Obama can do no wrong

We read:

"President Barack Obama has apologised for a gaffe in which he described his bowling skills as akin to participants in the Special Olympics.

Mr Obama made the mistake during an interview on Thursday night on The Tonight Show with host Jay Leno, the first time a sitting US president had been on the show.

Talking about living in the White House, Mr Obama said he had been practicing his bowling in the home's bowling alley and had scored a 129 out of a possible 300. It was an improvement on the embarrassing 37 he had rolled during a stop on the presidential campaign trail a year ago. "It's like - it was like Special Olympics or something," Mr Obama said.

The Special Olympics is a global nonprofit organisation serving some 200 million people with intellectual disabilities, with a presence in nearly 200 countries worldwide. They compete in sporting events like the real Olympics.

Soon after the Jay Leno interview, Mr Obama telephoned Special Olympics chairman Tim Shriver to apologize. Mr Shriver told ABC's Good Morning America that Mr Obama had apologised "in a way that I think was very moving" and that he said "he did not intend to humiliate the population, didn't want to embarrass or give anybody any more reason for pain or kind of suffering".

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If it had been GWB apologizing, the words used to describe that would not have been called "moving". It takes very little imagination to say what the words would have been. How about: "Hypocritical apology from Bush"? And they would still be talking about "Bush's contempt for disabled people" a year later. Remember how in 2006 the newspapers never let it go after Republican Senator George Allen used in an interview a meaningless word that the Left, after much searching, interpreted as meaning something bad, not in English, but in the French spoken in the now-defunct Belgian Congo?