 2008Comments: This is the chance of a lifetime, the chance to surge forward the disability movement.Flag
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Name: Will on Mar 9, 2008Comments: Paratransit fare increase leaves riders with little spare change For Chicagoan Patricia Pratt and other paratransit riders, itFlag
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Name: Philip B Kirschner on Mar 10, 2008Comments: EX OFFICO BOARD MEMBEr NAMI-NYS NAMI NATIONAL CCEC NYC VOICESFlag
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Name: Victor Pineda on Mar 10, 2008Comments: I just gave a speech on the ADA generation to the respectABILITY conference. Its central that our community and our generation lead a new coalition a new vision of an inclusive American dream. Lead on, lead on! Victor Pineda Rolling for ObamaFlag
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Name: M. Evans on Mar 10, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Emily Savarese on Mar 10, 2008Comments: Obama is what ALL people in this country have been looking for!Flag
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Name: Emily Savarese on Mar 10, 2008Comments: Obama is what ALL people in this country have been looking for!Flag
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Name: Meg Kline on Mar 10, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Morton Ann Gernsbacher on Mar 11, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: David K. March on Mar 11, 2008Comments: Gold-plated organizations like MDA, NAMI, the preposterously-named "Autism Speaks," and such -- those people have had their chance and then some to do the right thing. Instead, they have sought to cash in on manufactured pity at our expense. They have failed us, they have harmed us, and they have exploited and harmed all of society. It's time for the ability/disability/difference debate to be led by those who live the life. Nothing About Us Without Us!Flag
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Name: Mike Liu on Mar 11, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Henry Gosebrink on Mar 11, 2008Comments: I want to see Barack Obama to recognizes Deaf and Hard of Hearing people's right to choice American Sign Language as their primary language, hope Universal Sign Language in UN disability right, and improves Deaf Education. Not only to Deaf and Hard of Hearing people, Barack is for all people with Disabilities for their needs.Flag
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Name: Tera Kirk on Mar 11, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Edward Janus | Disability Advocate And Activist on Mar 12, 2008Comments: I am Edward Janus an Advocate and Activist for the Disabled. All my activities are completed via Internet. I have Cerebral Palsy and I am a permanently disabled amputee confined to a wheelchair. I am a Homebound, Shut-In and I Live Alone. I would contact people by telephone, but I am also deaf. I cannot hear very well on the phone. You can reach me by email or regular mail. Sincerely, Edward Janus | Disability Advocate and Activist 10707 Wrightwood Ave. Northlake IL. 60164 E-mail: EdwardJanus@msn.com Web Site: www.EdwardJanus.net Blog: www.EdwardJanus.spaces.live.comFlag
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Name: Vicki Forte' on Mar 12, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Sue Swenson on Mar 12, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Marjorie Irby on Mar 12, 2008Comments:Flag
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