For the record, President Barack Obama made a stupid comment (he was joking about his own suspect bowling skills), on The Tonight Showwith Jay Leno, about Special Olympics participants that he apologized for and is being smacked around a little bit for in the media. But, for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (still with delusions of grandeur with respect to possibly running for president), who still seems clueless about much, to try and pile on is stupid and hypocritical on her part. Palin was quoted by The Daily Beast as she responded to President Obama’s comments on Leno:
PALIN: I was shocked to learn of the comment made by President Obama about Special Olympics. This was a degrading remark about our world’s most precious and unique people, coming from the most powerful position in the world. These athletes overcome more challenges, discrimination and adversity than most of us ever will. By the way, these athletes can outperform many of us and we should be proud of them. I hope President Obama’s comments do not reflect how he truly feels about the special needs community.
Obviously, for political purposes, Palin is beating a dead horse to get every drop of blood out of this issue. However, Palin should worry about her own problems. This woman who held herself up as a mother of a special needs child and as a person who promised to be a champion for special needs children, is playing presidential politics (looking ahead to 2012) with critical money that could go directly to help special needs individuals in Alaska. So, before trying to throw President Obama under the bus for making an ill-advised comment, she should look at how her posturing for the presidential campaign of 2012 is truly impacting special needs individuals in the state of Michigan. Her selfishness and tunnel-vision focus on her own personal presidential ambitions are far more of a problem than the comment made by President Obama on Leno’s show.
The Daily Beast:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-03-20/palin-fires-back-at-obama-for-special-olympics-joke/
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