well, the fact is, like it or not, the implication is, by the joke, that he was so bad and so incompetent at bowling that he was at the "special olympics" level.
maybe that is a "humorous" cultural slight, implying how bad one is at something, but the implication is rather clear...if you are that bad at something, you should be in the "special olympics" and the implication of that is rather clear...that you are somehow handicapped and ill-equipped to compete at more "normal" levels.
say whatever you want, but i a have a sneaking suspicion that many of the folks on here who were so outraged by Cheney telling someone to go fuck themselves, might have grabbed this handoff and ran all the way for the political goal line had this remark been made by Herr Cheney, or Bush, or McCain or Palin.
why is it when the folks on here who oppose Obama use his slipups to score cheap political points it is so "lowdown", yet when the same is used by those who support him against his political enemies it suddenly becomes virtuous and funny?
frankly, i think many of the folks on here need to redefine what they think is "fair" or "cheap shots".
If you are willing to do the same to your enemies you have to be prepared for them to do the same to you. So either accept it with good humor or an admission of a screwup, or don't offer the same petty insults and invective you claim to abhor when you level it at others.
frankly, whether it is Cheney telling someone to go fuck themselves, or McCain saying "bomb bomb bomb Iran" or Obama calling his performance like "the special olympics", none of you should be using them to score points unless you are prepared to accept the same in return.
if you can't take the heat...you know the rest. Either give the insults and take them in return, or don't play the game.