Last night I watched the President on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Though I have heard some who said he should not have gone on there, I thought it was just fine. For one thing, he explained a couple of things with the whole AIG debacle that I now understand much better. He also appeared human as he relaxed and joked around...maybe a little too much. When he made the offhand remark about his bowling being like the Special Olympics, I thought to myself that we would hear about that real fast. We did. His office immediately put out the standard apology, but the most relevant comment came from the Special Olympics people. Instead of jumping on the President and being extremely negative, they followed the usual attitude of the Special Olympics and said that this was an excellent learning opportunity that words can hurt. They met what was a poor choice of an example by the President with class. My hat is off to that spokesman for the Special Olympics.
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