Posted on 03/20/2009 12:21:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Maria Shriver says President Barack Obama's joke comparing his poor bowling score to that of a Special Olympics athlete was hurtful, although she is sure he didn't mean it that way.
California's first lady issued a statement Friday, a day after the president made the gaffe on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Obama later called Maria's brother, Special Olympics Chairman Tim Shriver, to apologize.
The siblings' mother, Eunice Kennedy-Shriver, founded the Special Olympics and has championed the rights of the mentally retarded.
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Will Maria Shriver and the rest of the Kennedy clan shove him overboard and start speaking the truth about TOTUS
Wonder what she’s going to instruct Arnie to say about this.
Ya think if Obama said he was bowling like a girl it would be OK?
...”although she is sure he didn’t mean it that way.”
I guess Maria could be correct. Hitler was just joking when he sent the Jews into the showers.
Idiot Elitist, and I mean it.
Never.
If Obama bowls like a spaz, then he should be able to brag about it accordingly.
Mean it what way? As an insult? How else can this be taken? He clearly meant that if he bowled badly he was bowling like a retarded person. How else can you take that?
Why can’t she question Obama’s new puppet: her hubby Ahnold?
Oh yes, he’s too busy sniffing Obama’s jockstrap.
Of course he didn't mean it that way. Does that make the remark any less insensitive?
Shriver and her lot would be calling for heads to roll if a Republican so carelessly said the same thing.
It's alright - his economic plan seems a little boneheaded and intellectually challenged too.
The Teleprompter made with do it!
Rush did a comparison of Governor Palin’s statements made at the opening of the Special Olympics, as she held baby Trig, to Obama’s gaffe last night. It provided a very apt example of the type of person Obama is versus the type of person Governor Palin is (and we have the wrong one leading in DC).
He probably meant to say he was bowling like a Californian! ;)
“This is one overblown scandal. “
It’s just nice to see them hoisted on their own petard.
Your I am John Galt site is experiencing difficulty.
Arnie better not stick up for Barry or he’ll be back out on the couch!
Truth be told, in Obama’s future world there wouldn’t be any Special Olympics, because the particpants would only have been “temporarily alive.”
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