Ghost-written by David Axelrod
I found this awesome Photo Shop over at Heather Radish’s site. This pretty much sums up the creative brilliance of Obama. For the smartest President ever, he’s not so bright when he doesn’t have his best buddy Senor Teleprompter next to him. Even tonight on Leno’s show he insulted millions of Americans by calling his bowling skills “special olympics”.
President Obama, in his taping with Jay Leno Thursday afternoon, attempted to yuk it up with the funnyman, and ended up insulting the disabled.
Towards the end of his approximately 40-minute appearance, the president talked about how he’s gotten better at bowling and has been practicing in the White House bowling alley.
He bowled a 129, the president said.
“That’s very good, Mr. President,” Leno said sarcastically.
It’s “like the Special Olympics or something,” the president said.
When asked about the remark, the White House had no comment.
Yeah, no comment. I’m sure that will soothe the hurt feelings of those who have to deal with disabled children.
March 20th, 2009 at 5:07 am
To me it would have been funnier if Barry In Charge had had his teleprompter there. But he didn’t need it because Leno was not going to dare ask any hard questions of The One.
I don’t like Leno anyway. He is not funny.
Anyway this photoshop is too funny. The follow up book could be “I only said what Tele told me to say. All Republican are Special Olympians. See what I mean.”
March 20th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Does this mean that now we’ll have to change all the signs in America that say “slow children” ?
Or can we just get a pic of Barry standing under one ?
March 20th, 2009 at 11:02 am
Good point Micky. But do you really want to have to see a picture of Barry in Charge for the rest of your life?
I think they should change the sign to say, ‘Hey A***ole–there are children playing—SLOW DOWN!!!!’
March 20th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Man this teleprompter crap is getting old. I’m not saying that because I like the president, I’m saying it because it’s not funny in any way.
Like, maybe it was kind of clever the first time someone said it. That’s it.
Oh and the “Barry in Charge” thing isn’t funny either, FYI. Again, I’m not sticking up for the guy, just sick of the bad jokes.
March 20th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
I call him Barry In charge because he reminds me the TV show ‘Charles in Charge’. Charles was in over his head too. Just like Obama.
He went by the name Barry until he decided to run for President and then it was Barrack.
Watching this is like watching a TV show. A really bad TV show. Like the ones that stay on the air for years and years.
What would you have us do? Sing his praises? If we did that there would be blank papers here.
March 20th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
He has hurt many families in America. He needs to say he is sorry in the public, not to an organization.
In addition, someone who claims to have experienced prejudice and stereotypes throughout life, and has written about them in great detail,
should be more sensitive and refined from life’s lessons.
Furthermore, Obama claimed he was going to have the world think ‘highly’ of America again. Will this joke help?
For someone who spoke of equality as a creed. Does this joke match that philosophy?
For someone that said he would stand for all people. Does this stand up for those that participate in the special
Olympics?
Obama has just showed us that ‘yes we can’ destroy what a campaign stands for with a single joke.
During the campaign for the White House in 2008, the media criticized Palin for being ‘common,’ ‘not-polished,’ ‘not-compassionate’ and ‘not presidential.’ However, compare Sarah Palins attitude in this video created three weeks ago for the Special Olympics in Boise, Idaho.
You decide the more ‘presidential’ among them:
http://tinyurl.com/ccz6nj
March 21st, 2009 at 6:51 am
Thats right Rhayader, its not funny anymore.
It was funny in the beginning as I understand when campaigning you have to give a ton of appearances in a short time and the speeches that go with the state your speaking in can change from day to day, so yea, a teleprompter to keep you up to speed would be needed. But it was noticed during that time that without his little buddy he was constantly pausing and searching for his next statement to be carefully crafted for one reason or another, all politicians do this. HES NOT GOOD AT IT !
Which can only lead me to believe that this man is just not as quick a thinker as we need our CIC to be.
He sets himself up for constant ridicule by insisting that most everything he says be drawn out and crafted ahead of time.
Take Bush for example, he could mangle the english language but at least you knew that what he was saying came straight from his head and his heart, whether you agreed with it or not it was genuine.
If I placed this guy as the CEO of my company or expected him to sell and idea to any prospects I’d fire his a$$ in a heartbeat for not being to at least think on his own.
This inability to think on his own is becoming evident in some venues that are not too threatening right now like with Jay Leno,insulting Pennsylvanians and having Pelosi and Reid think up stimulus packages for him you begin to wonder about him being in a more serious setting where he needs to be spontaneous.
Jeez, when you add the master gaffer Joe Biden to the mix and send these two out on some foriegn policy innitative we are in deep sh*t man !