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Maria Shriver: Obama Special Olympics 'Joke' Hurts
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Friday, March 20, 2009

Posted on 03/20/2009 12:21:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Maria Shriver says President Barack Obama's joke comparing his poor bowling score to that of a Special Olympics athlete was hurtful, although she is sure he didn't mean it that way.

California's first lady issued a statement Friday, a day after the president made the gaffe on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Obama later called Maria's brother, Special Olympics Chairman Tim Shriver, to apologize.

The siblings' mother, Eunice Kennedy-Shriver, founded the Special Olympics and has championed the rights of the mentally retarded.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho2009; bho44; democrats; disabled; leno; obama; shriver; specialolympics
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To: nickcarraway

George Allen “didn’t mean it that way” either.


41 posted on 03/20/2009 12:43:30 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (American Revolution II -- overdue.)
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To: McGruff

That’s a FEMALE cow....you need a BULL doing that...LOL!


42 posted on 03/20/2009 12:44:01 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SaveTheChief
Do you honestly believe he intended to say this on national television?

The Leno show is rehearsed, so I am going with "yes"!

43 posted on 03/20/2009 12:44:37 PM PDT by agere_contra (So ... where's the birth certificate?)
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To: SaveTheChief

It shows what a CHILD he is.....a CLASSLESS CHILD.


44 posted on 03/20/2009 12:45:04 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: P-Marlowe
This is one overblown scandal.

That's true -- but we must keep in mind Alinsky's rules -- hold your opponent accountable for all of his own rules. The Democrats want to play "politically correct"? Then they need to be hammered -- HAMMERED -- every time they make a slip.

As for me? I can talk about someone being a spaz. I don't subscribe to rules about political correctness -- so I'm good to go! And anyone who gives me a hard time is a freakin' retard.

45 posted on 03/20/2009 12:46:33 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (American Revolution II -- overdue)
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To: Ann Archy

Aren’t all cows female?


46 posted on 03/20/2009 12:48:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway (Are the Good Times Really Over?)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

They would’ve hung him from the yardarm.


47 posted on 03/20/2009 12:48:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: P-Marlowe

BEST POST OF THE DAY!

YOU ROCK.


48 posted on 03/20/2009 12:50:13 PM PDT by hoe_cake (" 'We the people' tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us." Ronald Reagan)
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To: nickcarraway; null and void
(Newser) – Kolan McConiughey says he’s confident he can beat Barack Obama in a bowling matchup, despite the president’s recent improvement to a score of 129.

The Special Olympics champion, who has three perfect games on his record and averages 266,

tells TMZ that "he’s cool, but he can’t beat me.” The White House had no comment on the challenge in the wake of Obama’s bowling joke on Leno, though the president has apologized and invited Special Olympics athletes to the White House. Source: TMZ

Take that, Bambi!

49 posted on 03/20/2009 12:51:40 PM PDT by Polarik ("A forgery created to prove a claim repudiates that claim")
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To: nickcarraway

As a matter of fact, lots of special olympians bowl better than he does.


50 posted on 03/20/2009 12:52:52 PM PDT by RobbyS (ECCE homo)
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To: RobbyS

“As a matter of fact, lots of special olympians bowl better than he does.”

I suspect that a fair number of special olympians could run the U.S. economy better than Obama as well.


51 posted on 03/20/2009 12:56:26 PM PDT by Towed_Jumper (Stephen Hopkins: Founding Father who had Cerebral Palsy.."My hand trembles, my heart does not.")
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To: nickcarraway

yeah.....one doesn’t say that cow sh@t....do they??


52 posted on 03/20/2009 1:00:20 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: nickcarraway

Eunice “championed the rights” of special olympians? Too bad she didn’t do anything to support drowning women trapped in cars!


54 posted on 03/20/2009 1:05:57 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: nickcarraway

Hey Maria - he’s your “boy”... do something about it...


55 posted on 03/20/2009 1:09:27 PM PDT by TheBattman (Pray for our country....)
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To: boxerblues

RE: “Will Maria Shriver and the rest of the Kennedy clan shove him overboard and start speaking the truth about TOTUS”

**********

Surely you jest!!! Did you see Arnie fawning over Zero yesterday at that town hall near L.A.??? All those people will prop Bambi up no matter what....disgusting!


56 posted on 03/20/2009 1:16:08 PM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: P-Marlowe
re: Frankly I am sick to death of all the political correctness.

Who invented PC and who uses it to take our free speech away?

57 posted on 03/20/2009 1:17:53 PM PDT by Mamzelle (Boycott Peggy Swoonin')
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To: TurtleUp

RE” “....Every moment of former Senator Obama’s public life disgusts me; I just hope he finds a cute (or chubby) intern soon to take his mind off of destroying the country.

Note to any Freepers working in the White House: Look around for an intern with “nice arms” and low standards; steer her Obama’s way. Let’s see if we can distract the former Senator from his socialist agenda.”

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Hmmm.... can the intern be a “male?” Just asking....


58 posted on 03/20/2009 1:21:55 PM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: P-Marlowe

Political correctness is the reason making fun of people with special needs is viewed unfavorably? That’s odd, because I thought it was more about practicing common sense than about being PC. Wrong is wrong, and the fact the President literally supports babies being killed after they enter the womb makes it appear this latest gaffe wasn’t an accident.


59 posted on 03/20/2009 1:22:31 PM PDT by Carling ("We've lost two people in my family because you dickheads won't cut trees down," - Warwick Spooner)
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To: CaliforniaCon

Did you see Arnie fawning over Zero


I turn off the TV whenever I see TOTUS on the tube


60 posted on 03/20/2009 1:24:25 PM PDT by boxerblues (Party like its 1773)
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