I like you Sarah, but I think it was kinda retarded for you to get upset about someone using the “r-word”. I don’t think Rahm meant to use it in an insulting manner.
Speak about twisted values: why the anger over the “r-word”, yet not a peep over the “f-word”? Not that either one bothers me, but I’m just asking.
Of course he meant to use it in an insulting manner! What else? But NOT to insult the 'mentally handicapped' (...just regular idiots). THAT is the point IMO, and his use of the term is nothing to get excited about in the context of the general degeneration (if one dislikes foul language) of modern speech. (The delicacy of Charles Dickens' use of the English language is long gone and lost it seems. Oh, btw, he (Dickens) correctly used the term 'sex' to distinguish men and women, not the retarded term 'gender'...;-))