Barack Obama’s Retard Outreach

This would be funny (as was the movie) if it wasn’t true.

OK I just read in this article that when he made the gaffe, the Leno audience laughted? WTF? Great example you’re setting, Barry.

Shriver disappointed:

While Schwarzenegger was defending Obama, his wife, California First Lady Maria Shriver, was not so quick to forgive.

Shriver, a Democrat who endorsed Obama last year, said in a statement Friday that his bungled effort humor was hurtful.

“While I am confident that President Obama never intended to offend anyone, the response that his comments have caused, coupled with the reaction of a primetime audience, demonstrate the need to continue to educate the non-disabled community on the issues that confront those with a developmental disability,” she said. “Oftentimes we don’t realize that when we laugh at comments like this it hurts millions of people throughout the world.”

What the hell? What the hell is wrong with people? And his bots are out in force today saying we’re being too P.C. about his trashing of the disabled.

I realize O was trying to make an attempt at self-deprecating humor, I just can’t believe he said what he did. Well, I mean, of COURSE I can. I know O. *sigh*

I read Palin’s response and she pointed out how such a hurtful comment came from the most powerful person in office. I know it’s obvious, but it’s jarring to get that the most powerful person put down some of the most vulnerable on our planet. It’s mean. Not just a mistake.

If O speaks this way on national TV, then he’s probably wayyy loose with the comments when no one can hear him. One can see why he is so dependent on the teleprompter–every time he speaks, it’s not really him. Face it, obots, our president is a jerk and it sucks.

I like the way you pointed out that if he does this on National TV then what does he sound like without a TV camera around.

And to add to this, Obama sent yesterday a letter via the Embassy to the French President, thanking him for his congratulations upon his election (4 months later) and inviting him to work together.

The problem is that the letter was sent to the wrong President!!! It was sent to Chirac who has been out of office for two years…

Should we laugh or cry in shame?

http://europumas.over-blog.com/article-29271371.html

Yup. I liked what Palin said today with regard to Obama’s remark:

“I was shocked to learn of the comment made by President Obama about Special Olympics,” Governor Palin said. “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.”

Ah, geez. If this story is true. We have a major problem America.

Is there ANYONE in Obama’s circle that has any common sense and knowledge?

We know Obama is an empty suit but are all his buddies more airheaded than he is?

We don’t call the BOTS for nothing, do we?

We don’t call them BOTS for nothing, do we?

Damn you’re good, Sarah!

sorry for the duplication……

I didn’t know. No wonder he loves Hollywood. He’s always copying characters in movies, even if movies are about real people.

Malcome X, The Hurricane, Something About Mary. It fits. HE’s made up his life, so……

I just wish he drew the line there and didn’t copy the worst traits from Stones’ “W”, but the guy if anything is not original, so this is what we’re left with. A compromised, ineffectual, surface only Copy Cat.

Dailykooks duly notes that it was not in bad taste because people laughed at the joke and apparently it’s perfectly OK for the president to make fun of mentally retarded people.

Good Lord, I can’t believe I actually used to consider myself a part of that community. What a bunch of sick bastards.

I love this logic: since other people piled on to laugh at the disabled, then it wasn’t an offensive comment.

And these are the Democrats? The co-called compassionate party?

What really stinks is that while Obama was going on Leno and insulting the disabled, Hillary was at the Kennedy center receiving a Global Trailblazer award.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20272.html

The fact that we aren’t seeing this on the news is a failure of the media, but it’s also a failure of Obama’s leadership. America needs to see something positive right now and seeing female leaders from around the world honored as well as our Sec of State getting a standing ovation would have done more good then that stupid appearance on Leno. Obama could have attended the award ceremony and brought the media with him. There were even celebrities there and it’s been all but censored away by the press.

… and of course the self righteous arrogant, and narcissistic one would never think about apologizing for the offensive remarks and disrespect to all people with disabilities. He probably thinks that apologies are below his position. What an ignorant and offensive person this man is to the presidency.

The people with disabilities can’t take on all the Obamas. That leaves us. We can do it, but it is so embarrassing to show the world that we will take up the gauntlet against this fool aka POTUS.
It’s another in a series of WORMs of Obama and his administration working against, cutting down the most deserving and “weakest” of Americans; the disabled, the veterans. I wish I could think his handlers are appalled and disgusted by this latest in a series of insults and gaffes.
I don’t think that’s the case. When I read the Internet, the number of people defending this vulgar gauche clown wannabe O is legion.
Ya gotta wonder what it takes.

Well, we can start by laughing, but then I suspect we will all end up in tears.

Thanks for sharing this link; I’ll go check it out now.

Do you know if there is any video of Hillary getting this award and ovation? I would love to see it if there is.

>>> Is there ANYONE in Obama’s circle that has any common sense and knowledge?

Anyone?

Anyone?

Buehler?

I would like to ask Chris M of Hardball, the Obama arse sucker, how come the person he called the great communicator has such troubles with words. Every time Obama opens his pie hole, someone has to come with a WORM to explain what he mean?

Yeah, but say the word, “chit’lin,” or, “Nappy-headed,” and watch as REV J. Jackson, Al Sharpton and the entire International Fraternity of Eternal Pathos disembark in your yard.

Just Words…

It’s because We Are Not Worthy and are unable to appreciate or perceive the subtleness of his communiques whiich spring from his superior judgment and substantial intellect.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Also, We Bees RAY-ciss….

That’s ok — when Bill Maher called Hillary the “c” word — they (and Bill Maher) tried to make a case that was ok, too.

Nothing will surprise me when it comes to O what a mistake America made.

OT

I can’t believe NOBODY has mentioned this:

HOUSE ADOPTS PLAN FOR VOLUNTEER BILL

ALSO REQUIRES NEW EVALUATION OF ‘MANDATORY’
SERVICE FOR ALL

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=92288

Alice in Wonderland

If anyone from the other side of the political spectrum had said the same Obots would be calling for their head. A joke? Of course not! It only shows their moral bankruptcy.

Obama says it? He was just kidding.

Yup…

One
Big
Ass
Mistake
America

Mandatory or voluntary service. Same thing.

Sigh.

How amazing IS this? When I watched Obama, the titular leader of the free world, yucking it up on Leno last night, the Matt Dillon character from “Something About Mary” was the first thing that came to mind. He was a sneaky, lying, sexist, bigoted, thoughtless, and insensitive moron. In other words, the screen version of Obama.

I keep thinking I am going to wake up and this will be a bad dream….

Of course Obama doesn’t have any compassion for the handicapped-if he did, he wouldn’t have have made such a casual insult.

Sarah is MY CHOICE for responsible, reliable, honest, hardworking politician of the ? Year ? Century ?

Turning down 1/3 of the stimulus offered~!!

More than any other greedy Gov. out there! She is my perfect definition of a TRUE AMERICAN.

She SHOULD be running the place.

I’m damn tired of reading, hearing, seeing ANYTHING HUSSEIN! (if he can insult the most meek among us than I can DAMN WELL insult his STUPID ANAL MIDDLE NAME)

F U BAMBI U R a DISGRACE!

he’s got awfully big ears too….I’m sorry, but he does. I rarely watch him but they had a clip of him on tv during a Fox news program and I thought “shit, he’s got big enough ears, he doesn’t need Air Force One to fly”…..

I expect the regular JOE to slip up

I do NOT expect OR WANT my PRESIDENT TO EVER slip up with what is politically correct for this country!

I slip up but I’m not running
I want someone as CIC that is BETTER than myself in every way!

NONE of these freaks comes CLOSE to being even at decent as myself and I’m wretched regularly!

POTUS is not allowed to be!!! Not after the LAST BULLY we had! I want someone BETTER THAN that!

mandatory volunteerism.

Yeah right. This country is NOT going to sit still while these nuts implement the Commie agenda from hell. What kind of normal, decent American family is going to allow this mandatory crap? Obama is just begging for a revolution in this country. He’s so stupid that he thinks we’re stupid enough to be led like sheep into his visions of a perfect Chavez hell hole for us.

HR 1388: The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act
or involuntary servitude:

House of Representatives passed “The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act” which includes a provision that calls for the development of a plan to implement a “mandatory service requirement for all able young people”.

full text of the bill here:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-1388

that clip is so Obama.

from the Guardian:
ill-considered crack about his bowling score of 129 – “It was like the Special Olympics or something,” Obama said – sent the White House once again into a mode that is becoming increasingly familiar: damage control.

increasingly familiar…..

As much as I’d love to believe this story, I seem to recall last summer when That One was in Europe doing his Rock Tour. Didn’t he meet with Sarkozy who later commented on BO’s naivete?

I loved it when one of the other Shrivers (Maria’s brother?) siad that while he didn’t think BO meant any harm, that words DO matter.

Snap!

Can we be sure he didn’t deliberately steal the lime light to draw any attention away from Hillary’s accomplishments?

Why do we have to look to England for accurate reporting of our government?

OMG on Bill Maher just now, as Maher is trashing Palin for defending the disabled, a twit from the NYTimes Andrew Ross Sorkin chimes in to joke that Palin is disabled herself.

Look I don’t want newspapers to all fold not even the NYTimes. But if they don’t fire that twit Sorkin who brags he started writing for the NYT when he was still in high school, then fine, the NYT deserves to die.

Tha acronym is G.I.V.E.?

Shouldn’t it be Barack’s Little Experiment Enlisting Dopes? BLEED seems so much more appropriate.

Bill Maher disgusts me.

Consider the source…These people are heartless assholes. Them making fun of Palin is just pitiful.

To paraphrase R. M. Nixon, when the President does it it is in good taste. Pardon me while I go barf.

Good point.

Maher has sunk tonight. His special guest: Keith Olbermann. Even Ben Affleck roasted Keith Olbermann as a crazy conspiratorial cat owner living alone.

OMG!
It just occurred to me — does anyone here think this was an intentional diss of Nicolas Sarkozy? We know That One is immature and childishly vengeful. I just Googled “Sarkozy calls Obama naive” and tons of stories came up talking about how Sarkozy called BO’s “little experience” “dangerously naive” and how NS criticized his views on Iran.

It was only a few days ago that BO dissed Brown and Great Britain, supposedly for personal reasons. Could it really be that he’s pissing on France now?

Re: Obama’s special olympics remark….Would the BOTS think it was funny for a politician in a wheelchair to joke (on national television) that he “moves slower than an old shufflin’ black man” ?? Would they laugh at that? Hell no!
I’m heartbroken for the special olympic families. Obama is just too cruel!

As the mother of a young son with Muscular Dystrophy, I thank you, and the rest of the NQ crew for that. I am too mind blown…and pissed…to make a coherent comment on what I think of barky’s latest.

Well now we know why he went on Leno, to upstage Hillary.

Everyone, I have watched and re-watched the clip of BO on Leno and want to offer this slightly different interpretation of the offensive exchange. I am convinced this was not BO’s failed attempt at self-deprecating humor but something far more offensive.

BO made that nasty comment – “This is like Special Olympics or something” – right after Jay’s response to his statement, he had bowled a 129. See, he said he bowled 129; Jay said, “That’s very good,” and then looked away and placed his fingers on his lips, as if to squelch a laugh. Then, he turned back to his guest and repeated with obviously feigned sincerity, “No, that’s very good,” and turned away again to stop himself from laughing, all the while clapping his hands half-heartedly. BO, smiling broadly, now chuckled and, reaching out his left hand to touch Jay’s right sleeve, uttered the offensive remarks, “This is like the Special Olympics or something.” I believe, he was drawing a parallel between Jay’s response to his bowling performance and the response of spectators at the Special Olympics, wrongly likening Jay’s obviously mocking ‘praise’ of his low bowling score to the genuine pride pouring from spectators cheering on the athletes competing at the Special Olympics.

Only a mental health professional could provide words to adequately convey the depravity that is all things Obama.

Thank you for pointing out that Obama’s disregard for our wounded veterans is part of the same callousness he showed towards “our world’s most precious and unique people”.

And thank you Sarah Palin. I am sending Sarah’s Special Olympics video to everyone on my email list and asking them to pass it on.

What was the first line of that Gene Wilder movie? If I can not bring you healing, at least I bring you (dare I say it?) hope”

Add that one to the Russian Language skills deficit. UG

The fact that leftist scumbags in the MSM, entertainment, and politics have spit their most potent and foul venom at Palin, is simply an indication of their knee-knocking, pants wetting fear of her.

That crossed my mind too. I might very well be that on a personal level, O dislikes Sarkozy, and on a more general level, O is sending a very clear message of realigment favoring new allies over traditional Europeans ones. The fact that Chirac was opposed to the Iraq war might be the clue of this all story.

Still I do not know what is worse: a mistake of Presidential Identity or a delibarate snob of a standing President of an ally country.

“reaching out his left hand to touch Jay’s right sleeve”

Blech always with the hands. Gross. It grosses me out to watch. It’s what he does when he can’t think of what to say, when he’s backed into a corner and scared. It’s such a weak move.

As much as I hate to say it…and as repugnant as Obama is to any decent person…thank God he keeps F**king up. Really, think about it. He just keeps making a major butthole of himself in public over and over and over again. We should be grateful. Within a few short months it’s obvious he’s a one-termer, if that. Due to his own ignorance. Just think if he really had a brain, common sense, love of America or poise? We’d be stuck with him for a lot longer. God bless him for making our job getting him out of the WH much easier.

you are so VERY Right

Great point, yttik.

A leader shines the light on those he leads. NO, not this IGIT! If he can’t co-op the news cycle, he is depressed.

You’d think he would mention her award. What a Prick.

This story is confirmed by Le Figaro (Major NewsPaper)and other reputable newsoutlets. Either the person in charge of sending the letter is completly incompetent or Obama wanted to humiliate another Premier in Europe.

Either one, it’s not good at all. France, like it or not, is a major player and ally in fighting terrorism.

I was hearing this in transit…thanks for the link, breeze.

Well I think we can confirm that the rest of the world hates us and we’re sitting ducks. Thanks ODumbo.

How about the “Service, Labor, And Voluntary Enlistment” act. S.L.A.V.E.

Good one Andrew 191. That’s what I am calling it from now on!!!!

LOL!!!

He reached out and touched O’Reilly’s knee in that interview. Obama wants, and desperately needs approval, adoration, and validation to compensate for his abysmally low self esteem, so he reaches out, and engages in attention seeking behavior. On one hand I have some sympathy for him because it is apparent that his lousy childhood turned him into a pathological Narcissist, but on the other hand I’m furious that someone with such serious psychological problems was allowed to become a candidate for the highest position in the world.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=54368160

People with challenges

How Obama really feels about people with challenges

Sorry miposted!

It’s real.

Confidentiel : Barack Obama
a écrit à Jacques Chirac
19/03/2009

Barack Obama a écrit à Jacques Chirac

Le président américain vient d’adresser une lettre «très sympathique » à Jacques Chirac, selon l’expression de ce dernier. «Je suis certain que nous pourrons au cours des quatre années à venir collaborer ensemble dans un esprit de paix et d’amitié afin de construire un monde plus sûr» , écrit le successeur de George W. Bush au prédécesseur de Nicolas Sarkozy. En évoquant le mot de « paix», Obama rend un hommage implicite à l’action de l’ancien président français qui s’était opposé à la guerre en Irak. Une intervention américaine contre laquelle le futur président américain s’était opposé comme sénateur, lors du vote au Congrès.

http://tinyurl.com/cq52lo

Barack Obama wrote to Jacques Chirac
19/03/2009
The American president has just addressed a letter “very likable” to Jacques Chirac, according to the expression of the latter. “I am certain that we will be able during the four years to come to collaborate together in a spirit of peace and of friendship in order to construct a surer world”, writes the successor of George W. Bush to the predecessor of Nicolas Sarkozy. While evoking the word of “peace”, Obama returns an implicit homage to the action of the French former president that had opposed itself to the war in Iraq. An American intervention against which the future president American had opposed itself as senator, at the time of the vote to the Congress.

http://tinyurl.com/dk4dum

Oops that second link went to the Turkish Weekly. Oh well it also has the article.

Actually I listened to the video, the audience laughter just dropped way down when he dropped his turd. I think they were shocked.
I really think they were caught off guard because the previous sentence was harmlessly funny.

But in 4 years he’ll have us starving, attacked, brownshirted and ….
but I still have faith we can rebound from almost anything, unless he keeps inviting external troubles

That is true — most people did not laugh at all. President Obama was chuckling at himself, that was about it.

A good analysis jbjd.

Interesting, also, that BO reached out to touch Leno just prior to the offending remark – Leno’s actions seemed to have struck something within Obama.

Agreed Ani. I don’t want to write this but can you imagine if Obama instead of saying he bowls like the Special Olympics, he said I bowl like a girl. Can you imagine the deafening laughter at that, even stupid women would be laughing at that.

If Obama had said he bowls like a girl, do you think there would be any attention at all given to that remark? Sometimes I feel the only remarks that cause outrage are those that can affect men, any remarks that affect women, there is hardly any outrage.

The reason why I hate pointing this out is everytime I hear someone making a bigoted remark about any group, I always think about the fact that a similar remark about women would be given a free pass.

This time I was just thinking about how this was not even something that Obama can say was a slip of the tongue. If he had said my bowling skills are retarded or I bowl like a retard, it would still be wrong but it can be said that in society we have become sanitised to the word retard. We should not be sanitised to the word retard and we should be careful in using that word.

But Obama made a direct attack on the disabled by saying it is like the Special Olympics. The fact that some people can excuse this is very very wrong.

Now there is something else that has made me more upset. There were those who were commenting here on NQ when Larry first put up the post about Obama’s appearance on Leno.

They were saying what if Obama had said I bowl like a girl, this person was saying that this would not be tolerated. Really? Because sexist remarks are always ignored. Like I said above if Obama had said I bowl like a girl, there would be hardly any outrage the outrage would come from us women only and worse both men and stupid women would laugh so hard at that.

I guess I do not want to point out how misogyny or sexism is given a free pass especially when the disabled community is being attacked but when ever I see remarks such as those above saying that it is never OK to attack women I just want to scream. Of course it is OK to attack women, you can get away with saying anything about women, you don’t even have to apologise for it. Has Obama ever apologised for his countless sexist remarks. Has Bill Maher ever apologised for his countless sexist remarks?

I disagree Ani, people were laughing.

Bill Maher disgust me as well.

He became what he used to abhor. When he was just politically incorrect, he was sufferable. Now that he’s perfectly incorrect, I refuse to watch him and haven’t for over a year. He’s a has-been.

Thanks Ferd for boycotting him. He has made so many blatant sexist remarks I just couldn’t take it anymore.

I am now ashamed that I laughed at all the stupid retarded jokes he makes. Like calling Bush a retarded president. I mean you want to call bush stupid is fine but why ridicule the disabled for his mistakes.

I agree. My wife and I stopped watching him in February of last year after he decided to bogart the Kool-Aide. His treatment of HRC was beyond contemptible. I partially blame him and his fellow travelers for further duping an already gullible electorate, which had already given us 8 years of ignorance personified. Now we get at least 4 more of the same.

What is next?
How about a trip to Walter Reed?
All those battle scarred amputees and brain-damaged vets must be a real riot!
Showboat BO has the I.Q. of a turnip and the compassion of a rattler!

That One needs to be careful throwing around the word retard considering his abysmal performance so far.

Congratulations Mr. Spy Guy!
You must have had to reach out to all your connections to solve this case!
There are so many “bone-heads” without alibis!

It’s just one faux pas after another isn’t it?
Sigh.

Indeed. That One is even more bush-league than his predecessor.

Special Olympics Bowler: I can beat the President! HT: Glenn Reynolds

The top bowler for the Special Olympics looks forward to meeting President Barack Obama in an alley.

“He bowled a 129. I bowl a 300. I could beat that score easily,” Michigan’s Kolan McConiughey (KO-lahn Mc-KAHNA-he) told The Associated Press in an interview Friday.

The athletic-minded president made an offhand remark Thursday on “The Tonight Show” comparing his weak bowling to “the Special Olympics or something.” He quickly apologized and told the Special Olympics chairman he wants to have some of its athletes visit the White House to bowl or play basketball.

McConiughey, who is mentally disabled, is just the bowler for the job. He’s bowled five perfect games since 2005.

He quickly apologized and told the Special Olympics chairman he wants to have some of its athletes visit the White House to bowl or play basketball.

Peachy. I’m sure that more than makes up for the moronic remark he made. For someone who all the bots say is a such a gifted orator, he sure inserts his cloven hoof in his mouth an awful lot.

How would showing his own ignorance humiliate anyone but himself?? And the US. All he has done is show that he hasn’t paid attention to anything that happened after he started his campaign two years ago. Even the fact that France has a new President. I can’t wait for the public photo ops…Meechelle standing next to Carla Bruni-Sarkozy who is a former supermodel. That is going to be funny..so much for Meechelle’s fashion icon status.

Comment by Amirosa | 2009-03-20 21:36:17

… and of course the self righteous arrogant, and narcissistic one would never think about apologizing for the offensive remarks and disrespect to all people with disabilities. He probably thinks that apologies are below his position. What an ignorant and offensive person this man is to the presidency.

I guess his apology proves you wrong then

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5023848/Barack-Obama-apologises-for-disabled-gaffe.html

Such disregard for wounded vets, proposing the largest increase in VA expenditure by $ and % ever. An increase of 17% ($15 billion). $1.5 billion more than requested.

President Obama has proposed an increase in VA spending to $112.8 billion. As confirmed by the VA this is the largest dollar and percentage increase ever requested by a President for veterans.

550,000 new Priority Group 8 veterans will be enrolled by 2013.

There will be a gradual lifting of what remains of the ban on concurrent receipt of both military retirement and VA disability compensation for disabled retirees. In 2010 concurrent receipt will be allowed for the most seriously disabled veterans forced to retire short of 20 years.

Very mean indeed.

Unfortunately, you are right.

I quit Maher then too. My daughter still doesn’t understand why I quit watching 90% of all political shows– even the ones I had watched for DECADES. She doesn’t see the sexism of the Obama Kool Aid crowd.

If Obama is the one the leadership picked then what does that say about THEIR sick twisted little minds, when Captain Kumbaya becomes the go to guy.

We are literally a nation run by a collection of psychopaths.

I so agree. I stopped watching Maher about a year ago, too. Now, I just find him slimy.

I wonder if Michelle went and saw about her garden this morning or that was just yesterdays photo op from the best first lady the WH has ever seen according to some.

I think this is something a little different altogether.

It was disparaging of Special Olympics no doubt.

But BO also, in the attempt at humor about bowling, was essentially mocking bowling–a blue-collar, middle and low income pastime/sport–so it was a much bigger implication than just mocking special olympic participants.

See, BO is an ELITIST. He thinks people who cling to god and guns also like bowling. So he mocks bowling by saying he’s so bad at it as if he is proud of that fact.

Because after all, right now, he’s too busy picking the BASKETBALL game to worry about a paltry thing like his bowling score, and he’s, after all, a man who asks his audience to check out the price of ARUGULA, instead of what it costs to feed a family on $50,000 a year, using a head of iceberg lettuce, something he probably hasn’t tasted since high school. He’s too busy serving $100 a pound japanese steak to know what it means to have a burger with friends on bowling night.

You see, he’s not good a bowling, because he’s upper-income, elitist, and far too important for such low-income, blue-collar pastimes, enjoyed by middle-income americans.

I hate to quote Nancy Reagan, but when it comes to doing ANYTHING to forward Obummer’s agenda, I will “JUST SAY NO!!”

The main difference between the US and the European countries that fell into fascism and communism is that we have a tradition of mouthing off about things we don’t like and we are armed. If we have to, we can fight back. So regimenting Americans isn’t as easy as it sounds. The small percentage of the population that spends time fulminating on the internet is nothing compared to the rest of the people who won’t put up with that sort of crap, no matter what the Obots tell them. They know their rights, even if Obummer doesn’t. And they have the means to defend them. And they will.

Oh, and one more thing about “BO’s March Madness!”

Bowling is a pastime/sport enjoyed by blue-collar, middle-income Americans who generally cling to their God and Guns, and are WHITE.

Just Say No to Thugs.

I like it.

ahh – you know he’ll turn the event into a Party! Yep, kobi beef burgers for everyone.

Actually, bowling started out as a pastime of the elite. It was what Sir Francis Drake was doing, allegedly, while waiting for the Spanish Armada to get into position to be annihilated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Drake

The most famous (but probably apocryphal) anecdote about Drake relates that, prior to the battle, he was playing a game of bowls on Plymouth Hoe. On being warned of the approach of the Spanish fleet, Drake is said to have remarked that there was plenty of time to finish the game and still beat the Spaniards.

When varlets were replaced by pinsetters, it became a game for everyone. So, it started out as a game for the highest in the land, not a “common” game at all. As an elitist, Obummer should be much better at bowling. Heh.

OT:

What about Obama’s video to Iran? Is he trying to imitate Bin Laden or what?

So much for secrecy. I think the Special Olympics remark is a red herring. Where’s the outcry about Obama trying to make nice with Iran? I thought the IAEA said recently Iran was closer than they thought to developing the material for real nukes.

I’m just guessing that’s why Israel re-elected Netanyahu.

“While evoking the word of “peace”, Obama returns an implicit homage to the action of the French former president that had opposed itself to the war in Iraq. An American intervention against which the future president American had opposed itself as senator, at the time of the vote to the Congress.”

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Looks like Obama is trying to convince the French that he was a US Senator that “voted” against the war, instead of the Illinois State Senator that didn’t actually get to vote.

even the ones I had watched for DECADES

Me, too. I have even stopped watching 60 Minutes, which I watched from its inception when Harry Reasoner was on. I will no participate in the current backside smooching, feet-kissing of That One, which is all the rage now.

Obama wants, and desperately needs approval, adoration, and validation to compensate for his abysmally low self esteem, so he reaches out, and engages in attention seeking behavior.

And this is what makes him so dangerous. What happens when he gets fed up trying to please people. When things start going against him. He doesn’t like to be made a fool of. Obama could care less about those that grovel at his feet. Look where Claire is. Hitler was the exact same way. At the beginning…

don’t you think it’s rather funny that Maria seems to be upset with the people who laughed at the remark but not at Obama-the-creep who made
the remark? Obama just seems to be acceptably stupid to Obots no matter how nasty and cheap-souled he shows himself.

You are right Sabina. But here, at NoQuarter right after the original PA bowling Obama incident, someone did comment that he “bowled like a girl.” Several folks here pointed out that such a comment was inappropriate and offensive- me among them. But out in the big ol media sphere— it is the unspoken rule that
the female sex is the only group that folks can dump on and get a free pass. Of course Obama usually gets a free pass for dumping on any group.

When Narcissists realize that they are no longer viewed as dieties, they get downright NASTY! Obama will implore his rabid core of loyal supporters to seek out, punish, and re-educate the non-believers. Gotta go, there’s someone knocking on my door.

I completely agree Sabina. I’ve read a lot of times “he cries like a poor little girl” or similar at this page and I was surprised that so many people here, even women, used this.

“We know That One is immature and childishly vengeful.”

But Mrs. One is even more junior high and vengeful than her spouse. My guess is she’s pissed that Carla Bruni has far more beautiful arms, not to mention actual fashion sense. Hence, the necessary snubbing of her husband.

… from the most powerful position in the world…

Love that she rightfully made the position powerful, not the person.

Good observation! Palin obviously has a greater and more comfortable command and understanding of the language than Obama.

Sorry for the off topic comment. My brain just rambles now and then.

Years ago when my wife and 3 daughters then 5,5, and 7 went out to a restaurant on Easter for family dinner. My parents, brother and and sisters and their families were their as well. So we had a collection of 5 lovely little ladies in their easter dresses and bows in their hair being perfect little angels.They were of course the center of everyone’s attention.

They guy at the table next to us, who was there with his wife and two high school age sons, recognized my brother-in-law. They had served together in the military. He looked down the table and made a number of condescending comments and apologies over the fact we “only had girls”.

Despite their young age, you could see the look in the girls eye’s when he made his comments.

Though I posses (barely) enough tact not to go have gone over the table after him I ran into him in the men’s room and let you know I make sure my daughters would never marry and asshole like him.

He didn’t say he was a U.S. Senator. Learn to read.

He didn’t say he was a State Senator. He implies he’s a Senator at the time of the vote, and that he was against it. How many Europeans study enough of our politics to know that he was a State Sentator and not a US Senator.

remember.he has done this from day one.upstaged her every time..shame on him..

i hope it.s not an obot.they are out in force today..

Nah, it was just some LDS guys. Darn, I’ll have to reset my bear traps. Those guys sure did grumble though as they limped away.

Bill Maher has now come out and accused Glenn Beck of “inviting violence” on OFraudo. Gee, when he was attacking Bush and Cheney, and suggesting all kinds of horrors for them, I guess it was okay. But just like more of the insanity from the far left, the double standard applies. What a sicko.

Nah, it was just some LDS guys.

On bicycles with white shirts and black ties.

I had to remove CNN and CNBC from my lineup to keep myself from going back to them. Now I watch mostly FOX. I still cannot get into O’Reilly. I’ve watched a few times, but I’m not going back to the other two. I really like Greta, Megyn Kelly and Sheppard Smith. He’s always in trouble for something. Someone is always giving him a hard time, but he’s got a great sense of humor.

For sure. I removed CNN, MSNBC, and CNBC.

Bildo is a real creep. Greta is about the only one I listen to anymore. She seems to be more of a centrist. I don’t know the other two you spoke of. Frankly, I’m so tired of bots of all persuasions. If they aren’t telling us how good Dubya was, they’re telling us how bad Dubya was and how good That One is. Well, by my book, they’re both wretched.

Obama …”the successor to George Bush…” Indeed!

the other side of the coin of stupidity, arrogance and cluelessness!

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Ah, “PERIODICALLY, Baracks will feel down and start lacunhing attacks against (handicapped kids, girls, women, Xyou name it!)them to boost his appeal”!!!!

ANYONE WOULD HAVE BEEN PREFERABLE TO DUBBYA!

(Even the Empty Suit moron there now!)

I just “love calling her First Lady of Iron pumps…”

SHAME ON BARACK!

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