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March 20, 2009, 7:20am Report to Moderator
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20268.html


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President Barack Obama called Special Olympics Chairman Tim Shriver to apologize Thursday night over his remarks comparing his bowling to Special Olympics.

Obama called before the remarks aired on the Tonight Show and invited some Special Olympics athletes to the White House for basketball or bowling.

“He expressed his disappointment and he apologized, in a way that was very moving,” Shriver said on “Good Morning America.” “It’s important to see that words hurt, and words do matter. And these words that in some respect can be seen as humiliating or a put-down of people with special needs do cause pain, and they do result in stereotypes."

President Barack Obama made his difficult week worse Thursday by saying his poor bowling skills are “like Special Olympics or something,” an athletic competition for people with disabilities. His spokesman quickly said Obama hadn’t intended any offense.

The late-night turn is a political risk for a president overseeing a recession. And Obama had taken some criticism for it already.
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I am sure that his holiness O'bama is to be commended for this comment in some way since he is "new" to politics and didn't "know any better." Can you imagine if Bush had done the same? Really?


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Quoted from GrahamBonnet
Can you imagine if Bush had done the same? Really?
I thought the identical same thing.


When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche


“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.”
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Salvatore
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LEAVE IT TO HELL ALONE AND LEAVE THE MAN TO DO THE JOB THE PEOPLE WANT HIM TO DO AND DROP IT NOW!
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