For some reason the media that was so thrilled to report that 200,000 Germans attended an Obama rally in Berlin Germany haven’t ventured to give us an estimate of how many people were at this rally in Fairfax Virginia. One thing for sure is that there were far more Americans at this rally then there were at the Obama rally in Berlin!

I apologize for the sarcasm but I’ve had it with the flagrant hypocrisy evident in the media. It’s not new, but it’s out of control now and I think threatening to polarize our country to the point where our democracy can not function at all. Lord knows it’s already nearly impossible to get things done in Washington DC as it is now. Sadly, I’m doubtful any President and Vice President can make much of a difference as long as Congress is at war for control.

The abusiveness with which many in the media have attacked Sarah Palin infuriates me. Not because I’m a working career woman, because I am not. Not because I’m a feminist, because I am not. But because it’s just not right. The media has viciously attacked conservative after conservative for years and mostly people look the other way and let the abuse occur. But this time it’s a mom they’re attacking that just happens to have a baby with Downs. Bingo. A mom with a Downs child, that I am.

19 years of raising a child with Downs has taught me that people, good people even, avoid being around or involved with families that have a special needs child, especially if the child is obviously a special needs child as opposed to an autistic child, for example. Clearly having a child with Downs in the Vice President’s mansion crossed McCain’s and his advisers minds. Clearly they’re OK with that and I’m grateful for it.

Granted I don’t know Mom Sarah Palin very well yet, but the little bit I’ve heard makes me want to have her and her family as neighbors here in the DC area. Hopefully she’ll have us over for some of her favorite dish, Moose Stew! Or perhaps she’ll come over to our place to do some fishing in our pond. One thing is for sure…, she will not let stubborn old lawmakers get in the way of rooting out corruption wherever she finds it when she’s in town! Something tells me she’s going to do great things for America and if not this election, then the next.