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RUSH: Kurt in Pittsburgh, hello, sir. Nice to have you on the EIB Network, and how about the Steelers defense?<\/p>\n

CALLER: How about those Steelers, huh?<\/p>\n

RUSH: How about that?<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: Hey, listen, Rush, longtime listener, first-time caller, one of those Bible, family, gun clingers from western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

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.\u2019 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 —<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Wait, wait, wait. Who gave you the thumbs up, McCain and Palin? <\/p>\n

CALLER: McCain, Palin, Cindy McCain, we could see them from the bus. We were in a position where we had eye contact with them —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, cool!<\/p>\n

CALLER: My wife was holding our daughter.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very, very, very cool.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It was really cool, Rush. I was like, ‘Wow, that\u2019s awesome,\u2019 because I love Governor Palin and so I thought that\u2019s 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?\u2019 I was like, ‘Do we have a choice?\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) You shouldn\u2019t have worried. It\u2019s not the Clinton administration.<\/line><\/p>\n

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\u2019re all standing there. We\u2019re 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?\u2019 and our daughter Chloe, who\u2019s five, went right to her, and I have some pictures I\u2019d love to send you maybe when I\u2019m 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\u2019s nine, he thanked her.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is amazing.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

<\/a>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.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I will send you everything, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And then could you send us these pictures? Would you mind if we put them on the website? <\/p>\n

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

RUSH: That\u2019s right. And when you send these pictures, make sure you identify them. I mean, we\u2019ll know Palin and McCain, of course. Identify yourselves.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, no, no. It\u2019s nothing, it\u2019s nothing. You\u2019re doing the Lord\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, we\u2019re very blessed and I want people to know what a blessing it is to have a child with Down syndrome. These kids, they\u2019re angels.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: That\u2019s the thing. There\u2019s always good to be found in everything that happens. It may be a while before it reveals itself.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, and when she hugged my daughter I said, here\u2019s the difference, this candidate embraces life and all its limitless possibilities.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s what she is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Terrific, okay, I gotta run here, but I\u2019m going to put you on hold.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, Kurt. I really appreciate it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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