{"id":229,"date":"2009-03-20T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2009\/03\/obama-hears-a-who\/"},"modified":"2009-03-20T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T09:26:00","slug":"obama-hears-a-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/obama-hears-a-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Hears A Who"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, oh, oh. Say it ain’t so, O. Did you really have to go and make a crack against my beloved Special Olympics<\/a>? Was Joe Biden writing your stuff last night?<\/p>\n

President Obama likened his allegedly-low bowling ability to the Special Olympics on the Jay Leno show Thursday night. He then apologized to Tim Shriver, the CEO of SO, who of course took it very graciously.<\/p>\n

Well, I am not as gracious. I don’t have to be. My darling Nat can run circles around the Prez. Well, even if he can’t, in SO that is entirely beside the point. (I could write a whole book on what the point of SO is — and I just may do that next.) I may love Obama’s politics (and I do), but he has got to get a Special education!!!!! Sure, it was a joke, but I don’t think it was funny. I fear that President Obama represents a large section of the people in this country, perhaps the world, who just don’t get it when it comes to disability. Sometimes I<\/span> don’t get it. But when I do, I see that there is a whole world in every one of us, and when we make stupid assumptions, we are hurting ourselves, we are denying ourselves access to an entire world. We are becoming part of the problem. We are like the Wickersham brothers<\/a>, who would just boil that dustspeck rather than try and hear those Who’s.<\/p>\n

His remark is the height of ignorance. There are a full range of playing abilities in the Special Olympics, and many divisions. I would not assume anything about the athletes in SO. You never know when someone will put all of that God-given autistic focus into his game, for example, and pull a J-Mac on you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, oh, oh. Say it ain’t so, O. Did you really have to go and make a crack against my beloved Special Olympics? Was Joe Biden writing your stuff last night? President Obama likened his allegedly-low bowling ability to the Special Olympics on the Jay Leno show Thursday night. He then apologized to Tim Shriver, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-3H","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}