Columnist: Quip energizes president’s foes
March 23rd, 2009Ellis Henican, writing in Newsday, says Barack Obama’s quip about the Special Olympics doesn’t show that he “hates disabled kids.” But it served as bait to to bring out the president’s enemies, he says.
These small human flubs — and the ideological dances they generate — no longer reveal much genuine meaning or character insight. They’re a chance for political enemies, on the right and on the left, to pounce at a time of weakness and try to score some easy points.
… Was the spam-blast outrage heartfelt? Almost certainly not. No more than the equally heartfelt explanation and the rush-it-out-to-end-the-story apology.
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March 23rd, 2009 at 6:22 am
First of all, Obama’s Special Olympics comment doesn’t mean that he hates people with disabilities.
It means that he doesn’t understand or respect them.