Rich Lowry has a very touching story about a Down Syndrome gentleman named Ian he met on a plane recently over at NRO’s Corner blog.

As a child, I had several friends with what is now called Down Syndrome (it was called a much less nice term back then), and in high school I was a teacher’s aide to the special ed teacher for a year, and I can confirm what Rich says in his summary:

From this brief encounter, I dare say Ian is friendlier, better adjusted and more considerate than about half of the people on the streets of Manhattan or San Francisco on any given day. Yet most of those people are perfectly unperturbed by the elimination of babies with Down syndrome in the womb. To hell with them. God bless Sarah Palin for bringing Trig into the world, and may he shower those around him with as much sunshine as the gentleman I met on that flight.

Amen.

Obama’s campaign has clearly entered “maximum flail mode.” Consider:

• An independent organization puts out an ad connecting Obama with unrepentant terrorist William Ayers. Obama retaliates with an ad falsely accusing the McCain campaign of running the ad.

• On the day Obama officially accepts the nomination, McCain issues a polite ad congratulating him. McCain’s veep choice, Sarah Palin, offers her own praise of Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton during her acceptance speech. Obama’s campaign, on the other hand, issues a press release referring to Palin as a small town mayor, completely skipping over her two years as a governor.

Obama and his campaign are clearly scared out of their wits, and they have no idea what to do about it, so they’re flailing. But why would someone who’s been elected both to the Illinois State Senate and the US Senate be so desperate at this point?

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Well, it finally happened… a major news outlet has picked up the Obama-Ayers story, and, of course, it was FoxNews (you didn’t think MSNBC would print anything that looks bad for Obama unless their arm was twisted, did you?).

Look for Obama to start spinning furiously and flailing even more than he is now. This is political dynamite, and the fuse has been lit.

Let us count the silly gimmicks that Obama has tried to pull, even if he didn’t consider them gimmicks:

1. He redesigns the Presidential seal before he’s even nominated, much less elected.

2. He pretty much demanded to be allowed to speak at Germany’s Brandenburg Gate, long a site of Presidential speeches, not candidate’s speeches.

3. And his latest attempt, to announce his Veep pick by text message failed miserably, so of course people are whining that it got “spoiled by the media.”

I’m sure that people can name others (and I invite you to), but let’s look at what I think this indicates.

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Yep, now Michael Moore is attacking McCain’s war service. Take a gander at this.

“Sadly,” [Moore] writes, “McCain’s sacrifice had nothing to do with protecting the United States. He was sent to Vietnam along with hundreds of thousands of others in an attempt to prop up what was essentially an American colony, South Vietnam, which was being run by a dictator whom we installed.”

It goes on, and gets worse, from there.

With friends like Moore, Obama hardly needs any enemies.

Stanley Kurtz of NRO is attempting–with very little success and a lot of stonewalling–to get the records of Senator Barack Obama’s association with a short-lived non-profit organization called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). He wants the records because the CAC was set up by unrepentant terrorist William Ayers, and because Obama served not only on the board, but as chairman of the board from 1995-1999.

The obvious question is why Obama would associate himself with Ayers this closely. But, there’s another, far more damaging question that should be asked.

Why did Ayers (or his surrogates at CAC) ask Obama to chair the board?

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