Agreed. This is appalling. Example, my family knows several profoundly disabled people and if one of my KIDS said something like "heh heh, I bowled like ______ (insert name here)," they'd likely get a smack in the mouth.
And it has nothing to do with political affiliation - if Pres. Bush had said something similar, I'd be just as appalled. (That would actually be worse, because I'd be embarrassed that he represented my political party.)
It has to do with respect for the less fortunate and their valiant efforts to succeed in situations where most of us perfectly healthy people take our circumstances for granted and might just crumple into a heap if we had to do the same for a single day.
OK, off my soapbox. :) But no class is right. And Hildy is right - every time this man speaks without his teleprompter, he sticks his foot in his mouth.
The Obamanation has a deeply imbued sense of his own smug superiority, brilliance, and super-human worth to the world.
I have known plenty of people like him, before I got myself away from the Harvard world, and Obambi is one of the worst.
Quips smearing “Special Olympics” competitors come so easily to him because his mental world is consumed with his own self-importance and the inferiority of just about everyone else.
He is an extreme narcissist and egomaniac, and everyone else is just there for his own gratification.
If a R. President uttered such a slur against the Special Olympians the lib outrage would be never ending, and all of the Shriver/Kennedy family members would be trotted out to keep the heat on (Sargent Shriver was a founder of the Special Olympics). As it is Obambi saying this, the libs in the media will try hard to give him a pass.