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Family with Down Syndrome Child Meets John McCain and Sarah Palin

September 9, 2008


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RUSH: Kurt in Pittsburgh, hello, sir.  Nice to have you on the EIB Network,
and how about the Steelers defense?


CALLER:  How about those Steelers, huh?


RUSH:  How about that?


CALLER:  Hey, listen, Rush, longtime listener, first-time caller, one of
those Bible, family, gun clingers from western Pennsylvania.


RUSH:  Thank you.


CALLER:  And I wanted to share a story with you.  A week ago last Saturday
we went to the Palin-McCain rally in Washington, Pennsylvania, was the day
after he announced her, and we have a five-year-old daughter with Down
syndrome, and we made a sign that said: "We Love Kids with Down Syndrome."
So when they pulled in in their bus the sign did catch their, McCain and
Palin and the rest of their family, it caught their eye, we could tell, they
gave us a thumbs-up from the bus, so we were all excited just by that --


RUSH:  Wait, wait, wait.  Who gave you the thumbs up, McCain and Palin?


CALLER:  McCain, Palin, Cindy McCain, we could see them from the bus. We
were in a position where we had eye contact with them --


RUSH:  Oh, cool!


CALLER:  My wife was holding our daughter.


RUSH:  Very, very, very cool.


CALLER:  It was really cool, Rush. I was like, "Wow, that's awesome,"
because I love Governor Palin and so I thought that's really neat.  So then
we moved around as the bus was getting ready to pull out, we kind of
positioned ourselves so we could just wave them on and a Secret Service
agent came up to us and said, "Hey, can you come with us?"  I was like, "Do
we have a choice?"


RUSH: (laughing) You shouldn't have worried.  It's not the Clinton
administration.


CALLER: Right. So we accompanied them up the hill, we went right to the bus,
where it was, and Governor Palin, Senator McCain, Cindy, Todd Palin, they're
all standing there. We're in this inner circle with just us and them, and
the Secret Service agent, and they came right up to us and thanked us for
coming out, said they loved our sign, and Governor Palin immediately said,
"May I hold your daughter?" and our daughter Chloe, who's five, went right
to her, and I have some pictures I'd love to send you maybe when I'm done
here, but Governor Palin was hugging Chloe, and then her little daughter
brought their baby Trig who has Down syndrome from the bus, he was napping,
and Chloe went right over and kissed him on the cheek, and my son Nolan
who's nine, he thanked her.


RUSH: This is amazing.


CALLER: I will send you all the stuff, Senator McCain was talking to my son,
and we thanked him for his service, and he asked my son if he wanted to see
the bus, and we were hanging out and it was very surreal. I felt like we
could have had a pizza and a beer with them, they were so warm.


RUSH: You know what? I want to put you on hold. I want Snerdley to give you
our super-secret, known-only-to-three-people here, e-mail address.


CALLER: I will send you everything, Rush.


RUSH: And then could you send us these pictures? Would you mind if we put
them on the website?


CALLER: I would be honored, and my main thing is they are warm, kind,
genuine people, and they represent the best of this country.


RUSH:  That's right.  And when you send these pictures, make sure you
identify them.  I mean, we'll know Palin and McCain, of course.  Identify
yourselves.


CALLER:  I will, I will identify everybody in the picture, Rush, and God
bless you for being a beacon of hope and truth in this country.


RUSH:  Oh, no, no.  It's nothing, it's nothing.  You're doing the Lord's
work.


CALLER:  Well, we're very blessed and I want people to know what a blessing
it is to have a child with Down syndrome. These kids, they're angels.


RUSH:  That's the thing.  There's always good to be found in everything that
happens.  It may be a while before it reveals itself.


CALLER:  Absolutely , 

    and when she hugged my daughter I said, here's the difference, this
candidate embraces life and all its limitless possibilities.

RUSH:  All right.


CALLER:  That's what she is.


RUSH:  Terrific, okay, I gotta run here, but I'm going to put you on hold.


CALLER:  Thank you, Rush.


RUSH:  Thank you, Kurt.  I really appreciate it.


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