Campaigns were once an opportunity to find out about a candidate. The travels of the campaigns were an opportunity for the voters to meet those who aspired to public office. They would get to know them and make their decision.
Today, campaigns are sanitized and scripted to portray the message so what is projected is not the candidate, but the message the candidate wants you to hear. A message more often than not crafted not on prinicple, but on what the candidate thinks you want to hear.
And then occasionally character will break through. In a recent swing for the McCain-Palin campaign, a family with a Down syndrome child were holding up a sign proclaiming their love for Down syndrome children.
The candidates had one of their Secret Service agents call the family over and they met personally with them. This kind of personal and heartfelt touch demonstates that for McCain-Palin, the family is not a pawn to be used to win an election. She truly loves and appreciates special needs children and that love and compassion expressed itself in a kind and gracious moment at a campaign stop.
The story was told on the Rush Linbaugh show and the details, with pictures, may be found here.
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