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If Bush Had Cracked a Joke About the Special Olympics, reddit:politics Would Be Shitting a Brick... What Gives?!? : politics
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Joking about the president’s lack of bowling skills, Leno quipped, “I imagine the bowling alley [in the White House] has just been just burned and closed down.”
“No, no.
I have been practicing,” the president said.
“I bowled a 129.”
“It's like — it was like Special Olympics, or something,” he joked.
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Ah. Then the difference is that when Bush says it, you know he holds people who are poor or disadvantaged in contempt, so the comment is offensive.
When O says it, it's just a not so funny joke because we all know that he really cares for the poor and disadvantaged.
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When O says it, it's just a not so funny joke because we all know that he really cares for the poor and disadvantaged.
You've just shown how hypocritical Obama supporters are.
Well done. So since he like gays, maybe he can make a not so funny joke about gays.
After all he likes gays so it's okay right?
Maybe he can throw a couple Mexican jokes in as well?
He likes the poor and disadvantage, so it's okay to make fun of them and anyone else he wants.
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What's wrong about making jokes about gays or mexicans or anybody?
If it's funny, laugh your ass off.
If it ain't then better luck next time around.
Fuck all this dumbass touchiness.
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I dunno, maybe because he's the fucking President you douche bag.
He's not the Comedian-in-Chief.
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He's still a human being, for one thing.
And what if he does bowl on par with special olympians?
Assholes like you got nary a clue what is worth getting bothered about, and unfortunately there is an abundance of such assholes.
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Well I am a human being too and I am still very capable of not saying inappropriate things when I shouldn't.
I know what to worry about.
I also know how to monitor what I say, when I'm in public.
But go ahead and make excuses for him, just like the Bush supporters made excuses for him.
That just shows how much of a douche bag, hypocrite you are.
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Maybe you should run for office - sounds like you've got it all figured out.
I just wonder what other people think of you.
My experience is that people with your kind of elevated sense of their own abilities and actions are impossible to be around for more than a few minutes because they're such tremendous jerks.
Maybe you're the exception to the rule?
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Twit for brains, I'm not defending Obama, I'm criticizing the pathetic American practice of political correctness, which I think is about as hypocritical as anyone can get.
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I didn't say it was OK.
I just said that's why there is no outrage.
Read the fucking post.
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Is this sarcasm or are you actually delusional?
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Http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/03/obamas_insensitive_special_oly.html
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We'd be shitting a brick only because it'd be all like, "Pot meet Kettle," not because we're fucking offended.
WE crack jokes about the Special Olympics here.
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No, actually. I've never seen a Special Olympics joke on reddit.
Perhaps you were thinking of 4chan?
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Not even remotely was I thinking of 4chan.
I don't cheat on reddit with trash like that...at least not when I'm at work.
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Does it make it better or worse that bowling isn't an olympic sport?
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No, but it's in the special olympics:
http://www.specialolympicsva.org/04-19-2006.htm
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Ah ok :) i was confusing the paralympics (physical and visual disabilities) and special olympics (intellectual disabilities)
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Bushes IQ might qualify him...
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It was an ill-chosen comment, it made him sound foolish.
Who here can say, that if your every word was scrutinized even 10% as much as a president's that you would not screw up as bad or worse?
Seriously, I would do something 10 times that bad, and in 1/10th the time, if I was in his place.
I have a big mouth.
I get myself into trouble.
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Hence you are not a world leader.
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No teleprompters this is who he really is
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I don't give a flying fuck either way.
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Eh.. shrugs it was the wrong thing to say.
He apologized for it...so move on.
I don't know what more to say.
If Bush had said it I would still be the same a ddd?
Bush said alot of dumb shit over his eight years as president.
Alright Republicans you got us...
Puts hands up so lets take a look at the score board for a tally of dumb ill advised comments Bush made..and how many Obama has made so far.
Score is still like 9,000 to like 3, and this game the higher score doesn't win.
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WHAT!?!? NINE THOUSAND!?!?
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We don't hate President Obama, whereas George Bush was our Idiot-in-charge and was widely despised.
For President Obama, it was an understandable mistake;
An unfortunate slip of the tongue.
For George Bush, it would have been seen as an insult to our good will towards those less fortunate.
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I don't blame him for the joke.
It was off-putting, but who hasn't made a terrible, uncomfortable joke in their lifetime?
The point of the post is the difference in reactions.
Quite honestly, I think Bush would have been slammed over a comment like that.
Time will tell how people will react to this.
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Because we have bigger things to worry about.
Like the economy that bush trashed the shit out of.
Well, not him alone, but he's the public face of the stupidity we sat thru in the last 8 years.
I dont actually care for obama, but he could sucker punch the dude that played "corky" on "life goes on" and i wouldnt really give a shit.
Theres more important stuff going on in our country
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There are really important issues we need to tackle, but first the prez needs to do an appearance on a late night entertainment show right after he fills out his bracket on the sports entertainment show.
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I've already seen about 30 reddit posts about this with many on the front page of the politics subreddit.
So you're Bush brick comparison seems to be a FAIL.
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Maybe the difference has to do with the fact that he apologized immediately, before the program even hit the air, and in 8 years in power, Bush never apologized once, for anything he did, and he did far worse things...
We all make mistakes, it's how we handle them that counts.
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Bush was a dick. Obama is cool.
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Obama to Bush:
"The difference between me and you?
I make this look good."
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Not true. If a retarded man made a joke about the Special Olympics, I dont think anyone would care.
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Everyone makes mistakes.
I'm betting 95% of americans would make a similar joke.
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95% of Americans aren't the POTUS.
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And 95% of Americans are also, apparently, stupid enough to worry about this sort of thing when the economy is falling to pieces.
And then say, WELL, WE WORRIED ABOUT IT WITH BUSH!!
Well, maybe we wouldn't be this screwed if we worried about important things then TOO.
But.
Whatever. That kind of stupidity and lack of priorities is why Obama chose to go on a talk show to begin with (to reach the disinterested, gotcha-obsessed general public), so in this case, Obama is getting what he deserved.
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If Obama is capable of worrying about the economy and being on Jay Leno, then 95% of the people can worry about the economy and why the President is being an ass of himself on national t.v.
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Oh, save it man. Bush established a pretty good pattern of repeatedly making ill-chosen comments.
In fact, Bush made news whenever something that wasn't idiotic came out of his mouth.
Obama gets plenty of grief on here for the things he has done that Reddit disagrees with (generally when he chooses to extend Bush policies).
This whole notion that Obama is getting a free pass from anyone is pure sour grapes IMHO.
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Bush established a pretty good pattern of repeatedly making ill-chosen comments.
Well, let's see Nancy Reagan and now the Special Olympics, looks like he's on his way to fame.
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Indeed... time will tell.
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I think the real intention of Obama was to make us all think about the language we use in everyday conversation, so that we may be better people.
If he'd just come out and said "don't use retard" we wouldn't have given it a second thought.
What a great and brilliant man/leader/god.
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IF ONLY THE REST OF US HAD VOTED FOR MCSAME, RIGHT MY MORON BROTHER???
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This is nonsense.
Just because Americans were stupid enough to flip out about every slip Bush made does NOT mean it was the proper and sensible response, and does NOT mean it should continue.
Maybe, just MAYBE, if Americans were focused on REAL problems, like the damage Bush was doing to our economic policies, to our international relations, etc., instead of on his idiotic talk, maybe then we wouldn't be in the mess we're in.
But now, we're in a terrible mess, and we're STILL obsessed with the trivia and gotcha nonsense that got us here.
We don't have brains or attention spans big enough to debate the real problems - so we'll stick with arguing whether an insensitive joke is something we should be arguing about!?!?
KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BALL, AMERICA.
(BTW, Obama is getting what he deserves here: he wanted to reach the Idiot America contingent by going on Late Night?
Well, he reached them.
Now he sees what they take away from it.
A slip in a response to a question that was stupid to ask to begin with).
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Lol.. republicans last defense "if XXX had happened to YYY the liberal media would ZZZ"
..
Right
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