Embedding is disabled so to see the video you need to click here . It is striking how much this young woman has accomplished in her life with the support of her loving parents and the help from professionals who helped her to not be identified simply by her limitations but to push those limits until she could achieve as much as possible. Already the Palin-bots have started to suggest that Andrea does not have the mental capacity to compose this e-mail. i don’t think this 40 year old down’s syndrome woman wrote this or formulated these political opinions. my guess is that she is being used a political pawn, to accuse governor palin of using her infant son as a political pawn. What has been “set straight”? So you thought the line was funny. Millions didn’t. Get over it. You still get paid.The only thing this “sets straigh” is that Andrea doesn’t mind being exploited by script writers, and her own family, for their political biases. Read the last sentence again. As they say, “you are what you hate”… Unfortunately Andrea may mind if she understood the complicated political arena she has been pushed into by her dad who set up this gig for her.We need to protect out special needs community not use them as pawns… and no, Sarah carrying her infant son in public or private does not make him a pawn. in any event what does the friedman letter prove no matter who wrote it. only one family was being made fun of in the cartoon and that was the palin family. now if the friedman family was made fun of in the same way then i would care what they thought but until then i would rather hear from bristol and what she thought. Perhaps the person who composed the above e-mail was not aware of Andrea’s educational background: EDUCATION Pre-School: Santa Monica Presbyterian Nursery School, Santa Monica Elementary: Seeds University Elementary School at UCLA, Los Angeles Junior High: Fernald School at UCLA ERAS School, Los Angeles High School: West Los Angeles Baptist High School, Los Angeles College: Santa Monica College, Santa Monica (You can read more about Andrea’s accomplishments here .) The real lesson to learn here (and I certainly hope that somebody will bring it to Sarah Palin’s attention) is that children who are born with certain challenges should not be defined by them. They can achieve amazing things and live a satisfying life filled with wonderful experiences and as much normalcy as any other person on this planet. Sarah Palin DOES drag Trig around as a prop. There are literally dozens of photos of him without his much needed glasses and hearing aids, not to mention his damn socks! These are the years when he is gathering data, and making sense of the world around him. That ability is diminished badly if he cannot see or hear appropriately. Does anybody think that Andrea could have achieved ALL that she has if her parents did not give her the loving care and tools she needed to see and hear the world around her? The obvious answer is no. So who better to speak up for Trig Palin than this woman who shares his diagnosis, yet is living proof of how full his life can be with the proper support and educational opportunities?
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