Special Olympics Champ to Barack: Bring it On!

46. What the heck was Obama doing on Leno in the first place? The guy acts like he is still on the campaign trail.

Why doesnt Obama do something useful and fire Tim Turbo Tax Geithner and demands the resignation of Chris "Dudd" Dodd for shielding the AIG bonuses in the Porkulus spending bill?

Obama needs better handlers, he is turning into a walking gaffe machine - I guess The Messiah spends too much time around Joe Biden who is known for making insensitive comments.

Too bad some one like General Petraeus or Colin Powell isnt President. Now we have a juvenile delinquent in charge of the nuclear football.

Posted at 11:40AM on Mar 20th 2009 by Lord Xenu

47. Anyone really giving a rat's ass about this joke needs to get a life. I mean, really --- it was not intended as an insult, so if you're taking it as such, then you need to grow up and realize that the entire world does NOT revolve around YOU.. That includes "special needs" people. Everyone has to learn to function in the real world, and baby, this is it.

Nobody can take self-esteem from you, but if you choose to whine and cry crocodile tears because somebody hurt your widdle feewings and nobody is ever allowed to elvery say anything that MIGHT hurt your widdle feewings, then you can't function in the real world, period. That doesn't mean that everyone in the real world has to grovel down to your level. Grow up.

Posted at 12:49PM on Mar 20th 2009 by Grow up, America

48. Obama made fun of mentally retarded people? Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black?

Posted at 12:27PM on Mar 20th 2009 by Crusty

49. a person in the special olymics cant bowl 300 games if he could bowl that he wouldnt be in the special olymics he would a pro bowler they bumper bowland how is this guy and obama going too bumper bowl when there is no bowling alley at the white house anymore he turned it into a basketball court lol what ever

Posted at 11:43AM on Mar 20th 2009 by steve

50. Guess his tax rate will go to 90% now.

Ya piss off da govRmint they r come n after u

Posted at 11:56AM on Mar 20th 2009 by donabernathy

51. HOW SAID THE PREZ IS ITS APPARENT THAT HE HATES THE DISABLED AN WANTS THEM ALL KILLED WHERE IS AL SHARPTON WHEN YOU REALLY NEED HIM?

Posted at 11:58AM on Mar 20th 2009 by Spider

52. People are focusing waaaaaaaay too much on this nonsense. There are much more hateful things out there...http://hateonme.com

Posted at 12:07PM on Mar 20th 2009 by kenny darter

53. Hussain would get owned!

Posted at 12:16PM on Mar 20th 2009 by db

54. Did this guy say this or TMZ. TMZ is very ignorant and a lot of the people who post here. Obama never denied he couldn't bowl. This guy was not trying to diss Obama like TMZ wanted to make it would.

Posted at 12:17PM on Mar 20th 2009 by Samantha

55. "no comment."
The TelePrompter must have had the day off.......

Posted at 12:49PM on Mar 20th 2009 by RobertP

56. I doubt the guy carries a 266 average, but "regular" bowling averages are not comparable to PBA averages.

For open and league bowling, oil is distributed on the lane in a way that makes it easier to get strikes -- heavier oil to the inside and lighter to the outside. If you use the fingertip grip that puts lots of spin on the ball, and line up your shot to the transition point in the oil, then the oil gives you a margin of error. If you throw the ball too much to the inside, it goes through more oil and doesn't hook as much; if you throw the ball too much to the outside it hits a drier part of the lane and hooks more. If you're lined up properly, you can throw the ball slightly too much left or right and still have a good shot at a strike.

For PBA games, the oil is reversed -- heavier on the outside and drier on the inside. If you miss a little to the outside, the ball hits the heavy oil and never comes back in. If you miss a little to the inside, you are on the dry part of the lane and the ball hooks way past where it should go. In effect: they intentionally screw up the lanes to make it harder to bowl, for the PBA players.

I've bowled in leagues with guys who carried averages in the 230 to 235 range, who could not make a living in the PBA, even though their league average is well above the best average in the PBA.

Posted at 12:44PM on Mar 20th 2009 by McFate

57. Presidents should know better than to make jokes at the expense of others who have disabilities or conditions that cannot be changed. Obama acts like he is your buddy- but he isn't- he is the PRESIDENT. It is becoming obvious that he has little idea of what he is doing. And this is a shocking example of media bias in covering him, which is dangerous for all of us. USATODAY didn't even MENTION what he said. If Bush had said it, the media would have screamed for days. Instead, the media is chatting about his little vegetable garden, as if this was the great depression and no one had food. Ridiculous. He shouldn't be on the Tonight Show, he should be investigating Barney Frank and Pelosi and Dodd for the fannie freddie mess that started all of this.

Posted at 12:41PM on Mar 20th 2009 by YumYum

58. Well of course he didn't mean any offense.

Like the other day at work I made a clueless boneheaded idiotic mistake, and I said "wow, that was Obama level thinking there". I wasn't meaning to disparage Obama, his thinking, or the good people at the White House who give him a chance to do his best and shine every day (though maybe a slightly less important job for someone of his caliber next time guys?).

Of course I wasn't saying anything about Obama, just that my level of incompetence with my stupid mistake was his average level of competence in day-to-day activities... not insulting at all. Oh wait, I'm exhibiting "Obama level thinking" again aren't I?

... Oh, and "Posted at 10:26AM on Mar 20th 2009 by MommyWhatsADoucheBag?"

"...it's like like he tried to to an impression of a tard or anything!"

Are you familiar with the term "water head" for hydroencephalitus (water on the brain)? Did you catch his mocking the possible movements of a dog that Leno misrepresented as a Portuguese Water Head? You know, when he was doing an impression of a tard... oh wait, that was what you said he didn't do.

Maybe he didn't understand the offensiveness of that statement... but he really got stuck in that tar baby didn't he?

Wait, is that insensitive? Damn, more "Obama level" thinking for me... I'm just having an awful day. Keep me away from anything sharp.

Posted at 10:44PM on Mar 20th 2009 by Gekkobear

59. My son has participated in Special Olympics for 20 years. PEOPLE LIGHTEN UP. Although I cringed (and e-mailed President Obama directly) when I heard his comment I do not think it was said with malice toward persons with disabilities. I am sure everyone on my son's bowling team would be very proud to let President Obama participate in their league.
Let's move on.

Posted at 12:56PM on Mar 20th 2009 by RHornback

60. He should take the challenge and make lemonade out of lemons.

Posted at 12:56PM on Mar 20th 2009 by Linda Mott