Already stinging over DVDgate, White House officials called a hastily arranged news conference Thursday evening to announce that the doors of the White House bowling alley had been thrown open to the DC Chapter of the American Quadriplegic Association.
Update: Lay off, you stupid right-wingers! Get a sense of humour.
Upperdate! SDA gets results premonitions! – “Before the taped interview had even aired, the president telephoned the Special Olympics chairman Tim Shriver from Air Force One to apologise and invite some of the association’s bowlers to the White House to show him how it was done.”
Re: “Because I’ll tell you what, every single one of those Special Olympics kids has more heart and bigger stones than Barry the Messiah.”
I had an interesting experience a few years ago shortly after the Liberals were elected (Chretien). I was able to their victory affair held in the Parliament buildings and was able to chat with various newly elected members. Reflecting afterwards, I can honestly say that the most impressive human being I met that week was a member of the disabled community — someone I met in a different context.
I think that “Barry” shows signs of being a rather shallow person — can anyone picture Abraham Lincoln making such a comment? This man seriously lacks gravitas and I think this will be apparent to everyone before to long.
I notice that a poster has rightly observed the difference between the Para-Olympics and the Special Olympics. The very first “Physically Disabled Games” in Ontario were at Cambridge in 1975. I took a group down there in a nine seater rented from the YMCA. I had also observed the games for the “Mentally Disabled” at Marquette, Michigan in 1973.
I was quickly appraised at the difference between the two groups. My spouse taught special ed and most students were of average or above intelligence. One of the former students is active in the legal field.
Another does computers and bikes as a business.
Hope this is not too preachy. Somehow I give Barack Obama a pass. Scared of what he intends to do to Western civilization in a sneaky way.
Still, I would give the man a break on this.
He will never bowl as well as Dick Nixon. (laughs)
Gus, Jack:
What incenses most of us is that if Bush had made such a comment, there would be no instant forgiveness from the media, even if he sponsored Special O bowling tournaments across the country in contrition. The howling wolves of the left would be on this for weeks, saying how much it showed that Bush is insensitive, uncaring, and deeply psychologically flawed. Look at the Goodyear situation in Canada; the guy is being pilloried because he has religious beliefs, even though he says they don’t interfere with them doing his job. There’s a good chance he’ll have to resign. But what happened to Hedy Fry with her “burning crosses”? The right went after her, but the issue was dropped after a couple of days by the MSM, because she’s on their side.
This is the hypocrisy and double standard that we live with on the right, and that’s why we get so infuriated. Capiche?
Dang! For once I don’t preview, and it comes out wrong.. “they don’t interfere with him doing his job” would have been correct.
Thanks KevinB – that sums it up nicely. Obama’s political success was built by the very people who used every “Bushism” and fabricated story (plastic turkey) they could to diminish their President, not only as a political leader, but as a human being.
So, they can bloody well suck it up for the next four years. Obama exploited it, he can wear it.
You guys are too tough on Teleprompter Jesus…
He’s still learning. Afterall he just mocked the disabled compared to Hitler who burned them in ovens or gave them to his doctors for R&D…Then burned them.
It takes time to “change” things. Like the “relocation camps” being built all over the US. They cannot be operational overnight but should be ready before the “remove-O-lution”.
It will be called “O-land Security”.
The first to be “relocated” will be Rush; Long after he lost his voice through the “Silencing Doctrine”.
An elderly lady I know was just swooning as she talked about Obama, how great he was and how he was so much better than the “inarticulate and stupid George Bush”. (if he’s so stupid then why did he beat Al Gore, who got several Fs) It’s part of the same culture. No different than the Nazis who killed those who were mentally deficient. Hence all the jokes about Sarah Palin, and her mentally disabled son, Trig.
It’s socialism with a smiley face.
I’m just so sick of hearing about how much lefties care.
Give him SOME credit people, he’s doing a much better job than some of us would do.
Posted by: Jack at March 20, 2009 9:48 AM
Wow, Jack! Thanks for raising the Bar of Expectations for POTUS: the fact that some of us SDA regulars might fare worse is all the more reason to cut D’ohbama infinite slack in his on-the-job training program. Tell us: how much “credit” did the left give Bush in Iraq? When they weren’t openly campaigning and hoping for the loss of the war, that is.
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I agree with Jack. If this was a 20 year old video tape, that someone had found in the garbage, of him saying this at a private party it should be news for weeks.
In this case, it’s just the (T)OTUS doing the late nite talk show circuit.
Thank you, Harry, for reminding us about the Left’s treatment of Ms. Palin, the mother of a Down’s Syndrome boy.
The Left had nothing specific to use against Palin, and there was so much nice, wonderful stuff about her that they just went nuts and demonized her however they could, despite the fact that she’s a nice person, far better than many of them, who wouldn’t ever knowingly have a baby that wasn’t “perfect” as far as they’re concerned. The Left is pretty much demonstrating that it’s deeply flawed and inferior when it attacks good people like Sarah Palin.
The best parents are those who never give up on their children no matter what. The Left, however, would rather institutionalize the inconvenient amongst us in the community… they’d rather have higher taxes and the government to “take care of” the inconvenient than devote themselved selflessly and lovingly to their own children. (No wonder they demand state-funded “daycare” so they won’t really have to raise their own kids, even if they’re “perfect”!)
Definitely the Left will claim to be the champions of the disabled… but then again, they want to say they’re whatever gets more votes. I notice, by the way, that Leftists pander a lot more to the GLBTs and Islamic community than to ordinary everyday folks who have some sort of inconvenient reality to deal with… I guess “hurt feelings” are more important to Leftists than tangible, material difficulties (“disability” or whatever one wants to call it) which might be eased via some kind of reasonable policy… No wonder Obama prefers to soothe folks with words and lies and vague promises than to actually find out what ordinary folks need him to do as President to help them however he can. Obama, being a communist, is too arrogantly dogmatic to care about the reality of the lives of the People, as he believes that the whole communism thing is the cure-all for whatever may ail whomever. He doesn’t want to worry about particulars and thinks he can just delegate the “particulars” to underlings in bureaucracies… that’s no good. This is why he’s going to make things worse for the People, not better- he just doesn’t understand what it’s like for the less-fortunate than he is (Barack doesn’t really come from much of a “disadvantaged” background, so he doesn’t know from that).
Obama’s completely out of touch. He delusionally believes that he can handle whatever comes up without even knowing anything about it or what he’s doing. Dammit, he doesn’t even know how to consult with the appropriate people, much less even get around to appointing them in the first place!
TOTUS: “no comment.”
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“Special Olympian Challenges Obama in bowling
A bowling phenom in the Special Olympics has just challenged Prez Barack Obama to a White House roll-off … and he’ll probably kick Barack’s butt.
Kolan McConiughey, a Special Olympics competitor who has bowled three perfect 300 games, tells TMZ that the Prez has to score a lot higher than 129 to beat him. Kolan says he bowls an average of 266.
Kolan — who works at a grocery store in Ann Arbor, Mich. — said he’d love to go to the White House to beat Barack on his own lane. Kolan said, “He’s cool, but he can’t beat me.”
We posed the challenge to the White House. They said “no comment.””
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2210820/posts
I am no fan of Owebama, but I stand by what I wrote. And if Dubya had said it, I would say exactly the same thing. Believe me, I have had to a few times in the past.
TOTUS is exhibiting his total lack of executive experience. Managerial types take” a code of conduct” course before they lead or instruct anyone on day to day ventures. Teleprompter never got that far in his life experiences, obviously.
The best comment I have read so far comes from a News Busters adherent………
“Maybe we should all go around and start making jokes about black people and see how far that goes?”
I’m a bit pissed the narcissist boob is getting a pass on this……..
Palin, Trig, and the Special Olympics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izn63SHXPMw
And if this doesn’t bring a tear to your eye…..
ET;
In addition to what you correctly say about Obama and the stimulus package, I also remember him saying that he was going to use the time between election day and his swearing in to have his people craft the legislation so that they could hit the ground running on Jan 20th.
As it turned out, he did nothing at all in the two and a half months leading up to his inauguration, then dumped it off to Pelosi and Reid without so much as even laying out a few broad parameters like telling them he didn’t want to see any trade protectionism. Only after the rest of the world started screaming did he step in and reverse those provisions.
The man is completely over his head.
Well thank God Sarah Palin is not anywhere near Washington with her promisses to be an advocate for the disabled.
As a father of a special needs daughter there is one thing I’d like to say to Obamass: you piece of shit dead-beat niger…ooops, did I say that out loud. I would now like to make a moving apology. Sorry, dude…oops, here is the bone you had through your nose, it fell out.
Come on, it’s okay because he is a liberal, a progressive, and a Democrat. Really, you guys are making a mountain out of a mole hill. Now, if Don Imus had been on Leno and called the some college women’s basketball team nappy headed, that would be fair game, cause, like he is old, white and kind of a cranky conservative.
thank you Barry for bringing it back. Now i can feel okay again calling people retards.
I have a couple of other sayings i would like you to say also….
The Fresh Prez of Bill Ayers is in WAY over his head. He has no executive experience; he’s never even run a lemonade stand. His foreign policy actions are downright scary. He’s a poor speaker without his trusty teleprompter (remember Urkel’s debacle in the Rick Warren interview/debate?).
He strikes me as arrogant, someone who has had everything handed to him in life. He also seems to have a narcissistic personality.
He’s dangerous.
well actually, Kate
Weren’t Bush’s “Bushisms” actually viewed with affection by his followers – sort of “Well maybe he isn’t slick and can’t talk fancy like all those smarty-pants smoothies but he’s a decent, sincere guy with the common touch, etc. etc.”?
In any case they helped people forget he was an aristocratic Kennebunkport blueblood member of one of America’s wealthiest and most powerful dynasties, right? Created the illsuion he was a straight-talking Texas cowboy dude.
No, Kate, Obama’s success wasn’t built by people exploiting every ‘Bushism’. But it was built, in large part,by the failure of Bush’s idiotic and reckless policies and by the people’s rightful antipathy towards them. The American people are wonderfully forgiving, but once Katrina came around, that was it – they were done with Bush. It’s documented fact that his numbers went down then and never came back, making him the most hated President in US history. Bushisms had nothing to do with that. Reckless incompetence did.
The media is definitely still in love with Obama, and there is no doubt that a similar gaff from Bush would have been big news.
The thing is though, I can not imagine Bush ever saying something like that. Obama is in a league of his own when it comes to these inappropriate comments when he’s trying to be cool. George Bush on the other hand, actually comes off as a genuinely nice guy when in a similar atmosphere. I was embarrassed for Obama when I watched the video, because it is obvious that this type of nasty derogatory commentary is his way of trying to be funny.
He did the same thing when interviewed before the Super Bowl. The interviewer was joking about how his picture had been cut out from the rest of the family on the cover of some magazine and in his place was a picture of Jessica Simpson. Obama said something like “Looks like Jessica Simpson is having a bit of a weight problem there” since the article was commenting on her weight. He only said that because he is trying to come off as cool and funny. He was obviously completely unaware of the controversy surrounding this story arguing that the media was perpetuating an unhealthy body image for young girls.
Verbal diarrhea isn’t a great quality when you’re president of the united states.
invite some of the association’s bowlers to the White House …
what I call rubbing salt into a wound.
Just wait. Obama has only been in the White House for a short period of time and he has already given the political right enough ammunition to win the next election. Obama is destined to become the worst President in US history.
Albert, there’s every indication Barry’s angling to be the -last- president in US history.