Barack Obama Apologizes For Special Olympic Joke
President Barack Obama appears on The Tonight Show and is interviewed by Jay Leno on Thursday (March 19) in Burback, Calif.
During the interview Leno tried to compliment the president’s bowling score but Obama said, “It was like the Special Olympics or something.” The White House quickly issued a statement and said Obama’s remarks were, “in no way intended to disparage the Special Olympics.”
On his way back to Washington on Air Force One, Obama called the chairman of the Special Olympics, Tim Shriver, to apologize before the program aired Thursday night. “He expressed his disappointment and he apologized, I think in a way that was very moving,” Shriver told Good Morning America today.








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To silly me. You are kidding right. Obama an embarrassment! Have you forgotten what an embarrassment Bush was? He could not pronounce words correctly, often got confused about what he was suppose to be saying, lied to us and the rest of the world. Pretty much ruined foreign policy. At least Obama realized his mistake immediately and apologized, something Bush refused to do no matter how bad he screwed up. Get on with yourself please. All of our leaders have said things that they should not have said, read your history please. Some have said and done some pretty horrific things. Too bad so many people refuse to be objective. Obama has yet to prove himself . He has not even been given a chance. He has been in office two month and a few days. Get off his back.
Some Obama humour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hSnEMV58F8
to jayne reese,
actually he has had a lot of opportunitties to prove himself. Its called the stimulus package, The AIG fiasco, etc…. much more, just look it up. Bush WAS president, not anymore, so whatever sh*t happens now that goes wrong which it is right now and any screw ups like the lying about knowing about the AIG bonuses earlier are on OBAMA now! he is president NOW. Who cares if Bush made some screw ups, that was when he was president, but he isnt anymore so people need to stop. It does not matter that obama has only been president for two months, he has already signed bills, and such…. and so far its CRAP!!! Havent you noticed the outcry over the stimulus package????? washington has been getting floods of letters about obamas promise to take out earmarks and what does he do, he keeps them in. he claims he wants to help the people but if he cant even listen to peopels complaints over it instead he goes completley against a promise he made during his campaign before he was elected. If people actually went back and youtubed his speeches and debates he made during the election trail, you would see that over half of the things he said were just a mask and that he has done the complete oppsosite of what he saif he would do. just go and watch the campagn speeches and you will see. He has had his first two months to prove himself and so far he has done a SH**TY job. Everyone makes him out to be everyones hero and so perfect but he isnt. People just agree with him b/c of party bias! So people need to get off their high horse like hollywood, and actually learn and understand where he stands on issues. A lot of people dont even bother to look up where he stands on issues and only vote for him either because he is democratic or because of his skin color. Dont vote for someone just becuase they are white, black, Asian, mexican, honduran, etc….. People nee to actually look up his senate record and his political stance. its so sad that republicans voet only republican and democratic vote democratic! People need to stop voting or defending him b/c of part loyalty!
AIG bonuses is really just the tip of the iceberg. All the media is focused on that to provide a smokescreen to what’s really going on. It’s the peanut in the shell game people. Keep your eye on the ball
Mark Steyn says it all and with such wit.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/president-outraged-aig-2341488-don-bonuses
Lizzie,
Victor Davius Hanson makes fun of how the Left always and still attack Bush. Here he writes “Bush Did It” a parody.
As instructive as it is the Obamabots will still not get it.
http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson032009.html
thanks pineypointgal for the video links!!! :)
I forwarded the links to some friends!
great videos!!!!
Lizzie
Keep the faith.
Just keep speaking the truth and hold your head high. America is a great country and remember over 57 milion people did not vote for this fool and many of those that did are beginning to regret it.
I remember the Carter years (when inflation was up and unemployment was double digit) and while this is much worse in many ways we will come out of this as well. Really be on the look out for a Tea Party Protest in your area and to attend one - bring friends. They are growing rapidly. People are beginning to rise up ( Democrats, Republicans and Libertarians alike). Michelle Malkin a conservative journalist that has been covering the protests at her site as well as Pajamas Media.
I will be at one with my two small children - my 9 year old girl and 4 year old boy. He has a t-shirt that says “Obama, stop robbing my piggy bank.”
Funny to meet someone here. I usually don’t visit this site but was linked here by another site when I was reading about his Leno appearance. And of course I couldn’t keep my mouth shut in the face of such ignorance.
Great to meet some one with common sense.
Goodnight
Sorry about all the typos in previous comments. Four year old spilled grape juice on my keyboard and still working out the kinks even though I’ve cleaned it twice. Whole sentences in my comments go missing.
Eeek
Definately time for bed and time to replace keyboard
I think it’s good that he said this.. It’s reassuring to know that the president can hangout and make jokes just like any other American.
It is sad when we have to TAKE A JOKE from our president….really pathetic… when you are the leader of a country you have to WATCH WHAT YOU SAY…..*sigh* I think this just goes to show what a crapy choice america made on election day
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