The Obama Presidency

[youandwhosearmy]

edit: Hell, where are all the vocal supporters from the election thread in this thread? When they bother to come here at all, they go way off topic on nonsense like creationism. I can't say I blame them, as he's been indefensible as a president. I just can't understand how they didn't see it coming.

Er are you singling me out as a vocal Obama supporter?

I think I made it pretty clear I was going to vote for McCain until he went insane and chose the one VP candidate I couldn't possibly support, (both because she was insane, and his own age making her a very likely presidential candidate), and then proceeded to have a complete meltdown that scared that shit out of me.


Maybe you meant Frog?

[Yoshi]

No, you've been here, as opposed to your cohorts.

[Yoshi]

Thinking off the cuff and intelligence are not the same thing.

They are very, very closely correlated.

Also, you voted for Bush twice. You really can't say anything about wanting someone intelligent running the country.

/yawn

[Yoshi]

I understood his stance on issues, it's why I didn't vote for him. He has many things I agree with but his plans for our nation were too lofty to even seem fathomable. Don't talk down to me like I don't know this shit.

I'm not talking about you at all. I shouldn't have said "you" up there, but I meant the collective, generic "you", not the single person "you".

[youandwhosearmy]

I think we are going through a slight, "No one can get their point across properly phase..." everyone take a deep breath.

[Razor Ramon]

Shut the fuck up, YAWA.

[youandwhosearmy]

I love you as well Razor.

[Razor Ramon]

~ swoon ~

[youandwhosearmy]

And he's already apologized for the gaffe...

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has apologized to the chairman of the Special Olympics for his late-night talk show quip equating his bowling skills to those of athletes with disabilities.

Appearing on "The Tonight Show" Thursday, the president told host Jay Leno he'd been practicing at the White House's bowling alley but wasn't happy with his score of 129. Then he remarked: "It was like the Special Olympics or something."

The audience laughed, but the White House quickly recognized the blunder. The Special Olympics, founded in 1968, is a global nonprofit organization serving 200 million individuals with intellectual disabilities.

On his way back to Washington on Air Force One, Obama called the chairman of the Special Olympics, Tim Shriver, to say he was sorry — even before the taped program aired late Thursday night.

"He expressed his disappointment and he apologized in a way that was very moving. He expressed that he did not intend to humiliate this population," Shriver said Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America." Obama, Shriver said, wants to have some Special Olympic athletes visit the White House to bowl or play basketball.

Still, Shriver said, "I think it's important to see that words hurt and words do matter. And these words that in some respect can be seem as humiliating or a put down to people with special needs do cause pain and they do result in stereotypes."

Shriver is the son of Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver and nephew of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, whose endorsement early in the Democratic primaries was critical to Obama winning his party's nomination.

Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton told reporters traveling with Obama that the president's offhand remark was not meant to disparage the Special Olympics, only to poke some fun at the commander in chief's bowling skills.

"He thinks that the Special Olympics are a wonderful program that gives an opportunity to shine to people with disabilities from around the world," Burton said.

Despite making fun of his score, the president appears to be getting better the more he visits the White House lanes, which President Truman installed in 1947. During a campaign photo op a year ago at a bowling alley in Altoona, Pa., he rolled only a 37 in seven frames. The clip of the disastrous game was replayed on late night television shows such as Leno's — one of Obama's few campaign gaffes.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090320/...ecial_olympics

That was quick.

[Yoshi]

There is no apology large enough to cover for a stupid comment made while appearing on a fucking talk show while Rome is burning. It's excellent that he has things so well under control that he can appear on national TV filling out his NCAA bracket and making tasteless (for a President) jokes.