Obama makes joke about Special Olympics

President Obama compared his poor bowling to being in the "Special Olympics."

http://www.tmz.com/videos?autoplay=true&mediaKey=679c860e-09d7-4a99-8fbc-fd914cddeb2c

After which, a Special Olympics bowler who has bowled three perfect games challenged the President to a bowling match:

http://www.tmz.com/2009/03/20/special-olympics-champ-to-barack-bring-it-on/

It certainly won't hurt him with his supporters among the "Palin is a bad mother for not aborting her Downs Syndrome baby" crowd.

Okay, it was an off-the-cuff joke, and I think we should give the President a pass. I mean, if Bush had demeaned the Special Olympics in a joke, we'd have never heard of it again, from Democrats or the Media, right? Like we never heard that Dan Quayle misspelled "Potato" reading from a card the school gave him that used the sometimes-given second spelling "potatoe"!

So we should be as charitable to President Obama as the left and the media always were to President Bush and other Republicans. Maybe even a tad more.