Down On CNN

By Kleinheider Posted on August 29, 2008 at 4:10 pm

Tim Chavez chastises CNN for questioning whether Gov. Sarah Palin can properly care for her Downs Syndrome child while Vice-President:

Palin, a mother of five, has a Downs Syndrome child. Her son was born in April. Roberts and his fellow chauvinists immediately questioned the properness and the time she would have to care for her child as VP.

What dunderheads! She has a husband, who also is a father. He can care for the child. And in Palin’s case, it already turns out that he does and with the other children as well.

A Downs Syndrome child is not some alien from another planet. In the child’s first year and more, he or she will mostly be like any other infant. My wife returned to college just six days after having her first child. Should she have stayed home with a non-Downs infant?

That’s not to say there will be a lot of issues Palin and her husband will face soon. But there are many heroic families with Downs children who do incredible things. I know of them, and they are remarkable people.

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