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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
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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