Editor: Obama should make amends
March 21st, 2009By Kate Riley, Associate Editorial Page Editor/Online, on the Seattle Times Ed Cetera Blog:
Damn, President Obama, you blew it.
Thanks for your apology, but it is not enough. It should be only a start.
… Better idea. Go to the Special Olympics and award medals to athletes. Do a promotion for this great organization founded and supported by members of the Kennedy family, your stalwart political patrons.
Help break down the stereotype that you so casually perpetuated in front of the nation. These athletes and others like them — people with developmental disabilities – will have a hard enough life without the president of the United States, the leader of the free world making fun of them on the Tonight Show.

