Obama's Special Olympics Joke

Obama appeared on Jay Leno, where, among other things, they discussed Obama's poor bowling skills. He compared his bowling to the Special Olympics. An obvious attempt at a joke.

As is typical, someone got offended. The chairman of the Special Olympics says, "words hurt".

Begin rant:

1. WTF, Mr. Obama, are you doing going on a COMEDY show in the midst of an "economic crisis" (your words)?! Our Congress are making up laws to tax individual citizens at 90%, ex post facto (after the fact), in spite of the limits of the Constitution on Congress prohibiting such. And you decide it's appropriate to 'yuk it up' with Leno. Dumb move.

2. WTF, Mr. Obama, are you doing slamming a group of people who can't help themselves?! I thought the Democrats were supposed to be the defenders of the helpless against the evil Republicans! I thought you were supposed to be the captain of compassion! That was just tactless. Dumb move.

3. Get over it, Mr. Chairman of the Special Olympics. Yes, words hurt. But show a little realism. Folks qualifying for the Special Olympics typically aren't as good at sports as a person without physical disability. Right? Hence the "Special". So, if Obama, without disability, could be beat by someone with a disability, doesn't that sortof illustrate the point of the Special Olympics in the first place?!

I'm just tired of the friggin' whining and finger pointing. Our president is screwing up big time, messing with the economy, propping up banks that should fail, then changing the deal on them. Our Congress is overstepping its limitations as set forth in our founding documents (that little, annoying document called The Constitution, which every member of Congress swore an oath to protect). And people are getting outraged because the President makes a joke that might hurt someone's feelings.

Dumb, yes, but it's just a picadillo compared to other things going on.

What does "Snollygoster" mean?

Snollygoster means:

snollygoster: a monster that preyed on chickens or kids
snollygoster: a nasty man whose chief motivation is selfishness
snollygoster: someone without principals or morals, who is deceitful
snollygoster: a politician

In case you were wondering, this wasn't multiple choice. It means all of those things.

Which really isn't a stretch, if you think about it.

Obama vs. Rush Limbaugh

Obama versus Rush Limbaugh

what's the big deal? Rush Limbaugh who is an incredibly popular talkshow host said that he wanted the president to fail. So what? A Fox news poll taken in 2006 indicated that 51% of Democrats wanted President Bush to fail. Now specifically, that poll was about Bush's war policy. What Rush wants to have fail or Obama's economic policies. Note, Bush does not want the US economy to fail. Obviously, since he makes his money from the American economy, it's in his best interest to see that economy succeed. Which is exactly why he has aligned himself against Obama's policies. Obama's policies, if they succeed, will ruin this country. By creating a government that is larger more expensive than ever in the history of our country, our economy will never recover. Our great grandkids will be paying the debts that this administration is incurring. A few years ago Democrats wanted the American military to fail in its mission. Yet if someone considered that to be anti-patriotic, the response was one of shock and surprise and denial and vitriol. Now, when Rush Limbaugh was to protect the US economy, the American left media is defending Obama and attacking Rush Limbaugh. The inconsistency is blatant.

It's both amusing and scary at the same time. The most powerful man in the world, the president of the United States of America, has aligned himself personally against a citizen of his own country. Is that an abuse of power? Perhaps not yet, but this isn't over yet. Rush Limbaugh is really an innocent bystander. He's a businessman. He makes his living by talking about politics and gathers enough of a following of people who agree with him that sponsors are willing to pay money for airtime on his show because they know that his show is reaching millions of people. That doesn't just happen. He has worked really hard to create what he has. He's doing nothing illegal nothing immoral and really nothing anti-patriotic. But the powerful political figure has decided to make it personal. Although he doesn't have the guts to face on a show himself, instead he sends out his lackeys to smear Rush.

It's amusing in the sense that the most powerful man in the world is afraid of a businessman. It's also scary that he would use his resources his influence and his authority to try to bring down one of his own citizens.

When are we as a country going to wake up to the fact that this administration has made huge power grabs in every corner of society. They want to socialize medicine. They want to socialize business. They want to tell us what we can do with energy, what we can do with our money, what we should be doing with our education. An example is the seizing of the census and moving it from a traditional space into under the supervision of a political appointee. That's one of many examples of the power grabs made by this administration that should scare all of us. Ultimately Obama is telling us what we can do with our freedoms, which is kiss them goodbye.