I just looked at a few Michelle pictures. I'd say that's a "yes". 
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.
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Yes he did Maria, Yes he can. He did it because Sarah Palin and that which she posted on her site.
He is a vicious, evil POS and you need to quit giving him a break.
He MEANT it to be hurtful. Ya know Maria, Hitler made sure the disabled were included in his final solution. Obama has a mean, cold heart, except for his own.
Wake up!
I'd love him to be asked off teleprompter what he meant. That would clarify things, eh, Maria? Sheesh...
I just looked at a few Michelle pictures. I'd say that's a "yes".
As to Schriver defending him, I suppose if he had said that he bowls as well as Teddy drives a car near water, she wouldn't be so willing to defend him.
Yes. It's called desensitization. And let's see, which political candidate has a mentally disabled child who tends to reflect her in a very positive light? Hmm?
Afterward TOTUS was sent to stand in the corner for allowing this gaffe to happen.
Poor TOTUS was suffering jet lag from the West Coast trip.
your qualification of ‘to say this on national television’ puts it in quite a different light .. as a politician he would never say anything to alienate a voting bloc, i.e., disabled and families.
However, if the question was ‘would he say this in private and not give it a second thought,’ the answer would be yes.
The intellectual elites are grossly insensitive. They actually see little difference between the mentally retarded and the average IQ’d individual .. but a world of differene between everyone else and themselves.
Maria missed the best response:
“It’s not like he gave one a lobotomy.”
Apologist are in full scramble mode!
"One" says cowflaps, or cowpies. Cowchips if they're dried.
You can bet that all questions Leno posed to Obama were pre-approved. THEREFORE, his response was well planned. This was not an impulsive, unplanned response. He and his people obviously thought this was a funny comment. We need a leader, not a stand up comedian.
Maria surely knows how the Leno show works!
You can bet that all questions Leno posed to Obama were pre-approved. THEREFORE, his response was well planned. This was not an impulsive, unplanned response. He and his people obviously thought this was a funny comment. We need a leader, not a stand up comedian.
" Ach der lieber. Dat sonovagun Obama pokes fun o' dem retarts? "
"Chonny, Wooty and ai gotda vunny veeling Ameerecans tink Obama is pure crapola."
"Dat Obama could not eben get a jop as Val-Mart greetah, Home Deepoo
paint mixah, McD's ketchop pumpah, or vaiter at Ved Lopstah."
Yeah, but did she hear what his COS said?
"I'd like to see those braindead retards do this."
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