Warning: The following article contains extreme amounts of political incorrectness. Parental discretion is advised.
Over the past several days, President Barack Obama has been busy doing damage control over an off-the-cuff remark he made about the Special Olympics during an appearance Thursday night on The Tonight Show. As the president joked about his lack of bowling skills with host Jay Leno, he compared them to something one might see in the Special Olympics.
I am frankly disappointed that Obama, like so many other modern politicians, has decided to kiss the ring of political correctness at a time when he should instead be suggesting what his critics might want to kiss. Even though he obviously meant no harm with his remark, he is repenting in sackcloth and ashes, crawling on his hands and knees and begging Special Olympics Chairman Tim Shriver -- and all the contestants and parents associated with that organization -- for forgiveness. How unbecoming a President of the United States!
In my opinion, the people who are the most upset about Obama's so-called gaffe are insulting the mentally and physically challenged far more than he ever did. What they are doing is projecting an additional disability on those folks -- one of a total lack of a sense of humor. How would you like for someone to assume that you had no sense of humor just because you had a mental or physical disability?
Now, I know some people are probably thinking that I would feel much differently about this situation if I had a mental or physical disability, or had a child with one. No, I wouldn't. I grew up in poverty, yet it mattered not to me when people made fun of the poor. I have twice survived stage-three cancer (two unrelated kinds, 12 years apart), yet I have no problem with people making light of that disease or even making jokes about it.
I'm not that sensitive. Instead, I choose to laugh things off and move on. It's too bad that so few people follow my example. Long ago, my parents taught me the meaning of a simple three-word phrase, "get over it."
These days, we just have too many people who have left common sense behind. It's as if they have allowed the PC Pod People to take over their brains. They and the mindless media regularly turn non-stories into major scandals.
They need to chill out and stop wasting their valuable time focusing on petty grievances and offenses. Don't they have more serious matters to be concerned about? Hello! Aren't a recession, high unemployment, home foreclosures around every corner, and two wars enough to occupy their minds right now? Apparently not, as they must always set aside time to defend society's sacred cows.
If there is indeed intelligent life on other planets and those creatures can look in on news reports from planet Earth, I wonder what they would think about such absurdities. Actually, I do have an idea as to how they might react. Are you familiar with an activity often abbreviated on the Internet as lmao? I think those extraterrestrials might be doing a lot of that right now.
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