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To: txradioguy; rodguy911

I have several customers I serve everyday with Downs Syndrome, they have regular jobs, friends, boyfriends, girl friends, conversations, humor, insights, some ride bus independently, others have a supervisor, favorite movies, go to the gym, real nice folks, ashame for Democrats like Al Gore to insult them;

ON THE STUMP: Rhetorical Gore The Vice President as partisan bomb-thrower

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_1998_Nov_23/ai_53209343

In 1994, Gore blasted the campaign of Virginia Republican Senate candidate Oliver North for relying on support “from the extreme right wing, the extra-chromosome right wing”-an apparent reference to the “angry white males” who, in Democratic lore, were the testosterone-crazed barbarians behind the 1994 GOP election sweep.

Yet an extra chromosome has nothing to do with hormones. It actually gives rise to conditions such as Down syndrome. When a reporter questioned the propriety of

Gore’s remark, the Vice President mocked the concern: “Are we having a bit of political correctness here?”

A day later, however, he owned up to “a poor choice of words.”


592 posted on 08/31/2008 10:38:20 AM PDT by Son House ( [ ]Obama=>LoseBothWars/Raise Taxes [X]McCain=>WinBothWars/CutPorkBarrelSpending)
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To: Son House

Great post,looks like they continue to step in it.


604 posted on 08/31/2008 10:43:45 AM PDT by rodguy911 (LAND OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE)
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To: Son House

My nephew has two autistic children. He’s not very political but I can assure you he will not like these comments by the MSM and Democrats as they pertain to special needs children. Add in a close extended family and I am certain this gives McCain/Palin another 100 plus votes they may not have had before.


618 posted on 08/31/2008 10:52:09 AM PDT by Morgan in Denver (Sarah doesn't look like any of those guys on the dollar bills either.)
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