I'll tell you what resembles the Special Olympics...

So apparently, President Obama has gone from doing too much for America, to being too distracted from the issues, all in about a two day period. Last week Republicans said Obama was taking on too much with his hope to withdraw troops, close Guantanamo Bay, pass a budget, reform health care and fix the economy. People said he should focus on the economy and not worry about the rest now.

Oh what a difference a week makes! Now, the president is being criticized for being out of Washington and not focusing enough on all of the issues (including the $165million joke bonuses at AIG). Critics say that visiting California was a way to avoid handling the issues and that appearing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno was a waste of time when America needed it's leader most. Meanwhile, Obama is doing a time honored tradition among presidents with high approval, he's appealing to the people. He knows the Republicans don't like him and will likely never work with him on their own accord, so he's going to the people to get support for his budget and policies. He's hoping this measure will work, and once the people support him, politicians will too, or risk losing their constituency. It doesn't make President Obama's policies any more correct, but it does mean he's working and if you miss that you're missing the whole reason he crushed McCain in the 2008 Election. Appealing to the people is a technique that was long forgotten in the Bush administration but it has worked and Obama is betting it will again.

The other side of this is the criticism being drawn up about Obama's comparison that his bowling is like the Special Olympics. This is the most ridiculous non-issue I've ever seen. Anyone from the right who would like to criticize should just remember when their Candidate called a reporter a "major league asshole" on mic. It was a stupid gaffe on Obama's part, for sure. His a the most public figure in the history of an incredibly public office, he should know better than to make a comment like that on a major television show. But what he did was a joke at his own expense. he didn't say, "how 'bout them fucking retards eh? They sure are funny with their wheelchairs and retarded brains. Why don't we all just kill them like the do in Texas". The truth is 99% of people wouldn't flinch if their friends said that in closed company. Most would laugh. But when you need something, anything, to cling to, just to hate one person you can manufacture rage about anything. Even if your party supported the execution of a mentally disabled person...the very people you know feel outrage for.