[CatherineofAragon]

Oh, please , enough with the delicate, oh-so-easily offended sensibilities. My husband's aunt is mentally retarded. She's a darling, and the family adores her, but no one clutches their pearls over that word.

Look it up. It means to delay or hold back in terms of development or progress, and it is an accurate description of people with that particular disability.

I am sick to death of all this jumping to be offended.

[CodeToad]

“Look it up. It means to delay or hold back in terms of development or progress, and it is an accurate description of people with that particular disability.”

In fact, it is an insult to call people with mental handicaps “retarded”. They actually may not be retarded at all, but rather advanced for their capabilities.

conservaKate is just mouthing off on her liberal ideologies and feigning emotion to do it. She supports the denigration of the South while claiming moral superiority; that’s bigotry, a defining characteristic of a liberal.

[conservaKate]

Darling .. he used that word as a slam. Did you have any comment about the word retard being used against Sarah Palin’s child?

No one wins an argument/debate when they resort to name calling.