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President Obama Jokes About Being a Bad Bowler: 'It's Like the Special Olympics'
ABC ^ | March 19, 2009 | Jake Tapper

Posted on 03/19/2009 7:06:51 PM PDT by cdchik123

The first appearance by a sitting president on "The Tonight Show" may well end up being the last.

President Obama, in his taping with Jay Leno Thursday afternoon, attempted to yuk it up with the funnyman, and ended up insulting the disabled.

Towards the end of his approximately 40-minute appearance, the president talked about how he's gotten better at bowling and has been practicing in the White House bowling alley.

He bowled a 129, the president said.

"That's very good, Mr. President," Leno said sarcastically.

It's "like the Special Olympics or something," the president said.

When asked about the remark, the White House said the president did not intend to offend.

"The president made an off-hand remark making fun of his own bowling that was in no way intended to disparage the Special Olympics," White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton said. "He thinks the Special Olympics is a wonderful program that gives an opportunity for people with disabilities from around the world."

Facing tough questions about the performance of his Treasury Secretary, $165 million in bonuses for AIG officials and anticipating a fight over his $3.55 trillion budget, the president has not had a particularly good week, and it's unlikely this will help matters.

- jpt


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To: Kansas58

Sorry, I just didn’t like the movie Forrest Gump. It seemed silly and patronizing to mentally handicapped people. Just my opinion.


341 posted on 03/20/2009 12:10:54 PM PDT by GreyMountainReagan (Liberals do not view the book 1984 as a warning but as a instruction manual.)
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To: GreyMountainReagan
Well, I actually found it uplifting.

It showed that courage and integrity and loyalty were more important than most of the elitist things that society wants us to think are even more important.

342 posted on 03/20/2009 12:14:21 PM PDT by Kansas58
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To: al baby

Bunch of sharecroppers living in the White House. First they put in a playgorund, then the sharecropper’s wife is going to have the lawn cut up to put in vegetables and this jerk spends time in the basement bowling. He spent $37,000 an hour to fly out to California to appear on a talk show and disparage innocent people with Downs Syndrome. Has America gone off its rocker?


343 posted on 03/20/2009 12:29:01 PM PDT by veritas2002
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To: cdchik123





344 posted on 03/20/2009 12:36:57 PM PDT by counterpunch (Kenya has two presidents. America has Zero.)
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To: Rebelbase

Sarah Palin talked about the Special Olympics in early March per Rush.


345 posted on 03/20/2009 12:41:39 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Terri's Day March 31, 2009. Remember Terri Schiavo in your neck of the woods.)
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To: Badabing Badablonde
Would it help you to get the context to know I've had a physical disability since 14( amputee, cancer), did “ride the short bus” to school and did my High School home room in the class for the Physical and Mentally disabled kids...
346 posted on 03/20/2009 12:44:24 PM PDT by tophat9000 ( We are "O" so f---ed)
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To: floozy22

“The Brain that Wouldn’t Die,” except where’s the Brain?


347 posted on 03/20/2009 12:51:54 PM PDT by Category Four (Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy ... Flippancy is the best of all.)
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To: Badabing Badablonde

Kanya west said the Bush Hated Black people This is Just my take on President Hussien If it offended you Im sorry


348 posted on 03/20/2009 12:56:18 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: cdchik123

Glenn Beck has a daughter w/a handicap. I’m watching him on Fox at 5 to see if he mentions the shameless gaffe by the phony prez.


349 posted on 03/20/2009 1:05:50 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Terri's Day March 31, 2009. Remember Terri Schiavo in your neck of the woods.)
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To: cdchik123

I think most freepers were personally offended by this comment, being retarded themselves.


350 posted on 03/20/2009 1:12:30 PM PDT by Tequila25 (Conservatism is common sense.)
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To: cdchik123

Gov. Palin comments:

http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YTQ2Nzk1NjAzMjdiN2U4YTExZDg4ZTA5YjRmMTYxMTU=


351 posted on 03/20/2009 2:47:47 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Terri's Day March 31, 2009. Remember Terri Schiavo in your neck of the woods.)
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To: Army Air Corps

I remember that MST3K. The disembodied head that didn’t need lungs to speak....she had “neck juice.”


352 posted on 03/20/2009 2:48:19 PM PDT by tellw
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To: conservative blonde
I have been thinking about this comment all day and it actually bothers me more as the day has gone on.
It shows such a lack of judgment on his part. He knew that he was on national television so it can't be dismissed as an offhand comment, since I am sure that a lot of the interview was rehearsed ahead of the taping.
It was a big interview for him. His fans thought that it was groundbreaking. It was a big deal for him and his entourage, so it seems his choice of words would have been careful, and he says something this insensitive.
It either means that he is totally insensitive to disabled, which could be true or he has no ability to discern what is appropriate public discourse, which seems unlikely since he had been campaigning and in the public eye for eighteen months before the election.
353 posted on 03/20/2009 2:51:59 PM PDT by madinmadtown (It is good to be right.)
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To: cdchik123

Bowling isn’t the only thing Obama is bad at.


354 posted on 03/20/2009 2:59:23 PM PDT by popdonnelly (I don't live my life to make liberals and leftists happy.)
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To: Enchante
As it is Obambi saying this, the libs in the media will try hard to give him a pass.

It's likely that Bambi will make so many politically-incorrect statements against the disabled, gays, etc, that the media will have to eliminate the sanctions against political incorrectness.

355 posted on 03/20/2009 3:15:56 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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To: cdchik123
On the Tonight Show...

Obama says that we shouldn’t encourage smart students to become Investment Bankers “we(Gov’t) need young people to decide to be....engineers.. doctors, teachers”. “Reward those kind of things that make things and makes peoples lives better”

According to Obama the average American pays 30% interest on their Credit Card. He also indicated that Gov't must do something about that. I wonder what that will be and how credit may be affected?

Obama effectively said the best and the brightest should no longer expect rewards and that their sense of entitlement must be extinguished in our culture. He is demonizing the best and brightest. He's mocking acheivers and risk takers. He also turned around the entitlement argument on those who actually WORK. It's as if those who work are the bad guys.

Obama says "to make sure that before somebody makes a bad bet you(the Government)say hold on, you can't do that." Obama intends to remove risk from the bedrock of Capitalism. What is Capitalism without risk?

Oh yeah and he totally caps this all of with a dig at Special Oylmpics.

356 posted on 03/20/2009 3:20:56 PM PDT by topfile
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To: montyspython
"Most mentally retarded people have kind hearts, Pelosi is simply mentally unstable and IQ challenged."

That's a very good point...... :)

357 posted on 03/20/2009 3:35:18 PM PDT by PEACE ENFORCER (One Needs to Have the Capability of Using Deadly Force at Any Moment.....:))
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To: Kansas58
Coulter is not the President. She does not have to act Presidential.

Why thanks for your opine..... I love this woman & would love to see her as POTUS "as is".....

358 posted on 03/20/2009 3:38:20 PM PDT by PEACE ENFORCER (One Needs to Have the Capability of Using Deadly Force at Any Moment.....:))
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To: PEACE ENFORCER

Good ol’ Ann. I love her and agree with everything she says — and how she says it. Some day I hope to see her as POTUS Press Secretary. That is if we ever again have a POTUS instead of a dictator.


359 posted on 03/20/2009 3:40:48 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I feel much better since I gave up hope.)
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To: Kansas58
Exactly. We should have different standards for journalists than for POTUS. If a reporter had given Brown a gift of DVDs that won't play in his country, I would have just chuckled. But when Obama did it, this tacky gift was an embarrassment.
360 posted on 03/20/2009 3:42:45 PM PDT by Dante3
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