Reading through the Guardian’s Comment is Free site just now and came across this: A new low by American Michael Tomasky. The Special Olympics were founded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver back in 1962. The Bush administration informed the surgeon general Richard Carmona a few years ago that he could not attend the Special Olympics because it might appear that they were supporting the Kennedy family. That’s right, the surgeon general could not go congratulate some disabled kids who had worked very hard because it would be supporting the Democrats. Give me a freaking break you back-ass-wards bastards. (That’s right, I’m using some ‘French’ because I feel this calls for it.)
This will certainly make your skin crawl.
Carmona: “I was specifically told by a senior person, ‘Why would you want to help those people?’” (Let’s be charitable and assume that by “those people,” the official meant the family and not the disabled children.) When asked after the hearing whether that “prominent family” was the Kennedys, Carmona replied, “You said it. I didn’t.”
Tomasky continues
Now, I understand that we have bigger things to worry about with these mad hatters currently running my country. Soldiers and civilians are dying in Iraq – and in Afghanistan, where we’ve stepped up air strikes. The administration laughs at the constitution. The attorney general is an intellectual thug. Dick Cheney thinks he’s the state.
I also understand that, as world governments go, we’re still in comparatively good shape, even with this bunch. No state-sponsored domestic mass murders. No abolition of the press. No rounding up of suspects without their knowing what they’re being charged wi – well, uh, like I said, no mass murders.
So it’s not of world-historical importance. But I honestly think this is the single worst thing I’ve ever heard or read about the Bush administration. Dismissing severely disabled children as political partisans!
I could not agree with him more. Just when you thought the Bush administration couldn’t sink any lower, they go and dismiss disabled children because they’re loosely associated with the Kennedys. I may have to make Tomasky’s closing statement my motto for the moment:
Nineteen months and counting. We’ve got to be rid of these people.