Sarah Palin's dad Chuck Heath adds some context to dampen the leftist hysteria over her family crossing the border into Canada for medical treatment when Gov. Palin was just a small child (See Say Anything and C4P):
Palin's father said Monday they had little choice, given their location in Skagway.The Left, by continuing to try to manufacture a scandal every time Sarah Palin speaks, is demonstrating how petty, mean and vindictive it is. Wyle E. Coyote
"There was no road out of there at that time," said retired teacher Chuck Heath, reached by phone in Wasilla. "The ferry schedule was very erratic. We had no doctor in Skagway. The plane schedule was very erratic. The winds dictated whether the planes could come in or not."
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Palin's father said his family probably boarded the train for the Whitehorse hospital only twice - once when a daughter had rheumatic fever, and once when his son, also named Chuck, severely burned his leg and an infection set in.
"We much preferred to use our facilities because my insurance didn't cover anything in Whitehorse. And even though they have socialized medicine, I still had to pay the bill, being an American citizen," Heath said.
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The train in the 1960s often was the only option for getting to a doctor, Skagway Mayor Tom Cochran said.
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"If you can't fly to Juneau - and a lot of times you can't, especially in the winter - they're going to get you to a medical treatment facility if it's an emergency, and that's normally where Whitehorse comes into play," Cochran said.
- JP
I don't think it's just the media trying to stir up this BS, I think it's the dem party. They realize they don't have much to run on in 2010, so they are trying to turn the election into a referendum on Sarah Palin, that's why they have their lapdog media making up lies every day, that's why the DCCC has its own Palin website, and why the dems keep sending out barrages of email featuring Palin. They are betting the farm that people are more afraid of Palin making progress than they are about the rising unemployment rate, massive debt, and lax national security. It's a bet they will lose come November, the majority of the people are probabaly reaching the saturation point of all these pathetic attempts at smearing Palin by now.
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