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March 20th 2009     

You Just Can’t Teleprompt Live

Posted by: Laer at 06:36 am

So you know – who doesn’t by now? – that last night Pres. Obama didn’t do himself any favors with the disabled and their families when he likened his lack of bowling skills (129 high game) as being “like the Special Olympics or something.” But did you know:

  • If you type in “special olympics obama leno” into Google you get 48,800 hits … 48,801 after I post this?

And, oh!, he speaks so well. And, oh!, he’s so inclusive! But before you get too comfortable in your mild amusement over the president’s vice-president-ism, you really need to be put in your place, you hate-mongering Conservative you. From the Liberal Values link above:

Of course if you read the right wing blogs I predict that the only portion you will read much about is the gaffe in which Obama compares his bowling to the Special Olympics, getting far more attention than matters of substance on the economy. With all their complaints about “political correctness” we all know that it is the right wingers who dwell far more on this type of thing as they thrive on personal attacks as opposed to consideration of issues.

To the extent we dwell on this sort of thing – and we really do dwell far more on matters of substance on Obama’s torpedoing of the economy and the Constitution – it is because they invented political correctness and they impose it on us, destroying First Amendment rights in the process, not the other way around.

Get ready for the Obama PR machine to take over: Reports say Obama called Special Olympics chair Tim Shriver from Air Force One to apologize, and invited a Special Olympics bunch to the White House to play basketball with him.  Poor kids will have no idea they’re being bruttally exploited for the president’s numbers.

And I’m willing to give Obama  his due.  His patter with Leno about a doctor following him around with a defibrillator in tow was pretty funny, and he did have one truly insightful line that all of us, conservatives and libs alike, should take to heart:

MR. OBAMA: And, you know, the immediate bonuses that went to AIG are a problem. But the larger problem is we’ve got to get back to an attitude where people know enough is enough, and people have a sense of responsibility and they understand that their actions are going to have an impact on everybody.

Mr. Obama, enough is enough with this spending already!  Don’t you have a sense of responsibility, an understanding that your actions are going to have a very, very negative impact on everybody?

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