So is anyone else mad about what our President said on Jay Leno last night. I think is just shows us how unprofessional he really is. I am certain that if Former President Bush would have said that we would have been hearing about it alot more.
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Personally, I think his comment about his bowling being on par with being in the Special Olympics was distasteful and I am glad that he repudiated it and called Tim Shriver (Chairman of the Special Olympics) to apologize.
"On his way back to Washington on Air Force One, Obama called the chairman of the Special Olympics, Tim Shriver, to say he was sorry — even before the taped program aired late Thursday night.
"He expressed his disappointment and he apologized in a way that was very moving. He expressed that he did not intend to humiliate this population," Shriver said Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America." Obama, Shriver said, wants to have some Special Olympic athletes visit the White House to bowl or play basketball.
Still, Shriver said, "I think it's important to see that words hurt and words do matter. And these words that in some respect can be seen as humiliating or a put down to people with special needs do cause pain and they do result in stereotypes."
Obama apologizes for Special Olympics gaffe
All that aside, I want to remind everyone that I have a policy of keeping the site non-political (see the Social and Off-Topic Forum description "A place to discuss anything that doesn't fit anywhere else! No politics, and no personal attacks!"). I am happy to provide a place for people to discuss issues of the day. I have a lot of very strong political feelings on a number of topics facing our great Nation, but have instituted that policy to keep this a place where Military members and Veterans can come for information and not be turned off by political discussion. I do not think that your post crossed the line, but I wanted to mention all of this in anticipation of replies to your post. I will kill the thread if any replies get heated.
I also recognize that "no politics" is a vague sort of standard, especially since many of the issues we discuss on this site are, by definition, related to politics and what our leaders institute for laws and policies. Fair commentary on actions and policies is fine, in my view, I just remind everyone that my concern is keeping this a place where everyone is welcome as long as they are here for the right reasons. All this said, if the members of this site want a place to discuss these type of issues, I would consider making a "hidden forum" for people to discuss political issues. I say this with the caveat that if folks want this and I set this up, if it detracts from the community, I will kill it.
Any thoughts/comments?
Personally, I think his comment about his bowling being on par with being in the Special Olympics was distasteful and I am glad that he repudiated it and called Tim Shriver (Chairman of the Special Olympics) to apologize.
"On his way back to Washington on Air Force One, Obama called the chairman of the Special Olympics, Tim Shriver, to say he was sorry — even before the taped program aired late Thursday night.
"He expressed his disappointment and he apologized in a way that was very moving. He expressed that he did not intend to humiliate this population," Shriver said Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America." Obama, Shriver said, wants to have some Special Olympic athletes visit the White House to bowl or play basketball.
Still, Shriver said, "I think it's important to see that words hurt and words do matter. And these words that in some respect can be seen as humiliating or a put down to people with special needs do cause pain and they do result in stereotypes."
Obama apologizes for Special Olympics gaffe
All that aside, I want to remind everyone that I have a policy of keeping the site non-political (see the Social and Off-Topic Forum description "A place to discuss anything that doesn't fit anywhere else! No politics, and no personal attacks!"). I am happy to provide a place for people to discuss issues of the day. I have a lot of very strong political feelings on a number of topics facing our great Nation, but have instituted that policy to keep this a place where Military members and Veterans can come for information and not be turned off by political discussion. I do not think that your post crossed the line, but I wanted to mention all of this in anticipation of replies to your post. I will kill the thread if any replies get heated.
I also recognize that "no politics" is a vague sort of standard, especially since many of the issues we discuss on this site are, by definition, related to politics and what our leaders institute for laws and policies. Fair commentary on actions and policies is fine, in my view, I just remind everyone that my concern is keeping this a place where everyone is welcome as long as they are here for the right reasons. All this said, if the members of this site want a place to discuss these type of issues, I would consider making a "hidden forum" for people to discuss political issues. I say this with the caveat that if folks want this and I set this up, if it detracts from the community, I will kill it.
Any thoughts/comments?
PDBR,AND PRESIDENT OBAMA
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hey folks,fellow veterans, tomorrow thursday the 26th of march 2009, president obama is taking questions via email at the white house, on many subjects, his email address is (whitehouse.gov)let get together as disable afganisthan and iraqi veterans who was seperated from the service with 0 to 20%,and let the president know that the new review board that was set up by the dod, to attempt to correct the injustice that was done to disable veterans from the two current wars,is using the same old system that the peb use to screw us over in the first place,as of jan 2008, all veterans seperated ptsd will recieve automatic 50% disability from dod, which leads to medical retirement, lets ask predisent obama why not go back to the start of the war in afganisthan and iraq and do the same thing with retro pay? after all its only fair same war, same injury, should be same disability rating, the new pdbr board is just a reflection of the dod-peb board for veterans seperated earlier than jan2008. DISABLE VETERANS OF THE WAR IN AFGANISTHAN AND IRAQ, THIS IS OUR CHANCE AND MOMENT TO LET OUR ISSUE BE HEARD, AND TO GET THIS INJUSTCIE OUT SO THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA AT LEASE HAVE A IDEAOF WHAT IS GOING ON WITH US, LETS GET BUSY TOMORROW AND START WRITING, ITS NOT EVERYDAY WE GET THE CHANCE LET THE PRESIDENT HEAR OUR COMPLAINS.
PDBR,AND PRESIDENT OBAMA
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Not sure if the Forum strip the one you posted or mistake on your pat?